The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-13
IS TT YOUR LIVER OR YOUR GALL?

~ nn,v after several years of practice is that when people speak of weak ankles they mean what doctors call pronated feet, Whicn IS tne
 nrinarv or potential stage of fiat feet ana eVen- tually develops into genuine nat1ooteohess ~ many instances if the young person pesihs " wear arch props or shoes Vl'h suen suppoA' ' built in. {. su, m | A thing that is just beginning to dawn on me now is that when the average dump eeS
 opines it's his liver he probably means ms ,.a sh | But then, it doesn't make much direFence Wnat | he means for he is merely guessing ahyno". oo am l. for that matter. But again, there 5 Van.
 difference between patients guess anu q, a | nhyscian's The difference is as great as IS the difference between your guess or mine tnat !, ] is going to rain or be a fine day tomorro" anu l the guess of the official weather bureau man about that. . ,.., | All we know is what we read in the histories | of our patients From the perusal oi many thousands of such histories we know tnat pa tines developing gall troubles, either cholc- cystitis (inhammation of gall-bladder) or gall. stones generally have indefinite symptoms or Indigestion" as they call it, and not symptoms pointing toward liver complaint. Liver complaint, if it means actual. disease of the liver generally gives rise to none or tnc symptoms ascribed to torpid liver or lazy hVer or biliousness by old time quacks ana nosIrun an vendors. That's all we can say about liver complaint to-day. , ,. o.. ! Now to be sure and get in little boost for the doctor business we had better repeat here | that the wise course for any adult who begins at middle age to suffer with so-called indiges, tion," especially if this occurs as gas attacks, l is to go immediately to his or her 1am1y phys- 1 ician-oh, very well, then, if you haven't one you may go to any good physiclan-p put Just 1 the same, any citizen who has an automoplie | and a place he can honestly call home snouid have family doctor too, just to show ne IS somebody-and have the doctor make a reg ular examination to exclude cradlovascular (heart or artery) disease, cancer or gallstones. If it happens that you are developing any such condition surely it is for your best interest to know it. so that you may take in time the necessary remedial measures If there IS no . tch hnnn ntnl n
 health to know it. That's why health exam ination by your physician is worth the price. l warn you to beware or institutes or other corporations that offer crcdulous folk this service which, being primarily personal, only your own physician can render.
 once in a while we still meet one who be- lieves calomel increases the flow of pile or drives more bile out of the system" or exerts some beneficient influence upon torpid, ! lazy" or inactive liver whatever that may be. This quaint notion belongs in the museum along with the notion that our national sins or oyereating and underworking or uder-cxercis- ing are mitgated If we refer to their conse- quence as "bilousness."
 The truth is that precise scientific observation has shown that no medicine produces more than a feeble and temporary increase Tn the flow of bile, and even if we had potent choi- | agogue can't conceive what use IL would De | in treatment
 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Mechanical Humbug
 I nm IS and bowlegged. Please cxmainc the lnci0sed circular and tell me whether It can
 straighten my legs. c. M)
 Answer--Nothing but operation on the bones
 can straighten bow leg in a person over years | of age.
 Tuberculosis
 What suggestions would you give one with | pulrnorary Tuberculosis fn regard to hygiene? | Going to the southwest, say Arizona? What Is | the relation of climate to the disease? (F. C.f | Answer--Send q stamped envelope bearing l your address and ask for monograph on Tbc. so far as the climate is concerned. believe you can recover as quickly in Nebraska or Connec- l lieut. as you can in Arizona or Colorado. The value of any climate depends principally upon the number of hours you are In tho open air every day and night
 COlic. Eh?
 I understood you tO say nothing one can eat | wIiI tmuse c0iic. When my baby WAS weeks old, and perfectIy well. 1 ntc some hOthousc | arnpes That same night tine baby went Into con nyulslOns with every appearance Of cole. Only e warm bntIi relieved him. Doctor and uurss agreed it was cole. Then baby slept nIi
 slight and there was n0 fmrtiier tr0uble tii ti,e | following night nt ttls same itOtir. if h was not cOIIc. what wgs IF tMrs B A. M.) | AnsW er---At thls distnncs | emit determine | pre0inojy what It was, Arsenic poisoning, for | nil | know, | giIi believe a baby never suffers | pnID from "o0lc," unless Indeed thsra lH H0mes | ibina seriously wrong When Your doctor nnd nafna agreed lt wns "c0lie" they Just hoped it .aa aofhlna fonlly inc matter,