The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-09

family doctor found a recurrence
of the hernia on the right side.
Now remember, folks, the opera
ton had already been pronounced
successful. That Is to say, the pa
tient was alive and not kicking.
Stands to reason he wouldn't be
kicking If he were dead, but any
way the federal medical inspector
branded the thing huge success.
But the rupture wasn't cured.
If the truth were known, the
percentage of hernia operations
which prove futile would rather
appall any one seeking freedom
from this handicap. At any rate.
I should hate to submit to opera
ton for hernia IL were subject to
the trouble, except as last resort.
First I should have the ambulant
treatment, and X at first the in
jections didn't succeed I'd try a
second course Of the same treat
own observation Of the effects Of
ambulant treatment. Take 1t or
leave 1t. It's your hernia.
The family doctor found that the
hernia was pouching in the upper
part of the inguinal canal and
working downward through the
canal again, though the lower ring
was still closed. The doctor feared
1t was only matter Of time before
1t would be just where 1t was be-
fore the operation.
Here the young man preached
the subject of ambulant treatment
and the family doctor behaved
quite like a quack. That is, the
doctor went UP in the air and ex-
pressed himself vehemently, call
ing the ambulant method quack-
cry, and intimating that any one
who recommended 1t must be ut
terly depravcd
So the young man wrote to me
for sympathy. forgetting that !
never dispense any.
In actual practice the ambulant
(injection) treatment has proved
a precious boon in precisely such
cases of recurrent hernia, cases
where the rupture breaks out again
after the radical operation. So I
advised this young man to tell his
family doctor, with my compli-
ments, that he had behaved like a
quack, and directed him to q ply
stefan who is skilled in the ambu-
liant treatment OF hernia.
Here must caution readers who
have hernia to beware OF healers
who tell the world they are expert
in this method, and especially be-
ware of pirates who use my name
in their appeals to unwary CUSTOM
ers. No one may honestly claim
that recommend him or his treat
ment. The only way you can learn
what think about a given doctor
or specialist is by asking me by
private letter.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Stuck With Some Fancy Shots
Through skin tests my friend
found that her three-years siege
Of perennial hay fever was due to
sensitivity of orris root. Clinic here
sent for material to give her i'm
munization shots. While waiting
for it she began taking calcium
lactate and before the minimizing
material arrived she was free from
all trouble. When she reported
this to the clinic doctors they ridi-
culed her. She has had three shots.
Why continue? She bought pure
orris root and shifted 1t and it had
not effect. Neither have the shots
produced the slightest reaction. !.
(Mrs. ID. ID
Answer-It would be too bad to
leave the clinic boys stuck with all
that orris root dilution. The pa
tient ought to give them a break.
Orris root in toilet preparations is
the cause Of mysterious frequent
coryzas more commonly than peo-
pie suspect.
Sum Bathing
Is the craze for exposing the
body to the sun and wind condu-
Give to the growth Of hair on the
body? q. K.)
Answer-No.
Worrying About What We
Don't Know
Understand insulin treatment 10
help a frail person gain weight
boat alone. just as Bret Paul
struck the water. And as 10 stood
there watching, sick with fear for
the little actress, she experienced
the sudden and irrelevant reallza-
ton that II had not been Peter
FrRgUnet who had saved hor life
when she had been thrown from
the sailboat. II not Fragonet--then
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