The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-03
TT IS A CRIME TO NURSE A FELoN

There is nothing insidious about felon.- When felon happens you know just when and where. | Then when it gets started it reaches full matur- | ity within AS hours-but it depends how dumb you are, whether you go on suffering all | that time and longer, or obtain immediate re- l lief and safety. . ..4 $: t.. l throbbing pain, swelling and exquisite tender | ness in the distal pha1anx-thats the joint l farthest away, yet how near it seems when you One thing about a felon, it gives you an ex- oellent means of gauging your doctors compe- | tence or ability. If he hears your complaint and takes one good look at the digit without touch- ing it, and proceeds to get ready to anesthetize | you and incise the thing and drain it (not lance it), he's good doctor. If he fiddles around, presses on the already excruciatingly | tender digit trying to elicit fuctuation (evi- dence of pus) and then stalls along with oint-
 ment, poultice, some such nice old grand | motherly sympathy, you would do well to ease yourself out of his shop as soon as you can | make polite escape, and look up another doc tive surgery. There is only one safe and effec- tive treatment for. felon, and that is immediate and thorough surgical incision, under anesthe- | sia of course. Any other treatment is just nurs- l ing, and nursing felon is crime, even if it costs the victim only few days of unnecessary | suffering. The relief of the pain of felon- which is inflammation and suppuration under | the tight persoteum or covering of the bone l is only one good reason for the immediate free
 incision down to the bone; the more important | reason is to prevent possible serious septicemia 1 (blood poisoning) or extensive damage to the | victims hand which may occur if the incison
 and drainage is postponed "A hours.
 The ancient practice of 'lancing" such iinfec- | tons without the use of an anesthetic was atro- cious, not only for the unjustifabe pain Of the timid puncturng stabbing but for the fre-
 quent failure of such halfway treatment to bring cure or even relief. Even If you're a
 dumb hero and don't mind having such torture
 ability is you'll be little or no better off to-mor-
 row. and your little hero act has gone for | naught few whiffs of ether, nitrous oxid | Qaughing gas) and oxygen, or other anesthetic | and the doctor can do a proper job and assure
 you good nights rest and prompt and pain l less healing. l Immediate and thorough opening of a felon | is precisely analogous with immediate extrac-
 tion of a so-called ''ulcerated" tooth-that is, a | tooth with an acute abscess at its root. I sup pose some folk sympathze with the poor goof who walks the floor in misery with a swollen | jaw, waiting for the swelling to subside so he can have the tooth extracted. Such picture | makes me laugh. Even few hours delay in extracting the tooth Cor possibly drilling through it) to drain the abscess, may permit
 grave injury to the jaw bone. or even threat against life itself from septicemia. How com ical. then, is the picture of the idiot wilfuy suffering when relief and safety is waiting for him at the dentists office.
 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
 Victim of the "Clinic" Racket
 | have been receiving infections .;, for yaricose
 about TOO in in all. and 1t has @ cost 5000 to date
 and very few of the veins have disappeared So
 far In their ads over the radio. (Mfs L. McM.) ) AnSWer-l1 a doctor IS good ne mas enough
 confidence in himself to practice under his own
 name If he is good his pleased patrons see to
 it that he is kept busy. If he is not so good
 he goes into huddle and trims suckers under
 the guize of some such imposing name as "clin- ic," "institute' association" When you elect
 to deal with such gentry you should not squeal. Keep 1t Dark
 I am one of the older girls who would like
 instruction for the Iron and Tea method of darkcning the hair. (Mrs E. S)
 Answer--A teaspoonful Cor lump the size of chestnut) of iron sulphate (green vitrol)
 dissolved in pint of ordinary tea preferably black tea, makes a lotion which is quite safe. and according to many readers who have tried
 Ii, satisfactory for darkening gray hair. No par tcular directions just keep applying little every day for a time. cs
 Paranin Injection
 | Some years ago went to Q beauty specialist
 and had the lines from the base of nose to cor. | ners of the mouth removed. I did not know till later that they injected parafln. For Q while was quite pleased. But lateF found that the parafhn slipped down to the turn of my chin
 and there 1t Is in two humps which make my mouth sag dreadfulIy. know p4rniIin can't be removed, but isa't there face-IiftIng operation
 that can remedy my plight? (H. T. E.)
 | Answer--Possibly real surgeon can do something to improve your appearances. Beware
 of beauty specialists or self-commended "pias- ] tie surgeonA"