The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-21
EASE DOWN ON THAT HIGH TENSION

| Our neurotic readers will appreciate this as | characteristic of my boundless concert when | r was a callow sophomore in medical scnoo | Grandma was fond of telling how in her giri, | hood in Boston the great Dr Shattuck nao toio l her that one of her lungs was gone with con
 sum ption. Well, sir, came home with my new
 stethoscope one day when Grandma was feel ing miserable. She asked me to listen to ner chest I listened. She asked me If heard
 anything on the off side. l candidly conIessea ,, | I couldn't hear a thing there. Grandma felt better at once. "Ah, didn't tell you? IL IS | just as Dr Shattuck O Boston told me sixty years ago. Sure this poy knows as much no" as he'll ever knoW!
 | Then there was Auntie Bintle. I've always l been thankful that she occurred in the course of my student days. I doubt could have come off with my dignity intact from an en-
 was, retired in great disorder from skirmsh with Auntie Bintle over the first case or ap-
 pendicitis in our neighborhood. The 1amlly
 held out bit too long against the doctors | importunities to proceed With the operation
 The doctor used the ice-bag as an application
 to the hypogastrium. At last, when the patient was in a grave state, the family consented 10 the operation. The patient failed to recover Auntie Bintle came round with the inside facts. She told every body that when the butcher cut the patient open he found the patient insides frozen solid. l heedlessiy observed that 1t was impossible to lower or increase the tenn perature of deeper tissues or organs by the ap- pication of external cold or heat, so long as there is life in the body. But Auntie soon set-
  embled gossips, winkng and telling them I'd know more when I got little older.
 For years I have been ridiculing the snug notion that the smart or important people in this country live under high tension which is 3 tremendous strain on the nerves" and &C., counts for so much nervous exhaustion or breakdown" among those who like to be con- sidered smart or important. I still think it is good comedy, but I'm older now and more in- clined to admit there may be a grain of truth in the notion of high tension Always hereto fore it has made me chuckle to hear anybody, especially physician, advising an ailing per- son to relax. Now it sets me thinking maybe little scientific relaxation would help the poor goof, at that.
 But when think of scientific relaxation I am not thinking of what you Just what you imagine relaxation means heaven knows I'll bet you don't. I am thinking of belly breathing.
 My physician had great difficulty in
 keeping my blood pressure below Ca mod
 erately excessive height)" writes a lady of
 years T began your belly breathing last
 October and am still keeping it up
 (recital of symptoms) hate telling
 you all this but want you to know how
 great my improvement has been
 and my blood pressure is much lower.
 so you could help some other poor
 toner. 1 thank you more than can say"
 Belly breathing tends to lower high blood pressure, prevent cold feet, help you to get to sleep nights. correct liver complaint, functional difficulties of young women, and induce health full relaxation. If you want instructions write and ask for it, inclosing stamped envelope bearing your address. No clippings.