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. .".Ii,. 1Y T: , lases 0f ~.~-a ~ ..~1'.t irW.r+,~,,5' ,. ~'` t ~~,Y`~'y :rS W~~~~~ ~4.rs.:;,~ i L Y~'+ ~ „'v ~r'~ St ~" > t , am , f;jY` {cy tn ~~~~i ,.. 9LZ ,}w s~~ AS;By Da,~id tii Cleary r , ran;tng from five to 48 per cenl ti4-eed, Dr. Herxheimer .+,int ts • eat~able of dilating the tiny pass : ~f: Sricnce Writrr ,~ ;In 62soe ` yc ~,~~ r} .per cent of th v iage of the lun prnuti bgt• , e patients But alropine,isn t as toxic as jim.' es t Smahing isn' oo nrs,*~•j.t al,cays bad for uho tried the ciarettes the inson weed can be and he tl - vee l,,s ter breathing can be adminlster-`"" ,Fou, despite the charges that it crease was greater than 10 per that the atropine cigarettes have 3, . ;may be a cause of lung cancen centft th dlfFhfed by atomizers on as ael s , - which oen iseer- te advantage o allowing dosage.roso: tiL' e s t• ;7 ; Ia est Berlin, smoking h a s ence between pain and comfort• to be adequately contrulled wiGhin sprays, Most . doctors are hke~ been tt,vo ticith beneficiat results • to stick with lhese . t4 I safe limits. m :, the treatment of asl•nma ° . But Dr H. Hershcimer of theTIIE f3IPItQ\'E.IIE\T usually Problems n•ith .the r•tropine ,Free L'niversity oi Cerlin m'lkes' catne within three to five min- ci?arettes lrere rare. O.,ly two of r'It clear that it wasn't ordinary u'es after smoking, but it was he 39 patients 1ho tried'ttietitde- cisarcttes ttiat he gave to a-sth- a'somc•,rhat longer tsme, from 15 velop.d a cou•;h~ trhich cauces. to 30 minutes, before the •vn- the vital ca,acit~,• to [.111, lccorrl- .. tnatic patients. They were a kind I < , in which the tobacco had a fnir procement reached itF nraximum, ing to ttie doetor. nicotine coutent, and iie added wrote Dr. Herxheimer: It Is not likely that smok"iug a solution of atropine to eacfl Duration of the improvement wil1 become routine treatnient fur .k .-~clgarMte before it was smoked. was a so variable. All the patien!s 2,-lhrt,a tro,cet er. Other drugs nho had ~rcalcr alih fn breathe " ~ , s"There is no doubt that the in- ^'r maiutafned their sense of •~ellbe .- ;italation of atropine smoke ha, a, benefieial effecn on lunl* function tn;' an hour and a halt after cmoldin;• fiut then the effect be- ,in bronchial obstructior.," repor:- t,ed Dr. Herx:,eimEt in the Btttish ?an to wear off: `d had liceu rtedicai Journal completelY dissipated in all h~ . ' - _ : ., tients at thc end of thr:e hoin- "' ATROPINE ACTS to incrcasc Dr. lfer.heimer's approach oo "" RECORD the vital capacityRhe amount thr aslhma relif throuhki f eg smone BOston~SS8ChtlSett S lung; can breathe> and gites a isn't Common jimson wrPd ~ new. feeling of relief in mild to moder- produces both narcotic and re- `"DeCember 3Q, 1959 `ate cases of chionic aqhma, ac- lasing effecls when the Ica% ~. , cording to the doctor. are smoked, and can be a po n He notes that artropiue iin*t'- tent poison in large doses. mueh good' if given by injection Thc smoke of burning jiin: „n or by mouth, but his experiments weed leaves was prescribed f n r =In inhaling it through cigar- asthmatics in the United St~ta~ . ittes cause the doctor to ,.ay quite a few yeans aga, and i:n, ung Cancer Cause fr~.~~r2~ MAN who has devoted his scientific career to a study of the causes of cancer warns that, air pollution is a more impQrtant factor than cigaret ;''tlte low esteem ic whieh current son ,ceed ci;arette. ,;till are nro smoking in the increase textbooks hold atropine in t h e duced commericall3 as astt n,a of lung cancer. ;, ~~ ,- :.:ajeatinent ot asthma is not justi- cigarettes." He is Dr. Wilhelm C. Hueper, chief of the envlron ~ mental section of the National Cancer Institute at':;' ; :. Ttte extent to lxhich breatliing RESULTS with the special afro Bethesday Md., and he makes the significant observa- .- `'abilita incrPased after smoking pine-and-t'obaeco cigarettes a r A `. tion that the upsurge in lung cancer first was noted ~,:'t5e drug treateri cigarettes raried„about tl+e same as with juncon betweem 1900 and 1920, several years before the prac- " tice of cigaret smoking became widespread:' -l TEE CHARLESTON GAZETTE' :; Boston, having one of the most serious air pollu ~ Charleston, South Caroli.ne, Ta.nuary 21, 1960 .,.~ tion problems in the entire United States, cannot fail to be impressed-and disturbed-by Dr. Hueper's findings. We have always suspected that there was a con. ~ nection between our contaminated air and the fact (0 that tuberculosis is more prevalent in Boston than in Cj any comparable city, and the Bethesda studies support ~ that suspicion. ~ The next session of the Legislature would do wel% w. to pass laws against the needless poisoning of the at- mosphere by industrial smoke stacks. Other places, notably Pittsburgh, have proved the wisdom of screening out the fumes and ashes which currently rain down upon Boston and other cfttesr damaging human respiratory systems and undoubt- edly shortening thousands of lives. Enlightened Massachusetts ought to be able to ` ,accomplieh•at least-a'S3mich lf1'theipubite`interest. r