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The care of the critically
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qualified nurse has a knowledge of
medicines and medical procedures
that enables her to do what the
doctor orders. When sick, the
hospital is a good place to be.
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Vol. 68, No. 5
May, 1953
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
J. DeWITT FOX, M.D., L.M.C.C., Editor
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MARY CASTOR, Assistant to the Editor
D. A. DELAFIELD, Assistant Editor
T. K. MARTIN, Art Editor
C. E. WENIGER, Ph.D., Editorial Consultant
Consulting Editors: ROBERT A. HARE, M.D., F.A.C.P.; WALTER E. MACPHERSON, M.D., F.A.C.P.
HAROLD M. WALTON, M.D., F.A.C.P.; THEODORE R. FLUE, M.D.; J. WAYNE MCFARLAND, M.D.
Contributing Editors: D. Lots Buatearr, R.N. • M. WEBSTER PRINCE, D.D.S., F.A.C.D.
ARLIE L. MOON, M.D. • JOHN F. BROWNSBERGER, M.D., F.A.C.S. • CARL J. LARSEN, M.D.
LEROY E. CooLuxe, M.D., F.A.C.S.
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Cyan. B. COURVILLE, M.D. • LUCILLE J. GOTHAM, B.A. • GEORGE T. HARDING, M.D., F.A.C.P.
E. HAROLD SHRYOCK, M.D. • HENRY W. VOLLMER, M.D., F.A.C.S.
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DEAR EDITOR:
I find LIFE & HEALTH magazine most interesting. The articles are replete with
scientific information of interest, and are
informative to the professional man and
layman alike.
JOSEPH H. SAKS
Woodmoor Pharmacy
Silver Spring, Maryland
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DEAR EDITOR:
FEATURE ARTICLES
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World Against Cancer
PAUL D. FOSTER, M.D.
Selling Yourself
HAROLD SHRYOCK, M.D. 10
BEULAH FRANCE, R.N. 12
The Contagious Patient
Great Little Imitator
MARY P. STREETER, R.N. 14
Drug Addiction-1953
W. W. BAUER, M.D. 16
Are You Afraid of the Dentist?
FOR MOTHERS
M. WEBSTER PRINCE, D.D.S. 18
THE MAY COVER
FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
Hydrotherapy—Sitz Bath __ 11
Family Physician
In the past seven months, during which
I have read LIFE & HEALTH, I have discovered two things to my amazement.
First, you have actually made each and
every issue of LIFE & HEALTH worth the
price of the annual subscription to any
person who has but a casual interest in
health. I want to compliment you and
your associates for so successfully extracting all the technical terminology
from your writings, and instead giving
your readers real, tasty, health-giving
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Wings of Health
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Dietitian Says
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Salt-free Diet
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May Vitamin Calendar
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Philosophy of Life
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Hobbies
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Meet Bossie, a "star" performer, queen of the
"milky way." Our highly mechanized way of life
has made obsolete the ox and almost the horse as
work animals. But the modest cow increases in
popularity. There is still a large place for her in
modern domestic life. Her abundant supply of
milk the year round is one of the priceless treasures of our daily diet.
However important milk is as a food, it is a
Potential source of danger when it is old or impure. Be sure the milk you and your family drink
is fresh and pasteurized. Unless you do this you
take a great risk of infection.
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Readers' Pulse
LOW-SALT
DIET?
put
you on a low-sodium
or salt-free diet? Fresh
lemons, themselves
salt-free, can make all
the difference between flat, insipid
dishes and tempting, appetizing
ones. A few drops of tangy lemon
juice work wonders for food flavors.
Overweight? Many diets recommend cutting down on salt. Seasoning with lemons instead of salt not
only helps you shed pounds faster,
but a squeeze of tangy, fresh lemon
sparks low-calorie foods.
Has the doctor
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vitamins in practical and understandable
form. You really have the knack of tailoring articles to fit the reader's need and
comprehensive ability, the one thing that
other so-called health magazines so sadly
lack.
My second observation is intended, not
as criticism, but rather as a suggestion.
. . . It seems to me that your magazine
is passing up a wonderful opportunity to
render a truly helpful service to countless
thousands, who, I am sure, would thank
you many times for making them acquainted with your magazine. You've got
something in LIFE & HEALTH that's worth
shouting about. And I believe it would
be none other than a Christian act to
make the general public aware of all that
LIFE & HEALTH has in its pages for them
through aggressive advertising and direct mail campaigns.
And I'll tell you why I am convinced
that LIFE & HEALTH will almost sell
itself if given a chance. One middle-aged
woman of my acquaintance, after reading
one of your articles, which I had brought
to her attention, gave me three dollars
and asked me to send in her subscription.
Two others of my friends . . . read copies
of LIFE & HEALTH I had given them, and
have since informed me that they have
subscribed because they want to read
the magazine regularly. You can take it
from me, this doesn't happen often to
magazines unless the contents really
pleases readers. . . .
I am moved to pass on to you these
observations and suggestions. I hope you
will accept them in the spirit in which
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Boy Lamphier would do better minding
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DEAR EDITOR:
I am very happy to be a reader of LIFE
I enjoy the Readers' Pulse,
especially the letter in the June issue by
George True Simpson, with a footnote by
our good editor.
I had the flu a few weeks ago, and after
finding it difficult in getting some relief,
I went down in my old file of LIFE &
HEALTH and found a very good article
by Wells A. Ruble, M.D., nine years ago
[January, 1943], which helped me very
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LIFE & HEALTH
Your Strong Eye
Besf Loafers
Too often the family that gives "the
best" to its children produces the best
loafers. This was the opinion of Dr. 0.
Spurgeon English, expressed at the convention of the American Academy of General Practice. The Philadelphia psychiatrist said, "Misguided parents who give
a teen-ager 'the best' of everything also
lead often to producing 'the best' dilettantes, the best complainers, shirkers,
whiners, and neurotics."
The teen-ager must be more than just
a "guest in a good home." He must be
trained by the parents to recognize the
benefits he is receiving are designed to
help him make a contribution to the betterment of society. Teen-agers need to
be trained against overdependence on parents. They need help also in choosing a
vocation. Further, he said, they need help
in making some partial solution of the
emotional needs in relation to the opposite sex.
Family doctors who play key roles in
saving teen-agers from possible frustration, failure, and perhaps even mental
disease in later life have saved many a
teen-ager when parents have failed to aid
their children in solving emotional problems.
The opposite condition is produced when
there are not enough tears to lubricate
the eye. One type of this disorder is known
by the formidable name of keratoconjunctivitis sicca. It can be brought on by a
number of causes, among them a deficiency of vitamn A in the diet. Unless
corrected, tear deficiency may cause serious eye trouble.
The standard method of measuring tear
secretion is known as Schirmer's test. It
consists of inserting one end of a narrow strip of filter paper into the inner
corner of the eye, under the lid, with the
rest of the paper protruding, and then
measuring the portion of the filter paper
that is moistened in five minutes.
The latest tests have shown results too
variable to establish any normal rate of
tear flow for persons older than 29. But
for the ages of 15 through 29 the normal
flow in five minutes seemed to be 20
millimeters or more for women and 13
millimeters or more for men. There was
a slight tendency for tear flow to decrease
with advancing age.
If you are like most people, you have
a strong, or dominant, eye, reports the
Better Vision Institute. By this is meant
that one of your eyes is the leader, on
which you depend more than the other.
Four hundred persons were examined
in an eye study, and it was discovered
that the right eye was dominant in 60
per cent, the left in 25 per cent, and
alternating dominance was in 15 per cent.
Though not born with one eye dominant, we usually acquire the tendency in
childhood when we begin to use our eyes
in close work. The right eye is more often
the leader, because 80 per cent of us are
right handed, and tend to hold our work
toward the right. For this reason the
right eye sees better and more easily, and
gets more use.
Here's a little test on yourself for eye
dominance. Point at an object, hold your
position, then close your left eye and
your right, alternately. The eye that sees
the finger lined up on the object is your
dominant eye.
The dominant eye is the one most likely
to become nearsighted, for it is used more
for close work. A person who, tries walking straight ahead in a. dark region usually finds himself going around in circles,
arriving back in the same place after
hours of tramping. Eye dominance may be
the reason for his inability to keep a
straight course. Although he thinks he
is walking straight ahead, he is really
looking to the side of his dominant eye
and walking toward that side. As a result
he gets farther away from the straight
course.
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WHY PEOPLE MARRY
BY PAUL D. FOSTER, M.D.
Married, unmarried, or going to
be married, you will be glad you
read this insight into marriage
motives.
Here is a bird's-eye view of the
concerted effort the world is making to gain control of cancer.
BLOOD CHEMISTRY
BY HELEN S. MEN KEL, R.N.
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Idle Tears
If your eyes water, you may have a case
of epiphora, which is the technical name
for an overflow of tears, says the Better
Vision Institute. The condition may be
connected with wind, cold, smoke, or
other irritations. If so, it is nothing much
to worry about. It may also occur through
obstruction of the small canals that discharge surplus tears into the nose.
MAY.
1953
CANCER
BY HAROLD SHRYOCK, M.D.
When you sit down to your wellladen table, remember this: What
you eat today walks and talks tomorrow!
IS IT PASTEURIZED?
MOUNTAIN THERAPY
BY JAN S. DOW ARD
One man gives you his method of
successfully getting the best of
the tensions of civilization. It may
be just what the doctor ordered
for you.
REGULAR FEATURES
BY ALMA KLINE ECKARD
You and your 'family are in much
less danger from disease caused by
drinking milk if you drink only
pasteurized milk.
OUR READERS' PULSE
MOTH ER'S COUNSELOR
CHILDREN'S PAGE
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'De 8ditor Says ...
here's HEALTH in a HOBBY
Are you fed up with life? Of late
you've noticed the increasing tempo
of your activity has been just too
much, and you are about to throw in
the sponge? If so, it's time you started
riding a hobby horse for a while instead of careening through traffic in
your Cadillac or Chevrolet.
There's health in a hobby. It can
be the pace breaker that helps you
win the race of life and to live longer,
more healthfully, and happily.
The hobby you choose is not nearly
so important as how you ride it. A
hobby such as stamp collecting, which
keeps a bank president in his study
until after midnight, and does not encourage him to unwind his muscles,
tense from long hours of desk sitting,
is hardly a healthful hobby for him.
However, stamp collecting for a carpenter, who has been pounding nails
all day, would be a worth-while diversion. When you pick your hobby,
choose one that will balance off your
life.
No matter what your hobby is,
whether growing prize tomatoes or
painting in oils, it is a means of getting you out of a shell of boredom
and into the great world of external
interests. If your hobby brings pleasure to another as well as you, you have
won a double dividend. Doctors tell us
that once you plan a pleasant something for someone else, your neurosis
is half-cured.
