Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-24
HEART KEPT GOING
by RESERVE VEINS.
College of Physicians Hears
How Patients Live Despite
Cardiac Diseases.
. tl,e Associated press.

~ the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE. March 24-Discovery
Of how emergency" sets of capillarieS
in tissues of the human body go into
action to stave of effects of heart dis
ease was described today before the
American College of Physicians.
DR.. Soma Weiss Of the Boston City
Hospital announced results Of five years
OF study of the laws that govern circu-
lation Of the blood In persons who have
heart trouble. 1t Is hoped his dis
coveries will make possible more expert
diagnosis of heart ailments and reveal
more exactly the effects Of treatments
now in use.
Reserve CapiIIaries Act.
When heart disease impairs blood cir
culation through the lungs, the reserve
capillaries in the lungs open and serve
as automatic adjusting mechanisms to
Offset the trouble. Operation of the
emergency capillarieS often enables
the patient to live for years in fairly
good condition, DR.. Weiss said. Circu-
lation of blood in the lungs may be con-
siderably impaired before any serious
defect is seen in the circulation, that
carries nutriment to the other body
tissues. When the lung reserves finally
are exhausted, other reserve capilliaries
in the other body tissues go into action
and keep the circulation going as long
as possible. Only when both reserves
are exhausted does the circulation fail
completely.
Or. John r. williams of Rochester,
N. Y, said thousands of persons have
ben mistakenly told by doctors that
they have diabetes and are on restricted
diets or receiving insulin treatment they
do not need and which may even be
harmful
Careless and inaccurate methods
have led physicians to diagnose diabetes
in numerous patients who do not have
the disease, while many others who
have diabetes are receiving inefficient
care" he declared. He proposed a
means of diabetes control that he be-
lieyes more accurate, based on q pa
tents ability to produce his own insulin
through the pancreas gland.
Excess Of sugar being passed from the
body is accepted by many doctors as
sufficient evidence of diabetes. Actually,
presence of the sugar does not neces-
sarily mean a person has the disease,
DR.. Williams said.
Measuring the amount of insulin
patient can produce in "a hours reveals
whether this amount is deficient. Treat
ment then can be regulated accurately
to make up the deficiency, DR.. Williams
explained.
New Cancer Discovery.
Discovery of a possible new avenue
for the study of cancer of the stomach
was announced by DR.. Lay Martin OF
Johns Hopkins University, who said he
had found four previously undiscovered
chemical constituents in gastric juice
of humans. They are ammonia, ami
noacid. urea and uric acid. In cases
Of cancer of the stomach the proper
ton of these elements in gastric juice
shows a marked increase.
1t is not yet known whether the in
crease is typical of cancer of the
stomach. There is a possibility the
proportion varies with different diseases
and may be an aid to diagnosis, he
said.
Cancer of the digestive system is in
creasing, it was reported by DR.. Thomas
r. Brown Of Baltimore Surgery is
the only hope of cure of this type OF
cancer which makes early diagnosis es-
sential. Digestive troubles that do not
Yield to ordinary treatment may in
dictate existence of such cancer.
Chronic appendicitis is not as fire.
cuent as generally believed, and many
operations for appendicitis do not re-
lieve the real cause of the trouble, de-
clared DR.. Julius FTiedenwald and DR..
. joint paper.
X-Ray Held Misleading.
Pains in the abdomen and other
symptoms usually taken to indicate
chronic appendicitis may be caused In
stead by neuralgia in the abdominal
wall or by ulcers of the stomach, gall
bladder disease or other ailments in the
abdominal area.
X-ray photographs alone are not sufn-
Gent for diagnosing chronic appendi-
citis, for they are usually misleading
and difficult TO interpret, the doctors
said.
Several types OF heart disease may be
treated successfully by keeping the pa
tients in air that contains 40 to so per
cent oxygen, DR.. Alfan L. Barach of Co
Iunibia University. New York, told the
physicians. Patients with heart disease
often can not get enough oxygen from
ordinary air ~
DR. Russell L. Cecil Of New York re-
ported discovery of vaccine that gives
'very encouraging" results in treatment
Of rheumatoid arthritis a deforming
disease Of the joints. 1t is usually as
ISOLATED with infected tonstls. teeth, or
sinuses He found q special type of
bacteria In the blood and joints Of per-
cons who had the disease, and these
bacteria produced an almost identical