The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-29
1oD1N AS FOOD AND AS MEDICINE

One of our customers complains:
 - don't understand why you say one must
 be examined by a physician and follow ms
 advice about taking iodn for nave been taking your Iodin Ration for over
 year and I notice my hair mas stopped
 turning gray and certalnly leei 1ihe :"
 different person.
 suggest the iodin ration for everybody, man, woman or child. Iodin is food, and as a food it is essential for health. Any man, Wom- an or child who does not get an adequate ra- ton of iodin, in one way or another, IS pouno to suffer in health.
 When send instructions for taking an Iodin Ration on receipt of your request accompan- jed with stamped envelope bearing your cor rect address give explicit directions for talk ing iodin as a food.
 When you have been on the ration for a while and believe you deriving benefit from it and then begin wondering whether more odin wouldn't do more good or mayne cure your jitters or your rheumatiz or something and decide to squander another dime writing 10 get my 0. k. on your experiment, tell you here that you have come to the :, wrong a,a shop'
 Everybody needs a certain quantity of phos- phorus and lime daily, in one form or another. Milk eggs and vegetables contain the bests forms of these food clements But anybody who contemplates taking phosphorus or lime as medicine would be wise to leave the ques- ton of the dosage to the judgment of his own physician. Certainly no physician who has not examined the individual patient can tell whe- ther such medicine is needed or if 1t is how much or what form would be advisable TOT the particular case.
 From time to time have mentioned here some of the benefits believe many persons derive from the Iodin Ration. I feel like blooming quack every time refer to the sub ject, for matter how meticulous am to say that it tends to PREVENT something or other. a lot of the customers rush right down to the postofice and tell me to send on the prescrp- tion I offer for the cure of the condition.
 Here is what believe the Iodin Ration does for many persons: In children it prevents simple goitre in girls in their teens it prevents mopiness, physical and mental lassitude: in persons of mature age it prevents going stale, premature graying of the ha1r,, loss of pep the blues, premature hardening of the arteries.
 I believe persons with goitre-any kind of goitre-may and should have their Iodin Ra- tion the same as others.
 I doubt that the use of Iodized Salt for all household and table purposes in place of dinary salt provides sufficient iodin for the ordinary salt, prefer to use it exclusively in my own home.
 Foods containing idoin are listed in the mon- ograph any correspondent may have if he or she asks for instructions for taking an Iodin Ration, and incloses stamped envelope bear ing the correct address.
 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
 Cancer Not Communicable
 relative of mine has cancer of the esopha- gus am going abroad to visit her, with our year old child. She will probably kiss me and the baby. What danger does this involve? (Nfrs o. H)
 Ansewr-None Cancer is not communicable. However. it is a good rule of hygiene never to
 CrOss.Eye
 1. Approximate cost of operation to straight en crossed eye? ?. Gould this operation affect tho good eye in any way? 3. Is it serious op- eration? 4. Do you know 8 physician who spe- cializes in these cases? co. E. F)
 Answer-1. Ask your doctor. 2. 1t tends to conserve vision in the good eye. 3. It is not dangerous. 4. Good oculists everywhere do such operations successfully. Your doctor will refer you to good one.
 Lamina Terminals
 Stuck for th0 last word in a CrOss .wOrd r,uz. gle. Five-letter word meaning 'layer of gray matter in brain." I get the word T-E-R-M-A, but can find no such word in the dictionary. (AIrs F. P.)
 Answer--well. Ma'am. you wasted hours of my time but by gravy terma is the word for the lamina ternpinals. thin layer of gray mat ter on the upper surface of the optic chasm.
 Copyright 1888, John F. Dille Col