The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-12
YOUR
HEALTH
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Medical Advisory Reard
What's To BE Done

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a clinic?' When we refer you to a
doctor or a clinic, it is because we
feel that it is eSsentisl-under all
circumstance patient to be
examined BY a doctor Many people
seem to think that just the asking
and answering of questions is suf-
fictent to make a diagnosis which,
Of course, is incorrect. A diagnosis
can only be made by combining the
facts obtained by such questioning
with the facts obtained from an
examination.
However, that is not only our
answer. There are many conditions,
described TO us in letters, for which
We can and do give general and
occasionally specific Instructions.
Nor must you forget that our tasks
are many. Besides helping our
comrades with their medical prob
lens, we try to give them much
needed education in health. We try
TO break down the many supersti-
tons, the false ideas which people
get from each other land from
some doctors), the quackeries and
fads.
You also complain that we send
YOU to clinicS-and yet tell you that
clinics and clinic doctors are no
good. We never said that clinic
doctors are no good. We do say,
however, that conditions in clinics
are 50 poor that the resulting over
crowding, the lack of space and
equipment, the actual speed
by doctors in order to see all the
patients-all these conditions make
it impossible for doctors, no matter
how capable they are. to give good
medical care of the patients.
We send YOU to clinics becaue We
all should use the medical facilities
already existing to get diagnosis
and the treatment we need. Where
these facilities are poor, and where
We resent the handling, this must
then stimulate us to demand the
best kind Of treatment and to force
the government to make adequate
provisions for giving this.
We send you to clinics because
that is the best we can do today.
But we do not stop at that. We,
doctors and patients, try to remedy
these conditions. All of us, individ-
ually, and collectively, through our
unions, our fraternal and mass or
CARNATIONS, must fight for the
passage of the only Unemployment
and Social Insurance Bill Oh. r,
262D that will make possible an
improved standard Of living. All of
us must fight for a Health Insur-
ance program under workers and
doctors control-a program which
will provide sufficient hospital IA
eilities for patients, and pay for all
professionals, q program which will
make the practice Of medicine what
it should be social need, socially
administered
Treatment Of Chronic GenaTrhea
IF you have had gonorrhea for two
years, as you state, then you prob
ably are at present suffering from
a chronic stage of this disease. The
extent of the progress of the disease
in your system must be determined
before treatment can be started.
That is, we must find out whether
the prostate gland is involved,
whether the testieles have become
infected, or whether the condition
is simply limited to the canal of
the penis. However, as a rule in
long standing cases there is an in
Illumination of the prostate.
Treatment for these conditions is
fairly Drolonged-often taking three
to four months for a cure. In the
early cases. however, a complete
cure can almost always be accom-
plished in from six weeks 10 three
months.
In chronic gonorrhea, even moro
SO than in the acute type, self
treatment by druggists Or quacks is
futile and often harmful. The es-
sential point in the treatment of
chronic gonorrhea is through ir-
rigation of the back part of the
canal and bladder, associated with
fairly frequent 1.-TWO or three times
a week. messages of the PROSTATE
gland This must be followed by a
thorough stretching of the canal by
means Of sounds. Injections Of one
kind or another are valueless. If
the testicles have become involved,
disthermy or electric heat, is Of
some value.
WHY are people ashamed of sex7
W Why do they consider the va
rious sex problems which confront
the majority of the workers as
problems which are not to be dis
cusse6? Why is sex generally only
the subject of a dirty joke and
rarely talked about seriously? These
questions and many others will be
dealt with in one of the leading ar
ticles in the Forthcoming. first, is
sue of HEALTH AND HYGIENE,
the Medical Advisory Boards ma
gazlne. The title of the article is:
Sex and Guilt" and will be written
by one of the psychiatrists on the
Beard.
To be sure of getting this and
many other important articles which
will appear in the first issue and
subsequent issues Of HEALTH AND
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