The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-24
HOW TO BE COMFORTABLE THOUGH
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BAPTIZED
 One of the innumerable popular msappre- hensions about health and sickness is that the itch (scabies) arises from lack of personal cleanliness This notion is quite as sensible as rious ailments vaguely called "colds' come from exposure to some kind of weather or sud- den change of temperature.
 Scabies is caused by the parasite called the itch mite, Acarus scabiei, and it makes little difference whether one is well bathed or not bathed at all, one is just as likely to catch scabies or to give it to others. The frequency or thoroughness with which one bathes has no appreciable relation with ones freedom from disease.
 Some skins are harmed by excessive bath ing. Thousands of persons suffer with pruritus which is due mainly or wholly to excessive bathing. Pruritus is just one of those impos- ing terms We doctors like to use to impress the public. It is like the term cardiac which we often use when we mean heart To say a than couple dollars, but to inform the pa tient that there is a cardiac condition brings from $5 to $10 or more if you're specialist Pruritus is Latin word whichadoesnt mean any more than just plain itching, but it costs more. There is tendency to restrict the sig hiicance of pruritus to itching of the skin without evident skin disease rash, but Dr Noah Webster has not yet sanctioned this, any more than he has sanctioned the word cri.
 The majority of sufferers from bath pruritus are over thirty, in their tissues, no matter about years. About thirty-flve most people reach the peak of physical growth and per- lection, and thereafter they slide slowly down Dryness of the skin is an early sign of ap- preaching senility In youth the skin is soft, warm and oily and smooth. sometimes too oily. As age looms the skin begins to become dry, rough, harsh and irritable.
 In youth all creams, greases, oils are best avoided. and plenty of soap and water used for the skin and complexion.
 After thirty the less soap and water the bet ter for skin and complexion, and pure fresh oil of one kind or another improves the con dition of the skin and the appearance of the complexion.
 People who bathe only to itch should keep on hand one or another of the following and apply it to the skin Immediately after every application of soap and water. =
 q. pr Bukley's Skin Creamy
 I.,, 6anonn ,.:.....'. .'............2 drams
 Cold Cream (made with white
 petrolatum, .....6 drams
 e. Dew of Sahara.)
 Powdered tragacanth .........i dram
 Phenol. Glycerin. Oil of Bergamot.
 or each ...................5 drops Distilled Water, to make. One Pint
 This is to be agitated into an emulsion.
 (3. Ointment of Rose Water.)
 Ointment of Rose Water is officially called Unguentum Aquae Rosae and is commonly known as cold dream It must be made up fresh by your own druggist. after the formula in his official Pharmacopoeia. No stock propri- etary preparation purporting to be cold cream can be used with satisfaction when one has ment of Rose Water demands the skill of the pharmacist. Amateur efforts at compromising this are disappointing. V L A
 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
 Boy Wanted .s I noticed what you said about sons and daughters and how you wish you had a son to leave behind as Doc Brady the Second Tut tut, doctor those daughters of yours can solve that problem for you. (Mrs IL. Gl F Answer-Make me an offer.
 old Nature on the Job
 Thanks for your clear and convincing expo- sition of the truth about constipation Since the first two or three days nature has attend ed to her business unhampered by pills or bran Even without "calI" expect results soon after breakfast, and nature is responding like a well trained child. co. w. Al ulates the bowel function as we'll as she does the heart or lung function, if the blockhead can only be persuaded to cease interfering.
 Cross Eye
 | am contemplating marriage. had a slight cross in my left eye which has been corrected through an operation and glasses Is that like- ly to be transmitted to my children? That is, are cross eyes hereditary? (W. E. J.)
 Answer-only defects or abnormalities pres- ent at birth are likely to be transmitted to children. If the cross-eye was acquired after birth, it is not heritable.
 Running Ear
 l had discharging ear for several years, following scarlet fever. Ear specialist said only cure was operation on the bone. which he said was dangerous. Then I went to Dr - and he taught me to wash my car out with perOx- fde and blow in some boric acid. did that, and soon the discharge ceased. and 1t has never discharged any morc--that was 10 years ago. cnn hear about as we'll with that ear as with the sound ear, and before could scarcc- ly hear at all with the had ear. (E. ID. F.) :. you consulted had had the experience and training in plain general practice which the country doctor had. he might have given ysu as good advice. But these big shot specialists are pretty narrow little chaps when 1t comes to A ff, aFn4 4.nI QQn anoR~