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Show Friday, March 25, 1983 THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, Help To- Battle Pain? If 0 19 i 1885. National Monument Lehman Caves Captivate Visitor By JOHN BEST PL Grove Correspondent Utah missed out on claiming one of America's most decorative caves by only eight miles. Lehman Caves, just eight miles from Utah's border, has made Baker, Nev., the site not only of a National Monument but also the location of one of the largest limestone solution caverns in the western United States. Chief Resource Manager of the National Monument, Edward Wood, says more than 30,000 visitors took the hour tour during 1982. "Most visitors are very pleased with the high quantity of natural decorations available in the caves," Wood says. According to one tour guide at the monument, "Some cave enthusiasts have said, 'If you can only see one cave in your life it should be this one.' " The trip to Lehman Caves drive from requires a five-hoProvo through central and southur ern Utah and approximately eight miles over the border to Nevada. The Lehman Caves tour offers an interesting excursion through the subterranean wonderlands of marble. Columns of stately calcium tower amid stalactite and stalagmite formations that literally cover thousands of feet of cave. The hour tour is offered every day of the year. The tour of a mile of easy covers about walking trails. The temperature is a constant 50 degrees so a light jacket or sweater is Small children can tour the cave at no charge. To help Utahns understand the size of Lehman Caves, Wood explains, "All of Timpanogos cave located in Utah, could fit in one room of the Lehman Caves." However, Wood points out, "Its size is not where it gains its fame. Lehman Caves is noted as possibly the best cave in the world for Shield development." Shields are formations that look like a warrior shield and are formed by hydro-stati- c pres- ruled out only in patients with Ancient NEW YORK (LTD Greeks and Egyptians who applied electric eels to wounds were on the right track. Electrical impulses from the eels were suDoosed to relieve the and probably did, Drs. pain Carol A. wartield ana jonainam M. Stein, of the Harvard Medical School, say in a report on pain relief by electrical stimulation. Electric fish, the two said, were used to ease pain for many conditions well into the 19th century. Even Benjamin Franklin, say the pain experts, experimented with electricity in the control of pain. Warfield and Stein, writing in the journal Hospital Practice, tell of more recent success in using cardiac pacemakers. demand-typ-e Occasional skin irritation has been observed in patients who are allergic to adhesive used to hold the electrodes in place but some electrodes now are available, the pain experts said. They said pain fighters said electrodes most commonly are placed over the site of pain or tenderness. If that causes a worsening of pain, as it sometimes does, they said the electrodes are moved closer to the spinal cord. The onset of relief may range from within minutes to several days, "so a prolonged trial of stimulation of several weeks' duration is advocated before alternaare sought," War-fiel- d electrical stimulation against tive therapies said. and Stein pain. It is called transcutaneous "Some patients require continuelectrical nerve stimulation ous stimulation of painful areas, TENS. obtain relief "Transcutaneous stimulation is whereas othersthe unit has many been after hours of mode effective a safe and disconnected." therapy for both acute and chronic painful conditionss," they said, The doctors said several studies noting a lack of side effects. TENS is more useful in indicate can Success of TENS, they said, be judged by the fact that several acute injuries than in chronic e, painful conditions such as that companies now turn out pocket-sizdevices for produced by cancer or arthritis. battery-operate- d Among patients cited in the TENS therapy. was a man, 42. He had hurt conas a TENS described report They 12 years earlier. Despite his back of type pain venient, numerous be can which threapettT measures, patients therapy surgery and a back taught to use in the course of daily including brace, his pain continued and was activities. relieved somewhat by narcotics. They said its use appears to be sure being released through cracks in the rocks. Many caves have shields but Lehman Caves has the best display of shields in PIANO the country, according to Wood. History records the caves were discovered by Absalom Lehman, a cattle farmer in that area. As near as historians can ic 6 ORGAN lLSllQDir figure, Absalom Lehman discovered the caves in the spring of ! Dunkley Music of Orem is closing its warehouse location! We absolutely must close out the entire stock 1885. Interesting discoveries in Lehman's Cave include skeletons of Indians, identified as Shosho-nea- n and Puebloid. Fire hearths before March 31, 1983. FOR TWO DAYS ONLY OUR WAREHOUSE WILL BE OPEN TO THE PUBUC FOR THE LAST TIME! believed to have been used by the Indians also have been dis- FRIDAY, MARCH covered. Archaeology experts believe the skeletons may be as old as 1,000 years. Other animal 25 & SATURDAY, MARCH 26 9:00 skeletons found include camel, AM 6 PM Over 50 new, pianos and organs priced for immediate delivery. No reasonable offers refused. e console rental returns $695.00. Also, top-quali- tortoise, pronghorn, bobcat, wolf, deer and rabbits. Many animals still remain in the area surrounding Lehman ty full-siz- DUMMY Caves National Monument. 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