Many of the so-called hurry and
worry diseases of modern life can be
helped or even prevented if we will
take time to hop onto a hobbyhorse.
Watching water is an ageless prescription for high blood pressure victims. There is something about the
action of water that unwinds nerves,
takes the kinks out of tight muscles,
and removes the strain from the heart.
No doubt much of the benefit fishermen derive is from watching the peaceful water, not to mention the thrill
of hooking a five pounder. Strange as
it may seem, you'll experience a new
relaxation simply in sitting on your
lawn of a summer evening listening
to the water sprinkler spin and the
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water drop on your lawn. Water works
wonders when it comes to soothing
frazzled nerves. For a hobby that's
worth its weight in gold in health-giving value, take up water watching,
whether it be watching a waterfall
while on vacation or just watching a
lawn sprinkler in your own back yard.
Probably no man in world history
has borne heavier responsibilities in
government than Winston Churchill.
Yet he had time to ply a hobby.
Weighted by worry, and with a wrinkled brow, when he came from a pugnacious Parliamentary session, he
would feel his face smooth and his
muscles relax when he went into his
study to paint. If men of his high
station in life realize the importance
of time to play, how much more ought
we to value our happy hobbies.
Actually a hobby can be the safety
valve to help us let off steam. It was
said by Admiral H. Lamont Pugh, Surgeon General of the Navy, when speaking of relaxing diversions, "There are
two places I've never heard of a man
having a nervous breakdown. One is
in a swimming pool while he's stretching his muscles; the other is in front
of a fireplace while he's stretching
his soul."
Today hobbies are recognized by
leading medical authorities as having
healing value. Hospitals have occupa-
tional therapy departments, where patients are taught crafts such as leather
tooling, knitting, painting, wood carving, and weaving. These can do more
than medicine to revitalize tired bodies
and tense nerves.
A word of caution: Don't ride your
hobby to death. A hobby that takes
your hours of sleep or makes you overfatigued is not a good hobby for you.
A hobby is not intended to be profitable. If it makes you money, it may
be well and good, but the prime purpose of any hobby is to make your
life happier, not your pocketbook fatter. There's a definite danger that once
a dollar bill makes its appearance in
your hobby, it is no longer relaxing
but becomes a business.
A hobby is to your mind what a
hammock can be for your heart—a
relaxant.
No matter what your hobby, let it
be your gateway to a fuller life and
better health. As Columbia's President
Dwight D. Eisenhower told his students, never let a day go by "that you
don't enjoy life."
Yours for better health,
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WHEN you forget your day's worries for an hour, you relax, and your "nerves" take a breather.
LIFE & HEALTH
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Married and the father of one son, Dr.
Coolidge also has three grandsons.
To stretch his legs a bit, Dr. Coolidge
enjoys hiking, and is a member of the
Appalachian Trail Conference. He also enjoys gardening in his beautiful green
mountain country home.
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Ontario. This he says he developed to
keep occupied when he should retire from
the practice of dentistry. However, now
that he has become dean of a dental
school, he will have more activity than
he has known before to keep him occupied
during his golden years.
Dr. Prince married the former Irene
Hurst, of Leamington, Ontario, and has
one grown son, Robert Webster Prince.
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Paul D. Foster, M.D. ("Cancer," page
8), is a well-known Los Angeles dermatologist. His many articles on skin diseases and other medical subjects have appeared in magazines for the layman and
the physician.
Dr. Foster is founder of, the Student
Medical Association. This organization is
designed to give medical students social
contacts and an appreciation of medical
politics. It stresses the importance of cultural medicine as well as the medical
arts. Dr. Foster lives in fashionable San
Marino, California.
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L. E. Coolidge, M.D., is a contributing
editor of LIFE & HEALTH, and medical
director of the Takoma Hospital and Sanitarium, of Greeneville, Tennessee.
Born in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania, and
graduated from Pennsylvania State Teachers College, Mansfield, he taught public
school for two years, later studied medicine, and graduated from George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
After interning at Philadelphia General Hospital, Dr. Coolidge went into the
mining districts of Pennsylvania as an
industrial surgeon. In 1925 he established
the Takoma Hospital and Sanitarium, of
which he is now medical director.
Dr. Coolidge is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, International
College of Surgeons, and Southeastern
Surgical Congress.
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M. Webster Prince, D.D.S., F.A.C.D.
("Are You Afraid of the Dentist?" page
18), is dean of the College of Medical
Evangelists School of Dentistry, and a
contributing editor of LIFE & HEALTH.
Born in Cattaraugus, New York, Dr.
Prince graduated from the University of
Michigan School of Dentistry and practiced in Detroit for many years.
A top-notch organizer of dental societies, Dr. Prince started the Northwest
Dental Club and served as its first president. He is a past president of the Detroit
and Michigan State dental societies, and
was chairman of the Council on Dental
Education of the American Dental Association. Active not only in dental societies, he has also been a special lecturer
on public health at the University of Detroit School of Dentistry.
More recently Dr. Prince has felt the
need for another dental school, preferably
in the West, and spearheaded a campaign
for the organizing of the new College of
Medical Evangelists dental school, which
opens its doors to its first class this fall.
This, Dr. Prince feels, will help correct
the appalling state of the nation's teeth,
for an increased output of dentists should
help to correct the millions of untreated
cavities, which make tooth decay as common as the well-known common cold. As
many as two out of three people in the
United States do not have a dentist, and
700,000,000 cavities plus 300,000,000 teeth
that need to be pulled go uncared for,
says Frank F. Law of the U.S. Public
Health Service.
As a hobby Dr. Prince enjoys fishing,
and has thrown his rod and reel into the
trout streams of the United States from
coast to coast.
For thirty years he had a summer home
in Canada, and recently built a permanent cottage in the outskirts of the quaint
little village of Kingsville, Ontario, on the
shores of Lake Erie.
He also manufactures electrical heating
appliances as a hobby, being an active
partner in Prince and Graham of Harrow,
Mary P. Streeter, R.N. ("Great Little
Imitator," page 14), was born in Massachusetts, graduated from the North
Adams Hospital School of Nursing, and
later affiliated at Bellevue Hospital in
New York. She has nursed at Worcester
State Hospital, in Massachusetts, and has
been on the staff of New York's FlowerFifth Avenue Hospital.
Married, and now living in Pittsfield,
Massachusetts, Mrs. Streeter says her
most active hobby is a healthy four-yearold son. Reading, writing, and her other
interests are squeezed in "after hours."
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Charles C. McWhorter ("My Farm,"
page 20) is a Moulton, Alabama, poet,
and chairman of the board of revenue,
Lawrence County, Alabama.
Born in Texas and educated in Alabama, he was reared on a farm but later
became cashier in a bank and finally developed the only real-estate office in his
county, where he sells all types of insurance.
He writes a weekly poetry column in his
home-town paper, and has published
poems in various magazines and newspapers.
Besides being a businessman, Mr. McWhorter is a farmer at heart and raises
cattle on 160 acres of the farmland his
family has held for five generations. His
poem "My Farm" won the Progressive
Farmer prize in 1950, and was written
after he walked over his own farm with
his dog and a stick one Sunday afternoon.
Fond of Fords, he says you couldn't
sell him a Buick or a Packard because he
is now working in a political office where
folks are fed up with officeholders who
drive big cars while holding office.
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WORLD
AGAINST
AL PAUL D. FOSTER, M.D.
Here is a bird's-eye view of the concerted effort the
world is making to gain control of the disease of cancer.
HYSICIANS and all other persons responsible
for the health of nations are on the spot when
it comes to cancer. The first line of attack
against cancer is the individual. This means
bombarding him with sinister facts and figures, meanwhile insisting that he should regard cancer with none
of the ancient fear that has seriously retarded
progress in combating it.
It is within reason to estimate that more
than 185,000 persons die of cancer in the United
States every year. The cancer death rate
has doubled in the United States since
1900 ; it has increased more than 25 per
cent during the past ten years. According to the present death rate, fifteen
million persons now living in this country, or one out of every nine, are doomed
to die of cancer unless someone takes
adequate steps to prevent such disaster.
Even though we brush some of these
figures aside with logical explanations, the situation remains a gravely personal threat to all
of us.
It is true that our life expectancy has
stretched by leaps and bounds since 1900, resulting
in greater numbers of us reaching and living through
the cancerous age periods. A hundred years ago our
chances of living long enough to die of cancer were
slim. With better knowledge our statistics are becoming more accurate, and illnesses formerly considered
as other diseases are now correctly diagnosed. Many
more cases of cancer are reported than ever before. All
this adjustment adds significantly to the total death
rate from cancer. Nevertheless, we must admit that
despite much progress in research, public education,
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health measures, and treatment with modern radium
and surgical methods, cancer disease and death rates
are continually increasing.
It would be easier and far more convenient if the
entire problem could be turned over to science—to
the research investigator, to the physician, and to
public health authorities. It would be comforting
if we could dismiss cancer as remote and unlikely
to come into our experience.
But cancer strikes without picking and choosing. It does not confine its terrorism to
classes or races of people nor any other
specific group except partly the restricted
one of age. Cancer is a threat to mankind
individually and collectively, and the first
step in controlling it must be taken by
the individual.
All authorities agree that the weak
spot remaining in the fight against cancer is in the period before diagnosis and
treatment, the amount of time between the beginning of malignancy and the beginning of
treatment. We are not discovering cancer early
enough. To fight it effectively, we must discover
it before it gives any signs. This means that all well
and healthy persons over thirty-five years of age
should be examined every six or twelve months so that
the physician may discover early the conditions that
could lead to cancer.
Pain and other well-known symptoms of cancer are
late, not early, symptoms. The diagnosis must be made
before pain or other signs of the disease appear. The
fate of cancer victims depends on the discovery of
malignancy early enough for successful treatment by
surgery, X-ray, or radium, and on having enough
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means for diagnosis and treatment. The patient must
present himself to the doctor, and the doctor must
discover the cancerous condition. Society as a whole
must supply the means.
With all known facts before us, we can see that the
most intelligent defense against cancer is prevention—
the theme for cancer control programs all over the
world.
As a matter of fact, an epic of rare international
unity is being written in the field of medicine today,
and we could only wish that it might serve as a model
for unity in other fields of human endeavor. Rising
above political rifts, controversies, and daily dirges
of doom and impending disaster, the newly created
World Health Organization of the United Nations is
coordinating efforts of scientists in an interchange of
research material and medical findings for the good of
all people.
Foremost among the functions of this worldwide
organization will be the job of gathering and correlating the immense amount of world information and
literature dealing with the complex cancer problem.
Another international research group is the Union
Internationale Contre le Cancer, which meets every
few years. The American Association for Cancer Research and the Union Internationale jointly sponsored
the Fourth International Cancer Research Congress,
held in St. Louis in 1947.
