The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-09
srRYCHNINE THE CHILD POISON

In various myths legends or ancient religions
 the sacrifice of a child was demanded. ,,, mands this sacrifice About once week some where in the United States an innocent young
 is sacrifsced in order that BIG BUSINESS may go on as usual. I refer to the accidental poison- ing of children with strychnine fine language. Nothing pleases our vanity so much as to be held by professional orator or
 statesman how great is our concern for the wei but the cunning little things everywhere. even
 the miserable offspring of our lower caste Wors ss about the babblng baby of the honest working
 man being the potential unknown soldier of the Generously we pay the bill for a big conference of all the gifted bull shooters and job creators m the child health racket gathering wnicn earn eacM minutes as his importance justifes ana all sorts of fine programs are proposed but never taKeh seriously at least until the countrys business m tion.
 pretense of any determination on the part of these great of children to put stop to the cruel murder of innocents by strychnine surrep, community permit the manufacture, salesande even indiscrimnate distribution to the pubic ot' nostrums containing deadly aIants,es or children, in containers which bear not the shgnt- est hint that the contents are poisonous! Ine req son why our great leaders in child welfare are silent about this hdeous business is perfectly obvious--they know which side their bread IS
 gsn evils o
 BUSINESS. To say or do anything that wouio
 cut down some wealthy scoundrels nostrum trade Is not "constructive economy. If your sort job depends on subsidy from the wealthy scoundrel directly or indirectly paid, why you'd
 an ordinance or law to prohibit the incorporation of strychnine in food or medicine without
 proper POISON label to warn the purchaser CT
 We should have such law. applying not only
 to patent medicines or proprietary remedies
 SispenseS Sy physicians just as the present anti narcotic regulations do.
 While such a law would not save all the chii- dren that are sacrificed in the worship of the AL
 mighty Dollar it would at least save consider able number of lives. In the long run even the
 many of the children saved would grow up to be- come consumers of tonics and laxatives contain ing strychnine. ,r. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Some Women Get the Habit F | If woman gives birth to her first child through a Caesarian operation, due to an acute
 kidney complication. does that mean that all fu. turc children will be born that way? (Mrs $. G') Answer.-No. The next delivery may be nor: | mal Sometimes a woman may go through several
 such deliveries successfully. A second or tniru | first. and may be necessary or justihabie where | there is some grave obstacle to normal dehVery' | such as contracted pelvis.
 | Flaxseed Sterilization
 Is there any way to sterIlize faxseeds? buy it | at the drug store or scedstore, but have had to
 return it sometimes because I find worms in 1t
 or 1t soon becomes webby. (Mrs F. W0 | Answer-I do not know whether seeds may be
 sterilized and still retain their fertility For your purposes, which I suppose are to break the physc habit possibly to prepare foolproof cough medicine I should think moderate bak- l ing in the oven would destroy any worm or in-
 sect eggs in the seed.
 Iodin as Disinfectant
 | wish you would print instructions for the use | of iodine. Recently our cat scratched and bit my | arm. I ran in the house and put hot water on
 1t and iodine several times. When went to bed | put on q bandage. By the next day had to | call the doctor to treat the swelling and burn | from the iodine. (Mrs B. M) | Answer-It is better to avoid water other l liquid or salve and swab or touch the saw wound once only with the tincture of iodin. Then do not | repeat the iodn. Even the unbroken skin is like- | ly to be irritated and burned if you apply Q sec- ond coat of iodin within several days. | Diathermy
 | owe to your column the new lease on life l l am enjoying. doctors agreed the source of the poisoning was my tonsils but owing to my | bed heart nothing could be done. was about
 resigned to the life of 2 cripple when you told of l the advantages of diathermy. so I wrote you
 carried fin and out of his office the first two times.
 Now ann walk about gaining every day, and my
 arthritis is certainly cured. wouldn't mind the inability of my doctors to do anything, hut do | resent tehir intolerance in cOndemning this new treatment worthless and dangerous ID. HI. Al | Answer--No doctor who knows what diather- lmy Is will condemn 1t. Your doctors just didn't | know about it They'll learn in time.
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