The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-19
HAIR OF HI E DOG THAT BITES YOU

The patient turned over in bed You'd bet ter leave something to ease my cough to- night" he advised. "I'm afraid it's going to keep me awake"
 Certainly I would. l sent the nurse down stairs after the croup kettle. Nothing like a little steam around the sleeping room of a pa tent with chronic bronchitis
 sat for Q while out of the patients sight looking over copy of q magazine Grumpy grew quiet and presently heard him set the steam inhaler on the stand beside his bed and his breathing became steady and sonorous. Not snoring-if he had snored I'd have known he was pretending to be asleep In order to get rid of me. Of course I knew that us soon as l should he out of the house Grumpy would summon his favorite daughter and have his toddy regardless. But q doctor can't run in and just look wise and hurry right out again. You tient.
 This was late in November Grumpys bron- chitis was q typical winter cough. He had had it now for several winters. Of course he and all his family ascribed 1t to the cold, damp climate. Useless for one lone doctor, even If he was the family doctor, to try to make them understand cold damp air Is the very best air for anybody with chronic dry bronchitis.
 But there's more than one way to skin cat. I judged this favorable stage for q new de- parture. Firmly but gently l announced the time had arrived to investigate the bugs In Grumpys chest. But Grumpy demurred. He would. I've put up with a lot of your new old chest but I calculate there are no bugs In it. If there were any bugs you couldn't kill them, could your"
 I told him we'd see Sent a specimen of sput- um to the laboratory, and asked the bacterio- logist to culture 1t. When the report came back 1t appeared Grumpy had mixed colony of Pneumococc Staphylococci and divers mi crobss of minor importance. Sc we instructed the bacterlologist to prepare some bacterin, and when the remedy arrived # week later Grumpy scrutinized the vial and expressed dis- appointment. He had hoped to see the myriads of microbes scurrying around in the suspen- sion. But of course they were all killed and lt1A a Anxy
 The trouble with such treatment Is that you can seldom try it out alone. We couldn't m this case. though Grumpy received eighteen inJee. s.,. doses being given at intervals of from four days to eight days. But the first of March, Grumpys bronchitis was better than 1t had been at that time for several winters. His im- provement colncident with the adminis- tration of the autogenous bacterin or bacterial vaccine. It was also coincident with his in- creased daily time in the open air, for the less he coughed the less he feared the outdoors In winter.
 For long while Grumpy carried in his vest pocket a little ampoule of the bacterin which he liked to show his friends, telling them how many millions of germs were sealed therein. believe this amulet or charm lost It's value to Grumpy in the course of the next winter when he had so little trouble with his tubes that he grew openly patronizing if not contemptuous toward doctors and all their hanky,panky
 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
 Oh, My Eye
  due, I am told, to weaker nerve i'm that eye. Do you know of any eye exercises or other mcth- 0d to improve the weak eyes (F. w. H)
 Answer--No. There Is but one eye exercise that is of any value. and that is for both eyes and should be done with both eyes. namely, looking at distant scenery or objects
 The Cold Water Treatment Our f3 months old baby has spells when hC loses hls breath, turns blue and becomes d. most unconscious and limp. (E. A. D.
 Answer--sprinkle or dash cup of cold wa ter over his face and chest.
 Mother Versus Husband am 2i years old and married. Mother never allowed me Co % in bathing before ! married My husband ts a great swimmer and he wants me t0 g0 in. But my mother says h will lnjuFe by health as I have never been in. tsirs R. P.) Answer-Your husband is right Your mother Is wrong. not only in hvgienic way but--well when a man marries he ciings tc his wife and breaks with hts mother if neces' sary 4 woman should do likewise.