The solution of the cancer problem is similar to
the solution of the atom bomb project, which was not
a development of a new discovery but a gigantic application of knowledge discovered over a long period
of time. Just as this knowledge produced the atom
bomb, so cancer research from all over the world must
be sorted, sifted, and compiled into a comparable bank
of fundamental information, so that the knowledge
can be made effective in overcoming cancer.
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three years of highly concentrated work to produce the
atom bomb, a deadly killer. We must now recognize
that it is far more important to discover the cause
and cure of cancer, a deadly killer too, which wiped
out almost twice as many Americans during World
War II as were killed in combat !
Modern cancer research is only about fifty years'
old. The challenge offered by this strange disease is
as old as history itself. In laboratories round the world
countless scientists have patiently conducted their
studies and experiments in desperate efforts to find
the cause of cancer, a disease as baffling and elusive as
the key to life and death.
Fear of cancer has always been one of the greatest
handicaps to its control. Many people have been too
ashamed or too afraid to admit the possibility of their
having cancer. As things stand now, cancer has not
been proved to be contagious. However, there is a
virus theory of cancer that may one day be substantiated, which may place cancer in the category of a
virus disease. We have learned that there are three
methods of treatment which will cure cancer in the
early stages. Information given to the public has
shown them
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MAY, 1953
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HAROLD SHRYOCH, M.D.
How to make friends by conversation.
After I had received
these three negative responses, I walked down
the street and found another store with a lessimposing appearance and
a smaller stock of merchandise. I entered and told the
proprietor what I wanted. He told me the same thing
the other storekeeper had told me—that this was special equipment and could not be easily replaced.
But he told me in a kindly tone and with an
obvious interest in my problem. I repeated my willingness to accept a substitute if such could be worked
out. So he set about to plan how I could replace the
broken part with standard pieces of equipment. Within
a few minutes he had devised a connection that was
perfectly practical and served my needs well.
The parts he suggested were not unusual
and had doubtless been in stock at the first
store.
I was grateful to this second man, and
not only paid him the price but expressed
my gratitude for his helping me to solve
a difficult problem. As I left his store I
marveled at the difference in the two proprietors.
The first storekeeper had a good stock
of merchandise, but acted as if he did not
care to be bothered by a customer. His
approach was almost unfriendly. But the
second man seemed pleased to be of service
to a customer. When I need another piece
of electrical equipment, it will not take me
long to decide which store I will patronize.
Furthermore, I can imagine that other people are noticing this difference. I predict
that before very long the owner of the second store will be much more successful in
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business than the owner of the first.
IT IS ETERNALLY TRUE that you get out of a situation just what you put
Most human relations involve considerinto it. Strive to make others happy, and you will reap happiness yourself.
NE time I stopped in at an electrical store
to buy a special connection for a piece of
equipment. The proprietor of the store took
the broken part in his hand, looked it over,
shook his head, and said, "I don't have anything
in the store exactly like that."
I told him that I had not expected to find an exact
duplicate and that I would be willing to use some other
type of fitting provided it would accomplish the same
purpose. But he repeated that he had nothing that
would help me out. I then asked whether he could direct
me to some other store that might have equipment of
this type. By this time he became impatient and told
me with emphasis that the broken part had been
specially built and that it would be impossible for me
to find a replacement.
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HYDROTHERAPY-SITZ BATH
By STELLA C. PETERSON, R.N.
NE of the oldest and most valuable of all hydroO
therapy procedures is the sitz, or sitting, bath.
Priessnitz, the Austrian who used water as a curative
NO MATTER how talented you are, you must get along well
with others to be a success. Are you your own worst problem?
able salesmanship. Even though you may not be in
business, you are, nevertheless, a salesman. It takes
a deal of salesmanship to get along well in life. In
order to make friends you have to sell yourself to
others. Regardless of whether you are a wage earner
or a homemaker, a tradesman or a professional person,
your ability to get along with people depends on your
knack of making people like you.
Most of our dealing with people involves conversation. Conversation is an important part of human
activity. We are often judged by our conversation. If
you are to be thought well of, you should give attention to your method of carrying on conversation, so
that you will be able to put your best foot forward and
leave the most favorable impression with those who
have heard you talk.
I was seated one day waiting my turn in a barbershop. The barber was working on a patron and telling
him about his recent vacation trip. He had traveled by
automobile to a distant State. He visited the town in
which he had grown up as a boy and looked up many
of his old friends. He hunted out the places he had
liked to visit when he was a boy. In spite of many
changes since he had been there last, he thoroughly
enjoyed renewing acquaintance with old friends and
places.
I became interested in the facial expressions of
the barber and his patron. As the barber told the
story his own face was aglow with pleasure. The
patron, on the other hand, was somewhat indifferent.
There were times when I thought he was almost bored.
In fact, I doubt that he paid much attention to what
the barber was saying.
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remedy, used the sitz bath in treating constipation and
other abdominal and pelvic conditions.
The modern sitz tub of metal and porcelain, with
a special inlet and outlet, is made in such a size and
shape that the patient may sit in it comfortably and
keep his feet in a foot bath at the same time.
For an improvised sitz bath in the home, an ordinary washtub may be used. It should be slightly tipped
and set up with blocks of wood to make it stationary.
A smaller tub or bath pan may be used to give the foot
bath, which should be given with the sitz bath. An
ordinary bathtub may also be used for a hot sitz bath
by having the water deep enough to reach the patient's
umbilicus. This is called a hot half bath. As with
the full-tub bath, different effects may be obtained
by using different temperatures.
Articles Necessary
1. Bath thermometer.
2. Washtub and wood blocks.
3. Foot tub.
4. Bath blanket or other lightweight blanket.
5. Basin of ice water and compresses.
6. Teakettle of boiling water.
7. Three or four Turkish towels.
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Charles Carey
MODERN HOSPITAL EQUIPMENT includes the sitz-bath tub,
but in your home you may safely and effectively use the bathtub.
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2-lie Contagious Patient
By BEULAH FRAM, R.n.
Doctors and nurses call sickroom procedure "sterile
technic." You will not find it at all hard to follow.
F THE doctor says, "It's catching," will you
know how to care for the patient? Will you
fully understand your fourfold duty: to the
patient, to yourself, to your household, and
to your neighborhood? It is not difficult to care for
the contagious diseases at home if you know what to
do and how to do it.
In fact, you should not wait until the doctor has
pronounced it a communicable disease before taking
precautions. Many serious infections are most dangerous when they first develop. So if a child or an adult
in your household is unnaturally quiet, is not hungry,
or vomits after eating, be on guard. Sore throat,
watery eyes, chilliness, and fever are sure symptoms
of something. In childhood they often usher in measles,
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FAMILIAR SIGHT, the quarantine card! But illness is never to
be taken lightly. Protect the whole family through precautions.
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mumps, scarlet fever, and influenza, all of which are
catching.
To play safe, consider every upset a possible indication of a contagious disease until it has been proved
otherwise. Isolate the ill one, call the doctor, and—
if it is contagious—cheerfully prepare to play home
nurse. Wear a coverall type of apron over your dress
when actually caring for the sick one.
The patient calls for first consideration. Make him
as comfortable as you possibly can. Be careful not to
look worried or annoyed. He needs your assuring smile.
Put him in as pleasant a room as you can, but before
he goes to bed remove from his room all furnishings
not needed for his care.
Take into his room a small supply of bed linen,
washcloths, and towels, so that
when they are needed you will
not have to remove your protective covering and go into another part of the house for equipment. His sheets should be
changed often. So should his pillowcases and nightgowns or pajamas.
If you are worried about the
large laundry bill, you may shake
out the sheets and let them air
in the bedroom window, using an
alternate set for the next twelve
or twenty-four hours. They may
be merely hot and wrinkled.
Your patient must be bathed
every day. Keep a basin or portable bathtub in the sickroom, also
rubbing alcohol and a can of talcum powder for his comfort.
He will be thirsty often. Keep
a pitcher of cool water on his
bedside stand. Cover it with a
paper napkin through which you
run a drinking straw, after puncturing a small hole for it. If
you have a glass drinking tube
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PLAY SAFE when your child shows signs of illness. Isolate her,
call your doctor, and be careful until you know the outcome.
with a crook, or bent elbow, that will be better still.
Ask the doctor about fruit juices. In all likelihood
you will find that orange juice, grape juice, lemonade,
and perhaps cold milk may be given freely. When you
give milk, let your patient rinse his mouth after drinking. He can return the rinsing water into the same
small basin he uses when he cleans his teeth twice
a day.
If his tongue becomes coated, he will be comforted
if you gently clean it. You may do this with a wooden
tongue depressor wrapped in clean gauze moistened
with water or mouthwash. If you have no tongue
depressor, use a silver table knife.
Plenty of pillows help make it easy to keep your
patient comfortable. Although he will not want you
hovering over his bed, do turn the pillows over and
fluff them now and then if he seems restless.
Communicable diseases are likely to be accompanied by fever. Fever is a friend in all such cases.
It is evidence of a battle being waged by the body
against the invading enemy disease germs. But also
fever is exhausting. Let your patient lie quiet as much
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1953
fortable?" Do not try too
hard to amuse him. He needs
rest.And he needs nourishment as well. The old idea
that a fever should be
starved is not accepted now.
Doctors say that the sick
person requires food to keep
his strength. They say also,
however, that food never
must be forced on a patient.
Let his appetite decide how
much he should eat. Serve
his food daintily and attractively.
The doctor may want you
to keep a chart recording
your patient's temperature
every four hours if he is
awake. This will call for a
reliable fever thermometer
plus your ability to use and
read it. Keep the thermometer in a glass of water in the sickroom. Let its tip
rest on a piece of cotton in the bottom of the glass.
Pin a paper bag to the mattress of the patient's
bed and drop into it the gauze or cotton you use in
wiping the thermometer. Put into the bag also the
paper napkins and paper handkerchiefs the patient
uses. When the bag is nearly full unpin it, close it
tight, and either burn it or drop it onto an open newspaper outside the bedroom door. After you have
scrubbed your hands and taken off your apron, you
can step out into the hall and fold the newspaper
around the bag—and any other waste material you
have put on it. If it is wrapped and tied tight, it may
safely go into the garbage pail if you have no way to
burn it.
That is one of the precautions you take for the
sake of the other members of your household and for
the protection of your community. Bed linen, clothes,
and everything else washable that is used for the patient should be dropped onto a spread sheet outside
the sickroom door. Then when you leave the room
yourself you can gather up the ends of the sheet, which
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has not been in the sickroom,
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GREAT LITTLE IMITATOR
By MARY P. STREETER, R.11.
Don't look now, but you are being
watched. Be sure the watcher
sees you doing the right thing.
Eric Wahleen
ENCOURAGE your little tots when they begin to copy your
actions. By imitating they learn how to work and how to live.
O ONE can help being amused when the small
fry of the family starts imitating things his
elders do. A baby usually starts this at a
year and a half or two years of age. It is
one of the indications that he is really coming into his
own and is trying to prove it. He is developing his
imagination and desire to do what others do.
