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...organized itself properly over the years to take broad-front action. Not only the disease but the patient has been senselessly partitioned. A man's brain, if he had a stroke, was in the province of the general internist. The gangrenous toes of his friend who suffered from Buerger's disease went to the angiologist. His heart belonged to the cardiologist, who grudgingly took responsibility for high blood pressure-but could do little for it. His kidneys were annexed by the urologist. Pleaded Dr. Page at New Orleans this week...
Smoking certainly cuts down the blood flow in the capillaries of the extremities-the familiar effect of cooling the fingers. This same phenomenon can be deadly in victims of thromboangiitis obliterans (or Buerger's disease, from which the late King George VI suffered). Their limb-tip blood flow is already reduced so that they are subject to gangrene, and it is in this connection that the strength of the smoking habit is most clearly seen. Writes Cornell University's Professor Irving S. Wright: "We have seen patients . . . continue to smoke even though they suffered agonizing pain from gangrene...
Last week, coached by Psychologist Harold Crasilneck, the Southwestern team was using hypnosis on yet another patient: a 29-year-old victim of Buerger's disease, a circulatory ailment heavily aggravated by smoking. After hypnosis, the patient refused to touch cigarettes, retched when one was offered. Result: steady improvement. The team hopes to extend the technique to other chronic ailments, but, warns Crasilneck: "As we see it now, hypnosis has a very definite, specific role in medicine. We don't for a moment say it is a cure...
While doctors are still not sure that smoking ever causes heart disease, they have seen a number of cases, with symptoms like angina pectoris, that probably resulted from smoking. The strongest cause & effect evidence is in thrombo-angiitis obliterans ("Buerger's disease," from which the late King George VI suffered). This "occurs most frequently among smokers and is severer among those persons who smoke excessively than among those who smoke little...
British, and Hertzog needed a hatchetman to denounce this "treachery." Malan quit his pulpit to become editor in chief of Cape Town's Die Buerger, an anti-Semitic daily. The title of his first editorial: "For the Glory...