The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-06-19
WHAT ANEMIA MEANS

WHAT ANEMAh MEANS
 Nine times out of ten anemia is 6 secondary symptom, more or less marked feature of some illness or disturbance of health, as is weak ness or constant ache or pain some- where. It is therefore as foolish to take e remedy whiche epurports to be good for anelnia as It would be to take c "tonic" for weakness or Q pain-killer to benumb the sense of ache, pain or fatigue, If you neglect to search out and treat the illness or disturbance of health which causes the anemia or the pain. Yet millions of misguided folk who inl- ak1ne or know they are anemic "try" first ono remedy and then an- other in the futile expectation of re- gaining health. Might as well try to get Q drink of water from Q sieve.
 The more familiar manifestations of anemia are pallor of skin and musous membranes, low endurance, tendency to tire easily, headache, dizziness or faintness, shortness of breath on slight exertion, palpita. ton, poor appetite, in women scanty or irregular function.
 If loss of weight is noticeable with the signs of anemia, that is a signal to look well to the lungs, for tuberculosis sometimes begins in that way.
 Among the common causes of anemia which are too often over- looked or ignored while the patient fools with "blood tonics:"
 1. Frequent slight bleeding, either
 external or internal and unde-
 tected (as in peptic ulcer and
 internal heimmorrhoids).
 2. Chronic poisoning by carbon
 monoxide, lead, mercury, or by
 acetanilide, aspirin and other
 coaltar derivatives taken to be-
 numb sense of pain, fatigue,
 worry, etc.
 3. In southern sections hookworm
 infestation.
 {. Masked or long neglected infec.
 tions, especially focal or septic
 infections where the blood-cors
 puscie-d destroying Streptococcus
 is harbored.
 5. The early stage of pulmonary
 tuberculosis or of cancer or the
 second or third stage of syphilis.
 That should be sufficient to show how much room there Is for guess work if you don't care enough about youth health and life to have proper medical attention .I often think how true 1t is that what you don't know will never worry you when you're dead. To get the greatest joy out of 6 package of certified iron you must be less than ten years old mentally.
 A type of essential primary anemia called chlorosis (the green sicknesS) formerly common in girls in their early teens, due to unknown cause and not to any of the causes of ore dinary secondary anemia above mentioned, seems to have become nearly if not quite extinct. But Q newer type of anemia called hypo- chronic anemia, seen chiefly in woe men of mature age, is apparently increasing in prevalence. and this hypochromic anemia is not due to any of the known causes of aneniia. Tn my opinion hypochromic anemia is Q true nutritional deficiency, that is. 1t Is due to insufficient vitanins. But this is merely my opinion, and it is explained in the booklet "Blood and Health" in which are detailed instructions for preparing an efii- cient iron medicine and for includ- ing e wee dash of copper in 1t. If the iron is going to help at all, some improvement should be felt within two weeks. If not, then cer- tainly the condition requires medi- cal diagnosis.
 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Tubercle BacilIl
 Need a person who has had two snutum tests made on successive mornings have any fear of tubcr- culosls in his lungs if both tests have been free of tubercle bacilli? ... IS. H)
 Answer-Failure to find the germs in the sputum does not prove atly- thing. The persons doctor can give the best opinion whether there is tuberculosis in the llng.
 Plenty of Viiamins In the optlfnal vitanin ration you suggest to be had tn concentrated form without fish liver 0ll7 i. e. K.)