The period in which baby begins to imitate others
not only is amusing but offers a wonderful opportunity
for mother and father to begin teaching him the things
he must learn to do for himself a little later.
If baby is allowed to watch father and mother brush
their teeth, it isn't long before he is pretending to
brush his by rubbing his finger across his teeth. Strike
while the* iron is hot! Offer him a toothbrush of his
own, and let him go to it. At first it is wise to put a
pleasant-tasting dentifrice on the brush so that he
will enjoy the taste and it will not gag him. If he
experiences any unpleasantness when he tries to brush
his teeth, he might fight the whole thing from that
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point on. When it is necessary to really clean his
teeth, mother can take turns with him in brushing
them. In this way his teeth will get cleaned, yet the
sense of independence he is also beginning to develop at this age will not be outraged.
Babies love routine. At first it gives them a sense
of security to know that they will be fed, bathed, or
napped about the same time each day. Their tiny
world revolves around these three activities, and until
they are old enough to cope with more they are perfectly content. Routine leads to habit, and good habits
are often acquired by it and from watching others.
Baby's urge to wash his hands when they are
soiled is actually an impersonation of his elders, especially if you explain to him why you are washing your
hands. Talking to your child, casually explaining why
you are doing things, teaches him a great deal. It is
a mistake to believe that baby doesn't understand what
you are saying to him. An explanation coupled with an
act of doing something goes a long way in putting
him on the right path. Never underestimate the intelligence of a child.
Perhaps there will be a day when you will find
your toddler quietly sitting on the floor with an
untied shoe before him. He may be making circular
motions with his hands as he holds the laces. Don't
dismiss his action by thinking that he is simply
amusing himself. He is really trying to tie his shoe,
something he has seen others do, and he has the urge
to try it for himself. Help him if he is in the mood
to be helped and gives up the laces willingly. After
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a time he will gradually catch on to the way of tying
the lace and will be quite proud of himself. The act
of tying a shoe is somewhat complicated, so don't
expect a three-year-old to do it. It is a big accomplishment for even a four-year-old.
Small tasks that a child attempts to do for himself
are usually things that he has seen others do. The
desire to imitate others, along with the natural urge
for independence, does more to teach a child than if
a mother tried to drill new skills into him.
It is sometimes easier to teach him by letting him
watch for a time before he attempts the act. No matter
how many times he tries and fails, never discourage
him with impatient words or gestures. When he is
old enough to try to dress himself, start a little earlier
so that it won't be necessary to rush. In this way your
patience won't be strained to the breaking point, and
your small fry will have time to try out the fascinating activities he has learned from watching.
At the period in your child's life when he is beginning to imitate others, you may find that you even
have a little "helper" when you are doing your housework. He may want to sweep when you do. He tries to
make beds, dust, or help with any of the various things
that he sees his mother do daily. If you rightly encourage your boy, he won't turn into a "mother's boy" because he tries to imitate you, and your girl will be
more likely to grow up loving housework because she
is encouraged when she attempts to imitate you. They
are teaching themselves to use their hands and to do
things.
During the tender period up to two years of age,
your child is going through many changes. He may
suddenly change from a friendly baby to a shy, retiring
youngster. He'll outgrow this
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F. Lewis
STRIKE
while the iron is hot! Your children will respond best to
your training when their interest in doing as you do is keenest.
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PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE
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By D. A. DELAFIELD
I think the tension of the times we live in has tightened
up people's vocal cords. I don't hear as much spontaneous
singing as I used to. Are the cares of life crowding the
melody out of our hearts?
A child will sit with his toys and sing to his heart's
content, because he doesn't have a care in the world. We
parents are children grown tall and big. We would be
doing more singing if we weren't doing so much worrying.
Don't take your problems too seriously.
It does us good to sing, whether our voice is a cackle,
a whisper, or a chirp; a monotonous sound like a foghorn
appeasing the elements, a high-pitched discord, or the
rapturous strains of a Lanza or an Anderson. Singing will
promote health and good will.
Even though we do not feel like it, we ought to sing.
Ten minutes of optimistic reflection will put you in the
mood—partly. When you begin, you will be encouraged to
continue by the sound of your own voice. Others will join
you—husband, wife, brother, sister, mother, dad.
Singing will lift you up to a different plane of living.
As your pent-up feelings find expression and you give your
emotions a chance for release, life will be brighter for you.
Be sure to choose worth-while songs and include church
music, which builds faith and honors God.
Our postman, James D. Green, announces his coming
every morning with the thrilling strains of religious song.
Whether he whistles or sings, he is always welcome at our
door.
One of our neighbors lias a phonograph that she plays
constantly. The best singers in the world enter her home
to perform for her night and day. She can't sing a note,
but she is always humming some tune; and her husband,
who shares his wife's love for music, can sing like McCormack. You can imagine how happy their home must be.
They sing as they go along together. It is much easier to
travel the road this way.
So start singing. Start tomorrow morning. When you
awaken, sing. Create an atmosphere of happy song about
your home. Teach the children to be songful. At this very
moment if you are in a place where you can sing, start
singing, or hum a little melody to yourself. If you will
distract others, run over the tune in your mind. See how
it helps. Life will treat you better if you face it with a
song on your lips. More important still, you will be able
to give much more to life if you march along singing as
you go.
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RUG ADDICTION 1953
W. W. BRUER, M.D.
You may be in greater danger from drugs than you
realize. Study the question of drugs for yourself.
You needn't expect to read
about morphine fiends, drug peddlers, opium smugglers, and
other horrific features if you
choose to continue with these
paragraphs. Drug addiction is a
problem, but it is quite different from the common
concept in the public mind. The drug addict, 1953 style,
is only exceptionally a criminal. Mostly he is a fellow
just like you and me. According to Dr. Lawrence Kolb,
a drug addict is a psychologically maladjusted person
plus an accident, the accident being the introduction
to a narcotic drug.
But before coming to real narcotics, which affect
but a small and diminishing proportion of our people,
let us consider some drug habits that are not true
addictions in the strict medical sense of the term
but that constitute, nevertheless, a real and undesirable
slavery to the taking of drugs.
THRIVING for the destruction of mankind, this marihuana crop
grew behind a high fence. It was finally discovered and seized.
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True drug addiction is an enslavement to a drug
because of inability to get along without it. This may
be due to actual suffering endured when the drug is
withheld, as in the case of morphine and other truly
habit-forming drugs. The United States Government
recognizes a group of such drugs, makes their purchase
illegal, and controls their manufacture and importation
by a clever device through which revenue laws are
made to act as control laws.
These drugs are opium and coca leaves or any compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, or preparation
thereof except those that contain these drugs in quantities below specified limits, plus any substance found
by the Secretary of the Treasury to have an addictionforming or addiction-sustaining liability similar to
morphine or cocaine, regardless of the name by which
such preparations are designated. (The use of marihuana is controlled by a separate Federal law.)
Under the Harrison Antinarcotic Act, everyone in
THIS IS ONE supply of opium that failed to reach its woeful
victims. It was seized by the authorities in Baltimore, Maryland.
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K. Fabry
SHUN THE EVIL THING that someday could be a menace to you.
At the last its sting may be worse than the sting of a serpent.
any way concerned with the distribution of the drugs
named from time to time by the enforcing agency, the
United States Treasury Department, is licensed. This
includes your doctor, your hospital, and your druggist.
Every minutest quantity sold, dispensed, or administered to a patient must be accounted for, and the
Federal inspectors are firm and accurate.
Illegitimate drugs must flow through illicit channels, and that necessity makes their price high and
their quality unreliable. Many a morphine addict has
paid high prices on the black market for "morphine"
that contained but little of the genuine drug.
Less dangerous than addiction is habituation. A
person can become habituated to a drug so as to desire
its effects without becoming addicted in the true narcotic sense. Use of sleeping tablets or of stimulant
drugs is an example in point. Withdrawing such drugs
produces no torturing symptoms, but merely removes
the desired effects, which the user has become accustomed to. Some habituations are mere self-deceptions
where the use of a drug is based on a current misconception as to its effects. The common use of aspirin as
a sleep-inducing drug is an example. Aspirin has no
sleep-producing qualities. The common habits of misusing potent drugs, whose use should be limited to
medical treatment by physicians, are of more significance to more people than the major narcotic addictions.
Sleeping tablets form perhaps the worst drug habituation of the American people today. Entirely aside
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from the questionably accidental overdoses that undoubtedly cloak many a suicide, and perhaps a homicide
once in a while, there are real accidental poisonings
with these drugs, of which the most commonly used is
phenobarbital or one of its related or derivative drugs,
purchasable under many names. These drugs, derivatives of barbituric acid, are useful in medicine, but
their widespread use as sleeping potions does harm.
They may affect the blood, they may produce allergies,
they are subject to abuse and to tragic "accidents,"
and they give at best an inferior imitation of good
sleep.
Aspirin eating is another form of drug habituation, so common that where the law permits, aspirin
is bought in grocery stores, not uncommonly as a part
of routine food orders. Aspirin is probably the least
harmful of drugs for self-medication for most persons.
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MODERN DENTAL PATIENTS say, "It didn't hurt
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a bit!" You too will be saying that after a visit to your progressive dentist.
trait" of the Dedist?
AL M. WEBSTER PRIEE, D.D.S.*
Dean, College of Medical Evangelists School of Dentistry
T HAS been said so many times that it has
almost become a truism, "Fear of pain keeps
more people away from a dentist than does the
pain itself."
What is there about dental treatment that makes
us dread it so much? Why do we put off going to the
dentist, when we know we have a cavity, until the tooth
begins to ache?
When our better judgment does triumph, and we
reluctantly find ourselves in a dentist's chair, why do
we try to draw ourselves up into a ball, like a porcupine awaiting attack, as soon as a dentist comes
near us?
Of course, we instinctively recoil from anything
* Past president, Michigan State Dental Society ; past president,
Detroit District Dental Society; member of the American Council on
Dental Education.
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associated with pain. The association of pain with
dental ills, however, is a heritage of the past.
My earliest tooth consciousness occurred on my
hearing a story about a man who had a terrible toothache. Rather than let the country physician remove the
tooth, the man suffered for days, until he could stand
it no longer, and then, tying one end of a strong cord
to the offending molar, and the other end to a flatiron,
he summoned all his courage and threw the flatiron
out the window of a two-story house. I don't recall
whether his jaw or his neck was broken, but I do
know that it resulted in my having a terror of an
aching tooth, which followed me throughout boyhood.
What a lasting impression is made upon us by the
lurid description of some trying experience in a dental
chair, even though perhaps only one dental patient in
a thousand ever has such an experience!
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Here are reasons why you should
stop shivering, and go have your
teeth examined by your dentist.
