The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-01-06
EVEN FOOL-PROOF COUGH MEDICINE II
 NO GOOD FOR EAR COUGH.

If your cough is tobacco cough, hiccough
 heart cough or ear cough, here Is a way yot
 21 cents for us. Don't send in for the recipe and directions for our Fool-Proof Cough Medl'dne
 It won't help such coughs tt all. The Fool Proof Cough Medicine Is harmless enough Tor anybody at any time, but 1t Is expressly in- dicated in the acute cough of cri, in infant child or adult. It costs you cents for postage and cent for stationery to send in the stamped envelope bearing your address if you want tho Fool-Proof Cough Medicine instructions. It | costs us 21 cents for every letter we answer, when we answer more than 5000 week. That Is not bad Ordinary routine buiness corre- spondence was found to cost around 20 cents Q letter four years ago.
 The aliusion to ear cough Is quite as serious as is the allusion to whooping cough. shall not try to tell you that flat feet or eyestrain may ! cause q cough, but lend me your ear and can | tickle an area on the skin of the wall of the external auditory canal and make you cough | to beat tho band.
 It seems that Q small branch of the great | pneumogastric vagus (tenth craniaD nerve which is the principal nerve of the bronchial passages and lungs, gives sensation to this por-
 ton of the ear canal, so that irritation of the | back wall of the canal induces reflex coughing coughing that sounds and feels as | though 1t were due to some irritation way l down deep in the chest.
 When physical examination discloses no evi-
 dent cause of cough. and the patient complains
 of a harsh or violent fit of coughing at irreg-
 ular times, ear cough must be considered a
 exclude the possibility by examining the ears
 with headlight and speculum.
 In many cases such an ear cough goes un-
 recognized for months or years. and in few
 cases tho patient even ascribes It to weak
 lungs or some such vague idea.
 | AS O. rule the ear cough is found to be pro.
 duced by irritation from plug of hardened
 tent may notice sudden spells of coughing | every time water gets into the ear. Sometimes
 there are associated complaints of sudden bur ring of sounds and perhaps some dizziness when water gets into the ear. All, of course, the re- suit of swelling of the mass.
 Whenever there is reason to suspect that l such a plug mass of hardened ear wax IS present, 1t is never safe or advisable to insert | anything in the ear canal in the attempt to re- move the substance. The homely old advice that the only safe thing to insert in your ear | Is your elbow Is still sound.
 Even if you use blunt instrument there IS always danger of injecting the ear and getting an atrociousy painful boil in the external ear l canal which is far more painful than gath ering or abscess in the middle ear.
 The only proper way to remove any accumu- lation of wax from the ear is by irrigation with an agreeably warm solution, saysa tablespoon | ful of saleratus in the pint of water. Let one | or two quarts of this run into the ear, from q nozzle held near but not inside the external l opening with a suitable basin held to catch the outflow, and the ear drawn upward and | backward slightly to straighten out the ear
 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Thiosulphate and HypOsuiphite
 You got this twisted again. RoctSr m ,s 1ho 
 | not vice versa. science recognizes thiosulphats as correct nomenclature. C. M.)
 Answer-Thank you. A chemist member ol | American Chemical Society ought to know shall call it thiosulphate from now on-unies some other chemist stops me. Sodium thiosul
 phate (the familiar photographers hypo-sul phite of soda) is good remedy for ivy poison | ing, and also for ringworm (athletes foot) when applied as a solution of 1-2 ounces o
 the thiosulphate in pint of water. It IS alst | a good internal remedy for chronic arsenic
 poisoning or chronic lead poisoning. taken ir
 doses of 20 grains dissolved in one-haif glass
 full of water or sweetened water. twice daiiyf | after food, for week in each month. | Hounds Tooth
 | feeds her bull dog soft foods and occasion ally soft bones. She claims hard bones breal i the enamel of the teeth and cause toothache | E feeds her bull dog liver and gives the doI
 hard bones to gnaw. She claims hard bone | polish the teeth and harden and strengthen tb' gums, tending to prevent tooth decay. We hav' agreed to accept your opinion. (NIrs R. c. L) | Answer--B wins. I imagine B's dog is th' more formidable of the two anyway. So un
 hesitatingly say all puppies should have bcne ! to gnaW.S st M s4t4s ss4l