Show Get Elderly Patient I Up in Two Weeks to Avoid Death eat Doctors Find Confinement to Bed Hastens the End By JANE STAFFORD Atlantic City N. N J. J Elder J.-Elder- Eldery Elder Elder- ly y persons who get sick must be e gotten out of bed and back backon on their feet as rapidly as possible in order to stall off death Drs Louis B. B Laplace and J. J T. T Nicholson of Philadelphia Philadelphia Philadelphia Phila Phila- delphia told members of the American Medical association association tion lon here Confinement to bed hastens death in n persons over sixty years they found bund The reason is that remaining remaining remaining remain remain- ing inactive and prone for long periods periods pe pe- allows the blood to accumulate late ate In the small veins and arteries The total volume of 01 blood is thus reduced reduced reduced re re- and its circulation is further impeded by the hardening of the blood vessels that occurs in old age The blood therefore remains inthe in inthe the lie capillaries until it is forced out by contractions of the muscles but buta a person confined to bed moves his muscles so little that the blood does not circulate enough As a result tissues degenerate ulcers form and the body is slowly poisoned by absorption absorption absorption ab ab- ab- ab sorption of the products from the degenerated tissues The patient sinks into stupor and the final invasion invasion invasion in in- of the bacteria into the lungs causes the fatal tatal pneumonia The way to prevent all this is isto isto isto to order elderly patients patients' out of at bedas bed bedas as soon as possible and while they must remain in bed to give them massage exercise in bed deep breathing and frequent shifts shUts of position A new quick and Inexpensive test to determine whether a woman is going to become a mother was reported reported reported re re- re- re ported by Drs John Huberman Howard H H. Israeloff and Benjamin Benfamin Hymowitz of Newark N. N J. J The test testis testis is made by injecting g under the skin of the forearm one of at the hormones present in the body of at an expectant mother J If the skin becomes red and inflames the test is negative and the woman is not about to become become become be be- come a mother If It there is no reaction reaction reaction re re- re- re action the test is considered positive positive post post- tive evidence that the woman is bearing a child The test was originally devised by Drs G G. G C. C Gilfillen and W. W K Gregg of Dayton Ohio The Newark physicians physicians physicians found it 90 per cent accurate in tests of expectant mothers and 95 per cent accurate in women women wom- wom en known knO not to be expecting chil chil- dren |