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When our turn comes to visit the dentist, more
effort is required for us to screw up our courage than
might be expended in the normal course of living
throughout the year. Especially is this true of children.
During the impressionable years of a child's life, parents should be extremely careful not to relate incidents
that may create fear or apprehension.
Of all the human dramas enacted in a dental office,
none is so intense as when an exasperated mother hauls
in a kicking, fighting, screaming child, who continuously implores the mother, "Take me home, Mother;
take me home !" while the mother, half hysterical herself, keeps repeating over and over again, "He won't
hurt you ; he won't hurt. He never hurts little girls !
0 Patricia, why do you act so, you naughty little girl?"
Needless to say, under such unfavorable circumstances, the dentist's chances of winning the child's
confidence are reduced to the narrowest margin.
No one denies that dental treatment may be disagreeable or that under some circumstances it is a
veritable nightmare, but in this modern age it need
be no more painful than any other treatment or service
in the general field of medicine!
Since the days of Horace Wells, a practicing dentist
in Hartford, Connecticut, who about one hundred years
ago first demonstrated the use of nitrous oxide (gas)
as a general anesthetic, there has been steady progress
in the use of anesthetics.
Local anesthesia and general anesthesia have developed to a point where both are used as daily routine.
In the field of general anesthesia, gas is especially
suited to the dental office. Properly administered, gas
is the safest anesthetic available.
Improved apparatus for administering chemically
pure nitrous oxide allows the patient to have most
dental operations performed without pain or unpleasantness. The rare exceptions are generally due to lack
of judgment in the operator or lack of preparedness
in the patient. Most patients who have taken gas
consider the experience as rather a lark.
Local anesthetics produce numbness in the mouth
tissues. An anesthetic swabbed on the gum before
the injection is made makes the insertion of the needle
practically painless.
Local anesthetics have been wonderfully improved
in past years. Their lasting quality has been increased
to permit the longest operation.
For the extremely nervous and apprehensive patient still other medicines are available. Taken in capsule or tablet form a half hour before the appointment,
they have a comforting effect that cuts away down on
fear of either local or general anesthetics.
Some patients, however, have
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Our daughter's right leg was hurt
in an automobile accident. She couldn't
walk on it for several weeks, and had
three and a half quarts of blood and
fluid drained out of it two weeks after
the accident. It is much better now,
but some of the blood vessels continue
to rupture. Would treatment consisting of alternate hot and cold water be
good to strengthen the blood vessels?
Or would a heating lamp be of benefit?
We have a daughter who is nearsighted and wears heavy glasses. We
want your advice about using plastic
contact lenses.
Contact lenses are coming into use
more and more, but they must be
handled carefully or a degree of irritation of the eye and the conjunctival
membranes may take place. The contact lens must be removed at intervals
for proper washing of the eye.
Whether a lens can be used acceptably to correct the error in your
daughter's vision will have to be answered by one who makes or handles
this type of equipment.
Where a heavy glass must be used,
a correspondingly thick lens of the
contact type would be used to obtain
sufficient refraction of the light. We
recommend that you contact an oculist
and have him attend to the fitting of
the lenses if he thinks it is proper to
use them. It may be that your daughter should wait a little longer before
actually using equipment of this kind.
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I bought ten thousand sunsets
And a friendly old oak tree
When my farm was deeded me.
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With a mockingbird to sing,
A mossy glade with willow shade
And the music of a spring.
Gallstones
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It would be hard to say just what
the condition of her leg is without seeing her. However, I believe the treatment with hot and cold water would
be a good thing. My opinion is that
the hot and cold would be better than
the lamp. I notice that you say your
daughter is overweight. I believe if
she could lose some weight, she would
have a better chance to get over the
trouble with the leg. By all means
keep her under the care of your family physician.
And jeweled nets of violets
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What causes gallstones? Will olive
oil remove them?
Gallstones usually follow infection
of the gallbladder. Around masses of
bacteria or other substances certain
waxylike materials or minerals are deposited. Thus stones are gradually
built up, until sometimes they are
quite large. They may be as small as
grains of sand or actually larger than
one inch in diameter.
The small lumps seen in the stool
after the use of olive oil are not gallstones. They are spontaneously formed
particles of soap.
Leg Injury
A meadow starred with daisies,
A wild rose rambling free,
A squirrel's den and a nested wren—
And it all belonged to me.
I paid the man his money,
And he did not understand
He had put a price on Paradise
When he thought he sold me land!
"My Farm" is from the magazine THE LAND, and
was printed in its spring, 1952, issue. Poem and illustration used by permission of publisher and author.
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Vein Stripping
I have been told there is a new operation called "stripping the veins" for
varicose veins. Can you tell me anything about it?
Stripping the veins is not altogether
a new procedure. It has been done for
a number of years. It is especially
used where the large veins are tied
off in the groin and then stripped back
down under the skin to some suitable
position in the thigh or leg.
The process is done by a surgeon,
and the patient is under anesthetic
during the actual operation. The hospital stay is usually only a few days,
perhaps two to five, according to the
surgeon's judgment.
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H ydrotherapy—Sitz Bath
(Continued from page 11)
Procedure
I. The temperature of the water depends on the effect desired. In
general, these temperatures can
be given:
a. Cold sitz bath 55°-75° F.
Hot foot bath 105°-110° F.
b. Neutral sitz bath 92°-97° F.
Hot foot bath 102°-106° F.
c. Very hot sitz bath, started at
a temperature of about 100°
F. and gradually increased to
110° to 115° F.
Foot bath 100 0 -120° F.
d. Alternate hot and cold sitz
baths: hot-106° to 115° F.;
cold-55°-85° F.; foot baths
110°-115° F.
2. Protect the patient from contact
with the tub by placing towels
behind his back and under his
knees. Cover him with a blanket.
3. Sufficient water should be used
to cover the hips and to reach the
abdomen. The temperature of the
foot bath should be several degrees hotter than the temperature in the sitz tub.
4. Friction may be used with the
cold sitz bath if the patient feels
chilly or if it is desirable to intensify the effects of the bath.
5. The duration depends on the
temperature used and the effect
desired, the average length of
time being three to eight minutes. The time will be prescribed
by the doctor.
6. Hot sitz baths may be concluded
by cooling the water to neutral
for one or two minutes or by
pouring cold water over the hips
and thighs. The cold sitz may be
concluded by rubbing the hips
and thighs with warm alcohol.
7. Cold compresses to head and neck
should be used with the hot sitz
bath.
8. The patient's pulse should be
checked during treatment.
Precautions
1. Avoid drafts or chilling the patient.
2. Watch patient closely for fainting.
3. Have patient rest after treatment.
Indications
I. Cold sitz baths are useful in
treating constipation and chronic
pelvic inflammation.
2. Hot sitz baths are used in treating pelvic pain such as occurs
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: MADGE HAINES MORRILL. M.Ljr.
A CLUB FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
THE SKIN SENDS MESSAGES
E schoolroom was quiet during
situdy period. Only the sound of
T
turning pages could be heard as the
pupils sat at their desks. Miss White,
the teacher, was at the front of the
room, and a happy expression came
over her face as she saw her students
so carefully reading their assignments.
But all at once there was a loud
laugh followed by a chuckle, and everyone glanced at the desk where Jim
was sitting. He had his hand over
his mouth trying to keep back his
amusement.
"What's so funny?" Ted leaned over
and whispered.
Then Jim exploded with laughter,
and the whole roomful of students
turned to look at him.
Miss White knew that the other students would not quiet down until they
knew why Jim had laughed. She asked
quietly, "Can you share your joke with
us, Jim?. We would like to laugh too."
Jim blushed a bit to have all the
students looking at him. He said, "It
isn't much of a joke. I was just reading here in the science book about a
lizard and how it has to change its
skin, and I got to thinking how funny
people would look if we had to crawl
out of an old skin once or twice a
year."
Miss White said, "Jim isn't far
wrong. People do change their skins,
you know, though not the way lizards
do."
Ted asked, "Do you mean that people really change their skins? Tell us
when and how !"
Miss White said, "A person's skin
is made of layers of cells. These cells
die, and new cells grow to take their
place. The skin changing is a gradual,
continuous process; at all times the
old dead cells are being rubbed off
and new cells are taking their place.
"Let's spend the rest of the study
period finding out a few things about
the skin. If you'll open your health
books to chapter ten, you will find the
story of skin there. Some of you may
want to read from other books on the
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skin in the library, and at the end
of the period we can have a discussion."
When the study period was over
Miss White opened the discussion. Jim
said, "I think a person's skin is just
about the most important part of his
body. A person can feel with his fingers ! Think of the blind people who
myself
By EDGAR A. GUEST
I have to live with myself, and so
I want to be fit for myself to know;
I want to be able as days go by
Always to look myself straight in the eye;
I don't want to stand with the setting sun
And hate myself for the things I've done.
I don't want to keep on a closet shelf
A lot of secrets about myself,
And fool myself as I come and go
Into thinking that nobody else will know
The kind of a man I really am;
I don't want to dress myself up in a sham.
I want to go out with my head erect,
I want to deserve all men's respect;
But here in the struggle for fame and pelf,
I want to be able to like myself.
I don't want to think as I come and go
That I'm bluster and bluff and empty show.
I never can hide myself from me,
I see what others may never see,
I know what others may never know,
I never can fool myself—and so,
Whatever happens, I want to be
Self-respecting and conscience free.
"Myself" is from The Collected Verse of Edgar A.
Guest; copyright 1934, by The Reilly & Lee Co., Chi..
cago, Illinois. Used by permission.
can read books through their finger
tips ! They pass their finger tips over
a series of raised points that represent letters, and can read as well as
we do by looking at the words."
Betty said, "The sense of touch is
in the skin. All over the body there
are many nerve endings, and they are
sensitive to heat, cold, pain, and
touch."
Ted asked, "What does she mean
by nerve endings?"
Miss White explained, "In the skin,
especially in the tips of the fingers, are
tiny nerves that are sometimes called
nerve beginnings. When a person
touches something sharp, for example,
the nerve in his fingers sends a message all the way up to the brain, and
the brain interprets this message and
tells the person that he has touched
something sharp.
"It doesn't take long to pull your
hand away from something sharp, hot,
or that causes pain. Those nerve endings, or beginnings, send their messages even faster than lightning travels."
Allen said, "I enjoyed reading in our
health book about the tongue and how
it tastes."
"Are there nerve endings in the
tongue?" asked Jim.
"Yes, there are many nerve endings
—or beginnings—as Miss White just
explained," said Allen. "There are tiny
knobs, known as taste buds, on different parts of the tongue. These taste
buds are nerve endings, and when they
send their messages to the brain you
know what kind of food you are eating."
Miss White drew a large diagram
of a tongue on the blackboard and
said, "Four different tastes can be recognized by the tongue. Here," she said,
putting a big X on the tip of the blackboard tongue, "a person can taste and
recognize sweet substances. Here on
the back of the tongue he can taste
salt and acid substances."
