The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-04
INFLUENCE THE STATE OF THE ToNsILs

I We have only recently learned that Vitamin
 A or maybe 1t Is D-I confess can't decide
 whether 1t is the one or the other both or
 what-has a good deal to do with the state of the tonsils and adenoids, especially in children. Don't ask me to explain, because as frankly | tell you can't make head or tail of the vita | min business, and just between you and me suspect most of the experts are a bit vague | about it yet. But do think 1t Is important that children should receive adequate amounts | of all the vtamins, particularly and D, and any others as fast as they may be discovered | and introduced to com-to science. Honestly | folks. science and commerce are so intimate these days that 1t is difficult to keep them sep | arated-of course don't mean they should be kept apart or anything like that. hut. oh, you | know what mean. Still. 1t is essential that person In my position scrutinize carefully all the scientific stuff that comes along lest he be caught by a lot of commercial hooey. Especially | findings or studies or researches that come | from some institute" or other. Why, you can put no more confidence in that term institute | to-day than you can in the trick title doctor" | Among the things we think we know about vitamins is this: The Vitamin influence IS imparted to food or body substances by the ul- | tra-violet rays of sunlight Cor any artificial | source or ultraviolet) The open air life, and cine for children, and indeed for all of us, but | 1t is especially good for children and there Is | much evidence available now that such life | tends to prevent enlargement of the tonsils and | adenod body.
 | Indeed some good physicians are treating enlarged and infected tonsils with special
 
 | the site of the trouble as well as sun baths or sunamp treatment of the skin surface. Dr w. E. Barron. health officer of the cons | soldated district Addison, N. Y., made CO., | gent observation in his professional work. He was examining the pupils In country school some twenty children. The first three or four showed enlarged tonsils and the doctor so re- corded his finding. The next showed the same | large tonsils. Then the doctor examined all the | rest and, all tohsis looked large. So he erased | the marks on the first cards and recorded all | as normal-a doctor can't very well say all the | children are abnormal if they all have large tonsils Besides they were all husky enough. | Then about year later he again examined the | same pupils, and with one or two exceptions | this time they all had small tonsils The first | examination had been made at the end of a | period of two weeks of rainy days. The second | examination was made after q period of two | or three weeks of delightful weather. Dr Bar ron has cited this experience before various | medical societies, but no one has offered any comment or explanation.
 Not to draw too fine point venture to | suggest that Vitamin may not bo stored in the body Gas we know Vitamin D Is not) and | therefore after a period of cloudy or sunless | weather the children pretty low in their vitamin ration and their adenoid tissue under goes n kind of compensatory increase. This Is
 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | Grapefruit, Ugh!
 l In your colun,n you implied you doubted the
 sanity of a person who would eat grapefruit
 when he might have orange. Do you really
 mean that grapefruit Is less desirable Tor
 hcalth or-your sarcasm is not always clear,
 
 and refreshing. tS. !. W1
 | Answer-If you like grapefruit 1t is just as I wholesome and healthful as orange. Now l | wish you solemn folk would cease forcing the
 cursed grapefruit my consciousness. 1 want
 to forget that such n thing occurs in nature if
 possible. and enjoy the orange crop to the full, | Tho Professor Told Elm | Here in tone of the hest medical cOiIcgcs)
 Professor tone of the big nOiscsl pointed Co .
 group of juniors in the lecture hall and said,
 "An you Inen sitting in that draught are going
 to come down with colds in the next day or | two" None 0f the students moved out Of thc
 draugist. They just grlnned and sat there None
 0f them developed any apparent illness. Nev.
 crthcIcss the professor had given an impressive
 bcss0n. e. K1
 ! Bor of enteroiogy or something doesn't make q doctor m expert in hygiene. should say the | professor gave the students a fine illustration
 of man with q big head making an ass of
 himself. Somebody should have advised the
 professor to pin back his ears and % on with
 hts lecture. 0uaint sort of medical school, eny. way, if it still soleratea the lecture method of teaching. Are the students too oEmb Co read tba afun thameafuaaf