Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-12
Better Health
Human Life
Governed
By Wea ther
North America Interest
in Subject Great
BY LOGAN CLENDENING

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Rome paid great attention TO
the effect OF weather and eli
mate on human life and health.
Hippocrates, the father Of
medicine, left a work on Air,
Waters and Places"
All this lore was neglected by
the modern physician1 after he
became intellectually pGoud with
his knowledge of bacteriology
and body chemistry.
II bids fair TO have a renais-
sance with the patient observa-
tons and writings OF two
outstanding American scholars,
DR.. William F. Petersen OF the
University of Illinois College of
Medicine and DR.. Clarence A.
Mills, professor Of experimental
medicine at the University Of
Cincinnati.
NORTH AMERICA should be
~ particularly interested in
weather.
Except for the great Asiatic
land mass, America has more
weather than any place else on
earth.
Not only is the annual varia-
ton in temperature over most
OF its surface between 20 de-
grees below zero on some win
ter days TO 10 or more degrees
above zero during some SUM-
mer days. but the number of
storms and storm tracks brought
about at the interfaces of polar
air masses and tripical air
masses make sudden change i'm
temperature, nudity and
barometric pressure frequent
experiences.
Weather changes create so
many effects on human bodily
status that they are hard TO
classify.
Hot weather reduces blood
pressure and cold spells raise IT,
Doctor Petersen, in a recent
article, tells an interesting story
Of young woman with a very
changeable or liable vasomotor
system who regularly had faint
ing attacks in the wake OF cold
storms.
TTHE faintirg did not occur
with the cold period. but
afterwards when the warm or
hot reaction came on: then her
blood pressure became so low
that any unusual exertion would
bring on fainting spell.
In an equable climate she
would have become comfortable.
but even in her normal environ
ment the administration of
ephedrine. which raised blood
pressure. controlled the attacks.
The formula for the general
body reaction to sudden cold is
A. r. s." (anoxia. reduction,
sugar increase).
Cold closes the superficial
blood vessels, raising blood
pressure and il rearranges the
endocrine Secretions. causing
a feeling of stimulation and ac-
tually affecting sugar metabo-
lism.
TNiE reaction TO heat is &C. o.
Il v" catholicism, oxidat ton,
vasodilatation).
The superficial blood vessels
dilate. the blood increases in
acidity. the basal metabolism is
increased, the potassium-calcium
ratio is diminished, dehydration
occurs with a consequent feel
ing of let-down and fatigue.
These are the temporary re-
actions to sharp changes.
After a hot or cold spell is
established, the body adjusts IT.
self and discomfort disappears.
QUESTIONS, ANSWERS
+. T.: Please let me know
what causes ones toenaiIs TO
fall off.
Answer: Probably ringworm
infection.
j. p. G.: Is there a cure or
remedy that will relieve the
spells of. bronchial asthma?
Is there a difference between
bronchial asthma and chronic
bronchitis?
Answer: Bronchial asthma is
usually due TO senSitivity al
lergy) TO plant pollenS. some
times 10 animals $500 especially
rabbits and cats and horses
or 10 certain foods or house
dust.
If you can find out what YOU
are sensitive 10 and eliminate il.
your asthma will be improved.
Sometimes the asthma is due
to chronic infection from sinus
disease.
Chronic bronchitis often pro-
duces wheeling Hike asthmatic
wheeling. but the two conditions
are not essentially alike.
QUESTIONS, ANSWERS
M. F.. C.-Is il dangerous 10
take a reducing tablet three
times daily containing the fol-
lowing: Phenolphthalein. CAL
cium iodide, sodium chloride?
, AnSwer-lt is not dangerous.
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