"Oops," said Ted, "just think how
much work my tongue is going to have
when I eat my lunch today, for I have
pickles, dates, potato chips, and an orange to eat."
Jim said, "Not only your tongue will
be busy but also those nerves carrying
messages to the brain."
Betty said, "I never before realized
that we are so complicated : nerve endings in the skin, taste buds on the
tongue, and messages going to the
brain. No wonder some people say the
human body is the most marvelous of
all created things."
"Yes, Betty, you are right," Miss
White said. "It makes me thankful to
the great Creator whenever I consider
how wonderfully He has made us."
LIFE & HEALTH
World Against Cancer
HELP YOURSELF TO BETTER
(Continued from page 9)
the dangers of "magic" cancer cures.
These advances are encouraging and
helpful, but there are still wide gaps in
our knowledge and understanding.
Some of the information we do have
appears contradictory in many ways.
The job ahead for science is to
learn why and how cancer starts, how
it grows, and what will stop its wild
growth. Investigators are beginning
to realize that it may be necessary to
uncover the very secret of life—
grov*th in the individual cell—before
they can get mastery over this mysterious disease. Unfortunately, there
is very little basic knowledge to explain the laws governing this smallest
organized unit of living matter, the
cell. It is necessary to learn how cells
multiply, how they differentiate, how
they organize into different tissues
and into different species of animals.
It is an unfortunate fact that all
cancer researchers—United States,
British, and French in particular—
have been forced in the past to conduct their research as lone wolf pioneers, because they didn't have the
means or opportunity for united effort. Recently, in the United States
for the first time, Congress provided
funds for cancer research and education, with grants to research groups
for two years' work.
In spite of the war, cancer research
was not seriously held back in European countries. England, the Soviet
Union, and even France and Germany
continued their research in an important though limited way during the
war years. Many reports written during World War II are found in German literature. Laboratories for cancer research in Germany, France, and
the Scandinavian countries have made
outstanding contributions to the fund
of cancer information.
In the United States short-term refresher courses are provided for
physicians, surgeons, radiologists, pathologists, and others that they may
obtain training in modern methods of
cancer treatment and diagnosis. State
cancer control funds are provided for
instruction, meeting places, and even
expenses for travel to and from places
where the courses are given.
Since our people over thirty-five
years of age are being urged to report to the physician or clinic for periodic examination, it is mighty important that the doctor they report
to is fortified with sound knowledge
of the fundamentals and latest information on cancer. The first doctor the
patient sees must not fail to discover
cancer if it is present, or later treatMAY, 1953
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death inevitable.
Any doctor who says an examination is not necessary because there are
no symptoms is defeating the purpose
of cancer education. Even in the case
of the occasional patient who may
overstress every small symptom he
has, it is well to remember that the
psychoneurotic may have cancer as
well as the well-balanced person. Also
the physician who is not equipped
with specialized facilities for diagnosing and treating for the proper management of cancer must refer the patient to others adequately equipped.
Obviously, many more cancer-detection centers are critically needed.
The vital pivot for today's fight
against cancer is in cutting down delay.
For more on the world fight against cancer
don't miss the June issue of Life & Health.
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If you have a question or problem regarding food or
diet, address: The Dietitian, LIFE & HEALTH, Washington 12, D.C. Enclose stamped, addressed envelope for reply.
Low-Salt Menus
Doctors of today often say, "Avoid
salt." This is because salt contains
40 per cent of sodium. In certain conditions too much sodium in the diet
makes the disease worse. By limiting
sodium the doctor often sees great improvement in a patient, especially in
a heart patient.
He may go further and say, "Use
no baking soda, baking powder, leavened flour, popular baking mixes, salty
tooth paste, alkalinizers, or saline laxatives." Even some drinking water is
naturally too salty, and must be replaced by low-sodium water.
Salty foods that are usually on the
forbidden list include cured meat such
as ham, bacon, dried beef, corned beef,
ordinary cheese, codfish, all pickled
salty fish, and salt-water shellfish.
Foods from the vegetable kingdom
that are too salty to use are olives,
canned ravioli, sauerkraut, soup cubes,
salted nuts, salted popcorn, potato
chips, regular crackers, regular peanut butter, soy sauce, catchup, vegetable salts of all kinds—even onion,
celery, and garlic.
In the strictest low-sodium diets the
following are added to the forbidden
list: common canned vegetables and
soups, frozen peas, frozen Lima beans,
salted butter, margarine, bacon drippings, regular bread, regular milk,
beets, cooked greens, instant tea, instant coffee, cocoa, and malted milk.
In general, animal foods such as
meat, fish, fowl, eggs, ordinary cheese;
and milk are more salty than vegetable foods. All foods contain some salt
obtained from the soil as they develop.
You must be wondering what is
left for the low-sodium diet. Here
are some menus suitable for the most
highly salt-restricted person. They are
nutritionally adequate meals, so that
the whole family may eat the same
food. The members of the family who
are not restricted may simply add salt
to suit them at the table. All the food
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is prepared without added salt. Special low-sodium bread and milk are
used. The person on a strict diet such
as this should follow the doctor's detailed directions carefully, making no
change in his diet without asking the
doctor's approval. The menus show
some of the possibilities, and demonstrate that very fine meals may be
served without sodium-rich foods.
MENUS FOR THREE DAYS
[NoTE.—Average-sized servings are to
be used. If more food is needed, it should
be supplied in extra portions of fat or
dessert, for they are the lowest in sodium.]
Breakfasts
1
Grapefruit
Salt-free toast
Salt-free butter
Soft-boiled egg
Peppermint tea
Honey for tea and toast
FLAVOR FOR THE SALTFREE DIET
If you are a heart sufferer
and must be on a low-salt or
salt-free diet, you will by all
means want to get a copy of
the new booklet When the
Doctor Says: Cut Down on
Salt! published by Sunkist
Growers, and available on request by writing Sunkist, Terminal Annex, Los Angeles,
California.
This excellent booklet gives
a list of foods that you may eat
on a low-salt or salt-free diet,
but best of all it tells how to
flavor foods with lemon and
add new zest to what otherwise might be a flat meal.
2
Orange juice
Puffed rice or salt-free steamed rice
Low-salt milk
Salt-free toast
Salt-free butter
3
Cantaloupe or strawberries
Salt-free oats
Low-salt milk
Salt-free toast
Salt-free butter
Dinners
1
3 ounces salt-free cottage cheese
1 parsley potato, salt-free butter
Broccoli, lemon, salt-free butter
Radish roses and green pepper strips
Low-salt milk
Fruit tapioca, honey or sugar sweetening
2
1 cup peanuts in shell
Baked sweet potato
Salt-free butter
French-cut string beans
Coleslaw
Strawberry shortcake or cornstarch
pudding with plum juice topping
3
Herb-cheese omelet
Tomato wedges
Salt-free steamed rice
Salt-free squash or carrots
Sliced pineapple or lemon pie
Low-salt milk
Suppers
1
Salt-free vegetable soup or salt-free
vegetable salad
Toasted matzoth, salt-free butter, or
your own salt-free crackers
Pears, coconut macaroons
2
Pineapple and salt-free cottage cheese
salad
Toasted tomato sandwich
Salt-free milk flavored, if desired,
with mint or raspberry
(Turn to page 27)
LIFE & HEALTH
The Contagious Patient
(Continued from page 13)
cover all the contaminated pieces, and
either plunge them into a boiler in
your kitchen or send them to the laundry with a note stating that they were
used by a patient with a contagious
disease.
The use of a mask covering the nose
and mouth of the nurse is advocated
by some, whereas others feel it is not
necessary. The masks are for your
own protection in part, but probably
are as valuable in protecting the patient from the nurse. You should have
several masks, changing and boiling
them perhaps every two or three
hours.
Masks are easy to make by sewing
two pieces of tape on each of the two
ends of a wide, oblong piece of gauze.
You tie the tapes at the back of your
head. If you cannot make these gauze
masks, you may substitute a man's
handkerchief folded into a triangle,
the ends tied in back, the front fold
falling over your mouth from the middle of the bridge of your nose. When
you change your mask, always use a
clean, fresh one.
Near the door in the sickroom keep
a basin of water, some hand lotion,
a hand brush, a pail, and some towels.
Always after touching your patient
scrub your hands thoroughly, dry
them well, and rub on some hand lotion before you go out into the hall.
In other words, leave the germs in the
patient's room, thus protecting the
rest of your family from illness.
When you re-enter the sickroom and
replace the apron you have worn in
the sickroom to cover your dress, make
sure the outside stays outside.
Don't let the children enter the sickroom no matter how hard they beg to
do so. Make sure your neighbors know
of the contagious disease you are entertaining, so that they will take precautions too.
But remember not to neglect your
own health. You are needed. And you
need strength and steady nerves in
order to carry on, for your attitude
will be detected very quickly by the
sick one whom you care for. It is difficult, you know, to be cheerful when
you're utterly exhausted.
You owe it to yourself and all the
others who look to you for care to get
away from the patient for a short time
every day. Go outdoors and walk in
the sunshine. You can surely arrange
with some other adult to take your
place in the sickroom for an hour or
two. And when you come back you
will be refreshed instead of weary.
You will be a tonic to the ailing one
MAY, 1953
Why Can't You Sleep?
New medical findings revealed! You may
actually be starved for needed "sleep food."
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to whom you are playing home nurse.
Guard your patient against any possible complications. All too often a
contagious disease leaves its mark on
the heart, the lungs, or the kidneys.
Even if the illness seems to be slight,
be ever so careful not to let your patient catch cold. Watch lest he overexert himself, especially during convalescence after the doctor has said
that visitors may be permitted to
come in.
Are you wondering what to do about
disinfecting the quarters the patient
was confined in? Ask your doctor what
his advice is. And do not let your
grandmother be shocked if the reply
is, "Just depend on soap, hot water,
and sunshine."
The old-fashioned method of fumigation was found to be less dependable by far than a thorough scrubbing
of all the woodwork, boiling of all articles that would not be injured by the
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Afraid of the Dentist?
(Continued from page 19)
preconceived ideas that they cannot
take an anesthetic of any kind. They
insist that an anesthetic will not take
effect on them or that their heart is
bad. Not uncommonly these statements
are made without medical examination
to back them up. Generally they are
without foundation, and are made as
a defense against fear.
If you have such a belief, go to your
family physician and let him make the
decision. Your dentist will welcome his
information and will respect you more
than he will if you try to tell him how
to proceed on your own diagnosis
alone.
Possibly the one greatest factor in
fear of the dentist is ignorance of
tooth structures. To most of us the
thirty-two guardians of our stomach
and intestinal tract are a deep mystery.
The natural covering of a tooth
crown is enamel. Tooth enamel is a
hard, dense substance without sensation. It will not conduct heat or cold.
