The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-27

meaning the chest, as in such ia. miliar terms as pigeon breast u1 breast bone. Heberder himself used the name angina pectoris. Of tha seizure he wrote: "The seat of 1t, and sense of strangling, and anxiety with which it is attended, may make it not improperly be called angina pectoris." The word angina is derived from Greek root meara- ing to choke. It has been applied to croup, quinsy and several other in hammatory affection of the throat, at various stages of medical history, and today is most commonly ap- piled to the infection pOpularly known as trench mouth, which manifests itself rather by sores in the mouth than by any great throat | trouble.
 On opening the body of one who died suddenly of this disease, wrote Heberden, a very skillful anatorn- 1 ist could discover no fault in the heart, in the valves, in the arteries, or neighboring veins, excepting some small rudiments of oSsif1ca- tion in the aorta.
 That's the difficulty. There is no apparent organic change to account for the attacks of angina pectoris. So we have not got much ahead since Osler's day.
 Theories we have a-plenty. Don't we always have . good theory to account for what we do not under stand?
 In How to Breathe" (50-page booklet, twenty cents coin and stamped envelope bearing your ad- dress) I plump for the anoxia theory as the most plausible. This means oxygen deficiency in the heart muscle. Treatment based on this conception gives excellent re- suits, both inhalations of oxygen or, better carboxygen, which is mix ture of oxygen with 2 per cent carbon dioxide, and subcutaneaus injection of nascent oxygen gas.
 Every sufferer from angina pee toris should carry at all times a few tablets of nitroglycerin (other- wise called glonoin or glyceryl tri- nitrate, each tablet containing from 1-100th to 1-200th of grain. Such a tablet, dissolved in the mouth, acts in two minutes It is not 8 heart stimulant. It is a vasodilator, that is, it causes relaxation or dila- tion of the effected arteries. Dila- tion of the coronary arteries which supply blood to the heart muscle brings more blood, more oxygen, to the muscle cells. Any adult may take such dose of nitroglycerin without danger. Many angina pa- tients take such dose three or four times a day for weeks or months with benefit and without untoward effect of any kind.
 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
 Boys Grow When Asleep I am twelve years old and would like to know the time I should go to bed. think my parents make me go to bed early. Also what time my brother eight years old, should 60 to bed. (P. BB.l
 Answer = You require not less than ten hours sleep, kid brother not less than ii hours sleep every night. Pete. Any sleep lost can never be made up by sleeping long, CT another night. Boys grow in size and in strength when they are sleeping. a
 Pancreatin
 l nIooeo ~rao;ex1 ~uhaxI.ap ~yn.v ,.aaav SO-and-sO's or So-and-sois product when you recommend pancreatin Pancreatin is So-and-so's trade. mark preparation. (R. McD.)
 Answer = No. I mean the U. 8 P. pancreatin. Any one may pro. duce and sell it. It is not trade. marked or conopolized by any man. ufacturer. Or the Br. P. pancreatin if you are in Canada-it is virtually the same as the U. s. P. pancreatin I suggested a large dose of it an hour or two after food, to help di- gest food, in cases of food allergy or hypersensivitity where the trouble may be due to absorption of incom- pletely digested portein.
 Shots
 Friend declares he has received shots in the arm to produce immu- nifty against the common cold, also against venereal disease, (B. c. O.
 Answer-Hypodermic or intramus- cular injections of bacterins, so- called bacterial vaccineS, measured numbers of the killed bacteria pre-. sumed to be the cause of the cri are commonly given in the hope o1 increasing immunity against com- mon respiratory infections. It il questionable whether such shotgun treatment has any specific value Some doctors believe in 1t. I havo heard of no such immunizatioM against gonorrhea ar syphilis. Y | Copyright 1888. John F. bile Col