The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-03-05
THE INSTITUTE RACKET IN
MODERN MEDICINE

MODERN MEDICINE
| reader sends in a copy of a circular of
an institute that gets away with the practice
of medicine without a license, by canvassing
| for business through the mails and attracting
customers through all the familiar means Of
| the quacks. The reader has marked para
| graph in the circular and says Even you must
have some respect for the literature Of this in
sttute. Do you consider the marked paragraph
| 'baloney'?"
Well, 1t might pass as baloney only 1t is
rather low grade and 1t is cut too thick. Let us
quote the paragraph:
1.-THE New York State Ventilation Commits
sion in its studies found distinct relationship
| between drafts and cold. .. :"
| Whatever that may mean If "cold"l means
some ailment or disease, I'll apologize to the
racketeer who runs this "institute" II he can
find an Ineligible definition of such ailment or
disease in all the volumnous reports pub
lished by the New York state Ventilation Com
mission.
I'm certain Army studies a definite relation
ship was found between exposure and the In
cidence and prevalence OF colds. :"
Some secret about It? Trot 1t out and maybe
we can match 1t with better yarn from cer-
tain Navy studies. Y.
| Severe colds may be contracted in the sum-
mer time when the thermometer registers
summer heat but nevertheless the body in such
| temperature may be cooled by sudden evapora-
| ton of moisture from its surface through the
Influence Of q comparatively warm draft"
| This institute racketeer Is far too shrewd to
be inveigled into explaining what he means by
severe colds" but even II he has any tangible
idea what cold is, he Is merely INDUCING
In the favorite indoor pastime of the old fogies
who, II some Of us would go and die, would
save the public believe one actually contracts
fAAt
or venturlng out of doors without ones heavy
wraps and all that bunkum.
The funniest part Of the facketeer's ponder
Gus dissertation on 1.-THE Common Cold" Is the
cartoon that accompanies 1t. In the cartoon
there is strange creature in a big cage The
cage bears the legend THE Medical What Is
| 1t (The Common Cold)," and three or four
couples standing before the cage are arguing
one says 1t Is Mcrococcus catarrhalis, and
his companion says 1t amt; another says 1t is
Streptococcus hemolyticus and his companion
says 1t amt and a stout lady. passing by says
Sure it's a draught on the back OF yer neck.
Then the doctor who canvasses the country for
business without losing his standing or encoun-
terng the slightest audible protest on the part
of the regular profession, begins his discourse
by assuring the dumb customers in the best
manner, that no one knows what causes the
common cold. The man sizes up his audience
very well--he is confident they will have for
gotten that no one knows what the
common cold by the time he gets on to the ex-
PLANTATION of the way you get em in the good
old summer time.
People who believe in taking cold are like
that.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
The Depressant
/ happen to emanate from a nation of A.
900, 900 souls and / venture that IS per cent
of them suffer perpetual depression. In
your better years, Doctor, were you ever intro
duced to Duca D'Alba, Marsha, POnte Camel,
Chiante, Barbera, Burgundy Yarmouth
IL you have, l feel sure you would, willingly
suffer depression and not forgC the honor of
their association . then there Is the story
about Grant, his whislsey and Abraham Lin
coin. IL. ID
Answer-Immaterial and irrelevant. I'm
sorry, brother, but can only repeat the scien-
tific fact, that alcohol in any form is depres-
SAINT to every function organ of the body,
and not a stmulant.
Another s. T. Trains For Tuberculosis
] am 10, 65 inches tall. and last winter I
weighed 144 pounds and felt "regusted" for i
! went on diet. mo sweets, gave up all meet
IN Lent, stopped caring grapefruit because
heard 10 dries up the blood. /. my hands and
feet are always cold and was never like that
before. have not menstrnated for several
months seem 20 have no strength. "a. ID
Answer-Befors It is too late you had better
quit monkeying with your nutrition and try 70
examined not once but repeatedly by your
physician, for YOU are training for Tuberculosis.
Your name should be Silly Tly, Tho sensible
way for a girl like you 10 dispose OF such q
tribe OF reserve fuel or poundage weuld be by
some equivalent athletic activity. A lot OF silly
TITLES have developed pulmonary tuberculosis
IN their zeal 90 be fraii ana ethereal isut this
fad II now Dassa. except IN tho baekwoods.
(copyrisht John ". Ollie Coz