The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-10
THE WITS TO LIVE A LITTLE
 LONGER

AOINOER
 While most intelligent folk are aware of the danger of carbon monoxide poisoning. from the ex- haust of the automobile engine, many are not yet fully appraised Of the monoxide hazard in numerous everyday circumstances.
 Natural gas contains no carbon monoxide but may produce it in burning if the combustion is faulty, as will be described later. Artificial gas contains considerable carbon monoxide. Carbon monoXide is pro- duced by the incomplete combustion of wood, charcoal, coal, coke, oil, gas or gasoline or kerosene, es- pecially where the draft or damper is closed, or where the hot flame from any such fuel strikes a cold surface; or where soot or carbon accumulates about the burner and becomes red hot GOT incandescent; or where iron becomes red hot.
 Carbon monoxide itself is in- visible. odorless, tasteless, and not even slightly irritating. It is death without warning. Where victim is overcome less abruptly there may be some such warning as intense frontal headache, but more often the victim becomes powerless -"frozen"-to help himself or even to call for help and passes at once into a coma.
 Gas-fired type metal heating pots for linotype machines are frequent sources of chronic carbon monoxide poisoning. Frontal headache, nau- sea and general malaise are charac- teristic symptoms of chronic mon- oxide poisoning. The victims show a peculiar pallor, yet when their blood is examined both the red cell count and the hemoglobin are found rather higher than normal. Carbon monoxide combines with the hemo- globin in the blood and so excludes oxygen; the bone marrow and other blood d-generating tissues react by producing a greater amount of red corpuscles and hemoglobin to com pensate for theanoxemia or oxygen deficiency of blood and tissues. Un- Fortunately carbon monoxide has a stronger affinity for hemoglobin than has oxygen. The hemoglobin, you will probably not remember, is the constituent of the blood, chiefly in the red corpuscles, that carries oxygen from lungs to body cells and conveys back from body cells 1 to lungs the carbon dioxide pro- duced by combustion, oxidation, metabolism in the cells of the body tissues. When your hemoglobin is out of kilter you are out of luck. QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
 Can a baby be born bow-legged? :? When the legs are bowed is the bend in the thigh bone or the leg bones? Can person so affected touch the knees together when standing with feet together? GA. O. s.
 Answer-All babies are born bow legged. If they get enough vitamin D the legs straighten out in few months. The bend is sometimes in the thigh bone. sometimes in the leg bones. but usually in both. It is difficult for bow-legged person tC touch knees together.
 Heart Trouble
 Kindly tell me if heart trouble and heart failure Is the same thing ., Mrs. Y. M. McDo
 Answer-The terms are loosely applied. Perhaps "heart trouble generally means some disease Of the heart. "iieart failure" may occuI ! in many conditions. such as shock hcm0rrhage, exhausting illness, cx- treme 0Ycrexertion or poisoning. where there is 70 dlboaso of tho heart. Slow heart failure. however commonly goes with inyocarditlb Oi ! I 4lII lafII taI taaagfnm fflnamea