The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-02-03
INJECTION TREATMENT NOW
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INJECTION TREATMENT NOW
UNIVERSALLY AVAILABLE
A reader who doesn't want any
thing takes the trouble TO write q
letter. This does not happen as Of
ten as It should. Great majority Of
people procrastinate even II they
feel the impulse to report their ex-
perienee with methods, remedies OF
doctors I have recommended, and as
time passes they generally forget It
Not this reader, who writes:
Dear Doctor Brady:
Last winter I asked you to recon-
mend a physician to treat hydrocele
Two physicians had assured me the
only cure was operation in hospital
Ny hydrocele was as large as a
grapefruit. You recommended DR.,
-, who gave me exactly four
jabs Of the needle and was all
fixed UP, no pain, no inconvenience,
no loss Of work or blood, no hospital
expense, and this fine doctors fee
for the treatment amounted to little
more than one would have to pay
for disqualification alone.
have waited eight months to
feel certain there would be no recur-
renee before reporting to you about
1t.
My purpose in writing is to let you
know how grateful I feel for having
read your article on the subject and
for your recommendation Of such O
skilful man.
May I also suggest more publicity
for this method Of treatment, in
stead Of the apparent secrecy with
which 1t seems to be enshrouded.
This applies as well to the dia-
thermy method with which my tom
sis were successfully removed six
years ago after three surgical fail
ureS.
(w. F.L.)
The secrecy enShrouding the am
bulant or injection treatment Of
hemorrhoids (piles), varicose veins,
hernia rupture, breach) and hydro
cele accumulation of clear serum or
watery fluid in scrotal sac) is
scarcely apparent in this column.
My goodness, haven't I harped in
these modern methods in season and
out Of season these many years?
Perhaps some readers hear what I
say but do not heed 1t, because they
still get quaint opinions from prac-
titioners who have not yet acquired
the rather difficult technique of the
injection treatment. Such practi-
TONERS are too often inclined to as
sure the credulous layman that the
newfangled method Is mo good,
dangerous or ''has been tried and
proved useless"
I can only repeat that, whether
your doctor is prepared to give such
treatment or not, If he is on the
level he will tell you honestly that
the injection method is now well es-
tablished and in competent hands
it is preferable to radical surgery in
many cases. If he offers you that
hand-me-down opinion that the
ambulant or injection treatment for
hernia, piles, hydrocele, varicose
vein, is dangerous" or ''tested and
discarded" you had better look
around for an honest doctor.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
wild Quinine
Kind reader sends from I don't
know where but infer must be
Southern California, stems and
leaves Of a shrub he says is wild
quinine. The shrub grows in his
woods and also in his dooryard
Wild deer sometimes come and eat
the bark from one Of the shrubs
The bark has a very bitter taste
1t is the first intimation have had
that any kind Of quinine (Cinchona)
grows in the United States.
Potassium for Allergy
Employed by pharmaceutical firm
and discovered several years ago I
was allergic to ipecac-it causes as