The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-26

annai healah and hygiene, not % alsaasA shwmosig 0r tFeAtment Will he' answered hy pr. SraAs m M aaamnea aelfeadARemsea envelope lR enc2nanil. Letters NMowla hA brief and written ln lnk. We reply can ha mado te queries S,et eonteEsn- lng Co instructions, aN&AFe9a brs William Brady, Natloual News- Raper Service. 80 West Madison Street. Chicago lll.
 ALE DISEASE BEGINS IN TAE
 STOMACH
 An important part of my mogli. col education was the debates hAg with father, who was q very gooA blacksmith and never fully recov- cred from the shock Of learning that I intended to cast my first presidential vote for William Jen- nings Hryan--at least, father made me promise, would not lot te get out among my prospective patients,
 Father would ask me what causes, say. typhoid fever, and like . good sophomore I would give him Q de- tailed And astonishing description of the life and character os B, typhoSus, and once I got warmed up I kept going on and on. until finally father would raise his hand for . pause. and before ! could get a good full breath he would anlrm that all disease begins in the stomach,
 Nt this juncture father would take down Q box from the sliDlss and show me Q supply of choice white sand. He would proceed to swallow Q couple spoonfuls of the sand and urge me to try iG But never con. ceded that the human crop required sand or gravel as an aid to diges- ton, although must say father seemed to thrive on 1t for many wears, Whether his sand-eating--' two or tlifee spoonfuls 0 day for many years-had anything to do with the fact that he finally de- veloEnd sareoma, tho most rapidly fatal form of cancer, in the aboo- minal wall and the intestine, l don't know,
 Many readers have assured me that they havo eaten sand like that for years and apparently with hen' efit to health.
 Nobody knows the cause of can. cor.
 Some reader sends me Q copy oi a book by a chArlatan recently de. ceased, and pencils on the ayleas TO Q Progressive Thinker. ThM book may lend some new ideas to your studies"
 The charlatan wito wrote the book was exploited by Q shrew caps italist who knew how to separate credulous people from their loose money.
 The charlatan chatters In Q styh which probably pleases the unwarl layman whose knowledge of phys, iology and hygiene Is limited, but whether the subject be skin disease, "colds," rheumatism" or what gave you, the cause Is always some vague poison or poisons retained In your system because you don't follow the charlatans diet and your "eiimina' tin" is faulty.
 According to this funny book ah disease begins in the colon. So the prevention and treatment of all dis' ease is as simple as rolling of from . log. You merely spend Q few weeks In the charlatana's institu' ton, follow his peculiar diet. re- ceive colon irrigations and so on. and there you are
 "If the colon is brought up to chariatan, of headaches, "half the date and kept up to date" said the customary headaches would disap- pear immediately. for 1t Is in the colon that so much starchy fermen- tation occurs, due to the delay In dlscharging the unsplit starches found there" The charlatan evi. dentiy felt confident his readers would not know that fermentation of starches is Q normal and desir- able process in the colon. That is | the uhysioloRicai truth,