The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-12
COMMON PIMpLEs AND BLACKHEADs

Next to being a "nerve specialist" there is nothing softer in the way of making living than being a skin specialist, I think. I'm not skin specialist myself, but, boy, if did have to go back to work for living, I'd be one, I'm telling you. A good many of doctors pretty shrewd at avoiding thankess effort but
 it takes up to date skin specialist to show how to get by without any effort at all. The patient comes to the skin specialist complain ing of pimples and blackheads or Whiteheads and the specialist assumes his most ponderous air and tells the patient the trouble is acne vulgaris, and prescrbes some sulphur lotion or maybe funny diet and charges ten bucks Gas the hotel people and auto dealers express it) for the consultation. Or perhaps the patient complains of itchng-the specialist diagnoses pruritus and takes the money just the same. Or maybe it is a rash of some kind--very well. it's dermatitis lalapaloosa and the fee is $25 if please. Then there are other bigger and better names which run pretty high but after you've | acquired the fancy name you're not much bet ter off for it. One reader tot day asks me to devote a whole column some time to acne vulgaris I'll do no | such thing. g.Ths talk is about common pimples | and blackheads--or make 'em white if you prefer Another reader writes that her face has been broken out for four or five years, she is now 19 and lately the pimpes have spread to her back, too. She has been going to Dr Gone of the leading skin specasts) for eight months He told her he could help her, and he has kept her strict diet, that is, she is warned to avoid all sweet foods and all fried foods And nothing about applesauce, but that's what I think of such dieting for this common
 
 the notion that fats or greasy things or fried foods or sweets have anything to do with the trouble, is one of those mysteries which keep skin specialists from going to work. There is no good scientific ground under this nice old quack notion, nor is there any practical bene- fit apparent in cases where such dietary restric- tions faithfully followed, so far as l can learn. True, and then some one stoutly | maintains that he or she experiences fresh outbreak of pimples whenever the diet IS broken and an orgy of sweets or pie or pud- French inOulRed jorty of cases, and so I believe the old timers were in error in assuming that fats or sweets a factor of pimples and blackheads Moreover I regard it as mischievous and wise to restrict the diet of a young person in any way without very positive reason. Finally must observe that the majority of young people who extraordinarily fond of sweets and consume their good share suffer no more from pimples and blackheads than the general run of youth.
 Well. here's days space all shot and I haven't said anything interesting about acne vulgaris, after al
 But tell you what I'll do If you have pim- pies blackheads, write in and say so and in- close stamped envelope bearing your address. and I'll mail you instructions which I know have helped a lot of young folk so annoyed. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS on Physic for Life
 I gladly write to tell you followed instruc- tions fin your booklet "Constipation Habit faithfully and with very fine results. had been q sufferer for 15 years and thought could not let day pass without taking one or another kind of laxative. Now I leave 1t to nature, and am on physc for life. GA. IT.
 Answer-In order to get the instructions correspondents must CD say they have the constipation or physic habit, (2) inclose dime md (3) stamped addressed envelope. Eating Bran
 High school girl, IF. Notice my hear palpi- tatcs when Pm going to sleep some night. am active in athletics and do a good deal of walking. Would that account for it? How about eating bran flakes for breakfast every morning? (L. S.)
 Answer-Probably your physical activities do not cause the palptation. Your habit of l eating bran is healthful. Try plain wheat, en- tire or broken in coffee mill. cooked as you prefer or chewed raw, breakfast food or in cakes This contains all the bran and all the germ and all the mineral salts, and all the vita mins.