Omaha daily bee., 1921-04-27
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FOR DICTIONARY ADDIcTS.

| Whdt is TINS SuDluXatlon 1 am
hearing about? Could 1t cause all
the things am told it does?" c. w,
writes:
When a bone Is completely out of
J Joint we say 1t Is luxated or dislo-
Gated. This term is applied particu-
larly to the hip joints and shoulder
joints, both Of which are of the ball
and socket variety. When a joint is
luxated the head Of one bone is en-
tirely out of the socket and rests
on the bone nearby.
Then somebody who wanted to use
| a high sounding word for W. X.
ana almost universal condition
| turned the pages of the dictionary
| until he ran across luXated as the
dislocation. BY adding sub to the
word luxation they had real high
brow term for condition that is as
common as pig tracks.
Whenever a bone which is set on
another bone slips little out of po-
sition. not enough to fairly call it 4
dislocation, it can be said to be sub
luxated. Just how prevalent is this
condition? Why. everybody is do
ing It, When r. child slouches down
he subluxates the bones of his spinal
column. When the mother tells
Johnny to hold his head and shoul-
ders back she says in substance.
Johnny, unsubluxate your cervical,
dorsal and lumbar vertebrae," Ey-
cry old base ball player has two
hands full of subluxated fingers.
And now lest you get the idea
that the blessings Of subluxation are
limited to my sex l will change my
line of illustration. Every woman
suffering from bunions has subluxa-
ton of the bones of her feet. More
over, not one person in a hundred
is free from subluxated toe joints. In
other words, the chances are that
any person you might stop on the
street has two shoes full of subluX-
ated feet parts.
There are two types OF Joints In
which subluxations occur with great
frequency-the hinge joints and the
sliding joints. Since in each Of these
types the bones slide on each joint.
what more natural than one should
slide a little too far and result In
what some high brow folks call a
subluxation? We, the plain people,
are liable to forget ourselves and
say that John is beginning to stoop
as he grows older"
How much harm does it do? Some.
Just how much must be answered for
each case. Do the subluxated verte-
brae press on the spinal nerves as
they emerge from the spinal canal.
Swanberg did a very accurate and
thorough piece of research work to
settle that point He says no one
has disproved the correctness of his
conclusions. Therefore, all this
balderdash about stopping the flow
Of the spinal fluid is without ana
tonic basis.
The other night I attended ban
quet given in honor Of distin-
guished dentist. This worthy and
honorable man has worked over his
chair daily for thirty years until
he has developed most marked
hump very considerable degree
OF subluxation. At 81 he is as fit as
a fiddle Observation-Disclosures his
own load and the loads OF many
others I know a hunched back
writer who works hard, holds A
mans place in the world. turns out
good stuff, and radiates joy. l Won
der what he, or my dentist friend.
thinks about the wild theory that
subluxation presses on the spinal
nerves and thus causes smallpox and
81 times 81 kinds of other diseases.
Or what would the base ball play
er think If. you told him that his
subluxated fingers were the cause of
his oncoming badness? Or I won
der IL the man with two shoes full
OF subluxated toes would agree that
the condition OF his feet was re-
sponsible for the attack of the sflus
in 1918?
o. Yes-By Physician.
M. H. w. writes: 1.-THE other day
you had lengthy article on the re-
moval of scars, also an article on
the removal Of warts. These two
articles have prompted me to ask,
Can moies be removed? have about
four or five on my face and cer-
tainly would like to have them re-
moved"
REPLY.
Moles can be removed. However.
do not "projic" with them yourself.
Either have them removed by ply
sician or leave them entirely alone.
Here's Name OF Remedy.
Generous Cuss writes: please
give the name of a yellow salve good
for sites. Long ago l had one, used
that salve, and found it very good.
I passed it along ] now know of