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ferent definitions of Indian,** -
Baca said. “The education
people have one definition, the
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Previous donations .... 97.00
Total 1134.00
has never destroyed an
animal uniemit was incurably
iD store its foundtag In INI.
This association fomd homos
for K0N dop and cats, pup-
pies and ktttoMdmfav UN.
This orgaotoatian has reran
against blood transfusions is
emphatic and total. It is a fre-
quent cause of friction
between members and doc-
Financing
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A friend of animals.....>12.00
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Over a period of time this
topically applied fluoride
leaves the tooth. Therefore it
must be reapplied often as In
toothpaste and in the dental of-
fice.
For adults the margins of
restorations are critical with
regard to decay. Fluoride en-
courages enamel repair in
these areas, inhibits decay
producing activity, and
reduces tooth sensitivity.
anyone reeking a pot and they
are so important, Fd like to
repeat them hen.
1. Win someone be home to
provide meals for the animal
on a fixed schedule?
1 H you're cnnoHortng a
dog, are you willing to axer-
die the animal at toast twice a
day?
another, the census people
have even another."
The Indian Education Act
defines an Indian as, "Any in-
dividual who is a member of a
tribe, band or otherorganized
group of Indians, including
those tribes, bands or groups
terminated since 1M0 and
thoae recognised by the state
in which they reside.”
Baca said, "Some might
ject the conventional treat-
ment of transfusions.
Fluosol was developed by
Green dross Corp, of Japan,
where the product has boon
used experimentally on about
90 patients. A Green Cross
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not sure about?"
If the long-term safety and
effectiveness of artificial
blood is proven, Lapin said, it
could prove invaluable for
disaster victims, battlefield
casualties and patients with
rare blood types.
But until then, its use will
probably be limited mostly to
Witnesses, a group I^pin calls
“nobody’s people.” . .
He said they are forgotten
by politicians because they do
not vote, demonstrate or serve
in the military. They als6 pose
“medical and emotional pro-
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the Classifieds
Ing for the animal for its
lifetime?
Unless the person says, Yes
to each question, the associa-
tion reconsiders the situation.
This program might be follow-
ed by other shelters as well as
breeders. Certainly It would
help cure the problem of pets
appearing beck on the streets
again. Sometimes people
think they want a pet and then
they don’t really want to take
care of ft.
We always tell folks who
adopt animals from the
abetter that we will take the
pet back if for some reason it
doesn't fit into the new sur-
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Sometimes we who deal
with unwanted pets are so
eager to find new homes for
these orphans that we let them
nobody wants to have one of
these patients die on his
operating table” for lack of
blood.
Lapin maintains a hot line
telephone for Witnesses with
medical problems and says it
has rung almost 20,000 times
in five years.
Dental Answers ~
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Bonk Stephenvie.'fetas 76401
The tooth enamel can ac-
quire fluoride during any or
all the following three stages
and caries resistance is pro-
portional to the amount of
fluoride in the enamel. The
three stages are the calcifica-
tion stage (before eruption),
the after calcification stage
(before eruption), and the
after eruption stage.
During enamel formation
fluoride is deposited in the
enamel. For this to'occur the
fluoride must be available
from infancy in either drink-
ing water dr tablets or drops
as in fluoried vitamins. This
enamel will be very hard and
cavity resistant.
Fluoride is applied during
the after eruption stage by
fluoride containing
toothpastes, fluoridated drink-
ing water and by application
in the doctors office and if ap-
plied at 6 month intervals will
reduce tooth decay by an im-
pressive 50 percent.
suggest ths blood substitute
may buy enough time to save
patients who would otherwise
bleed to death. “Ithinkwewfll
continue to use ft under a very
limited, rigid approach."
The UJ. Food and DrugAd-
ministration considers Fluosol
>■ experimental and permits Its
use only on patients who have
exhausted all conventional
medical treatments.
Witnesses automatically re- American and not a Witness,
said all three transfusion pa-
tients were Witnesses.
tors, for whom transfusions
are amajor medical tool.
' Lapin contends doctors
often refuse to operate on
Witnesses, sometimes give
unauthorized blood
transfusions during surgical
emergencies and have even
filed suit to force transfusions.
But, Lapin said, “I am con-
vinced that operations can be
done without blood and they
can be done successfully.”
— I spin’s techniques include
large doses of folic acid, iron
and vitamin B-12 to stimulate
new blood production in the
bone marrow.
Surgery itself, carefully
planned step-by-step, usually - blems for doctors because
involves electric cautery —
sort of an electric knife that
emits a spark to immediately
close blood vessels as it slices
The religious prohibition through tissue.
