Scope - Volume 04, Number 10

              Loma Linda University
Loma Linda, Calif. 92354
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Vol. 4. No. 10 Wednesday, May 10, 1967
Research Shows Popular
Drives Laboratory Rats to Drink
Persons who drink a lot of coffee, live on nutritionally poor diets, and use a lot of
spices may be driving themselves to alcoholic drink, according to U. D. Register, PhD,
associate professor of biochemistry.
An extensive study on the effect of diet on consumption of alcohol in rats con
ducted by six University six University re
searchers headed by Dr. Regis
ter, concluded that experimental
animals which were fed meals
eaten by many Americans de
veloped an abnormal taste for
alcohol when coffee and spices
were added to their diet.
Results of the study were re
ported by Dr. Register last
month at the 51st annual meet
ing of the Federation of Ameri
can Societies for Experimental
Biology, in Chicago, Illinois.
" At present," Dr. Register
states, " there is considerable
controversy concerning the re
lationship of nutritional status
to the development of alcohol
ism. While a number of studies
have shown that rats and other
animals may drink more alcohol
when consuming a deficient diet,
such a relationship is not as
evident in human subjects."
Ffed Popular US Diet
In the University laboratory,
where ;. iu -£ re fed a. popular
^ ^ ffs fli'^ t consisting of donuts
and coffee for breakfast; sweet
rolls and coffee for the 10 a. m.
and 3 p. m. breaks; hot dogs with
mustard and pickle relish, a
soft drink with apple pie and
coffee for lunch; spaghetti and
meat balls, French bread, green
beans, chopped salad, chocolate
cake and coffee for dinner; a
candy bar, cookies and coffee for
a " television snack"; and were
given a choice of water or a
solution of 10 per cent alcohol
to drink, the rats chose to drink
about five times more alcohol
than a group of rats on a milk-vegetable
control diet.
In one study, when a typical
American breakfast of scram
bled eggs, orange juice, toast,
— Photo by Eugene Hood
SYLVIA R. MARSH, OS, examines a white rat used in a research
study on the effect of diet on the consumption of alcohol in rats.
University researchers are conducting the experiment in order to
determine a possible link between nutritionally poor diets and the
use of alcoholic drink among Americans.
bacon, and butter was added
to their diet, the voluntary con
sumption of alcohol decreased
almost 50 per cent in the rats.
The animals decreased their al
cohol intake to low levels or
completely gave up the drinking
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Spectrum University Yearbook
Aims for May 24 Distribution
SPECTRUM, the new Loma Linda University yearbook, is
scheduled for distribution on Wednesday, May 24, according to
Sandra K. Craig, editor.
Nine areas located in various school and division offices through
out the campus have been se
lected as distribution points.
Students from the School of
Dentistry and Graduate School
may pick up their yearbooks at
their respective dean's office.
Other University students may
obtain their yearbooks at the
offices of the following Univer
sity faculty members: G. Gor
don Hadley, MD, medical stu
dents; Ruth Munroe, nursing
students; Ronald A. Hershey,
physical therapy students; Ed-winna
M. Marshall, occupa
tional therapy students; F. Faye
Brown, medical record students;
Violet D. Bates, dental hygiene
students; William P. Thompson,
MD, medical technology stu
dents; and George Mikami, ra-diologic
technology students.
Medical technology students
located in Los Angeles are not
scheduled to receive yearbooks.
However they may order them
through the SPECTRUM office
at a cost of $ 10. Other students
were charged this amount on
their accounts at the time of
registration.
SPECTRUM replaces The
March of CME, last published
in 1961, and yearbooks pub
lished by individual schools,
states Miss Craig.
Faculty and Staff
To Participate
In Campmeetings
Ten Loma Linda University
faculty and staff members will
participate in campmeetings
and evangelistic meetings spon
sored by local conferences of
the Seventh- day Adventist
church across the country this
summer.
E. Harold Shryock, MD, pro
fessor of anatomy, will speak
at the Alabama- Mississippi con
ference June 2- 6, and at the
Illinois Youth Congress June 7-
10.
William O. Reynolds, director
of development, is scheduled to
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Want Information
On July 9 Move?
Attend Forum Today
The University Employee
Forum will be held this after
noon in Lindsay Hall, according
to Richard G. Ubbink, Medical
Center relations officer.
Guest speaker Colonel Homer
O. Stilson, MD, of the 349th
General Hospital, Maywood, will
explain how the patients will
be moved from the University
Hospital into the new Medical
Center on July 9.
A report by Robert L. Cone,
vice president for financial af
fairs, will be presented regard
ing the present plans for operat
ing the new center.
The forum is scheduled for 2
p. m. with repeat meeting at
3: 15 p. m.
Army Reserve to Lend a Hand
In Patient Move to New Center
The army will help transfer patients to the new Medical Cen
ter at Loma Linda University this summer.
