The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-14
PHANTOM GASTRIC ULCER

PHANTOM GASTRIC ULCER
 In most cases of peptic (duoden- al or gastric) ulcer there are peril ods of activity or increase in the severity of the symptoms alternat- ing with intervals of quiescence in which the patient is comparatively comfortable.
 In not few cases of stomach trouble" presenting many signs and symptoms of peptic ulcer X-ray studies fail to corroborate the diag- nosis and the course of the ailment as influenced by the therapetic test proves that smoking was the cause of the peptic ulcer complex. That is to say, few months after the patient stops smoking all of the symptoms clear up-the phantom ulcer ceases to haunt the victim.
 Don't ask me how you can tell whether your stomach trouble is of this nature. If the trouble isn't serious enough to warrant trial of the therapeutic test on your own hook, it isn't worth writing to or Doc Brady about.
 Here it may be well to remind readers in general that it takes per- haps a few days to get "all the nicotine out of the system" just as it takes perhaps few hours to get all of the monoxide out of the sys- tenn in a case of carbon monoxide gassing, but how long it will take to repair the damage done the body tissues, cells, organs by the poison, if the damage is reparable, is an- other question. So this therapeutic test begins when smoking is finally given up and continues for at least three months if 1t is to be of any value at all. I'm sorry about this, believe 1t or not. But what did I tell you many and many the time? I have always urged temperance upon smokers, not only for the good of health but also for greater en- joyment or solace from the use of tobacco. And have specifically de- fined the difference between tenn perate use and the excess of the tobacco hog. Moreover my sympa- thy is not the gush dispensed by some advisers-1 have monograph on the Tobacco Habit which is yours for the asking If you provide stamped Sc envelope bearing your address, give the service, you pay the freight. In the monograph I suggest remedies to aid in correcting the habit and its i'll effects, but do not look for any remedy which can be administered secretly or without the victims knowledge and earnest cooperation, for there is none in the monograph or anywhere else.
 What are the symptoms of pep tic ulcer2 That, my friend, hope, is strictly the doctors business, and the layman, no matter how much he thinks he knows or how little he thinks an ordinary" doctor knows, had better leave the question to the doctor.
 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Sick Headaches
 understand you have very suc- cessful remedy for periodic sick headaches. I have suffered from them for many years, and have to count on being completely out of commission at least twice a month for day or two. If you have any, thing. (Mrs. L. T)
 Answer-Send stamped envelope bearing your address and ask for monograph Why Have Head aches?"
 Grape Seeds.
 When eating grapes is it danger ous or injurious to swallow the pulp with the seeds and all? Have often enjoyed standing beside the vine and shooting them into my mouth as fast as I could pick them (hull not includedD. Must I deprive my children of this fun? (H.W.E)
 Answer-The seeds are rather beneficial. No harm is done by eat- ing grapes as you describe, as every one should eat them, including the children. No basis for yarns about grapeseeds causing appendicitis, etc.
 Save Your Teeth.
 Acid condition of mouth, rough places on teeth near gums. Dentist says acid is cause and that 1t IS