The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-09-26
EASE DOWN ON THAT HIGH
TENSION

Our neurotic readers will appreciate
this as characteristic of my boundless
conceit. When was a callow sopho-
more in medical school Grandma was
fond of telling how in her girlhood in
Boston the great DR.. Shattuck had
told her that one Of her lungs was
gone with consumption. Well, sir, I
came home with my new stethoscope
one day when Grandma was feeling
miserable. She asked me to listen to
her chest. listened. She asked me
if heard anything on the off side.
I candidly confessed couldn't hear
a thing there. Grandma felt better
at once. "Ah, didn't tell you? It
is just as DR.. Shattuck O. Boston told
me 60 years ago. Sure this boy Knows
as much now as he'll ever know!"
Then there was Auntie Bintle. I've
always been thankful that she oc-
CURED in the course Of my student
days. I doubt I could have come off
with my dignity intact from an en-
counter with her across the patients
bed. AS it was, retired in great dis
order from a SkirmiSh with Auntie
Bintle over the first case of appendi-
citis in our neighborhood. The fam
lily held out a bit too long against
the doctors opportunities to proceed
with the operation. The doctor used
the ice-bag as an application to the
hypogastrium. At last, when the pa
tient was in grave state, the family
consented to the operation. The pa
tient failed to recover. Auntie Bintle
came round with the inside facts. She
told everybody that when the butch
err" cut the patient open he found the
patients insides frozen solid. I heed
lessly observed that 1t Is impossible to
lower or increase the temperature OF
deeper tissues or organs by the appli-
cation of external cold or heat, so
long as there is life in the body. But
Auntie soon settled my hash by Snltl-
ing around on the assembled gossips,
winking and telling them I'd know
more when got little older.
For years ! have been ridiculng
the SNUG notion that the smart or
important people In this country live
under high tension which Is a ire
mendous strain on the NERVES" and
accounts for so much nervous ex-
haustion or breakdown" among those
who like to be considered smart or
important. I still think 1t is good
comedy, but I'm older now and more
inclined to admit there may be a
grain of truth in the notion of high
tension. Always heretofore it has
made me chuckle to hear anybody
especially a physician, advising ar
ailing person to relax" Now it sets
me thinking maybe little scientific
relaxation would help the poor goof
at that.
But when I think of scientific re.
Taxation I am not thinking Of what
you are. Just what you imagine re-
Taxation means, heaven knows-1l
bet you don't. I am thinking of belly
breathing.
my physician had great diff
Guilty in keeping my blood pres
sure below "a moderately excess
sive height" writes lady OF
years. Il began your DelIy pTedCN.
ing last October and am still keep
ing it up (recital Of symp-
tonls) hate telling you all
this but I want you to know how
great my improvement has been
>. and my blood pressure IS much
l. lower. so you could help some
other poor customer. thank
you more than ! can say"
Belly breathing tends to lower high
blood pressure, prevent cold feet, hell
you to get to sleep nights, correct
liver complaint, functional difficulties
Of young women. and induce health
full relaxation. II you want instruc-
tiops, write and ask for 1t, inclosine
stamped envelope bearing your ad.
dress. No clippings.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
| Liver and Spleen
Please tell me where the liver ant
spleen are located and their specia
use.-U. NJ
Answer-The liver, weighing from
to 81 pounds, is in the upper RICH
side Of the abdomen under the RIB
The spleen, weighing half q pound,
In the upper left side Of the abdomel
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