The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-06


 A person overcome by carvon mon- oxide is likely to freeze" e"-that is, although he may suspect or realize his danger, he is powerless to move and unless quickly rescued he may remain exposed until unconscious and death overtakeS him.
 A person who inhales only a small amount of the colorless, odorless carbon monoxide in the air may have better warning of his danger in the form of a sudden throbbing headache in the forehead, together with sense of tightness through the forehead. and perhaps flushing of the face, dizziness, nausea, faint ness, or noises in the ears.
 In fact any one not ordinarily sub- ject to headache should suspect car- bon monoxide at once if seized with such sudden frontal headache in any circumstance. One may inhale enough carbon monoxide in the street where traffic is heavy and tall buildings are on all sides and the natural ventilation by wind is poor. Thea headache alone is the only symptom in many instances. Often there is no flushing of the face. Per- sons who are much exposed to in- halataion of traces of carbon mon- oxide are likely to show character istic pallor constantly, and this car- bon -monoxide pallor is sometimes wrongly interpreted as "anemia," :" whereas in fact the individual suf- fering with chronic carbon mon- oxide anoxia has an actual increase in blood corpuscles over the normal average, if the blood is tested. Carbon monoxide contamination or pollution of the air accounts for many cases of such "anemia" in garage employees and in house. wives who are exposed daily to such atmosphere in proximity to faulty burners and sooted hot water heaters.
 The cause of the serious or deadly effects of cabon Amonoxide is not poisoning. Carbon monoxide itself does not injure the tissues or cells of the body. Carbon monoxide merely crowds out oxygen. The tissues and cells must have con- stant supply of oxygen delivered by the blood. If this supply is much limited or entirely cut off even for a minute or, Hess, the consequence is nearly or quite fatal. Such an oxygen deficit in the blood is called anoxemia; in the tissues of the body it is called anoxia.. Carbon monoxide-colorless, odorless, non- irritating = has nearly as great an affinity for the hemoglobin in the blood as has oxygen, but not quite so strong an affinity for hemoglobir as has carbon dioxide. At any rate administration of mixture of to 10 per cent carbon dioxide with air or oxygen, by inhalator and prone pressure artificial respiration seems to be more effective in re- suscitating person gassed by monoxide than is air or oxygen alone.
 A fairly reliable test for the presence of carbon monoxide in the blood is made by diluting a dror of blood obtained by needle prick of ear lobe or finger with three drops of distilled water, and mix ing this again with 12 drops ot l per cent solution of tannic acid in water. Let the mixture stand g few hours. If in that time the precipitate that settles to the bot tom of the test tube is brown the blood conains carbon monoxide.
 QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
 Keep Cool
 Is there 8 vital need of refriger- ation. Salesman tells me it is detri- mental to family health and hygiene to be without dependable erefrigera- tion. (M. c. G.)
 AnsWer-Well, in the old days, when you and were young, Maggie the babies died off at a frightful rate from Cholera infantum"-re- member That was usually gastro- enteritis from spoiled milk. So we believe any means of preventing rapid decomposition of food by bac- terial growth, which is favored by warmth, is beneficial to health.
 Cheapest and Best Foods
 Argument in biology class, as to whether the starcheS are the cheap est fuel foods. Please set us straight on this. (H. P.)
 Answer-Yes, they are.
 Brain Tum0r
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