Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-09-11 | Page 1 | White Corpuscles Destroyed by Use of Sedatives, Causing Serious Disease, Medical Savant Says

4 White Corpuscles Destroyed by Use of Sedatives Causing Serious Disease Medical Savant S Says ys CHICAGO Sept 11 P Use JP-Use Use Use of some som kinds of sedatives was held responsible by b Dr Charles H. H Watkins of Rochester Minn for or the development of l nm a serious disease disease- characterized character character- by a deficiency of while white blood cOlp corpuscles Dr Watkins who made a study of oc 45 cases submitted his hi'S Indictment indictment indict Indict- ment mont of oC the use of ot such sedatives before tho academy of ophthalmology ophthalmology moloy and here In each case he said the thc patient pa pa- tient reported the taking of some sedative e of 01 the type which b has s acid as its base The su suggestion that some of the sedatives commonly sold throughout the country for headache head head- ache sleeplessness and other like ailments ts were responsible sible for tor which Is La also known as angina was first made by Dr Roy R. R Kracke of Emory university AU Atlanta ta Ga Subsequently Subsequently other physicians began bean a study or the subject The sedatives c alive condemned pre prevent pre vent the formation of or new cells by the bod body Dr Watkins said adding however that not every e everyone one is sensitive to the barbiturates rates and nd that in some cases cessation ces ces- ces- ces of the practice of taking them ended the disease Most of the victims of the disease disease disease dis dis- dis- dis ease which has hIlS an extremely high mortality rate are women women A w warning against the Indiscriminate indiscriminate indis Indis- criminate removal of or childrens children's tonsils was was' sounded by Dr Albert Albert Albert Al Al- bert Kaiser of at the eastern clinic of or Rochester N. N Y The l last st few years he said have ha brought a setback in tonsil ton ton ton- sit sil operations because previously pre too much was promised by clans cims Now the mother whose first child had his tonsils tonsiL removed when it was perhaps unnecessary s 's sary r ry is beca because the child continued to have colds and she doesn't want her second childs child's tonsils removed although the tonsils are diseased Having his tonsils out will make little difference in his s sUsceptibility sus susceptibility sUs- sUs s- s to colds Bronchitis occurs occurs occurs oc oc- oc- oc curs more frequently in children The same is true truc of ot pneumonia