The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-02-25
FIREMAN HOLD THAT POSE


 In the old days fire scenes In the news reels were printed on ruby flm Today the sophis- ticated audience would laugh at such quaint realism. We demand that an assistant crum- | pie some cellophone close to the mike. In the old days the first thing fireman | learns is to hold 0 hose. Now the first thing he l learns is to hold a pose. But, believe 1t or not | there Is fireman in the city of Awgowan | Wishagain, whose picture has never appeared
 in any paper as the hero of q thrilling rescue | of some pneumonia patient from the dumb | doctors who never seem to think of admins | tering oxygen anything.
 | Addressing the recent meeting of the Penn
 sylvania State Medical Society in Pittsburgh Dr
 John k. McCurdy scored physicians who per-
 init fremcn, policeman or corporation employ
 es to administer oxygen or carboxygcn (carbon | dioxide and oxygen mixed) to patients in any
 circumstance. He said such doctors should be
 called to account by their medical society cen-
 sors, and the heroic firemen, policemen or util- | ity employees who stage the spectacular scenes
 should be prosecuted for practicng medicine | without license.
 | I heartily second Dr McCurdy's motion. These so-called emergency teams that go into | training when some one provides an inhalator
 may mean well and might even be willing to | serve even if there were no chance of having
 their pictures published in the papers, but after | all they are all ignorant men and by every req | sonable test utterly incompetent to assume re- sponsibility for the patient even for q few min- utes
 | The public at large is even more ignorant. | People without any actual medical knowledge of the purpose of oxygen or carbon dioxide in-
 
 other disease condition in which such treatment
 may be employed, are too likely to imagine that
 the oxygen if somehow pumped into the vic- tims chest Is miraculous in effect. Every should know that an inhalator is
 nothing but infatable bag with a mask to
 fit nose and mouth, so that the patient | may receive the oxygen pure, or mixed with five and ten per cent carbon doxide, by natu- ral breathing or by artificial respiration per formed in the ordinary way-prone- pressure Every one should discount all reports by un- 1nnalatOT
 outfit (tanks and masks and tubes and gauge) is some kind of machine for pumping air or gas into the lungs.
 suspect the reason why these firemen, po- | licemen utility service crews are permitted to stage their spectacular races to the bedside is that the physicians In the case are fncom- potent and poorly trained and hence haven't
 the moral courage to bid the comedy hero
 squad to run along and play with their little doubt is that while the fake heroes have their
 maps published there is always chance thai
 the name of the doctor in the case may be
 mentioned, and that's something. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS For tine Hard of Hearing Communication from office of American Fed eratlOn Of Organizations for the Hard of Hear. Ing. Washington, D. C.-Dcaf persons spend
 fortunes on fake health devices, finger surgery and the like, only to find themselves no better or or worse on. If their ears have not been harmed by these fake treatments, their menta
 faculties are, for these constant failures to full | Ail the promise of cure bring about q state O | despondency which Is dangerous. In manJ | cases deaf persons find great deal of happi
 ness and different outlook or life when they | take up lip reading.
 | Answcr-A1l good common sense, and ad | vlse deaf friends to get in touch with tho
 national or local office of the federation ant | find out how to learn lip reading | Bad Medicine | Please advise whether an cgg-nog takcI
 every evening with some rye whisky Is harm | full for me. I use about tbree-fourths of ar | ounce of whisky to each egg-nog. c. E. M.) l Answer-The combination of egg, milk ant | sugar beaten in whiskey is far less digestibl' | than milk or egg alone, and in some cases 1t Il | rather likely to nauseate. Whether you neet | any nutriment at bedtime have no way of sur | misng but can assure you the whiskey car | do no good.
 Teeth Mixed Up l Some time ago my daughter, :, went to tn, doctor. He noticed her three new second teeti | were pointed peg-sbaped at the top. He sait | that Is Q sign of some bIeOd disease. Mrs l.. J II TJ
 | Answer-The second or permanent teeth ar' | not cut till the child is or years old, as | rule. Irregularity of form of the primary o | milk teeth may be from rickets or faulty nutri | ton in infancy. The peg-shaped or pointed in csors (permanent teeth) may indicate congen | itai syphilis. but that is by no means the onl, explanation for such faulty teeth