The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-28


 The radical operation for the cure of hernia Is still q good bet for any person six to sixty years of age who is otherwise what we con- sider a good risk. But the ambulant treat ment Is better.
 l am between six and sixty and would choose the ambulant treatment if l had hernia. on the contrary. my limited experience on the receiving end of an appendicitis operation a few years ago convinced mo that such an operation Is rather a lark, except for the bore dom of confinement.
 A surgeon out where the west begins writes:
 Recently l had the pleasure of reading treatment of hernia. have been doing some of this work and I am using the method at the present time at the Ga clinlc.) From what experience have had with the method l am convinced that you have ex- pressed the correct opinion, that this meth- cd in the hands of competent men may in the course of time become popular as the chemical obliteration of varicose veins.
 One by one they quit just marking time and take few steps ahead of the rank.
 l announced here several months ago that had formula which is satisfactory in the hands of good doctors who give the ambuant treatment and would gladly give the formula
 Of course meant bona hde doctors of medicine.
 have been compelled to decline to give such a formula to numerous persons who pur- port to be physicians yet pretend to use no drugs have also declined to give such infor- nation to numerous bona flde physicians who are not In good professional standing. If any of these birds resent my refusal to serve them, let them blame themselves for asking the fa- vor.
 The ambulant treatment of hernia falls to give the anticipated satisfactoin in perhaps the same proportion of cases does the radical operation. Even so. I'd prefer to have q course of injections by a good reputable d,s tor --none other-as the better bet, if had q hernia
 The injections are given, as a rule about half dozen to ten or fifteen injections, de- pending on the individual condition. Patients declare the injections are not painful enough to bother, and the discomfort from an injec- ton lasts only Q few hours at the worst. They are not detained from their regular work at any time.
 spondents which physicians give the ambulant treatment of hernia, but 1t won't be long now, for as say they are acquiring the technic one by one, an dby and bye 1t will be possible for the man with herina to get cured without being laid up for several weeks. am doing all I can to hasten this advance, but the profess tical of all new developments, particularly when the new wrinkle is promoted by a col league so depraved as to discuss such matters in the public prints.
 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
 An American Interest in Canned Meat
 Please tell me how canned chicken, whole chicken in jelly, can be kept on the grocery shelves for months and still be 1t to eat while at home n person can keep meat only few days even with refrigeration. understand how smoked meats are preserved, hut do not un- ueIrtuIu HOW caIiueu meutS Cun kecp SD lOn&. (Mrs Oyitz).
 Answer--The canned food has been sterilized by thoro cooking or steaming, usually on two or three successive days. This destroys the bac- teria or germs which naturally present in or on the food the successive sterilizations are necessary to destroy the more resistant spore forms of the bacteria. These bacteria, as Pas tuer discovered. are the cause of spoilage, rot ting decomposition, putrefaction, fermentation of food. Smoking and salting or pickling pro- cesses destroy such bacteria. So far as we know such canned food remains fit for human con- sumption as long as the food remains palatable even for many years. Only the vitamins of tho fresh food, If any, are destroyed by the preservation process. be it cooking, smoking, plckllng or just drying. Canning by vacuum process. as usually employed in factories to-day. does not destroy the anti-scurvy vitamn c. and hence factory canned fruit or vegetable juice Is good way to provide vitamin C for infants Home canning, In which the food Is cooked in ordinary vessels, destroys most of the vltamins
 How to Keep Young
 [ am 5l years of age. | have nine grand- children. We nave always believed in fresh air ta our house. and we have many of y0ur articles preserved in 6 scrapbook. f0r many years I have walked twO miles every day. My son fears thls may be too much for me now. l ans Bne and healthy 1. fMFs q. q. O.l
 Answer-It weuld be nne thing if you would follow your system of keeping young. Don't let your son stop you.
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