Evening star., 1933-02-07
RELIEF OF GO|TRE
OFFERED IN X-RAY
Philadelphia Doctor Reports
on Treatment of 533 Cases
With Radiation.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MONTREAL, February 7-Sufferers |
from toxic goitre now have the choice |
of several methods of treatment. and
these include X-rays Of radium which |
show results approximately equal to
those of surgery" the American Col |
lege of Physicians was told today.
Toxic goitre is one of several forms
of the disease Hitherto X-rays have
been used with fair success but Dr.
George E. Pfahler of Philadelphia re-
ported today that 533 toxic cases
treated with radiation instead Of sur
gerry. 879 per cent had been cured or
markedly improved
You need not fear sweets will injure
your teeth so long as you are careful to
mix spinach, milk or egg yoke with
your candy, said Dr. Alan Brown of
The University of Toronto.
May Use Stratosphere.
Seekers after health in the future
may find it worth while to fly up to-
ward the stratosphere for, their sun
baths, for there is region high above
the earth where healthful ultraviolet
rays are much more plentiful than at
the surface, reported DR.. Meldrum K.
Wylder Of Albuquerque, N. Mex.
One chief advantage of radiation over
in the fact that there is less danger
to the heart of the patient, Or. Pfahler
stated.
Fear of surgical operation, he said
often leads a goiter sufferer to delay
consulting his physician. This or other
delays before an operation. or the shock
of the operation itself may weaken the
heart Treatment with X-rays avoids
delay and results in no shock, even to
patients who already are in advanced
stages of the disease or have serious
heart trouble. Other advantages of
X-ray treatment he said are that there
is no risk of death, no pain and no
inconvenience If the gioter Is treated
reasonably early. There are no scars
or skin outbreaks that sometimes follow
surgical treatment
Brings Results in Month.
X-ray goiter treatment usually brings
results within a month, DR.. Pfahler re-
ported, and there is little or no danger
of burns from the X-rays, or that the
treatment will harm other parts of the
body He recommended X-ray treatment
for all golfers in which the patient has
not reached a crisis nor has pressure
symptoms, but urged surgery for all
large golfers.
Latest studies of dental cares or tooth
decays, said DR.. Alan Brown, show
that this can be prevented when a
persons diet contains plenty of phos-
phoruS and vitamin D, produced in the
body by the ultraviolet rays of sun
shine and cod liver Oil.
THE danger of excessive sweets in
the diet" he declared "as far as dental
decay is concerned, seems to be in the
tendency for sweets to dull the appetite
for phosphorus containing foods, such
as egg yoke, milk. meats, leafy vege-
tables and grains"
He described experiments with chill
dren which showed that those receiv-
ing the most vitamin D in their diet
mad least tooth decay. Cavities formed
before the experiment was begun ceased
to spread when more vitamin D was
added to the diet.
Vitamin d and Phosphorus Cure.
From these observations" he said.
1t may be concluded that for the first
time true dental carries, indistinguish-
able from the human, has been pro-
duced experimentally, and that it may
be either cured or prevented by ade-
quate amounts of both vitamin D and
phosphorus in the diet"
About 95 per cent of all children
oUtACl 1iOIil GOUlIl ucCdy, he SalQ, and
at the present time there Is probably
no other disease to which the human
body is heir that is so widespread or
so fraught with potential danger to
the health of the individual"
Tests of ultraviolet rays at different
| levels above the earth show that a
zone of health" exists at height of
10000 to $4,000 feet, where the rays
are much stronger than at lower levels.
DR.. Wylder reported
Rays Percentage Increased.
The percentage of the rays pene-
trating the atmosphere increases from
35.3 at 5000 feet to 44.7 at 10000, his
airplane observations showed
Ultraviolet rays produce vitamin D
| in the body, which prevents rickets.
| the bone -deforming disease of chi,-
dren, but Dr. Wylder said "the de-
| formity producing type of ricketts, need
! never be seen. If we but use the ageri-
cies at our command we will soon be-
gin to realize that the ultra violet por-
| ton of ordinary sunshine, which We
use too little in modern life, shutting
| it out as we do from our houses Of
| fees and even our automobiles, bids fai.'
| to be hailed as humanity's greatest
boon"
| To help the local live stock industry,
Paraguay has doubled import duties on
CATTLE.