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FILE NAME: International Harvester (INTH) DATE: 1948 Jan 7 DOC#: INTH050 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Newspaper Article - Aid for Industry Urged Doctors AID TOR INDUSTRY I'RCED OV DOCTORS Ulk M:W YOUX IIMIS " r I*. INDUSTRY Hazards in the Occupations of 15,000,000 in U. S. Stressed . at AMA Congress CANCER T A C T0R S CITED 3,000. Delegates at Cleveland; Also Hear Paper on Nutritional Needs , " .i-n Special tft Tirt Niwyou Tom, CLBTVJDL'AND, Jan. 6 ~ The health of 15,000,000 Americans en gaged in hazardous occupation* 1b the direct responsibility of the medical profession. This was em phasized today by Dr. R. L..Sert- aenlch of South Bend, IntL, presi Ident-elect of the A. M. A., In an address at the congress on indus trial health of the American Med ical Association. , ' ' Adequate measures should he taken to safeguard the work er from exposure to excessive amounts of harmful substances, he told the delegates. ' Dr. W. c. Hueper of the Warren Institute for Therapeutic Research, New York, likewise warned indUe- trial physicians to be on the look- out for new types of industrial | cancers resulting from use of new ly developed chemical and physical agents which have carctnogenio (cancer-inducing) properties. SThe 3,000 delegates who are at tending the. four-day meeting also heard Dr. Robert 8. Goodhart of New .York stress the need for eater attention to the nutritional ctore of the industrial worker. In another session. Dr. AJvan D. Baraoh ' of New York discussed modern . treatment for inflamedbronchial tubes and sinuses, and an outline of the activities of re habilitation service* of the Vet erans Administration was pre sented by Dr. Donald A CoveIt also of New York. H ,/?VS ' ' I k U Yu,. l,,yr,UK5l .JtAJl The Individual and his health re of in tere st to the m edical pro fession, not only th ro u g h o u t all h is activities ..but also throughout all the years of his life," Dr. Bensenlch declared. . "Different ages present different problems, capaci ties and varying restrictions a* to 'activities." I u t . Hueper declared that the iknown cancer-inducing agents with which workers oome into contact were ultra-violet rays, X-rtys and rays from radioactive substances, compounds of arsenic, chromium, nickel and, perhaps, beryllium s asbestos, tar, pitch! crude oils and greases prepared from petroleum, benzol and certain derivatives such as betanaphthylamine and benzidine. These may act upon tHe body, Dr. Hueper explained, through di rect contaot with the ettn or through Inhalation or ingestion. Further, he declared that the study of the causation of indus trial cancers would facilitate recognition of ' the environmental origin of other cancers in man re lated to factors associated with certain diets, medicines, medicinal devices, cosmetics, habits, customs, climate, contaminants or air, water ;and soli, foodstuffs and, since reeot y>**, procadur** of warfare. Aerosol Therapy dismissed Dr. Barach, who -i* associate professor of clinical medicine at, the College of Physicians and Sur-* geons of Columbia University, in a round-table discussion on the upper part of the respiratory tract, de scribed aerosol therapy, as the use of on atomlaer or spray, to de posit small particles of drugs in the bronchial tubes and air cells of the lungs. Penicillin sprayed into the lungs helps many respira tory infection*, he said, In this , respect, he dded, that treatment of chronic sinusitis in .adults' and children appear* to be -"one of the most important thera peutic .uses of penicillin aerosol when it is combined with a method of creating negative pressure of the nasal passages." *Dr. Goodhart, who is scientific director of the National Vitamin Foundation,' Inc., declared the spe cial and general nutritional prob lems of industrial workers can be solved only through the active co operation of many different per sons and agencies In the plant, the community .and .the home. "By no means the least of these. In either case, are the practicing physicians of the community," he asserted K Rp*WA)0d > (xm lulor o< * copyright own.,. ritrKm rtcodvehon