The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-24
IMPERTURABILITY

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 If your neighbor conceives the idea that he is Major Bowes and insists on carrying gong and ring ing it whenever he wearies of any ones chatter he is insane. You know he is demented because he will not or cannot understand the ab- surdity or the irrationality of his belief. If nearly everybody claimed to be Major Bowes and carried a gong to give to boreS, your neighbor would't be crazy at all. After all, am afraid it is like that with respect to nerve weakness or nervous exhaustion. Although named my little book Chronic Nervous Imposition" let me confess I felt pretty hopeless about it and still feel so. My belief about "nerv- ous exhaustion" is sincere at any rate, and to the best of my knowl- edge 1t is physiological. Sometimes I have to use plain language in or der to say what have to say in the space available, and this very terse- ness is hard boiled" to those who will not or cannot understand Not withstanding, nor yet condoning, I do feel sorry for any one who is unduly sensitive, irritable, touchy, ready to "fly off the handle" when- ever annoyed or excited, jumpy, restless, impatient. impulsive. Such persons have a stormy time of 1t, where normal persons, those with vite, sail along smoothly enough. I said vite. If you fail to comprehend what that means, you should study another of the Little Lessons series the booklet "Victuals and Vite."
 Now these spasmophiles may be justified in considering themselves nervous. Doesn't Webster define spasmophilla as "a nervous disorder marked by endency to convul- sions, from even slight stimula- tion?" Stedman's Medical Diction- ary is less insistent on the "nerv- ous" part defininf spasmophilia as a diathesis or constitutional tend ency to convulsions especially in childhood
 Leaving Webster and Stedman to their quarrel, offer here a sugges- ton which should interest all Class A neurotics even though |. it elicits only sneers from the Glass B sec- ton. It is this:
 Deficient assimilation or utiliza- tion of calcium renders all the tissues of the body Representative or irritable.
 Just how this bears on your par ticular complaint, sir or madam, of course I can't tell, but I can assure you that no possible harm will come from whatever steps you may take to improve your calcium assimila- tion or utilization.
 The factors of good calcium me- tabolism are:
 CD Diet providing ample calcium plenty of milk, cottage cheese and other kinds of cheese, greens, peas, beans, egg yolk, cabbage, turnips, carrots. oranges, peanuts, walnuts.
 (2) Daily exposure of naked skin to sunshine.
 (3) When exposure to sunshine no available, daily ration of vita- min D, best taken in combination with vitamin B and vitagin c.
 (D In some cases a course of me- dication with calcium carbonate, calcium lactate, calcium gluconate or other calcium preparation - from five to fifteen grains daily of any one of them, over period of at least ten weeks, perhaps two or three times in the year.
 QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
 Preservative
 Is 1t all right to use salieylic acid in canning corn? (MrS. L. J)
 Answer-No. If the food is fit to eat and the canning process is right, no chemical preservative is neces- sary. XXI
 G0itre Operation
 Goitre operation several years ago. Overactive thyroid still. Irri- table, and nervous. Sleeplessness. Friend advise elixir phenobarbital? (M. B. K.)
 Answer = Powerful, dangerous drug. Better not monkey with dy- namite. Your physician will give you the best advice. Your physician Is your best friend. Your best friend. Your best friend is not . physician.