The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-07
HOW POOR MANS INsULIN
 WORKS

A young octogenarian who lays down a wicked wood on the bowl ing green has for many years taken his daily shot of insulin and carried a lunch to eat in mid-afternoon in case of 8 let-down (hypoglycemia, insulin Shock) in the course of his game. A year or more ago per- suaded him to boop his intake of vitamin B complex. He began sup plementing his prescribed diet with a moderate daily ration of B com plex.
 A few months later he informed me that not long after he had adopted that practice he had found it necessary to reduce the dose of inSulin which had been required for years, and was now able to keep in fine fettle on smaller daily dose of insulin.
 I have been yelling about this effect of vitamin B complex for years, and not wholly on the power of my own hot air generator either. Scientific literature, if not medical journals, has provided the power I merely chop it up and slice it thin for you. Scientifically no doc tor, professor or textbook author can afford to question or doubt that vitamin B complex (principally, perhaps, the B1 (thiamin) entity or factor, but presumably other en- titles of the natural B complex tool is essential for the metabolism Cas- Similation and utilization) of car- bohydrate (StarcheS and sugarS), and that most with diabetes who follow regulated diet, under med ical supervision or on their own, get rather less vitamin B complex than ordinary folks get whose diet Is made up largely of refined foods. That being true, I stand on solid ground when urge everybody who has diabetes, and more particularly everybody who is now training for diabetes to supplement his daily scant intake of vitamin B complex with a concentrate of B complex which is suitable for the purpose.
 Again the other day, warming up for game, my young friend was reminded he had something of in- terest to report. Recently, he said, he had still further increased his daily ration of B complex, on the principal that if a little is good more would be better. Having popped 1t the second time he went and forgot it, until one day he suffered another insulin shock, the nature of which member of his family recognized at once and promptly dispelled by feeding him some sugar. So that now he is coasting along as smoothly as one could desire on a still smaller daily does of insulin.
 The next chapter in this story must await the denouement. Unless some medical moSsback gets my bowling crony'S ear and mumbles about the dangers of taking too much vitamin I expect the next spell of hypoglycemia will put the man of his insulin altogether That's why I call vitamin B "poor mans insulin"-even though it makes some of the big shots tearing mad.
 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
 Hernia Cured.
 Confronted with choice of wear ing 8 truss the rest of my life or going through an operation with all the necessary hospital expenses and interruption in work. Wrote you, and you recommended Dr. -, who gave me the injection treat ment, and in approximately fifteen treatments was cured. Thank you for sending me to such a com- petent man. (HHN)
 Answer-The ambulant Gnjec- tion) treatment is not applicable in every case of hernia, nor is every doctor qualified to give the treat ment, but in the hands of a doctor properly trained in the difficult technique it is successful in at least as large a proportion of cases as the radical operation is.
 Perhaps MonOxide.
 Doctor tells me I have nervous palpitation. Niece who stays with me has it also. She says she often feels weak as though she might fall over. My pulse is fast and un- steady and I feel sort of throbbing in head. The trouble came on