The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-10
DON'T PICK ON THE CHILD WITH
 ST YITUS DANCE

Chorea or St vitus dance is not a nervous condition at all, but an infectious disease. The patient is no more nervous" than you or would be if compelled to put up with the many annoyances the chorea. patient has to endure
 It is, in my opinion, a serious mistake to re- gard such a child as a nervous" child or to pamper the child more than one would If the trouble were, say, bronchitis or enuress. or course such an invalid in the nome snouid re ceiye fair consideration and sympathetic care, but in no case should this extend to the de- privation of ordinary pleasures or privileges for other children members of the house. hold If YOU pamper the choreic child in the months the illness usually lasts. you'll have tartar to handle after the chorea is over with If the illness drags on for year or two as IL does in not a few cases. then pampering pol icy spells the ruin of the child for he is pretty certain to be difficult person for everybody to get along with for many years II not TOT the rest of his life.
 Worse than mere pampering. think is the too common practice of experimenting on the child with chorea I mean this trick or trying now this now that doctor, for week or two, and running around from quack to quack or from faker to faker, in quest or some mlracu, lous sure cure. It seems that the quacks ana fakers the self commended experts, have the
 sure cure-regular honest physicians never seem to be able to discover sure cures TOT any thing.
 Worse than this half baked practice of eX- perimenting on the choreic patient is the sneak ing or open use of superstitious charms, mean tations and such hocus- pocus on the luckless child Even if the patient is sound in mind and nerves this sort of medieval voodooism IS
 
 one hysterical ,., dance is REST and parents who have none 100 much intellectual capacity can scarcely realZe how much good REST will do when the condl- ton is at its worst and all sure cures have been tried without benefit One of the best ways to give the child with St Vitus' dance the great benefit of rest is by keeping the child in bed Tor a few days This is not so simple as 1t may
 seem Often it requires all .ne skii st,in rsst ol You can't merely order your child 10 stay m bed, for that may be actually injurious when
 the chorea is very Sad: repeas ca u si is | For that matter, there is only one sound course to pursue when child develops chorea. and that is to place the child under the care Of your physician and let the physician attend regularly and keep close watch on the chld heart and his general condition throughout the illness which, after all, is likely to be soonest mended when we'll attended
 If you have child with St Vitus' dance write in for Instructions for Management of Chorea, and lnclose stamped enVelope pear
 ing your address.
 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Big Boy Your correspondent, 1T. R., should have good look at me if he thinks he is 0vergrown.
 He Is 17, 6 feet ?, and weighs 170. am 16,
 feet B. and weigh POS pounds. graduated from feet 6 inches before my growing days are over like to be big-every one must look up to you. Girls like big men. (M. e
 Answer-That's the right phiiosophy' Would S6OOO be sufficient to carry a student through medical school? This is to cover tui- tion, books and all other college expenses. GA. B. Answer-Well, it should carry him well along toward the coveted degree, though fear he will have to dig up about as much again De- fore he will be ready to practice, these days Ripening Arsffcially I have heard that oranges are picked green and ripened by exposure to ethylene gas. Have such oranges the same vitamin value as oranges ripened on the tree? (R. w. E.) Answer-I believe not. Sunlight IS the source of the vitamin influence.
 IOdism year ago I started taking rather full doses of icsiide of potash after meals for no- tice1 irritated condition of my gums den- tist says this was brought on by the medicine. (W. E.l
 Answer-Too much iodide may produce such untoward effect.
 Consulting Psychiatrist Relative has been nervous wreck two years Every efort to persuade him to consult mental specialist brings q storm You said one can compel such . person to be examined. co. J. Al
 Answer-If there is any reason to believe the person mentally incompetent any near relative may apply to any court of record and the judge will ir~ie an order paper authorizing prover |examination. If the person Is found insane the judge win commit him to proper hospital for freatmeEt