It is thick on the biting surface and
thin on the sides.
Directly under the enamel is the
dentine. The bulk of the tooth is made
up of dentine. It is less hard than
the enamel, but tougher and more resistant. It is filled with minute channels that conduct sensations to the
nerve. It readily conducts heat and
cold.
Running up from the root of the
tooth into the dentine are the nerve
and blood vessels (the pulp). When
touched they cause acute and instantaneous pain. There is no bleeding in
the dentine, but there is always
bleeding when normal pulp tissue is
worked on.
Regardless of conditions, whenever
patients feel sensation in a tooth, they
are likely to think and say that the
nerve is exposed. Teeth having large
metal restorations become sensitive to
temperature changes, but the sensation is not due to exposed nerves as
the patient so often believes. If the
patient feels a sensitive spot with a
fingernail or a toothbrush, he is sure
the nerve is bare. If sweets strike one
of these areas, he is sure it is a cavity
that goes right into the nerve! Likewise when the dentist touches a sensitive spot in preparing a tooth for a
filling, the patient believes he hit the
nerve.
Nerves are something we associate
with sensation and pain. It is natural
that when we feel sensation or pain,
we think a nerve must be exposed.
This mistaken idea is responsible for
much of the fear of dentists.
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When decay does finally penetrate
both enamel and dentine and does
reach the nerve, there is nothing left
for the dentist to do but extract the
tooth or remove the pulp.
The teeth are subjected to all kinds
of abuses. Day after day they are
obliged to adjust themselves to wide
variations of temperatures that range
from frozen confections to boiling-hot
drinks, taken almost at the same time,
as when a person eats ice cream and
punctuates each mouthful with a sip of
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To grasp clearly what a tremendous
adjustment must be made by the teeth,
try stepping into a large packinghouse refrigerator on a hot summer's
day, dressed only in street clothes. If
you do not get the idea at once, try
running in and out a few times.
Other common abuses of teeth are
cracking nuts, biting threads, lighting
matches, pulling caps or corks from
bottles, and opening bobby pins. One
patient who came to me with a
wrecked mouth admitted that he had a
perfect set of teeth until he ruined
them by eating whole chickens, bones
and all! He said that often when on a
drinking party someone would bet him
that he could not eat a whole chicken.
To prove that he could, he split and
broke his teeth to the extent that he
had to lose them.
Added to other abuses is neglect of
mouth hygiene, the daily care each
person should give his teeth and surrounding tissues. The sugars and soft
starchy foods we eat get in between
the teeth and stick to them. Unless we
brush our teeth thoroughly at least
twice a day, these foods ferment, and
fermentation is likely to cause decay
or sensitivity.
At the gum line the teeth may become sensitive to sweets or the touch
of an object without having cavities.
A young woman with a beautiful set
of teeth came to my office a short time
ago complaining that her teeth were
full of cavities. She knew they were,
for she felt pain when she touched
them with her fingernail near the gum
line. She was much upset, and was
afraid that she would •have to have
them all removed. What had really
happened was this : She was not doing
a good job of brushing, and the fermentation resulting from undisturbed
food accumulation kept the teeth
bathed in a milk acid until they became sensitive. Needless to say, she
was overjoyed to learn that she would
not lose all her teeth.
A patient relaxes when the dentist
explains the anatomy of a tooth and
points out that the most sensitive place
in a tooth lies just beneath the enamel;
that the sensation when the drill
touches this spot will decrease, not increase, with every turn of the drill.
He is reassured when he understands
that the sensation sometimes experienced when the cavity is being filled,
perhaps from a blast of air, is in
order, not due to exposed nerves. When
he understands the process he usually
accepts the ordeal with little concern.
Ten minutes after it is over, he has
forgotten it.
Children especially are amazingly
responsive to the detailed explanation
of the mysteries of filling a tooth. If
introduced to the dental office when
they are two and a half to three years
old, they simply get accustomed to the
chair, the motor, and the instruments
used in filling. At the time of this first
visit the child is encouraged to let
the dentist look into his mouth, perhaps only to count the small teeth.
At the next visit he is shown the
prophylactic brush used with the
motor, and his teeth are carefully examined for defects. If there are any
cavities, they are usually quite small,
and the filling takes only a short time.
The child patient does not mind it, and
thus he has worth-while experience
with no fear.
The advantages of early dental care
are many, for besides doing away with
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fear, the child's teeth are filled before
decay has a chance to invade the pulp.
Thus the teeth are kept in a healthy
condition. Abscesses cannot form and
fillings last much longer when the pulp
is not involved. Also there is less shock
to the pulp through temperature
changes when a tooth has only a small
filling. And of course the cost is much
less when cavities are cared for in the
beginning stage.
Successful elimination of pain and
fear depends largely on confidence.
You must have wholehearted confidence in your dentist, and he must
know that he has your confidence before he can do his best work.
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Low-Salt Menus
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Fresh fruit cup
Salt-free asparagus on toast
Salt-free cooky
Salt-free milk
and a saltless cracker. Cereals not
mentioned in the menus but suitable
are puffed wheat, shredded wheat, and
most cereals requiring cooking. Read
the labels to be sure.
RECIPES
Salt-free Whole-Wheat Bread
hot water
1 tablespoon molasses or sugar
1 or 2 tablespoons unsalted oil or
shortening
1 cup lukewarm salt-free milk
1 yeast cake
2 cups white flour
4 cups whole-wheat flour
Pour hot water over sugar and fat, add
milk. When lukewarm, add yeast that has
been dissolved in a little of the liquid
milk. Add the flour to make a stiff dough;
the exact amount will vary with the flour.
Knead until smooth, or about 10 minutes.
The more you knead, the better your
bread. Form into two loaves and place
in the greased baking pans to rise. When
double in size, bake at 350° for about
an hour. (Much of the success depends
on the flour. Hard, red winter wheat is
usually considered best.)
1 cup
If you occasionally stop for refreshSalt-free Crackers
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Liquid salt-free milk
for most contain salt.
3 tablespoons sweet butter
A careful reading of labels may reChop butter into sifted flour, add saltsult in your finding a few salt-free free milk to make a stiff dough. Chop
varieties. Many bakeries have salt- the dough with a sharp knife thoroughly.
free bread and cookies for your con- (This chopping is what makes the cracker
venience. Health food stores, fancy characteristic.) Roll thin and score in
grocers, and the food department of rectangles or make into small balls and
large department stores are likely to roll thin. Bake in a hot oven.
have salt-free canned vegetables and
Herb-Cheese Omelet
other foods.
Beat 2 small eggs or one large egg and
Dairies can usually supply salt-free add 2 ounces salt-free cottage cheese. Add
butter at a slightly higher price. They a tablespoonful of melted unsalted fat
call it sweet butter. You could buy if desired. Add A teaspoon herbs, such as
cream and make your own unsalted a mixture of sage, basil, mint, thyme,
butter. If you are on a less-strict diet, marjoram. Add 2 tablespoonfuls salt-free
you may use regular butter if you will milk. Cook in unsalted fat. Herbs may be
wash it in several cold waters to re- left out, and the omelet can be spread
with jelly just before serving.
move the excess salt.
Salad Dressings
Salt substitutes are available at
Make your favorite salad dressings.
some pharmacies, but they are best
used only on your doctor's prescrip- leaving out salt, substituting water for
tion. The special low-sodium milk used milk, and adding a little extra salt-free
in the strictest diet is available at butter to make up for the lack of milk.
Desserts
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salt-restricted diets you can wash out it is the special salt-free baking powder.
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Drug Addiction-1953
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with the in-laws, is silly and wasteful,
and may court danger of sensitization.
I am not exaggerating. Watch your
neighbors or maybe yourself. Do you
take aspirin for a headache? That
might not be so bad if it were a mild
occasional headache. But don't you
take it—come clean now—also for the
habitual headache, which comes day
after day, when you know perfectly
well that you ought to see a doctor as
to what is causing it? My old family
doctor when I was a boy was a bluff
and straight-spoken man. He said using drugs that way was like putting
whitewash on a rotten board.
Do you use aspirin for an upset
stomach? It is a salicylic acid derivative, notable for its irritating qualities
upon the stomach lining. Do you use
aspirin for sleeplessness? for a cold?
You're wasting your money. Aspirin
is a mild pain reliever, nothing more.
And its abuse can be dangerous.
Another potent drug seriously misused is thyroid substance, sold too
often without prescription to foolish
women who think they weigh too much
and are unwilling to face the only safe
and sane reducing procedure—eating
less and more wisely under close and
continuous medical supervision. Let
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disguised.
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Alcohol and tobacco are highly controversial subjects which in each instance would require the space of a
complete article, so they can merely
be mentioned here. Leaving aside all
religious considerations, there is
plenty of medical evidence to justify
letting both alone. Surprising to some,
perhaps, is recent information that the
case against tobacco, medically speaking, may be as black in some instances
as that against alcohol.
Laxatives constitute another class
of drugs. A complete discussion of
their abuse would require a full-length
article.
A normal person at any age eating
properly, having correct habits, and
being free from disease requires laxatives only at long intervals if at
all. Slavery to constipation-producing
remedies for imaginary constipation is
a sad commentary on the intelligence
of the American people, the public
morals of a small group of advertisers
who peddle the laxatives, and our failure to control our internal enemies.
When you consider the vicious "education" that has made parents believe
laxatives are necessary as routine
treatment for healthy children, you
can but wonder when we will awake in
our wrath and sweep the rascals out
of business.
Dr. Lawrence Kolb, assistant surgeon general of the United States Public Health Service Hospital at Lexington, Kentucky, who knows addicts and
addiction thoroughly, has given us the
rather startling suggestion that you
and I might become drug addicts if we
were not well adjusted psychologically.
Yet he gives us comfort too. The normal person, who may need morphine
for a painful disease, does not become
an addict. When his need for the drug
ceases, he gives it up, and that is that.
But there are those to whom narcotics
offer a refuge, a psychological retreat,
from responsibility and the necessity
of facing problems. These are the potential drug addicts, just as they are
the potential alcoholics.
A typical case of addiction is a man
who had to have numerous operations
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on his jaw. He worried because he
could not open his mouth, and he could
not rid his mind of what his predicament would be if he should have trouble with his teeth. Even after his
mouth condition was cured he remained addicted to the narcotic his
doctor gave him when he required it.
But the amount of drug he took was
so small that it could not possibly have
had any drug effect. He was habituated to taking something. His home
life left much to be desired, and there
were other factors he dodged as he
recovered from his addiction.
In another instance a woman who
was addicted to a morphine derivative
had married when very young to get
away from the domination of a parent.
Divorced in a few years, she married
again. Later her husband became an
alcoholic. Brooding over these failures,
she took to a drug. She resisted basic
psychiatric treatment, and exhibited
all traditional trickiness of the narcotic addict who professes to want a
cure but evades every measure that
might cure him.
