The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-12-14
Your Health
By Dr.. William Brady

Signed letterS pertaining - peP-
sonal health and hygiene, not to
disease. diagnosis 0f treatment,
win be answered By Or. Brady n
stamped sele-addressed envelope
Is enclosed. Letters should be brief
and written In ink. No reply can
be made 70 queries not conform
ing 70 instructions. Address DE-.
william Brady, National News
paper Service, $50 West Madison
Street, Chicago, III.
NOWADAYS IN CERTAIN WAYS
WE ARE BETTER AND BETTER
The mortality rate from tuber-
culosis was cut in half in the first
twenty years OF this century, and
the 1920 rate was again lowered
in half by 1910. The mortality
statistics, showing reduction In thu
tuberculosis death rate from 200 pei
hundred thousand population in
1900 to As per hundred thousand
population in 1910, give good reasoy
to believe that tuberculosis is dis
appearing and its eradication Is not
just a beautiful dream but an
achievement now within sight.
Why do only As persons die O
tuberculosis now, as compared with
200 among the same number Of
persons forty-odd years ago?
Well, we don't know all OF tbs
reasons or factors responsible fo
the improvements; no more than Wa
know why chlorosis (the green
sickness) is rarely seen in young
women today whereas forty-odd
years ago 1t was common type of
anemia; or why spasmodic Group
so common in children forty-odd
years ago, is now comparatively
rare.
Probably all physicians or health
experts will agree that the discoy-
cry Of the cause of tuberculosis
bacillus tuberculosis by Koch six
ty-odd years ago laid the founda.
ton for prevention.
The increasing popular accept.
ance of tuberculin tests for early
detection of latent tuberculosis and
the increasing use of chest X-rays
in the routine examination OF
school children, college students
and other large groups of youths
or young adults, and the newer
knowledge and greater skill of ply
sicians in examining or studying
patients for signs Of incipient or
beginning tuberculosis, all contri.
butte toward the prevention Of the
disease,
DiShearteningly slow but steady
enlightenment Of the general pub
lie regarding the usual mode of in
lection Of tuberculosis and other
Communicable respiratory diseases
and regarding the harmlessness Of
fresh air, night air, dampness, in
clement weather, not to say more
and frighten timid souls, contri-
butes much to the prevention OF
tuberculosis.
Whether improvements in diet
and nutrition is factor one car
only surmise. All the advice and
instruction the public has had II.
the past twenty of thirty years re-
garding diet and nutrition must
have improved the vite of good
many. Vite means higher average
level of positive health
QUESTIONS and ANSWERS
Parkinson's TremOr
My father has what the doctor
calls Parkinson's tremor, and the
doctor says there is nothing to do
for 1t. Please inform me. 20. W.
Answer-Perhaps you misunder-
stand what the doctor says about
it. There may be no specific cure,
but there are several things to do
for Parkinson's syndrome (paraly-
sis agitants, shaking palsy.) Send
stamped envelope bearing your adj
dress, for pamphlet on "Parkin-
sons Disease.
Little Green Book
Cousin, formerly a great sufferer
from nervous trouble, has under
gone remarkable change for the
better. In fact she is now perfectly
normal and well. and she tells me
it is all from what she learned in
DR.. Brady's little green book"
about nerves. I am not quite a
nervous wreck but that is not to
deny am inclined. (Miss M. F.
Answer-Im afraid you won't find
the psychological hokum about con-
trolling your NERVES" in the book
let, but If you really want to know,
send twenty-five cents and stamped
envelope bearing your address, for
copy of NERVES and Nutrition"
Copyright 1913, John F. Ollie CO..