Pifc«v«ry of F«mol» Hormon* in ik «
4u$tifit$ Historical y$o qs Ilixir of Ufo
A newly 4is«ov«wd nttl»t«nee
in an old remedy th a t the ancient
Chinese believed gave new life to
tiie aged was nneovered this week.
In a scientiflc paper published in
the current issue of The Journal
of The A m enean Pharmaceutical
Association. Hesearchers D r. E.
V, Lynn of the Massachusetts
C o lle g e o f » ^
(Pharmacy, and
Christopher H.
C o s te llo r e -
»rmone, a»*
tr e n tly eslecpuuu I
in lico- c. H. COSTElio
and other fem ale sex hormones
in the treatm ent o f dysmenoixhea
and, the menopause has. caused
have produced less expensive syn­
thetic c o m p o u n d s t h e s e were
found to be less potent tlm n the
natural hormones, and pharma­
cologists have looked to flowers
and fru its fo r a source o f '
same o r physiologically rels
substames. Ibaees o f, the 1
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rills week no one had guessed th at
tucked aw ay in-the age-old medi­
cine, licorice, were estrogenic sub­
stances.
Licorice, like ephedrine, was
known and used in ancient Chitfa.
In the oldest of th e Chinese books
of medicine, '-Shen N ung Pen
Ts’ao King,” licorice was referred
to as a magical herb th a t g
new life tc 'th e bodies of th e <
Poptville Btiview
MRS. y io L A HEATH
doctoral thesis. Laboratory tests
SoM *A* su^”^
inacripi- ph
animals revesled th a t one or
fo u n d jn Jm ^ c ? y Jt of;KJng T ^ several ingredients th at had been
included in Mrs, Pinkham’s home
remedy continued estrogenic sub­
stance. By a long series of care­
BUS, a mixture of licorice r o o t! __ ful and complicated analysis they
w ater th a t is still a popular drink discovered th a t licorice (known
a t E g y p tia n »
in botanical and pharmsmological
weddings.
circles a s glyT h e G re e k
c y rrh is a ),
physician The­
originally i n ­
ophrastus pre­
tended a s flas c rib e licorice
for asthma and
g e n e r a l p u lciahl^guanti- I
,m o n a ry difiStie s .o f estro- |
culties. T h e
genic hormone. I
ability o f th e
An ultra-violet I
r o o t, w h ic h
spectro-photo- ■-----------------contains------researchers to speciflcally identi­
fy the hormone as a steroid
th a t is probably estidol. (Estriol
is the only one of th e three
commonly used forms o f estrogen
th a t can be taken orally.)
The discovery has importance
because it m ay be the forerunner
of a method of inexpensive mass
century medicine there are con­ production o f estriol from e i^ e r
stan t re*-“ " — *- " — •'---------- currently available licorice root
or from s p e c ia lly c u ltiv a te d
Although three other ingre­
I employed as a mild laxative, dients o f th e compound, namely
b u t its chief use in modem medi­
lepias, helonias, and aletris,
cine until the present time has
been to add a pleasant flavoring
to less palatable drugs.
Oddly enough the present dis­
covery of the estrogenic
ties of licorice stems from
of a root which is nov
cine Company, and Dr. Lynn, a strated by laboratory tes
^ t o s s o r ^ a t ^ ^ ^ Massachusetts tain estrogenic hormones. Sim­
ilarly, it is significant th at a
home remedy with which so many
Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable
ilaimed relief from sympCompound.
toms o f d;lysmenorrhea and the
The form er was then a atudent menopause is now shown to apof Dr. Lynn’s-and this research parently possess definite estrowas started a s the .basis, o f h is geiiic properties.”
Thursday, ^iiiie 8, 1950
W nXIAM CAREY
Mrs. Viola' H eath.' 76, widow o f 'RECEIVED SLICHT INJURIES
Claude H . H eath, a form er resident
IN CRASH
o f Etdred where he w as postm aster
fo r several years, died Monday, May
William Carey, o f Eldred, received
fl9th wt the home of h e r sister, Mrs.
a le ft shoulder and chest injury Sun­
A.. L, ^ e i n . P o rt Allegany,
day as th e resu lt o f a two-Car colli­
Mrs.' Viola R artaon Heativ was
bom in Eldred, A ugust 26th. 1873. sion on Route 1 6 ,,near Portville.
Three other persons injured, in the
She is survived b y two sistem, Mrs.
