Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-06-04
Health Queries by DR.. Brady


Kindly express your opinion to tho use
of spirits OF camphor chmnhoratcd sweet
oil for reducing the bust.-MRs. NJ. y. u.
Answer--No external application. medicinal
food or appliance garment or apparatus
Will reduce or enlarge the breasts The cam
phor superstition IS just an ancient fancy
with as much foundation there would be
for the practice OF feeding a mother timothy
hay to enable her to nurse her baby
Bunion.-Piease tell what you think of
having bunions operated on by n surgeon when
all the usual treatments have failed. Would
ones gait be noticcahly changed? had
completed plans to have the operation per-
formed but today discouraged by a shoe
salesman who is foot specialist II. said
F T..
Answer.-Wcli. why not consult a milIiner
and an optician before you finally make up
Your mind about it? AS a rule nothing else
than operation Will cure bunion. Your gait
is likely to get great deal better when the
bunion is cured than II is now
Vinegar Habit-Please tell me whether tho
drinking Of onc-fourth cup Of Vinegar daily
will have any effect on the red blood corpus
cles.-D. S.
Answcr.1t shrivels and destroys red cor
puscles.
IIammertoc--What causes hammertoe? Can
II be overcome by massage or manipulation?
Mrs c. r. W.
Answcr--Short. narrow shoes Sometimes
it may he Strengthened out by prolonged
wearing of an adhesive plaster strip over the
hamincrtoe and under the toes at either side
Ia such manner az TO draw the toe into. po-
sition In established the shortened
tendon must be divided by the surgeon
Cancer OF the Breast--kindIy advise me as
tc the symptoms and development of cancer
of the breast-M. T.. L.. r. "
Answcr-Any lump or hardened place in the
breast especially If it seems attached TO the
everything skin. should at least warrant ex-
animation by the physician. You may obtain
q pamDhlct ,-It
OF the breast by sending 10 cents to the
American Medical Association. 535 North
Dearborn Street Chicago. III.
Clinical Tuherculosis.-Do you candidIy be-
licve there is any for tuberculosis?
Please give mo n good diet for a tuhercu-
lar person. My husband has clinical tuber-
cmlosis and Is at present in FL Paso-AIRs
r. Il. j.
Answcr.-Clinical means sick a bed or sick
hcd' or In conjunction with tuberculosis Il
means the disease is active presenting signs
which may be elected in the examination of
the patient or symptoms which tho patient
himself feels That Is serious condition.
and no one except the patients own phy-
stefan Is competent to lay down n suitable
diet. Active or clinical tuberculosis is prob
ably the most frequently cured of all serious
diseases have no specific remedy or cure
In mind. The important essentials in the cure.
named in order are: G) Constant super-
vision and direction OF a good physician.
CD rest In bed: 90 open air: 90 sunlight:
t5) suitable food; (6) freedom from emo
tonal drains such as fears implanted nv
unkind or inconsiderate friends. homcsick-
ness among unsympath strangers. do
nestle or financial anxictics. | do not
mention climate "A factor in recovery be-
cause. statistics prove that IT is OF no i'm
portance where the patient corrals the cure
do not mention drugs or medicines. because
that Is an individual problem In each case
to be left entirely in tho hands of the attend
ing physician. ~,