This evasion of the drug addict is
most annoying to everybody, including the doctor who tries to cure him.
He assures everybody that he wants a
cure, then lies, steals, and tricks them
at every opportunity in order to get
his drug. The reason is that he does
not actually want a cure. His addiction
makes life more tolerable for him. It
gives a sense of victory over life—
false, it is true, but better than he
can get by facing life without the
drug. He has not the strength of character to see and act upon the fact that
he is purchasing temporary satisfaction and relief at the cost of permanent injury and deterioration, mental
and physical, as a result of habitual
use of narcotics.
The description of the kind of person who is prone to narcotic addiction
if introduced to the drug is disturbing.
Kolb calls such people "carefree individuals, devoted to pleasure, seeking
new excitements and sensations, and
usually having some ill-defined instability of personality that often expresses itself in mild infractions of
social customs." How many such do
you know? The fellow who will try
anything once? the boy who never can
get just the right kind of job? the
girl who never "finds herself"? the
person who is fun but whom you never
can rely on to meet any obligation?
the man who drifts from one thing
to another, starting many projects and
finishing none? These people are the
same, except in degree, as those who
are definitely of psychopathic personality. Psychoneurotics and alcoholics
are in the addiction-prone group.
MAY, 1953
The solution to the addiction problem lies partly in the hands of physicians. They have learned to avoid giving narcotics except in absolutely essential circumstances. The law must
make it hard to get drugs and must
discourage their illegal sale. Relatives
of addiction-prone persons can help to
control addiction.
Drug addiction is more than a physical craving; it is one expression of
the universal human hunger to be
loved and needed. If we can keep our
loved ones, especially those whose little weaknesses we recognize but are
tempted to gloss over because we love
them, satisfied that they are truly
loved, wanted, and have a "place in
the sun," we can go far toward reducing the danger of addiction.
A special hazard threatens our
young people in the form of marihuana. It is peddled to children by
agents who hover about schools. It is
offered in the form of cigarettes supposed to contain tobacco, but really
containing marihuana.
Marihuana is a stimulant whose results cannot be predicted. It causes a
person to lose inhibitions, and do acts
entirely out of character, including sex
crimes and atrocious acts of violence.
It is extremely habit forming and very
dangerous.
The addict should never be condemned, whether he smokes marihuana, injects opium, sniffs cocaine,
or has become a slave to sleeping tablets. He calls for understanding, sympathy, and intelligent treatment. Hospitalization is necessary for most addicts, especially of opium derivatives,
because they suffer intensely from
withdrawal of the drug and cannot be
depended on to follow a course of
treatment on their own. Such institutions as the U.S. Public Health Service hospitals at Lexington, Kentucky,
and Fort Worth, Texas, care for many
addicts, but many more must be cared
for in private hospitals.
When cured, they must have every
opportunity to experience success and
satisfaction in life; otherwise they are
virtually certain to relapse into drug
addiction or alcoholism.
Diminishing use of addiction-producing drugs in medical practice, improved understanding of the causes
and reasons for addiction, and increasing scarcity of narcotic drugs outside
legitimate distribution channels make
narcotic addiction less and less of a
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The real challenge to our people today is the silly but dangerous use of
drugs commonly regarded as harmless,
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As I watched this one-sided conversation I thought, "How human the
barber is! He is having a wonderful
time telling of his personal experience.
It is vitally interesting to him because
it is his story."
So it is with every human being.
A person gets his greatest pleasure
from conversation in being able to tell
something about himself or some experience he has had. Unfortunately,
many a conversation is like a contest,
with each participant trying to outdo
the others telling about the things that
interest him. Often a person is little
interested in a conversation until it
comes his turn to talk. While someone else is talking he is simply waiting
impatiently for an opportunity to
break in and tell one of his own experiences.
Maybe you have never thought of a
conversation in this way before. If
not, I would suggest that you make a
few observations of your own, and see
whether you do not agree that human
nature works this way.
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halves, combined with the main dish of corn flakes and milk. Bread and butter are
dressed up as toast lilies. You can add a suitable beverage—milk or cocoa for the
children and Postum for adults.
To make the toast lilies, remove crusts from a loaf of bread, cut in thin slices,
then press still thinner with a rolling pin. Butter each slice with soft or melted butter,
and roll into lily shapes. Fasten with toothpicks, fill with marmalade, and toast in
the oven or under the broiler.
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How can you turn this interesting
trait of human behavior to help you ?
When you are carrying on a conversation, remember that the greatest
pleasure the other person gets is in
having an opportunity to tell his experiences and describe the things he
is interested in. Naturally you would
also like to have such a chance. But
you must realize that the conversation
so far as you are concerned is an opportunity to make a friend.
This opportunity is important. It
is even more important than your
chance to gain personal pleasure from
telling your own experience. The secret of your using such an opportunity
to best advantage is to allow the other
person to tell his experiences while
you listen.
If you can learn to do this, a conversation will react in your favor. By
letting the other person do most of
the talking, you will make his memory
of the conversation pleasant—just because he enjoys talking about his own
interests. Having enjoyed the conversation, he will come to associate this
pleasant experience with you. His impression of you as a person will be
favorable just because he enjoyed having you listen to him.
This principle of making a favorable impression in conversation is simple. If you are willing to pay the price
of forgoing your own pleasure and
allowing the other person to talk, he
will like you for it.
Although the strategy of making a
favorable impression in conversation
is easy, you still have to do a little
more than just keep quiet in order to
make it succeed. The person you are
talking with will not get the greatest
enjoyment unless you show him that
you are iriterested in what he is saying.
But you say, "Suppose I am really
not interested ?" Maybe you are not
interested at the moment, but it is
possible for you to become interested
in any type of conversation if you discipline yourself to do it. The genuineness of your interest will be evident by
occasional questions, a remark here,
and a comment there that indicate you
appreciate what he is telling you.
I recall an old cattleman I took care
of once in the hospital. It was necessary for me to change his extensive
dressings every day for several weeks.
As I worked over him I asked about
his experiences on the range.
After several days he made a significant remark. He said, "You know,
I have had many interesting experiences out on the range. I enjoyed the
range, and I enjoy telling about it.
While I was a cowboy I learned many
things about cattle and about people.
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But it seems that most folks are not
interested in what I have to say. So
I have learned just to keep quiet. But
you are different. I enjoy telling you
these stories."
This man was reacting perfectly
normally. He enjoyed telling his
stories just as anybody enjoys telling
about his own experiences. But he also
was happy for some evidence that his
story was appreciated. Fortunately
for me I had shown him that I was
interested in what he had to say. Almost accidentally I had made a hit
with him, and he considered me a good
friend.
This same method in principle will
work under almost every circumstance. Not only will people like you
when you have learned to be a good
listener, but you will find that you
have gained personally. You will develop new interests in people just because you observe them carefully in
conversation. The things you learn by
listening and manifesting an interest
in their experiences will actually
broaden your education. Your personal
interests will develop and multiply.
Life will be more interesting and will
give you such a fund of information
that you will be able to fill in some
lively comments if the conversation
lags.
There is nothing mysterious about
making a favorable impression during conversation. You need not use
high-sounding phrases or be familiar
with Greek mythology. The principle
of successful conversation is summarized in one word—unselfishness.
The beauty of it is that when by unselfishness you set about bringing
pleasure to the other person, you are
at the same time improving and perfecting your own conversational ability.
MAY,
1953
Meatless Diet O.K.
A meatless diet is adequate for good
health, according to top scientist Dr.
Robert S. Harris, of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge,
Massachusetts. Speaking to the International Conference on Vitamins,
recently held in Havana, Cuba, he
said: "Both the vegetarian type and
the carnivorous type of diet can adequately feed mankind. The realization
of this fact by those who struggle with
the food problems of the world is of
terrible importance."
Even though the world does not have
enough meat and milk to feed all its
population, people need not go undernourished, Dr. Harris stressed. For
you can be well nourished on a diet
rich in cereals such as wheat, corn,
and rice, and in legumes, or beans, and
other vegetables and fruits.
To conserve the world's food supply, Dr. Harris suggested building
diets around foods native to a region.
He thinks "considerable harm" may
be done by shipping such foods as milk
into undeveloped areas for school lunch
programs and telling the people that
milk and other animal foods are necessary for good nutrition. Dr. Harris
believes there is no indispensable food.
There are many ways to compound a
good diet. It matters little to your
body whether calcium comes from milk
or tortilla, whether iron is derived
from meat or tampala, whether niacin
is from liver or peanuts, or protein
from eggs or soybeans, so long as the
nutrients are available.
As proof of this Dr. Harris cites
the experiment on the diet of the
Otomis of Mexico. In four villages the
families were studied, and their diet
consisted of maize, beans, weeds, pulque, and minute amounts of milk,
meat, and eggs. These people showed
no evidence of clinical malnutrition.
Most important to folks eating a
meatless diet is that they maintain
an adequate protein intake. This can
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cottage cheese, soybeans, and soybean
products now made into meat substitutes. Peas, beans, and the gluten of
wheat are all rich in protein, as are
some nuts—peanuts and cashews.
However, if you have questions
about what a well-balanced diet is, I
suggest that you consult your physician or dietitian, for the elimination
of meat protein without its replacement of an adequate vegetable food can
readily lead to nutritional anemia and
the train of clinical symptoms that
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Great Little Imitator
(Continued from page 15)
shyness in time, but while he is going
through this period he must be managed carefully. If his attempts to imitate seem funny to you, don't be
amused to the extent that you laugh
at him. It is best not to show your
amusement in front of him, because
it may embarrass him to the point
where he feels that you think he is
being silly. This feeling may cause
him to become a little backward, making him afraid to try things on his
own.
Encourage your child in all that he
tries to do if he is in the right. Correct him if need be, but in such a way
that he is not made to feel that he is
being naughty. Help him to do things,
and don't lose patience if he doesn't
do it the way you show him. He is
likely to do it his own way until you
give up in despair and leave him to his
own resources. Chances are if you took
a peek at him a few minutes later,
MAY. 1953
you would find him doing exactly as
he had been shown.
Sometimes if children are being
watched too closely, they become shy ;
and although they are capable of doing things they have been instructed
to do, they won't attempt them because
of shyness and fear of being corrected.
Have fun with your little imitator,
but guide him patiently and with seriousness. It is important to be serious
with him, for if you observe him
closely, you will find that he is being
very sober about his activities. Whatever he is doing is not to be laughed
at; it is a milestone to him.
This period of a child's life is also
a challenge to the parents. They must
be constantly on their toes to do things
properly and to exhibit good manners
at all times. What a child sees he will
try to do, whether it is right or wrong.
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AVE you tried birding from a
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I was introduced to this easy way
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THE meadow lark's vibrant whistle floats out to
you from far across the meadow all summer long.
member of the Audubon Society. She
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