The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-07
CLOSED CAR NEURITIS

CLOSED CAR NEURITIS Our European medical colleagues handle the | truth more careleslsy than we do here in Amer ica. Every new drug or medicine that comes | out of France Germany is. if the introduc- tory blurb is taken at face value a vast Improve
 ment on the older preparation it seeks to dis place. But the sad story is always the same after a season two of popularity the new and invariably more expensive nostrum is displaced by a still newer and still more expemsive one
 sirable qualities of the preceding one yet none of it's drawbacks or untoward effects These untoward effects, somehow, are never mentioned while the nostrum is in vogue with that part of the American medical profession which eagerly takes LID all the new nostrums thus introduced The harmful effects of the stuff are acknowledged only when the new improvement arrives on the market
 emanating from Europe Doctors and specialists over there have naive way of "pronouncing things thus and so, much as the great legendary consultants did in the earlier days Of American
 medical history. At least this is the impression
 we get this side of the ocean.
 A French doctor named Rathelot has discov-
 cred q new disease. closed neuritis He de- scribes this cervco- brachial (neck and arm)
 neurts, and he says it is quite common in driv-
 of closed cars. but it does not occur In driv-
 CTS of open cars There it is, the dogmatlc Eu- ropean pronunciamento-you simply can't have cervico brachaI neuritis unless you drive closed car-with window open beside you Whats more, the French doctor declares the
 trouble is invariably in the left side never in the rght-for most automobiles have left handed drive and the driver keeps the left win dow open to thrust out his arm for signaling to drivers behind You see, are leading up to the etiology of the disease to wit. the draft or current of cool air entering the open window
 strikes the driver right on the left side of hia neck. Ironcal I call it, for I have just driven three thousand miles in closed car through all
 the left window open most of the time, and l
 have pain in the neck-the right side.
 Many good doctors have argued boldly if not
 rashly with me about the theory that current of cool air striking the life side of the face of a driver of closed car with the left window open may account for facial neuritis This is an ancient conception, but firmly believe it is not
 believe this alleged closed neuritis of Dr Rathelot is equally hypothetical. If the doc tor would only concede that drivers of open cars sometimes suffer from the same sort of pain and that the trouble occasionally occurs on the right side of person who drives with the left window open, one might accept the theory with more confidence. But the cocksureness of the doctor seems suspicious-I think he is trying to
 make a convincing case. I doubt the draft of cold air has anything to do with it. I believe
 the trouble is attributable to the position the driver holds the arm in while driving to strain. Ratheot says diathermy. infra-red (radiant heat) and massage treatments give the best re- lief and in this agree with the French doctor. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Oh Doctor, Doctor
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