The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-15


 To-day's little lesson in physiology:
 The entire process of digestion, from the swallowing of food and drink to the expul. sion of the residue from the intestine, is no more under control of consciousness or the will than is the beating of your heart.
 No matter how often say this or in how many different words, the great majority of readers go right on complacently believing that taking medicine, funny food preparations, or thought.
 Here is who even condescends to show how illogical am about it:
 Dear Sir
 You claim the process of elimination is not conscious one; that it is not under con- trol of the mind or the will.
 Yet you say that if we stop thinking about 1t and interfering with it. elimination will regulate itself.
 If it is not under control of the mind how come it works well when we cease think ing about it.?
 L. M uses a term have never employed. The function of defecation has no relation to elimination or excretion.
 Merely thinking about this function has no apparent effect upon it, one way the other. healthy person with fair knowledge of anatomy and physiology has normal digestion whether he puts his mind on the process or never gives any stage of it Q thought. It Is worry, anxiety, fear, not thinking that retards or inhibits the digestive process. Doesn't matter much whether you worry about meeting the interest the mortgage or about the dire effects you will suffer from "autoin- toxication' if your bowels permitted to get all clogged up.
 Anger. hatred, jealousy, malevolence, all have marked inhibiting action the viz orous peristalic or waves of contraction that pass along the intestine and propel the con- tents. These unpleasant emotions throw the brake on the normal processes of digestion They stop secretion altogether for a time. That is how little fare-up of anger jealousy just before dinner drives away appetite, The first step in overcoming the constipa- ion habit is tho thorough coming of that little esson in physiology at the beginning of this | article. Unless until the victim of the habit really believes the bowel function needs no regulation" and that postponements of the evacuation for q few days a week is at- tended with no risks whatsoever, he is likely to remain a slave to physick and to become more and more habituated as the months and years pass
 Any victim of this foolish and harm habit who has enough confidence in the scientific and practical character of my teachings to fol- low my instructions may break the habit for life after short battle. Send dime and a stamped envelope bearing your address and ask for the booklet The Constipation Habit" If you haven't confidence in the soundness of my teachings about this you had better spend your dime for another package of your favorite pills or snifter of your favorite mineral oil or whatever nostrum you depend on.
 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Yes. We Have No Bambinos To-day
 A little while ago you had an article telling how there are lots of fine babies waiting for adoption. Please tell us how to go about adopt ing baby and what institution to go to for information about the babys health and in- heritnnce and so forth (Mr D. B. v'c.)
 Answer - I repeat what suggested in the article, that your family physician or whatever physician you know is the best counsellor and guide.
 Hot Stun Is the drinking of very hot liquids such as | III | ka rDav nfs ton al Irapaf scaIding hot. and have been told 1t Is harm. ful. (J. O
 Answer Yes, excessively hot stuff pre- disposes to cancer of the stomach. One of a Hundred Nodes Young son had StreptocOccic infection and | as a result had to have gland removed from the armpit. Will this have any ilI effect upon him now or when he grows older? He Is ii. (W. E. S.)
 Answer There are no glands in the arm. pit. Perhaps one Of the many lymph nodes there suppurated and was removed. There wiu be no i'll consequence.
 tCopyright, John F. Dille Col