The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-18
YOUR
HEALTH
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Medical Advisory Board
Whas to Eat

UANe W AsdA
GONE people think that they will
y turn yellow if they eat too manv
carrots; others won't sit in the
same room with someone who is
eating a pork chop because the pig
had a mother too Some people
won't put cream or milk in their
coffee because they were once told
that this makes coffee indigestible:
others won't eat an apple within
tWenty-four hours after drinking a
glass of milk because they believe
the milk will sour in the stomach.
These are some OF the facts and
fancies about which the truth will
at last be known Beginning with
the first issue, HEALTH AND
HYGIENE. the Medical Advisory
Boards magazine. will have q series
Of articles on diet and nutrition bv
one of the members of the Board
who has made an intensive study
in this field of health. Subscribe
now. The special advance sub
scription rate Of one dollar is good
only until March IS.
Medical Care and the Relief Doctor
r. F., SOUTH BEND, Ind.-We are
l sorrv that We can tell very little
about your condition. as you say
nothing more about it than that it
is located between your shoulder
and elbow 1t is as if you were to
say, Il live between 3rd and 4th
Streets" Obviously, we cannot find
your house unless you describe it.
Tell us how long you have your
condition. Is there pain? When is
the pain more intense? When is
it less? Does it 60 away by itself
and come back. Answering such
questions will give us q clue as to
the possible condition you may have
between the elbow and the shoulder,
The relief doctor may very we'll
be giving you medicine Just to re-
lieve pain, because you cannot afs
ford other more expensive treat
ment. 1t is not a limitation of
medical knowledge that keeps YOU
from getting cured, but a limita-
ton in distribution Of the medical
facilities for cure due to the in
adequacies of the capitalist system.
1t is this inability of the poor
to get the best land often more
expensive) care and treatment that
drives them to seek relief from
their ills in the supposedly less ex-
penSiVe ways, such as, self-treatment
with patent medicines or treat
ment" by non-scientiic faith heal
ers and system" healers. A "sys-
tenn" healer is one who claims that
all diseases come from one single
system in the body and if you set
the system right, then everything
else is also set right. Thus, the
naturopaths claim everything comes
from the digestive system eat GER
tain foods and you are cured; the
chiropractor claims everything comes
from pressure on the nervous sys~
tenn; remove the pressure and YOU
remove the disease.
1t just happens that both of these
claims are scientifically unfounded
and untrue and that is why ply
sicians do not credit their claims
Of cure. Scientific medical men do
not undertake any curing" until
they have definitely Investigated all
the systems and make a definite
proveable diagnosis. Chiropractors
undertake to "cure" everything
without proving their diagnosis.
They have neither the desire nor
the training to make an adequate
diagnosis. Their luck lies in the
fact that many ailments" are not
real, but are due to worries and
mental upsets and these ailments"
are always cured" by sympathetic
healers who can impress their worry
laden patients with a very unusual
and special procedure which takes
their mind off their worries for a
while.
Thus, in your own case, If your
ailment is of mental origin, we can
say that the chiropractor will very
likely make you forget your pain.
If your ailment is due to a real in
volvement by q special disease or
condition, then the chiropractor
cannot cure it. Finally, in the So
Wet Union there are no chiroprne-
tors.
Operation or Pessary