The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-12-14
Home Health Club
 Edited bv DIR DAVID H RTCFDFcR Chicago
7 DIR. DAVID N. REiEDER, Chicago

AsT4MA:-It has been oyer ten years since the subject, of asthma has had any consideration to speak of in f the Home Health Club lectures. There have been many sufferers among our readers that have fre-' quently asked for help, but the pressure of other matters seemed 90 great that the sufferers were simply referred to the Home Health Club book of lectures of Vol. 3 of the ser les of club books and in that way they have not only found the greatly desired relief but have had the books for the treatment of other ail- ments.
 Naturally any one that comes in contact with such a vast variety of ailments as I do by reason of the Home Health Club is bound to find some very curious and unusual con- ditions. Sometimes it taxes the in genuity to the utmost to discover the real or predisposing cause of suffer- ing or disease but at the Home Health Club headquarters it is con- sidered necessary to ''know the CduoC pG4OIS ally CI1IlS Cotl4 UC e1S complished in the way of a cure.
 have in mind the case of a wom- an past 60 years of age. She had been remarkably healthy always but she developed asthma and what was called by her family and friends, "fainting spells" The local physi- clan seemed unable to account for the trouble as her heart, liver and kidneys appeared normal and diges- tion was good. After a number of months a letter was written to the Home Health Club and in an ob- scure phrase the writer remarked that the fainting spells were becom- ing so frequent that she sometimes had them in her sleep. That was the most important part of the let ter. The local doctors did not at tach any importance to it but that meant epilepsy. As the women had always been normal and healthy, there must be an immediate cause.
 The X-Ray machine was brought into use at my request and it was found that nearly half of her IT teeth were abscessed, had pus at the roots. I at once recommended a skillful dental surgeon that uses Dr. Herbert Petts' Northwestern Uni versity College of Dentistry method of injecting novocain with adrenalin into the trunk or largest nerve lead ing to the teeth; by the use of this method all of the teeth were extract ed at three sittings without the slightest pain or the use of nitrous | oxide or laughing gas. As soon as the | gums healed the woman was well. 1 The cause of both the asthma and the epilepsy had been removed and | Nature did the curing. No medi- cine could have been compounded | that would have brought about the same results unless it would first stop the process of pus formation and its passage into the food.
 At about the same time man aged a little over 50 years came to the Home Health Club. He had suffered terribly with asthma for about three years, also with a bad cough and a stringy tenacious secre- ton of mucus that threatened al times to choke him to death. His case had been pronounced asthma and consumption. Here he was told that the first thing necessary was an X-Ray picture of his teeth. It was | taken immediately and although they all looked sound on the outside there was not a single tooth that was | sound at the roots. Everyone was taken out and in six weeks the mans asthma, cough, mucus anc consumption were all things of the past.
 If you have asthma, go to some capable physician that knows how tt look for the cause or source of in lection. It may be in the teeth; | may not. In many cases of rheu. matism the source of infection may be in the tonsils, the prostate, the liver, kidneys, but no matter, find il and then the right sort of treatment will remove the cause. Nature vii do the curing.
 Medicines are all right and quite necessary but it is much more neceS' sary to find the cause before usina the medicine. Then, too, much dc | bends upon the kind of medicine. ] poisons, opiates, narcotics and alec
 hol are the kinds of medicine yol have been taking, you will probabl live longer and better if you talk none at all On the other hand i you are able to recognize the medi
 cinal effects of certain foods and us, them in proper proportions, you are not likely to get sick.
 I have told you before that the three greatest physicians in the world are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet and Dr. Mer- ryman. Patronize them.