The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-01-18
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A lottor from a reader in tho effote east
 Dear Doctor Brady: l want to thank you for your kind advice as to my procuring tho right physician for removing my tons'ls by Is the one you mentioned, and l had never regretted going to him for tho treatments. He is kind and pntiont, and thoroughly skilled, and after each treatment thcr0 iS not any discomfort to speak of. l usually wont right back to bushes and forgot all about 1t until it was time Co go for the next treat mGnt.
 hayo had ono operation which was pretty poor Job, and 1t loft me worse off than before. Plenty of dead tissue, always sore, and great dread of another operation. Then 1 read your articles about dathermy. l did not oven consult our family physician, I was so confident you were right and felt that ho might Do uninformod, as he is Of tho old school
 Give mo the diathcrmy method my timc. 1t is tho best, safest and tho cheapest In tho long run.
 Long 1.-Two pr Brady and Dr -----------' the diathermy man).
 Lot mo sec. Tho physician to whom I TO. forrcd tho reador for tho diathermy troat- mont Is m ALR tear, throat and nose special. ist). Ho had removed tonsils by the standard surgical method in many thousands Of eases, with fair BuccoBS aB success iB ghuBod Tn that nold. But whom tho modern method was doVel- oped tho doctor was still young enough to be nble to recognize that it might have Bomo mor- It's. Ho could havo dismissed t curtly with q smile, had ho chosen for certainly ho had tho practice and his patients had confidence In him IIo might havo said, as many brass speclallsta do say, that the electro surgical method hah been tried out and found inadequate and dan gorous. Iio might have preferred, as many bruss specialists do prefer. to go snlggor snack with the snare and gullotino and have the business over in c trlco, collect his foo ana hie away to tho golf course or tho ball gamo.
 But this specialist is a true physician in spite of tho deprnving influence of our Yankee spe- claliBm. sIc does not regard himself and his littlo ways or methods as tho Inst word in the skill and art of surgery or medicine Ho IS Btill tho student with an open mind. When the dia- thGrmy method of eXtlrpatlns tonSllD was com- monded to him by colleagues Of tolorhbly good Judgment he lo0kod' Into tho now method, ob. served tho work n progressive man horo and thcro was doing with it, took technical instruc. ton under ono of theso pioneers, and finally adopted tho method in his own practice. Ills results with it have been 50 satisfactory that this distinguished ot0-laryngologist, who hat removed moro than thirty thousand tongllB In tonts to choose tho dlathermy method as the suffer way.
 Note that this correspondent folt confident was right but feared hor family physician method. "aB ho iB of tho old school"
 If tho lady means by that lS tho doctor Is be- or may not be right. But If sho means some particular "pathy' sho is wrong, for there ii no such "school' or pathy as that. There Il only regular medicine and Q numbcr l of i dinky iS,
  funny little whlms of gullblo laymen.
 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
 Mouth Breathing
 On awakening morning 1 notice lately Inl mouth Is very dry. l think must sleep WILL my mouth open. Is this c habit, and would nii tOnsIis have anything to do with tt? How nDOu wearing a chin strap nt night to break th' habit? (J. V. B.)
 Answor--1f 1t is habit, sleeping in tho latera gomi-prono or tho prone position. without a,, pi acquired trouble in nose or throat needs med lc1l attention.
 Cambric Tea
 Recently [ have noticed many visitors to thi resort drinking cup Of hot water before ever eyer meal Kindly advise what Dcnchts one ucrive from this practice. (J. W. O
 Answor-- Elderly or feeble inyalids arr warmed up by the hot water. water, whethc hot or cold, tonds to stimulate digestion: Young or or less doblitatod persons should take rath CT glass of cold water before meals. So CT foctlve is cool or cold water In producing ai Increased secretion of gastric juice that 1t ! timo "tcst meal" when the physician wisho to obtain gastric juice for analysis Spinal Curvature
 Girl Inns spi,nI curvature Would this hav any effect on any children born Co Ter? (F' E.)
 Anawer--No moro than the curl of her hair Spinal curvature is m acquired weakness, mel dent Co neglect of physical education. It is no tranBnissible t0 childreH. ,
 IsIcctrO.surgcry for Golfer Is dlathcrnny ever used in tbe trentncnt Q inward gOitcr? 1 mean clectrO-surgcry or ul electric knife? | thank y0m for having rcc0ns sIJs with dlatherfBy. He Is very sklIlfuI M flIroat Is as clean as c tbrOnt could bc afc any operation. my family physician says. fM Answer---Yes the endothcrmy knife (whic sears the tissue as the spark dissects it) is use by most surgeons in goiter operations brall operations and other surgery where it is deSir It0nnaNH.