The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1960-12-30

for critics and apologists (be careful
they are not the same) is American
medicine.
This field has more nonsense ant
emotionalism connected with it thar
any other except perhaps govern.
ment.
1Iwould like to give few thoughts
about the medical installation near
Helena known as Fort Harrison.
am receiving what is kown as out
patient care from the Fort. for a
skin disease.
This means l go to doctor of my
own choosing and get my prescrip-
tions from the pharmacy at the Fort.
During World War II my hands
and feet became covered with little
blisters and the skin came off. For
five months l made sick call in Eng
land, France and Belgium. finally
spending month in the hospitals in
Chartelroi and Mons. Every doctor
had his own cure for what everyone
of them diagnosed as fungus infec
ton. Soaks, paints and salves | duti-
fully applied to my skin areas which
burned, itched and tickled incessant-
ly.
When I escaped via an honorable
discharge from the madness of Mars,
I returned to find that Helena doctors
used the same soaks, salves and paints
the medicos used in the service. NV
affliction returned periodically and I
would go to the drug store and get
my potassium permanganate and sit
by the hours trying to dry up my
messy skin.
Last summer a real estate broker
from Kansas City, who was in Helena
supporting the candidacy of Stuart |
Symington for president, looked at
the hand | had extended in the usual
manner of those addicted to political
neurosis and told me of new cure
for fungus infections. He wrote the
word greasoflavin on the back of |
his card and went to the drug store.
No, | could not have the drug with
out doctors prescription.
My doctor looked at my hand and
wrote out the word on his pad and
handed it to me saying this will cost
you about twenty bucks. / only had
ZEN in my hip pocket collection of
worldly assets SO as most people are
prone to do when faced with this
Embarrassment / searched my MEM
Try for another course of action. I
the Fort, but they had
lelped me IA years ago and surely
ny welcome, had long since worn
way.
Yes, could have the drug. They
arried the same thing only it was
nown as fulvacine. They could order
if my doctor wanted that word
specially. The substitution was okay
nd i took the course of drugs which
thought was doing me some good.
he stuff came back. So took an
Their load of fulvacine.
A drug company invents a new
ord for each new product even
lough it is about the same thing
lie competition puts out and then
medicos with the O
nique virtue of their words over a
lie other words which are names t.
n the same thing. L
After two doses of the new wonder s.
'ug the disease returned. This t.
used my doctor to write something a
Sc ON the pad (his hand writing is
bad as mine). He explained that o.
is was a steroid drug similar to b
rtisone and was not designed as I'll
cure but to relieve the symptoms. h;
seemed to help but when | went
him to get more he said | might 10
It lazy adrenal glands. Instead he
ggested that | punch someone in OF
e nose. He had me figured pretty to
I'll because / didn't think about Sc
ting him have one until much later. w
When I went back again my skin to
Is on fire and he gave me a simple tc
n of neodiloderm and then when to
at ran out gave me an order for
oderm which the Fort knows as OF
sdiderm. en-
The doctor now thinks that never &c
d a fungus and that the disorder W.
W 9th or ho from q noa1frncfiOn of