The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-11
HAVE YOU HAD YOUR COPPER
 TO-DAY?


 A renegade dentist who makes his living by banning the aluminium ware many of us use in our kitch- en invariably signs his name as l "Dr Doe" That impresses the un- | wary who imagines the triskster is a medical authority or something. | To bolster up the trick dentists weird imaginotions against the use of aluminium vessels for cooking and containing food, he cites or quotes a number of eminent au- thorities," the majority of whom are obscure charlatans of one stripe or another, but well the shreWd dentist who makes a noise like a doctor knows that the simple folk who take his propaganda serious ly will never see the humor of that. Medicine is making rapid strides these days and not all the strides are in Q circle. should not be as- tonished if some one were to dis cover tomorrow that there IS a definite quantity of aluminium nor mally present in the body and that healthy person requires regular daily ration of aluminium to main- tain optimum health.
 Formerly we thought that cop per iS rather poisonous and that | 1t is foreign to the healthy body. But in the past few years our view | has changed. Now we know that there is small amount of cop per normally present in the body, and that minute trace of cop- per is essential and desirable in the daily ration. Especially is 1t desirable where there is any de- gree of anemio.
 Hence the incorporation of a whiff of copper in the iron tonic | for the blood.
 If a child or adult swallows as | much as one grain of copper sul- phate dissolved in spoonful or | two of water, the medicine acts as a prompt emetic, and for this req son l recommend that half dozen | tablets of copper sulphate-each containing one grain--be kept in the emergency chest or pocket first aid kit for poisoning emergencies. In such an emergency the copper sulphate acts instantly, where or dinary emetics take many minutes or fail to act at all. My own baby once got hold of bottle of corrosive sublimate tablets in my office, and had put at least one in | her mouth. A dose of copper sul- phate brought instant election. l owe this practical knowledge to great physician - Dr Abraham Jacobi, God rest his soul.
 The same quantity, one grain. is enough copper sulphate to put In the pint of iron tonic. Don't let anybody scare you about this. Just purchase from the druggist the a Il d, official ingredients. namely, a single grain of copper sulphat Otherwise called "blue vitrol' and "blue stone") and four ounces of iron and ammonium cl- trate (this is one medicine which is official in the Pharmacopoeia, so that no lf-baked druggist or drug clerk can tell you he doesn't under stand what you want. unless he Is an utter imbecile). Put the iron m q pint bottle, and i'll the bottle up
 with water that has been boiled' When the medicine is all dissolved, drop in the copper sulphate, ana shake up the medicine once more.
 Now you are all set. The dose or this medicine for simple hypochro- mic anemla is q teaspoonful aiter
 food three times n day, ana you should continue 1t for two or three
 months. A good way to take the
 dose is in q little water, aweetened and favored with fruit juice. II
 does not upset digestion or cause
 constipation. IL does not inJnre
 the teeth. It does and should
 blaeken the stools.
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