The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-10
THE AUTOINTOxHCATKON
 OBsEssEON

physlc, enema or mineral oil ad- diets imagine that all resldues uf today's food must be evacuated from the bowel next day or else. Or else, they imagine, they VIII suffer from "autolntoxlcatlCn," or, as it has also been called, s'intess tinai toxenaia." For this obsession they are indebted net alone to the Hlostrum propaganda, but 10 some eminent specialists" of yesteryear.
 Tt is entirely possible for per- son to suffer from intestinal tox- efnia without constipation wrote ]. F. Kellogg, M. D., IL. D., in c book published in ieiH, "hut it is impossible to have constipation without intestinal Autointexication. The fact that symptoms of toxemia do not occur In every case Is no evidence that they are not pres- ent."
 Like the lltite man they call Ya- hndl, the symptoms are present even though they do not occur. What makes t more baffling or in- scrutable to any one but the adept is this further elucldation from the same book:
 'sThe South American Indian polsons the points Of his deadly arrows by dipping them Into piits rid flesh. Butchers as well as uTas dertakers sometimes die as the re. suit of . small cut made with . knife soiled by contact with Q dead body. The same poisons are pro- duced when putretaction takes place in the intestine"
 Perhaps the physi0ioglsts should revise their textbooks to conform with this astonishlng vagary of pr. Kellogg's. H0weli's Textbook of Physiology says:
 "Under normal conditions, on Q mixed diet, it appears that in the small tnka@tlne carbohydrate geE~ Fnentatlon is the characteristic ac- ton of the bacteria, while in the large intestine protein putrefAc- ton undoubtedly occurs In the large intestine protein putres faction Is . constant and normal occurrence"
 South American arrow poison is not "putrid flesh" but an extract of the bark of certain varieties of vines and trees os the Strychnos species. A solution or extract of this substance known as ctirnge Is sometimes used in physiological ex- perlments, to paralyze the phrenic nerve whicl. controls the diaphragm and 90 iEhibit or stop breathing. But it must be injected hypodernic- ely or into the blood. 1t is harm less if taken internally, because it cannot be absorbed through the stomach or intestine, or if any ls absorbed 1t Is destroyed in the liver. Healthy persons who swallowed numerous small glass beads of bright colo: had evacuated only taEee-fourths of them four or five days later. That goes to show that normally tOdays food residue $ evacuated from the bowel maybe the fore part Of next week.
 Autolntoxication my eye.
 QUESTIONS e ANSWERS
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 Son aged s, daughter aged l5 months. Recently have given them vegetable juice instead Of orange juice (oranges too expensive here). The vegetable juice contains juices Of spinach, watercress, celery, to- Enatoes, carrots, beets. parsley, let tuce. Can harm come from thisg
 (Aars. M. SD
 Answer--No. 1t is all right. Fac- tory canned tomato or tomato juice Is nearly if not quite as good as 0x4n9e juice to provide vitarain c for infants or children or adults.
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 Bursitls has got me. What do you suggest2 Bone specialist gave me 6 shot in shoulder, some relief, but fear 1t won't be permanent. <R. p.1 AnsWer~- Two shots in s,1ouideg-- specifically two needles into the buxsal sac at the same time. To relieve tension, perhaps remove fluid, stimulate absorption 0g exfl- date. Then daily medical diRfheRnAy, and after q week ot 90 uanalNe, later active movement aof shoulder fcl- lowing each diatherulv seanee. Said O Doc Brady, whan he had bur- sits. a0od bless the men who in- vented diather1iy"
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