Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1937-03-25

must cause some furry if they are
to work, and an experienced ply
sician can find way around every
complication. Composure on your
part helps, directly and powerfully.
The first four hip treatments may
make you little stiff, but II your
doctor will take time to massage,
deeply and firmly, for two or three
minutes over the spot, the treatment
is not even nuisance.
Sometime between the sixth and
18th month of treatment, spinal
fluid examination should be made,
because only in this way can the
great group of nervous diseases, IN
cluding locomotor ataXia and gen.
eral paralysis, be recognized ana
cured or arrested before they nave
established themselves in the nerv-
Gus tissues. If the fluid that sur
rounds the brain and spinal cord is
examined thus early, it is solemn
truth that much blindness, chair
bound Gripping, and practically all
insanity due to the disease could be
utterly stamped out. Here agaln'
the procedure in competent hahds Is
safe, the reactions are few ana III
significant But the lnformatloli
gained from the standard tests on
spinal fluid by competent laDora,
tory is absolutely priceless; II the
result is negative, or normal, 1t is a
legitimate excuse for the most
heartfelt sThank God!" the doctor
and patient ever uttered. Consoling'
TOO is the fact that a negative
spinal fluid, after standard carry
treatment, almost never becomes
positive or abnormal.
The worst that can happen after
spinal fluid examination is a one
in 10 chance of a headache that
NAV make you lie down Git stops at
once on so doing) for a few hours.
You may have unconsciously ex-
posed other persons before you
knew you had the disease. The wise
course here is to insist upon rull
investigation of everyone involved,
and this means blood tests, at lesat.
If possible, bring to the doctor for
treatment the person who gave 1t 10
Won. Sweat your memory until 1t
Yields all the facts; you will be pro-
tected and so will he or she. we
want to stop this disease, not PUNISH
or pass moral judgments.
For yourself, remember that time
and treatment control lnfectlousness
and nothing else does. After ~
treatments in the arm and 20 in the
hip, rarely is there relapse or in
fectiousnes Is months
treatment. almost none at all, II
CT
uneventful. You are entitled to
know that you may hope to marry,
but hardly within two years, better
after three or four. and always un-
der direction of your doctor. with
fair play to the partner as to knoWl-
edge CT the facts, and with control
Of pregnancy.
What of the patient who cannot
afford the services Of private ply
sician? Shall he be barred from
the possibilities Of a cure? If pa
tient is honestly unable to pay for
private treatment. he can secure
skillful medical attention from the
clinics operated by his community
or attached to his local hospital. II
possible. he pays a small fee; II he
is wholly without money, drugs and
medical service cost him nothing
Even under our present system OF
public clinics, admittedly inadequate
and destined for complete reorgani-
zation in the near future, no citizen
can plead poverty as an excuse for
avoiding the personal and social re-
sponsibility of taking the cure"
In the general testing Of bloods
by an aroused public and medical
profession in the days to come,
vast number of persons will be
found to have an infection of which
they were never aware. For these,
and for all others who innocently
or through their own action may
contract syphilis, / have nothing but
reinsurance if they will seek out a