The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-15
HEALTH AND SUDDEN CHANGE

One of the recommendations vouchsafed to employees by the medical bureau of metro. politan public service corporation in 0 leanet on How to Keep Well This Winter" is to avoid chilling after perspiring. Another is to wear your outside wrap when you go outdooIs. Eyi, ,,, dently the company doctor thinks the roDot VIII wear an side wrap indoors without being tolo.
 Who pays the cost of the corporations med cal bureau?" The public. It is all figured in the excess profits. But the employees contribute invountarily pro rata cut in wages In short every such medical surgical or tin-doctor serv- ice provided by big business concern is maln- tained out of the excess profits in which em- ployes would otherwise share. The employer assumes the employe is too dumb to choose his own medical attendant when he needs medical care, and so it is that corporations all over our bootcking land take care of this matter for the peasantry. Independence? There isn't enough of that quaint spirit left to support neighborhood grocery or butcher snop.
 Quick cooling of the body after overheating is not only harmless but rather beneficial to health, as he who bathes should know. Is 1t not a custom to brave sudden dash or spray or plunge in cold water at the end of 8 steam or hot vapor bath? The silly idea of this final cold dash is to "close the pores so no cold can get in', but what it really does is contract or tighten the surface blood vessels which have been relaxed by the heat and overdistended with blood.
 I repeat there is harm in such quick cool ing after such overheating. Nor in any similar sudden change On the contrary it is beneficial to health and general vigor and pep to sub ject the body to just such sudden changes as often the weather, cllIHdIe anu eIlVlToHHlShI permit. All with due regard for your own com fort, of course. In fact, unless you are a blamed idiot, you know better than any doctor does, whether you should put on or leave off any particular wrap. or other cover in any circumstances. Your own feelings are better guide about that than the quaint notions of any old fogy physician.
 It is unwise for one accustomed to vigorous exertion to cool off too quickly after stren- uous game hard job of work. UnWise be- cause too sudden cooling interferes with the
 
 tissues about the muscles, and when the re- moyal of these acid waste products THROUGH THE GIRO ULATION is delayed, lameness, st1n- ness soreness of the muscles is likely to fol- low That is unpleasant But 1t IS never dan- gerous nor is there any greater danger or any known illness from such chilling a1ter uhac- Cu8.omed exertion.
 I emphasize unaccustomed effort because, as athletes well know, with training one becomes less and less susceptible to such lameness even if one is downright careless about chilling after a warming up. An athlete in good training be- comes almost immune to such lameness. It IS the cub or the scrub that puts on the big snow of blankets, sweaters and similar trappings
 along the sidelines. Most of us in the grand stand would be stiff tomorrow II we 1oggeo once around the field.
 All clear now? Remember, your own sense
 of comfort is the only guide to follow in re; re; | spect to sudden changes. Don't let the oio fossils worry you about this.
 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | I'd like complete particulars in regard to your iodn treatment for Q person A years o' age who (E. Ns f.)
 | Answer-I have no such treatment. Perhaps you mean the Iodin Ration. That is for every mature adult, especially those who feel and look l a bit stale. It is also for young persons who wish to avoid goiter. Send a dime and stamped envelope bearing your address and ask for the Iodin Ration. Please do not ask | me whether it is good for this or that individ'
 ual case. If in doubt about 1t. ask your phy'
 Tine Impure Blood Obsession | am a Is year old schoolgirl. have plen. tifuI supply of blackheads and plmples. thought this was due to impure blood, so have
 been taking blood tonic (M T. L) | Answer-The chap who concocts the blood | tonic" is the only one who takes that notior | seriously, except the victim of the humbug l Send a stamped envelope bearing your address | mention your trouble. and you will receive letter instructng you how to deal with th' | blackheads and pimples. This advice will no | be sent uesess correspondent asks for it and | says he or she has the trouble. No clipping will suffice.
 lCopyright. John r. Diile Col