The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-24
pEPTIC ULCER AND THE HIGHER
 CULTURE

| If you have q little peptic ulcer in your home
 don't get snooty about 1t. When all is said and
 done 1t is just indicative of culture as IS an
 unbroken crease in your old mans pest trous-
 CTS. Females have 60 per cent of all the known
 peptic ulcers in the country-Just as they nave
 sixty per cent of about everything eise Perhaps s | that explains why peptic ulcer Is associated with the claim of intellectual superiority. Tho truth is we know very little about the
 health conditions of the disease conditions .t3a 1a savages or uncivilized tribes We know as nttle
 about other people and the way they live as we
 do about the customs of modern China Our childish innocence concerning China IS showh in the serious way we take that old hokum about the Chinese paying the doctor only while they remain well and stopping his pay or even king him when they fall i'll. Sometimes get so mad I could lam book right through the window when find that the explorer or trav- eler who pretends to tell about the customs ol some Outlandish tribe hasn't a word to say about their health disease conditions.
 Putting a suggestion from this medical nu-
 thority and one from another authority together and finding their ideas observations and thc- ories dovetail nicely, one acquires certain oei nite impressions from browsing through med-
 ical literature impressions that SUCK; TOT .n, stance we don't seem to understand why peptic (stOmach duOdenum) ulcer IS 50 common in this country, but recently there has been Il tendency to ascribe the trouble to Vltamln de- nciency in our modern refined diet This idea Is rather supported by the extraordinary obser.
 vation of an English army surgeon who hVed for nine years among Himalayans, doing thous-
 ands of operations yet never seeins chSe 1i peptic ulcer appendicitis. McCarrison at- tributed the freedom Of these pflnl'iVc peopie from such diseases to their diet, which consists mainly of fresh vegetables and fruits, milk ana eggs-no vitamin deficiency in such natural food
 If you have gastric or duodenaA ulcer you can't very well indulge in fresh vegetables and fruits as freely healthy person should But if you are just training for ulcer, 50 to speak. perhaps you can take q chance and gobble some
 fresh vegetables raw. For healthy folk thls IS certainly good habit-to eat some fresh vege. table or relish whole and raw every day. What
 cnn ba DHlataDle than a raw fresh carrot or fresh turnip or even a fresh raw whole tomato If you care Tor
 them. I hate 'em. but l eat 'em just because
 I'm so afraid I'll miss something If don't. or
 by way of q relish or salad what IS Inner than a basket of raw cabbage cold slaw preferably the green cabbage? The green contains more Vitamin A than white cabbage.
 I have tried to set down in brief what advice would offer about this. to eat .,.
 CD Suggestions of foods to take and foods to avoid. for those with peptic ulcer, hyperacid- ity of stomach heartburn.
 (2) Menu for People Who Have to Live with Peptic Ulcer Patient.
 :, ca Booklet about foods, diets. etc, Guide to Right Eating" For CD or (2) send your re-
 quest tnot a clipping) and stamped envelope
 bearing your address; for (3) add ten ten cents
 in coin.
 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Something for Malaria Please tell me what I should get for malaria, as have 1t bad (M. $. L) Answer--A physician. Get Your Iodin
 Our druggist says he has never heard or iOdn ration and cannot find 1t anywhere. What
 Is the joke? co. H.)
 Answer-NO joke. Just q sad trait. Send q
 stamped envelope bearing your address and I'll mall you detailed instructions for getting your iodin. No instructions If you infict clip
 ping on me in lieu of your own request So You're Going to See? am planning trip to Europe this summer.
 Have crossed tho Atlantic three times and every time have suffered scasickncss. Kindly send mo your remedy for preventing 1t. (F. M. B.)
 Answer--Gladly if you will inclose with your request a stamped envelope bearing your address. And, by heavng, If you fail to report what effect you obtain this trip hope you have the nal de mer all the way oyer and back. If You cant Catch Elm Feed Elm Deep sen fishing k my favOrite sport. Hut the discomfort of seasickncss prevents me from enjoying it as much as would like. (H. E. S. AnsWer-Follow the suggestion give Mrs just forninst. like to hear from you bad sa- ors about this. for if my treatment slaves Of the trouble in your case 1t means something. That ts. it does If you have the grace to tell me about it later.