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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1979
Folk medicine researched
United Press International
PARKERSBURG, W.Va. — Old-
timers used to take used motor oil
and mix it with sulphur to cure “the
scratches.”
Those troubled by cold sores of
the mouth simply chewed on yellow
root.
There are other old cures that
abounded in an era when clinics and
doctors weren’t available, and John
Eilertsen wants to know about
them.
The Point Pleasant resident is
working on doctoral papers at Par
kersburg Community College, and
issued a plea for help in his research
of outdated cures.
Results of his research will be
shared April 5-7 with people who
attend Heritage Days-79, a campus
festival.
“People learn by their mistakes
and by their successes and home
cures reflect the traditional stored
knowledge and wisdom of our past
generations,” Eilertsen said.
“The study of folk medicine offers
us an understanding of, and ap
preciation for, the life styles and
struggles of past generations. It
gives us a perspective of the ideas,
knowledge and values that were
deemed worthy enough to be
passed from generation to genera
tion.”
Among the cure-alb
learned to date:
— Making a dog inhale smoke
from burning shoe leather to cure
distemper.
— Using pine pitch to seal
wounds and prevent infection.
— Applying the inside of a strip of
slippery elm bark to a boil to “draw
it out.”
— Giving catnip tea to a teething
baby.
Eilertsen says there were many
other “remedies” he’d like to hear
about from West Virginians. He also
wants to know how people in the old
days doctored their animals.
will be attached to the LDEF. The LDEF itself will be ejected
from the space shuttle in the Earth’s orbit.
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&M prof to send experiment
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JResearch expected to help scien
tific balloons fly higher and longer
11 be conducted by a Texas A&M
jgineeron the first regular flight of
espace shuttle.
Materials from which high-
litude balloons are made will be
sed to the earth orbit radiation
vironment. They will be above
istofthe earth’s atmosphere from
of 1980 until spring, 1981.
[After 6 to 9 months exposure, hai
rs that jn films, tapes and lines will be
trieved by the shuttle and studied
itra oil Dr. James L. Rand for degrada-
pricei n of mechanical and radiometric
iperties.
ibmpli ‘We expect to gain data to sup-
oid- bother National Aeronautics and
ng fuel
energy
Space Administration programs in
volving flight of extremely high-
altitude, scientific balloons, ex
plained Rand, professor of aero
space engineering.
His experiment, designed by
aerospace engineering senior Elaine
Wagner of Dallas, will be mounted
with others aboard NASA s Long
Duration Exposure Facility.
The LDEF bearing the Rand-
Wagner experiment will be in the
shuttle cargo bay on the NASA
craft’s first operational flight. It is
expected to be launched about Au
gust, 1980.
Requiring no manipulation while
in space, Rand’s passive experiment
will occupy one-third of one of the
LDEF’s 38- by 50-inch experiment
trays. Up to 76 trays will be bolted
to the facility in “billboard” fashion.
With all experiments tested and
aboard, the 30-foot-long, 14-foot-
diameter polygonal sluminum facil
ity will be placed in earth orbit
about 345 miles up.
Rand, who has performed re
search in high-altitude balloon de
sign, performance, shape and stress
analysis, said polyester,
polyethylene, nylon and Kevlar
films, tapes and lines will be tested
in the earth orbit environment.
“At extremely high balloon al
titudes, oxygen content is differ
ent,” the engineer added. “The
oxygen occurs in very small amounts
there, but it will affect balloon ma
terials in ways we Heed to knpw.”
Present balloon missions of two
days are common. Keeping a
balloon-borne payload aloft four
days is the current limit. Develop
ments in materials thorugh studies
such as Rand’s are aimed at 60-day
and more missions at 25 miles and
higher. Such flights would allow
longterm studies of the upper atmo
sphere and deep-space radiation
sources whose emissions never
reach the earth’s surface.
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)ALLAS — George Killick has a
newhat unusual problem: his
k won’t take back the $75,000 it
takenly put in his account,
lillick says he planned to try once
re Tuesday to surrender the
ney to Republic National Bank if
bank doesn’t chase away the
s media again.
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|g a real pain,” Killick said
Holiday.
I! f'fltilliek’s predicament began when
been ordered off the premises.
That made Killick angry, so he
turned around and went home
without giving back a single cent.
“Hey, I want to give it back, he
said, “but I want to give it to the
president of the bank (with the
media present).
Killick also sees a bit of irony in
his situation — the bank had refused
him a loan three days before he re
ceived his bank statement.
[bank statement arrived Feb. 5
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