The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-06

task for an article on vite in which I held up as bad examples of the ef- feet of neglecting the rules of health "old SourpusSeS." The reader had often benefited by my teachings and had often enjoyed humor and sly digs-but reproached me in way l haven't been reproached in years. He said. Evidently you do not know as much as you will know about the infirmities of old age when you get older :" They used to say some thing like that when ridiculed the notion of rheumatism" Later they expressed the rhetorical hope that I'd never suffer nervous breakdown" or nerve exhaustion" when I tried to teach intelligent people that these spacious diagnosis are merely alibis or polite ways of telling the public it is none of your business what ails the patient. I'm sorry about this, but am afraid there is no alterna- tive for my readers or for me-until do suffer nervous breakdown, the rheumatic or aggravated senility.
 A nice operation-that is the kind mine was. I enjoyed it from the moment the surgeon decided on im- mediate operation (which was none too soon to suit me, can tell you) to the day I was sent nome from the hospital and from then on I really did enjoy the experience. Per- haps the more so because knew what it was all about. We do not fear things we understand. It is the unknown we fear most.
 have kept no actual score or count, but it is my general impress sion that a steadily decreasing pro- portion of the readers who write to me for information or advice mani- fest the dread or fear or operation which was formerly serious ob- stacle in the progress of surgery. Even in the matter of the cure of hernia (rupture, breach) virtually the only inquiries who express any fear of operation are those with handicaps which contraindicate a major operation-such as heart dis ease, kidney disease, bronchitis, and the like. The ambulant or injection treatment is the method of choice in most instances chiefly because it does not require disqualification and absence from work and loss of pay. Then, too, the ambulant or injection treatment is now the method of choice even among surgeons for pre- venting recurrence of hernia follow ing the hernia operation or for cur- ing hernia which develops after any abdominal operation.
 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Doctoring the Juice
 Use of gelatin in fruit juice leads me to inquire whether there is any harm in drinking citrus fruit juice twice daily if it contains gelatin? CD. w. F)
 Answer-Possibly no serious harm. However, I'd choose some fruit juice undoctored, or better the fruit itself. Arthritis
 I have heard that some sufferers with chronic arthritiS or rheuma- told arthritiS here nave obtanied ex- traordinay relief from vitamin D treatment recommended by you. One woman formerly confined to wheel chair is now as active as ever and she says it was all thanks to good old Dr. Brady's suggestion. (M. H. Answer-Or maybe to John J. Co., incidence. Send a three cent stamped envelope bearing your ad- dress, for monograph on Arthritis. Ambidexterity
 Son, Az, born decidedly left-hand- ed. I broke him of it. He showed much temper when child, does now at times always finds some thing to worry about, not much of society man but enjoys mountains, desert, hiking, reading. Would it benefit him to learn to use the left hand again? (W.E0
 Answer At least it would do no harm for him to try to cultivate skill with the left hand-as in writing, drawing, etc. It is rather late to try due to forced change from natural left-handedness in childhood. Far better not to interefere with natural left-handedness. One in twenty-five persons is born left-handed.
 R0senau's Preventive Medicine and Hygiene"
 You have referred several times to book by Dr. Rosenau on preven- tive medicine. Please give the cor rect title, publisher, authors name and price of the book. GA. H. s Answer - Preventive Medicine and Hygiene" by Prof. Milton J. Century Co.,, New York, ten bucks. Rosenau, published by D. Appleton Your public library should have a copy available, 1885 edition. Copyright, 1889, John F. Dille Col