The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-05
NEGLECT A BOIL AND YOU GET
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Nature will cure any boil or abscess but she | doesn't care how much the victim suffers from the slow but sure cure she effects. It is all the same to nature if the curing kills the patient. 1 That holds true whether it is a case of simple boil or broken leg or croup or whatnot. It doesn't matter much what you've got-nature will it. all right, if you live long enough. A boil near the rectum soon becomes large abscess and the abscess, if not promptly opened and drained presently becomes a fstula. Not a few cases of boils or abscesses in this region terminate in natural "breaking" and complete healing after few days drainage. But you never can tell and you never should put your trust in natures surgery.
 A few whiffs of laughing gas or of ether and | the doctor can accomplish in a second or two, painlessly what nature takes days to accom- plish and regardless of the suffering of the vic- | tim.
 by a boil or abscess that fails to "break" or be opened on the skin surface. At first the tunnel ing is along one tract; If long neglected It snay is like boil. Sometimes there is small open- | ing into the rectum. But these openings are small and do not permit free drainage. They may become sealed up for while now and then, but they rarely really heal spontaneously Nothing is more futile than using salves or other local remedies in the hope of curing fis- tula.
 There can be no argument at all for any other treatment than surgery for fistula In But surgical treatment is absolutely essential. There is common notion that fstula is often | tuberculous. It may occur more frequently In
  berculosis, and in rare cases the nstula itsell may be tuberculosis condition. But no matter. | It is curable by surgery just the same When there is a boil or, as doctors call 1t, ischio-rectal abscess it is risky to wait till to- morrow for surgical opening and drainage, for by tomorrow it may be fistula. Generally the best results are obtained by ambulant treatment of such abscess or fstula. That is the healing proceeds more satisfactor- fly if the patient keeps up and about throush' | out the period of treatment
 The general medical profession ought to be ashamed of the record of the treatment Of all rectal diseases. Too often your glib practition- | CT is willing to make guess at the nature of the trouble without bothering to make an ex- amination-if the patient seems gullible sort. There is real need in almost every commu- nity for a doctor who will devote his practice exclusively to the treatment of rectal diseases, and in view of the sorry record of the general profession such doctor may fairly and prop | erly call his specially to the attention of the public in dignified announcements In the pup
 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | Good Posture
 | I notice you decry the old army carriage. was brought up to hold myself as though were trying to look over a wall on tfptoe. Please Answer-Your idea is good. Another is to stand and sit and walk as though one were sup on the head. Another is to keep the chin thrust inside an imaginary high collar. NEVER try to throw out your chest or pull in your belly.
 Impacted Wisdom Tooth Daughter suffered with migraine for years Doctor advised extraction of impacted wisdom teeth. Dentist made X-ray which showed what | he thought might be supernumerary tooth In amongst the normal teeth. He removed the teeth and the headaches ceased for more than q year. Then they began again and got worse and worse finally she came home. dentist went to work--and 1t was w0rk!-and after three hours got out the buried root or mass of the supernumcrary tooth tfrom the side oppos- lfe to the hcadnchcs) and after she recovered from this operation she has never had head- ache since. (M. H. R.)
 Answer--About half of all adults never erupt or cut from one to all found third molars fwis- dom teeth. In not few instances intractable neuralgia or headaches may be caused by an mpacted or interrupted wisdom tooth buried in the jaw. and x-ray film will disiose this. Tn such cases surgical exhumaton of the un- egupted molar is the only relief.