Lapin does say artificial
blood poses “a moral dilem-
ma. If I have done an opera-
tion before without blood, can
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This column deals with
questions concerning den-
tistry and Dental Care.
Readers are invited to send
written questions to Dental
Care, P.O. Box 358, Dublin,
Texas 71448.
Doctor Crabtree: Is fluoride
really helpful in preventing
decay? How did fluoride come
to be used for this purpose?
Dear Reader: The first com-
- munity efforts with
fluoridated water were in 1945.
These efforts were begun on
the basis of evidence ac-
cumulated from the early
1900’s that fluoride was
-beneficial to oral health. By
1931 tests were occurring
naturally in drinking water in-
hibited caries development.
In 1945 when first the com-
munities tried controlled
water fluoridation it was still
to be proven that benefits
from this source of fluoride
would be equal to those from
natural fluoride. Yes, it is now
, established that fluoride is the
most reliable and inexpensive
method available to reduce in-
cidence of dental caries. Both
children and adults benefit
from fluoride in the drinking
water.
a time, we follow our own
judgement
Recently we read about the
Bide-A-Wee Home Association
which maintains shelters in
and around New York City
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go to questionable places.
Sometimes there is a certain
feeling about a prospective
owner that makes us wonder
about the future welfare of the
dog or cat in question. At such
animal another is looking for.
I like to teO this story about
p small black and white dog
are picked up because of the
owner’s neglect to provide a
proper home. Because the dog.
had been abused, it would bite
any man who came within
range. However the dog was
very calm in the presence of
women.
About the third day that we
had the dog, a woman came to
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.
(AP) — After more than 300
years of dealing with them,
the federal government is Internal Revenue people have
planning a study to define In-
dians.
The U3. Department of
Health, Education and
Welfare will conduct public
hearings next year "to explore
options for changes in the
definition of the term Indian,"
HEW officials said.
The agency to trying to stan-
dardize the definition, said
Edward J. Baca, HEW’s
regional education cornmis- - think this is being frivolous.
Everyone’s entitled to an opi-
nion.”
Lin the case of puppies, will
someone be home during the
day to look after the animals
and train them property?
4. Are you able and willing
to pay for all inoculations,
periodic visits to the
veterinarian for examtaatfore
and any emergency
treatments needed?
5. Are you willing to pay for
neutering your pct to prevent
the birth of more animals in a
nation that already is a nation
estreated with pets?
L Are you willing to obey the
leash laws of your communi-
ty?
7. Are you committed to car-
PagelA
the shelter looking for a wat-
chdog.
“I want a dog that will bile”,
she said.
I pointed to the little dog sft-
"ThiTdog will bite a man", I
told her.
“Well then, that’s the very
dog I want!"
you to begin 1980 with a Calendar of
Erath County History. Pick up your
roundings. We would much
rather take the animal into the
shelter once more than have ft
dumped somewhere. Often
times the dog that one person ______
doesn’t want, is the very ting in a far comer of the pen.
SANTAANA,QaMf.(AP)-
For five years, Dr. Ron Lapin
has been developing a most
narrow medical specialty:
surgical operations planned to
be as bloodless as poreible.
The majority of his patients
are Jehovah's Witnesses
whose faith forbids even Ufa-
saving blood transfusions.
Lapin says he to not permitted
even an emergency blood sup-
ply for patients “who say, T
would rather dte than have a
blood transfusion, which God
tells me is wrong.’”
Jehovah's Witnesses come
to surgeon Lapin from around
the country for surgery of all
VU; kinds. So, he said, devetop-
ment of an artificial blood
substitute relied Fluoool to ex-
citing news for them.
But Lapin, who has done two
transfusions with the ex-
perimental substance, cau-
H tioned against over-optimism
until all the results are in.
"I want to be Very cautious
from
Bloodless surgery now possible
about this,” he said In an in-
terview. “No one really knows
what this material will do
(over the long term). We are
going to have to follow these
patients fora very tong time to
know if we should be using it
at all."
Animal Tales
by Joyce Whftto
subsidiary, .Alpha
Therapeutics Corp, of South
Pasadena, Calif., manufac-
tures it in the United States.
About five years of testing
will be needed to win FDA
marketing approval. -
The blood substitute has
But initial results, he said, * been used only three times in
the United States. The first
time was last month in Min-
nesota. Lapin said he
subsequently used it on two
patients, one an elderly man
who died five days later.
He said an autopsy showed
Fluosol was not involved in the
death — “The Fluosol was
probably the only thing that
kept him alive five days.”
Lapin, an Israeli-born
w
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Doggett, Denver. Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 115, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 30, 1979, newspaper, December 30, 1979; Stephenville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1283940/m1/3/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dublin Public Library.