The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-02-07
Your Health
Sugar Content Makes
Cough Drops Effective
Cold Treatment

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OIL have two kinds Of books in my
medical library. There are all the
very latest books with all the new
discoveries in them. They are very
scientific but they go out Of date
about every two years to be re-
placed by new editions with the
even newer discoveries in them.
Then | have some old books writ
ten by practitioners long since re-
DR.. Clendening will answer
questions Of general interest
only, and then only through
his column.
tired or gone and never have to
replace them because their con-
tents are eternal One of them was
written by a former chief Of mine
who used to come into the wards
in long. olack broadcloth coat. We
internes were inclined to laugh
at him but the patients adored
him. He wasn't much at home with
a microscope and he held the X-ray
pictures upside down when he
scrutinized them, but he made his
patients comfortable and he gave
each of them about eleven different
kinds of Notwithstanding diets
and packs and baths and COM
presses.
Old-Fashioned Treatment
Well, when | look up Bronchitis
or Pharyngitis in one Of these
modern books and get to the sec
ton on Treatment" there are two
or three stingy little lines to the
general effect REST in bed in
well ventilated room is essential.
Fluids should be forced and only
the simplest foods given. Many
drugs have been mentioned but
few are valuable" That's very
sagA You put the patient in a
well 9entilated room. not in the
coaThute in the cellar. And fluids!
What fluids should be forced? And
if so many remedies have been
mentioned, mention few.
Then you turn to my old pre-
ceptors chapter on Bronchitis and
YOU have a gorgeous sweep Of ten
or eleven pages on treatment. You
really get somewhere.
Use Cough Drops
Of the things he used to like to
give his bronchitis patients, loz-
enges were favorites. Cough
dropsw And they are all right.
They act very much the same way
as cough syrups. Sugar is the
great pacifier Of the irritated
larynx, and the sugar content is
really more Of their secret than
anything else. So they are indi-
Gated, as | said of cough syrups,
in the stage when the cough be-
comes more habitual than pro-
ductive. You have coughed and
coughed until your voice box is al
red and congested and swollen,
and it keeps irritating you and
making you cough more and keep
ing you awake at night until
you're all worn out, and it isn't
doing any good because IL isn't
bringing up any Of the secretions
and infective material.
That is when the cough drops,
the lozeRSeLrthe troches come in.
There are all kinds Of them. The
troches of slippery elm are official
in the National Formulary and are
among the best. But you can get
many havors and kinds TO suit
your palate. In practice they are
really better than the cough syr.
ups because they stay longer in
the mouth and exert their soothing
action over a longer period Of time.
Don't forget them in the latter
stages Of a cold. It's the little
things that count in treating colds.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
7. Y.:-"What is albumin in
the urine OF a young girl? Is it
serious and what is the proper
procedure?"
Answer-Albumin is found in
great many kidney diseases and is
serious just in proportion to the
condition that is behind it. In
people over middle age it is much
more serious than in young people
because it means Bright's Disease.
In general, albumin in the urine
in young people is not to be ra-
garded as serious problem. No
treatment by diet is Of any value
and the most successful treatment
has been aimed at posture because
some doctors think there is a slight
deviation Of the spinal column.
The albumin appears only when
these people are on their feet
long time.
considerably In excess OF our to-
days productive capacity forJBri-
tain's benefit and then to produce
still farther in our capacitys ex-
cess to prevent a shortage in ~ur
own supplies.