The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-05
HEADACHE FROM BAD AIR

HEADACtE FhOM bAD AIN
 Fresh air, as everybody knows, is tonic. It stimulates appetite and promotes good digestion, improves metabolism, aids sleep. In fact most health authorities go so far as to intimate that fresh air is beneficial as long as it remains fairly quiet. Just how fast it may move before it becomes dangerous they diScreetly refrain from indicating-they prefer to leave that for you to worry about. Foul, bad or vitiated air, air in a place poorly ventilated or crowded with people, causes lassitude, head ache, vertigo nausea, vomiting, even fainting.
 This will be confusing to any one who does not know my belief and teaching, so let us put our cards on the table. I assert with the convic- ton gained from long study, obser- vation and experience that the worst draft can do to any one is to make him uncomfortable until he gets out of it. When doctor or other scientific authority" speaks of drafts or undue exposure he is emitting a lot of malarkey.
 Old timers imagined that the un- pleasant effects of bad air were due to CD exhaustion of the oxygen by the breathing of persons in the room, or @ accumulation of car bon dioXide exhaled by persons ir the room, or (3) vague organic eX- halations from the lungs. For in- stance, as late as 1885, Prof. Ro- senau, in hls classical "Preventive Medicine and Hygiene" still felt il necessary to say:
 However, the good results of fresh air may be neutralized by undue exposure to cold, especially ii ,he young, the aged and the feeble-or even in robust individ- uals not properly protected. EX- tremes in this as in all matters hygienic are to be avoided.
 The effects produced by an at mosphere vitiated by the breath and other exhalations from hu- man beings. -
 So there you are. But don't lei such conventional textbook authors license get you down. Just ignore it. Prof. Rosenau himself assures you elsewhere in the book that the air of submarines often contains 250 parts of carbon dioXide per ter thousand which is breathed fol hours without noticeable harm whereas the air in crowded anC poorly ventilated movie theatel never contains much more than 5C parts of carbon dioXide in ten thou sand The open air contains ap- proXimately three parts in ter thousand. Prof. Rosenau says car bon dioXide never accumulates ir the air of an ordinary room in pro- portion sufficient to become serious
 The reason why foul" or bad air causes headache is simply that it is bad air, and it is bad air be- cause CD there is no draft or in- sufficient draft or movement of the air; (2) the air becomes too warn from the heat of human bodies; anc (3) interference with heat loss iron the body.
 There is no evidence whatever says Prof. Rosenau, and or Dot Brady concurs, that expired breatf contains a poisonous substance.
 For that foul air headache, tr! a good draft.
 QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
 Nose Spray? No Spray
 In spraying the nose for hyper esthetic rhinitis would Ca proprie' tary alkaline antiseptic solution diluted with water be suitable. Hoy should the potassium chloride vol recommend be used-is it all righ in a spray? (J. D.
 Answer-In my opinion irrigation for young infants and children drops for older children and adults are preferable to sprays for nose throat, sinus conditions. Potassium chloride may be used only internal ly. Send stamped envelope bearing your address and ask for mono