The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-02
CONTRIBUTION OF A BOILER
MAKER

A reader calls attention TO an in
teresting contribution of "a boiler
maker, as reported by the late DR..
A. ]. Ochsner, Chicago surgeon. to
the American Medical association
in 1919. The boiler maker had
suffered from recurrent renal collie.
When asked whether he had ex-
| perienced any attacks recently he
said he was definitely through with
renal collie and added that II doc
tors used their profession as ac-
lively in their profession as boiler
makers had to in their business, no
one would ever have to suffer q
second attack unless he had more
than one stone in his kidney to be-
gin with. The boiler maker ex-
planned that when his customers
complained of THAR boilers filling
up with lime in the form OF scale,
he advised them to use rain water,
and this ended thetrouble. So on
| the same principle he drank freely
of distilled water, and had been
| free from q recurrence of kidney
stoneand renal collie.
DR.. Ochsner then mentioned the
case of a physician who for sew
eral years had passed from one to
three renal calculi (kidney stones)
annually. He put the patient on
the rain water or distilled water
treatment, which the patient con-
tinued for 20 years, never having
another attack. The rain water or
distilled water treatment had been
advised in a great many other
| - I'D hs, 9TH a
physicians who followed the sug-
gestion, and always with the same
result.
This report was only incidental
to Dr. Ochsner's discussion of the
surgical procedures required In
cases OF stone in the kidney.
I don't know whether there is
any firmer foundation for the idea
than is indicated by this report. It
is not Uncomfortable that the ex-
periences described were coinci-
dencee, and that many more VIC
Tins of kidney stone may have
tried the treatment without get
ting any relief. 1t is human ma
ture to do good deal of talking
about the success of any such I'M
orthodox or unfamiliar remedy and
to keep mum about the failure Of
the remedy. That's how most nos
trums find ready customers.
| know of no good evidence that
the lime in natural water Is in any
way injurious, no matter how
"hard" the water may be, only so
it has a satisfactory taste.
But certainly there is no rational
objection to drinking rain water II
rain waite ris available, or IL it is
not convenient. then drinking dis
titled water. MY only objection to
distilled water is the cost-I mean
for my own domestic use. Tap
water is always my preference
over bottled waters or spring wa
tiers that come with fancy trim
mings. However, felt 1t my duty
| to publish this item. and I hope
i that any Of our readers who switch
from natural water to distilled wa
ter or from tap water to hard wa
ter or spring water or well water
to ain water will let us know
whether they seem to derive any
benefits from it.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
| Homework
Our class is having a debate
Resolved that homework should
be a bolished." Please give me some
arguments from the health point
OF view. "a, A. So
nswer-Assignment Of "home-
work" IL an invasion OF the child's
recreation period. Every well
trained child has 30 many hours
Of school daily, SO many hours OF
helping mother or doing some
chore, so many hours OF practice
at music or whatever other art or
interest the child pursues and 30
many hours of play. When the
teachers fall down on their Job and
then try to worry along BY stealing
time from the chiid's other normal
| activities. that theft u serious, for