Klein and Mrs. Jack Wells, of Clene- crash w ere William Jackson, Wellsseo K . Y.; one brother, A rthur H art- vile, cut on le ft side o f head; Lewis
o f Florida, and several nieces Jackson, Wellsville, chin injury,, and
nephews.
Robert Hughes, Genesee, forehead
Funeral services w ere h d d yester­ and le ft knee injury.
day a t 2 p. m„ &om th e Gallup Fu­
According to police. Carey was
n eral Home, P o rt Allegany, with the was alone and -was driving south
.. E arl B. Williams, pastor o f
when the cars collided.
F irst B aptist Church, officiatinL
In ten n en t -was .m ade in Rose HUl
Cemetery. Smethport.
COUNTY
ANDREW MIKLOS INJURED
.. IN CAR ACCIDENT
AND .
Andrew Miklos, who resides on
South M ain s tr e e t was taken in the
Firem ens’ambuance to the St. F ranc­
is hospital, Clean, W ednesday eveMr. Miiklos, w ith his daughter, who
will be four years old Saturday, was
driving on Elm street, near the resi­
dence o f Preston Welch, when th e car
door suddenly opened and believing
th a t his daughter would fall from
the car, grabbed h er and in so doing
lost control o f th e car, which h it a
telephone pole. He received facial
cu ts and a badly injured rig h t hand.
The child was uninjured.
VICINITY
Erancis- J. Quigley has been relect
president of th ^^BBiradford Credit
D r. Juius L, W aterm an, Bradford,
has been elected a councilor and
traatee o f th e North-W est Pennsylva­
nia Chapter of th e Fello-ws o f the
College o f Surgeons, a t the organi­
zation m eeting held last week in Erie.
Rev. H om er h- Rickey, o f E rie, Is
th e new pastor o f the firs t I ^ s b y te risn CJhurch of P o rt A llegany.
Sprays
'•w of Ivy
A m an with a s tm t can look
as if h e’s inarching four
abreast all b y himself.
Living as w e are today in
th e shadow o f a man-ihade
(doud shaped like a poison­
ous toadstool, i t bdiooves ui
the
M hin di iv
M id u i^
trustees of
concern of waU-jnotto pub­
lishers and sofa-cushion em­
broiderers.
A person on the horns of a
lem m a can’t help w
ond„
dilemma
wonder­
ing wh^, w ’th
ith all the great
scientific Jvan
' ~ ces of the
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last few centuries, someone
hasn’t .by now developed a
h o m l ^ diletnuia.
g It
fUguriiig
i t from
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tin angle, IvyiT eampus
ei
, _____
: i triangles
quadrangle
wher
are developed.
M~Th*Kp»>«nv/‘W*dnw(loyi,NIC
atrii^ at, a Mn. SmmMCohMn a
Jam es Cashatt, 39, of Roulette,
died a t N iagara Sanitarium a t Lock-
si|nple
la i
NG
N WHITE LINE..
4ites
' The solid white line in the center of the road
was m'ute evidence at the death scene. Joe was
dead because he had tried to pass a slowermoving vehicle in a **no passing” zone. He
had failed to obey the "Morse,code” of high­
way safety.
Many Joes will be saved if every, one leams
the line markings on our highways and what
they mean. They are put there to guide you.
They telegraph messages of safety as you
drive. They supplement trafl&c signals and
road signs on roads that need this extra effort
on our part—and your part—to be safer for
all drivers.
A solid uhite line means NO PASSING.
A broken white line—means PASS HERE—IF
you have sufficient traffic-free distance in the
oncoming lane as required by your rules of
safe driving.
Use these two lines in combination and you
take care of situations at curves. There
traffic in one direction has the right to pass
—or cross over—from the broken-line side
because it has an unobstructed view for 500
feet. Traffic in the other direction—on the
solid-line side—does not have this vision.
Pay attention to these linea imd y<m are auto­
matically driving correct^ and safrly whece
Fage 7
pert,^ N. Y., last 'week, where h e hddl
been a'patient for the past ^ear.
roads expand from two lanes into three or
more—or where the opposite occurs. You will
be guided safely around curves and over hill
crests on three-lane highways.
There are solid lines patterned to warn you
of crosswalks at schools and busy intersec­
tions . . . to show you railroad crossings. . *
portals, underpasses and road obstructions
ahead. There are left- and right-tum lanes
marked by lines. Parking restrictions are
marked by lines at the curb.
Pedestrians should obey the crosswalk lines
marked for their safety a t intersections.
Driving or walking—keep in line with safety!