The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-11-17
Home Health Club

Back Ache:-Such a complaint, so common as to be almost entirely dis regarded by the average doctor, and yet normal healthy person should not suffer with a backache any more than an ache of the toes or calves of his legs.
 So very little is actually known by humanity in general and by so many physicians as to the real significance of pains or weakness in various DOT tions of the back that it is not at all surprising that the warning pains are disregarded until a chronic ailment is firmly established, and then all kinds of drugs and dope are dumped into the poor defenseless stomach in order to suppress the symptoms while no effort is made to remove the cause. It is quite common for many persons to acquire a firm belief that their kidneys are diseased because they have a constant pain in the small of the back as they express 1t. They think that must be right over the kidneys when as a matter fact, the kidneys, when in their normal posi- ton, are much higher. Draw a line or place a card around the body on a level with the navel and you will find the level of the kidneys in the back. That, however, would not en- able you to know that your kidney are diseased as pain is seldom evf- dent in that locality when the kid neys are really diseased.
 In weakness or disease of the or gans of generation there will, as a rule, be pain, weakness and misery in the sacral region of the spine, while gantric disturbances are usual ly to be found in connection with at al ha fS of the clavicles or shoulder blades. In many cases, especially those who are over weight, the arms and hands Ego to sleep,'' sting, prickIe and are very painful. I have never yet found such a condition without an exceedingly sore and tender spot on the spine just between the shoulders, or at a point between the third and fifth dorsal vertebrae.
 Lumbago is one of the conditions from which many people suffer peri odical attacks while others seem to be afflicted with what might be call ed chronic Lumbago. This pam IS so- called from the fact that the lumbar
 region of the spine is the seat of the trouble while the pain is agonizing during the acute stage and usually keeps the sufferer in bed anywhere
 from one to three weeks. It can,
 under the Home Health Club method
 of treatment, be at once relieved and complete recovery effected in from one to three days
 Almost any pain in the back, un- less caused by displaced vertebrae, will be benefited by the same simple
 treatment which is that of a thor ough hot fermentation. The very best results are obtained by first sponging the back with hot vinegar. Then rub thoroughly with warm olive oil, or better still our good old herb friend, the herb ointment Then apply the fermentation and continue it for 40 or 50 minutes and when it is removed again apply the ointment or olive oil and cover the patient snugly in bed and let him sleep. As rule one such treatment brings re- lief and from two to three effect
 cure. They should not be given of | tener than once a day.
 The complete details for applying a thorough hot fermentation are giv- | en in Volume 2 and also in Volume of the Home Health Club books, and it is through the sale of. these books that the expense of the club is kept up.
 I wish I had space enough to tell you all about pain in the back and | of the various organs which are af- fected thereby, but it would require quite a book to tell all of it. The human body has 206 bones and about 6S2 muscles. Don't try to count the nerves because when one has a tooth ache or Lumbago it seems as though there were ten thousand of them and they were all crying at once. CLUB NOTES.