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Research shows vitamin E
fights childhood blindness
United Press International
BOSTON — High doses of
vitamin E given to premature
babies can help prevent a prim
ary cause of childhood blind
ness, Texas medical researchers
said Thursday.
Researchers from Baylor
College of Medicine and the
University of Texas found vita
min E given orally in high doses
to 50 premature infants within
24 hours of birth and daily for at
least eight weeks thereafter
prevented blindness. These in
fants suffered from retrolental
fibroplasia, researchers said in
the New England Journal of
Medicine.
RF is caused when extra ox
ygen given to premature infants
to prevent brain damage and
death causes blood vessels in
the eye to branch more thickly
than normal. This can result in
an opaque tissue forming be
hind the lens or in detachment
of the retina — separation of the
innermost lining of the eye.
RF damages vision in about
1,500 children yearly in the Un
ited States and blinds 500 more,
said Dr. Helen Mintz Hittner,
coordinator of the study at the
Texas Children s Hospital in
Houston. In its mildest form, it
causes such visual impairments
as nearsightedness or lazy eye.
The vitamin did not, howev
er, reduce the numbers of in
fants affected by the disease.
About 65 percent of each group
— 50 infants received high
doses and 51 low doses of the
vitamin — contracted milder
forms of the disorder.
“It’s not a panacea,” Hittner
said. “It certainly could de
crease the incidence (of blind
ness) significantly, and, com
bined with some of the surgical
therapies available, can belp
wipe it out. ”
An earlier study to pin down
oxygen dosages that would not
cause RF failed, and newborn
specialists have had to “walk a
very fine line” between provid
ing enough oxygen to keep the
infant alive and providing
amounts that would cause
blindness, Hittner said.
Vitamin E combines with ox
ygen left over from the amount
needed to sustain life and neut
ralizes it, Hittner said. The vita
min tends to concentrate in the
retina.
The vitamin is used as a diet
supplement and is being stu
died for other uses, but has not
been approved by the federal
Food and Drug Administration
for eye disorders, she said.
But she said because the
therapy is “a technique whose
time has come,” the obstacles
will probably be removed soon.
And now the land is his
• • •
Cyanide poisoning still
baffling Houston officials
United Press International
HOUSTON — A 32-year-old
housewife, one of 10 people whose
blood tests have revealed traces of
cyanide from an unknown source,
says she feels like a character in a
science fiction novel: “Now it’s
happening to me.”
City health officials said they
were baffled by the nonfatal
poisonings that have struck 10
people in a 15-block area of the
Heights, about four miles from
downtown. The source of the
poison remained unknown
Wednesday night.
Linda Rassinier, 32, said blood
tests conducted while she was
being treated for bronchitis last
week revealed the presence of
cyanide.
“It’s frightening,” she said.
“How often do you hear the word
cyanide, let alone find out you
have it in your blood?”
The tests showed Rassinier had
eight micrograms of cyanide per
deciliter (about 3.4 ounces) of
blood. Tests on the other patients
have shown their blood contained
between 2 micrograms and 28
micrograms per deciliter.
Dr. Tim Oesch, a general prac
titioner who discovered the
poisonings, said: “There’s not a
whole lot of material available on
the cyanide or its lethal dosage.
But it appears that the tests are
significant to the extent that 25
percent of the lowest lethal dose is
present.”
He said lethal doses of cyanide
have been recorded between 100
micrograms and 1,500 micro
grams per deciliter.
Symptoms, including dizziness,
fatigue, nausea and depression,
seem to disappear when the pa
tient leaves the area, indicating
the body rapidly excretes the
poison, Oesch said.
Rassinier said the cyanide left
her bedridden last week, but she
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AUSTIN — A relieved Jesse
Johnson greeted the news that he
had passed the last legal hurdle in
obtaining clear title to his proper
ty by working the land he and his
wife have owned for 53 years.
“I got to stay here now and try
to work it, ” said Johnson, who was
born 81 years ago and reared U/z
miles from the 120 acres. “I got to
keep making a living at it now. Yes
sir, I’m sure glad it’s over.”
The Leon County farmer said
he had been out working the land
when a telephone caller notified
him the governor had signed a pa
tent, an official document granting
him clear title to the property.
“I wish he was here, ” Clements
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It took passage of a constitu
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son and two other families clear
title to their land.
“I think justice is done,” Cle
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know that these kinds of circumst
ances can be reconciled and those
people are given their just due. ”
Johnson raised nine children on
the land, and then learned he did
not hold clear title. W.Q. Barrett,
who owns 107 acres, and Marion
and Glenn Toal, who own 67.2
acres, also learned they did not
hold clear titles.
The problem arose from a grant
of 640 acres of land to a soldier for
the Republic of Texas, Thornton
P. Kuykendall, who was given the
right to claim the property as pay
ment for his service in guarding
the baggage during the Battle of
San Jacinto.
Kuykendall properly claimed
320 acres of land in Leon and
Freestone counties, filed survey
notes on 320 acres in Leon County
which includes the Johnson farm,
and later filed a claim for title to
221 acres in Young County. Re
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show Kuykendall failed to file
proper documentation with his
second 320-acre claim in Leon Johnson bought his 120-acr
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“It’s an intermittent thing,” she
said. “Last Wednesday, I was terr
ibly depressed and cried for six
hours straight. I was hysterical. I
didn’t even know about the
cyanide then.
Rassinier said blood tests for her
husband and 12-year-old daughter
were negative. The family plans to
stay in the Heights unless there’s a
death or lethal level found, she
said. “Then I’d consider leaving, ”
she said.
Dr. Herbert McKee, a city
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tims and testing other people,
hoping to discover the source of
the poison through a common link
among the victims.
“We re asking them about occu
pational experience, life style, re
creation, food, medicine, a lot of
things, trying to establish a pat
tern,” he said.
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