The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-04
HARD TO TEACH AN OLD
 DOG TRICKS


 A young man who had finished his course of training for life and spent two years in enforced idle ness finally lined up a reasonably good job doing skilled labor in the field of his profession. His qualifi- cations for the job were all satiSfac- tory, but he was barred because he had small hernia. The medical examiner of the board brushed medical ethics aside and did his best to persuade the young man to undergo the operation for hernia ct his hands. But the young man didn't like the gleam in the pirates eye and declined to be inveigled to the cutting. So he was rejected and the job went a-glimmering.
 But this young man was iobody's fool. He had read somewhere of a newfangled method whereby hernia might be cured by injections, with out disqualification and without the hazard of 6 major operation and anesthesia. He wrote to a news paper doctor and asked for the name of Q man who could treat hernia that way. In the course Of a few weeks the young mans hernia was cured.
 Again he reported to the medical examiner, asking that he re-eX- anime him. The medical examiner assured the young man that Of course the injection treatment was worthless, never could cure hernia in any case, always left 0 potential hernia, and besides was very dan- gerous, hence never used by reput- able physicians. But the young man persisted and finally the Grand Slamma consented to make per- functory examination. Certainly, Just as was to be expected, the hernia was still there. Still the young man maintained he was cured. He challenged the examiner to state over his signature, or bet ter to say in person over the tele- phone to the physician who had administered the ambulant treat ment that the hernia was still present. But that was going Q bit too far. The medical examiner oi the civil service board stood pat on his equivocal assertion that there was still potential" hernia there, though the young man aid succeed in getting the shyster to commit himself to the novel view that "the external ring was still open. and normally 1t should DC closed" Prior to June, 1oSe, the external ring has always been open that's why 1t is called ring"
 When taken to task for this amazing statement the civil service medical examiner coolly dismissed the matter by pinning back his ears and saying he didn't care to go into that.
 Not to be daunted, the young man found e way to 90 over the head of the arbitrary expert, to the chief surgeon, not without some brisk efl- agreements with underlings. The chief surgeon examined him. DO you mean to tell me injections cured your hernia?" he asked, when he had made the examination7 well, you see no surgical scar, do you?' replied the young man. The chief sent him to q colleague who ex- amined him carefully. Mot Q sign of hernia" was the final verdict. The young man got the job. But have the old fossil physicians learned anything?
 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
 Cold and Stiff Muscles
 A claims you say the breeze or draft from fan is perfectly harm less when 1t blows directly on . per- son reading, resting or sleeping. 3 claims you qualified your statement please explain whether 1t might cause stiff neck. HUG. CO, Incl
 Answer--In my opinion c breeze, wind or draft, natural or artificial, never causes illness. Any one who has become heated from muscular activity, work. play, exercise, may experience stiffness, soreness or Iainen0ss results. But this Is pure- ly q question of circulation, not of excretl0n through sweat. No harm in sudden suppression of sweat by cold f the sweating has been inc duced by heat
 lConyrieht iO9e. John ?, DiIle CO.,