About 40 US Army reserve medical personnel stationed in
southern California will assist in moving patients from the present
University Hospital, Loma ____________________
Linda, to a newly completed
Medical Center on July 9, ac
cording to Wallace E. Platner,
administrative assistant at the
University Hospital. The troops
are under the command of
Colonel Homer O. Stilson, a
physician.
Colonel Stilson first conferred
with University Hospital per
sonnel concerning the manner
in which the patients should be
transferred from the old hospi
tal to the new on January 29.
He, his executive officer, and
his chief nurse will return here
May 7 to work out details of the
procedure.
Army personnel who will as
sist in the operation are mem
bers of the 349th General Hos
pital of the 15th US Army
Corps, stationed at General Pat-ton
US Army Reserve Center in
Maywood.
The manner in which each
patient will be moved will de
pend on the individual's condi
tion at the time. Ambulatory
patients Will ride the quar- ter-mile
from the present hospital
to the new facility in the same
bus which transports the corps-men
to Loma Linda. They will
be accompanied by nurses.
Non- ambulatory patients who
can be moved from their beds
will be placed on litters by
corpsmen and then into ambu
lances loaned by local military
installations, according to Colo
nel Stilson. One registered nurse
will accompany each pair of pa
tients so transferred. The nurse
will be responsible for total pa
tient care from the time the pa
tients leave the old hospital
until they are received by their
nursing team leader at the new
Medical Center.
Ambulance drivers and some
ambulance personnel, including
SN Alumni
Homecoming
June 1 is the* date for
the. School of Nursing
Alumni Asspci a; tlon
Homecoming. K* jrjwte
speaker will be Cordelia
P. Reynolds, $ N' 24, who
is novy visiting! many
alumni ih Mission stations
around the world.
Place: Loma Linda Uni
versity Dining Hull.
Time: 6: 30 p, m;
Classed island 1942,
the 50th and^ 25th; respec
tively, will bo honored.
For morp details see
SN alumni. nev. siKa page. 7
physicians and registered
nurses, will also be provided by
the Army.
Patients who cannot be
moved from their beds will be
transferred in a moving van
loaned by Turner Moving and
Storage Company, Loma Linda.
Each of these patients will be
accompanied by at least one
registered nurse and, for those
who are seriously ill, by a physi
cian.
Four Faculty Begin
HOPE Ship Duty
Four Loma Linda University
faculty members and two other
southern California physicians
have begun a two- month tour
of duty aboard the floating hos
pital ship S. S. Hope.
According to a report from
the hospital ship, the six men
joined the teaching- and- treat-ment
mission at Cartagena, Co
lombia, April 13. During their
t^ c. mr- 3 ~* * the coast of Colombia,' the
American specialists will work
side by side with doctors, tech
nicians, and nurses from the
South American country, show
ing them medical techniques
used in the United States while
caring for the Colombian pat
ients.
Serving aboard the mercy
vessel from Loma Linda Univer
sity are Malcolm R. Hill, Sr.
MD, emeritus professor of sur
gery; Earl J. Boehme, MD, as
sistant professor of surgery;
Denis C. Adler, MD, associate
clinical professor of radiology;
and Otto B. Munchow, MD, as
sistant professor of anesthesio-logy.
Others are Harry Alban,
MD, Long Beach orthopedic
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Animal Artery Disease Halted
With Hormone - Like Chemical
Hope in the fight against a death- dealing blood vessel disease is
coming from research currently under way at the School of Medi
cine.
A research team led by Lester M. Morrison, MD, assistant pro
fessor of medicine, has succeed
ed in preventing coronary athe
rosclerosis from developing in
experimental animals. The med
ical investigators are working
under a $ 299,110 grant from the
John A. Hartford Foundation,
Incorporation, New York.
According to Dr. Morrison,
the scientists have successfully
prevented the disease from oc
curring in monkeys, rats, and
rabbits. They injected or fed the
animals with a hormone- like
agent derived from the tissue of
cattle.
The test animals are naturally
susceptible to the same form of
atherosclerosis which clogs the
arteries of man, setting the
stage for heart attacks and
strokes. Injections or feeding of
the experimental substance,
called chondroitin sulfate A,
stopped or slowed the accumu
lation of fatty deposits inside
the artery walls even when the
animals were fed a diet calcu
lated to increase the occurence
of such deposits.
In the team's studies with
South American squirrel mon
keys, one group was fed a norm
al monkey diet and five other
groups were given daily feed
ings high in cholesterol and but
ter fat ( CBF). The CBF feed
ings were designed purposely to
accelerate the development of
the naturally occuring athero
sclerosis in the five groups.
One CBF group received daily
injections of chondroitin sulfate
A, and each of the other four
CBF groups injections of an
other substance. Included for
one group was the anti- clotting
agent, Heparin, known to have
a fat- clearing effect on the
blood.
After nine months of treat
ment, Dr. Morrison and his col
leagues examined the aortas of
all the monkeys ( the aorta is
the main artery carrying blood
from the heart). They found
the group treated with chondroi-
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