The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-06
CRYOPHOBIA STILL RAGING IN THE
 PROFESSION

Far from my good friend Dr Webster ana lessor. whose neurasthenia candidiy apssnis poons poohed, can only take pr Alfred B. Oisen word for it, that o ths IS asaocaes of pr John H. Kellogg at Battle Creek. which sum
 centy determines his standng: ne | civilized people. I submit that doctors are CIV ilized people. - .e . | frightened and terrorzed by their elders against | cold take to cold air and cold water baths as
 child, he ayers will stand and laugh while being douched with cold water. Children prefer cool
 to warm baths, and if not prevented VIII cnmn m out of the bath and run and play without dry- 1 ing and without taking cold (slc), pracLce to
 be encouraged. On winter day they will run
 out and play in the snow and race about without
 the usual "bundling: up."' if they can escape
 Children that are allowed to enjoy direct contact
 with the fresh outdoor air and sunshine are usu
 ally free from colds (sic again) because their | skin is functioning in a normal way But 1T a
 child goes near an open window Slm nere auo,, ,,. | "un-wrapped" in winter the mother or nurse
 calls it back in alarm saying Come in or you will catch your death of cold
 l submit that mothers and nurses who would | fail to behave like that would not be carrying out the implied actual instructions of the
 great majority of the best doctors and child spe- | cialiSts of our day.
 This cryophobia prevails at least as widely in l the medical profession as 1t does in any other class I have encountered all kinds of ideas on
 the subject among physicians and specialists, and | it is with slight chagrin that confess would | be in a quandary to point out for you a single
 good physician or pediatrist who is entirely in
 accord with me 3 in the !. pellet belief that exposure te | Plenty of good doctors concede that under some circumstances some individuals may not be | endangered in health by such routine everyday exposure carelessness If you prefer to call T | SO But every colleague competitor witf | about this clings to the traditional fancy that | just such exposure may in some instances low
 is duty to caution his patients about undue expo | sure to weather. | If any doctor of standing anywhere feels tha
 I have slighted him in his sweeping character | ization, beg him to call me at once and VII
 fall on his neck and shed tears or JOY. some | times feel Lonesome could cry.
 l But until we members of the medical profes
 sion free minds of the fear of cold and we and revise our conventional caution about expo | sure to indictment weather, we cannot gracefull,
 complain that mothers or nurses take this oit
 Here it is fitting to reterate: Ones own phys | ical comfort is the only thing to consider Tn re
 gard to exposure to cold or wet, and only iaiot @ QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | Distance Running
 l the last year and intend to keep it up. ran iE
 and s mile road races. Now run or milc
 should % ''' run ali year or lay on a few monthsi
 3. Does distance running help or harm ones sys
 Answer-Keep it up No lay-on. Two or thre.
 miles every day is not too much to keep ir
 training. It is rather beneficial to one's system | otherwise
 | Singers Seek Something Simple do not know where diatheFmy extlrpatiOn O
 tOnsils be of greater service than in the cass | of singers. have had number of profession
 al singers and by this method have been abls | to preserve the normal anatomy, which is so i'm
 portant for voice projection. Indeed several O
 these patients believe the treatment has .en | riched the quality of the vo:cc. (Dr B. B.l Answer-Thank you. Doctor believe this fl the only method of treatment for enlarged or in. | fected tonsils for singers. Even guy who cant | sing at all like myself would have diathermy ir ] preference to the snare or guillotne.