Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-09
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10 Doctors
\N/HAT you were to wake up tonight go to tn
NJ bathroom for drink, and find the water droolin
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w out of your mouth? What II you to look
in the mirror and see devil instead of yourself
devil with brow way up the other way down? What
you to wink only to find your eye wouldn't
You'd think you'd had stroke, wouldn't you?
Every hundreds Of thousands of people through
this same terrifying experience. They are victims of
ttle-known aient that battles the medical profession
than almost other ILL., Bells Palsy is its
Here's what happened to a typical victim.
In hotel far from home, long before daybreak, he
called the house physician:
Doctor, need you right away. I've had stroke'
When the NJ. d. found what had happened, he asked:
Can you whistler"
The patient tried purse his lips Only a blurred
out The doctor then jerked his pennfe
the blade and down the mans bare soles Then he said
TITS just thought It Is not stroke only Bells
Palsy. Every year many people get what you've got.
Most OF them get It. It's too bad few people know
about Bells Palsy Otherwise they wouldn't get panic
stricken when 1t hits them.
Here's all that's happened to you" continued the
doctor. Your seventh has gone out a strike.
That's the that controls the muscles the side of
your face Were you recently exposed to cod?"
Yes. Night before last slept in a hotel upstate
During the night awoke with chill below wind
had been blowing in on the bare side of my neck"
Thatsit" said the M d, you just got clipped behind
the with a cold draft Such of Bells Palsy
nearly always right themselves In time"
You're sure then, doc, that haven't got a stroke
just attack Of Fell's Falsy?"
That's how the victim pronounced Bells Palsy" For
the first time he realized that he couldn't handle his BIS
and p's. Only half his face would work.
He set himself to the task Of how to be happy though
palsied Almost doctor he knew came to see him
social call His best friends consulted their doctors
Altogether within the first 10 days he could count %
doctors who, directly indirectly in his
leading surgeon, close friend dropped by.
The study the human body" said this
geon the marvel at its architectural perfection
II had let hair were designed to do.
this seventh Of would be well protected But
II right to the bare skim back OF the
it's a pushover for a chill. Except for one thing this
would merely swell then up In a day or so
The trouble is that 1t through bone just above
where the Inflammation first sets in. Being hemmed in
by bone the can't swell and 1t has to construct
binding chokes off the energy that normally
moves our facial Neither blood nor lymph
reach inside the bone to heal the nerve. That's why
recovery takes months instead Of days"
Medical science pretty clear on how to cure al
most everything except colds cancer and Bers Palsy
Most medical recommend eectrotherapy Some favor
Treatment with nfra-red lamps while others are
strong faradc to make the muscles twitch
others give shorwave to transmit heat all through
the skulls Nearly all doctors that the nerves should
be nourished by injections of hiamin or by swallowing
capsules Of Vitamin b.
Il have seen a lot of Bells Palsy" said famous
nerve-specalst don't know anything except time
that will accomplishment. 1t usually takes nine months
for Nature to effect And keep out of the cold"
Eye-trouble the permanent injury NEST feared One
Bells Palsy found his hurting and
He consulted eye-specalist, who told him that
through failure to blink the eye would be dry and dry
eye spelled danger
A little later his ear acted up. began to futter
constantly. So he went to earandnose The spe
ciast asked what treatment he had had and exclaimed:
What! No prostgmn?"
The ear-and-nose went on to expain
For three years have been using prostigmn for
certain ear conditions the past year have found
and only specific for Bells 1t works directly
on the affected nerve"
He told of recent tests animals. All were afflicted
with the equivalent of Bells Half were given prostgmn
Half were left to Doctor Nature The first group
cred fast second group did not Then he told of
girl who had suffered from Bells Palsy for nine years
Her doctor put her prostigmn She improved
so quickly that within six weeks she could again
wink her eye at will ~
Some victims Bells Palsy turning to osteopathy
The best to Nature to be to force new blood
into the affected many oseopahs report
in doing that Bells Palsy seems to be the
human ill that only tirne remedy