The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-28

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 EXERCISE FOR NERVOUSNESS
 A reader asks for booklet of pr. Brady's which describes exer- ciseS to take for nervousness.
 Sometimes I think we need 8 Vice President in Charge of Deduc- tion in this personal health service. Some one who can intuitively tell me what in the dickens correspond ent can want when redeust like that comes in.
 However, on lighting my pipe and cogitating the matter-not now, in the middle of the working day, but last evening after dinner when the days work was over-l recalled commenting couple of little things to people who purport to have "bad nerves''-things some people may consider exercises. These are CD Belly Breathing and CD Rolling Somersaults, my kind of somersaults not Webster'S. One rolling my kind of somersaults does not lose firm contact with the ground, not for an instant.
 Neither belly breathing nor roll ing somersaults is exercise in the sense of bodily exertion, though both maneuvers are excellent sub stitutes for exercise for a lazy per- son, belly breathing for one con- fined to bed. You may have tr1- ferred that I am not fond of med- icine myself, but I practice both of these silly stunts regularly. On request, if you provide a stamped envelope bearing your address, I'll send you a pamphlet on Belly Breathing or an Invitation to the SomerSaultauqua; if you ask for both, inclose ten cents.
 Real exercise in the form of &C., tive participation in or playing of a game, any game you like or any sport you like; or if you are a woman doing your own housework; or if you are man doing any kind of honest manual labor, chores or l odd jobs such as Shingling the roof or trimming hedge or milling po- tatoes; or if you are the unfortu- nate occupant of some exclusive ] apartment where it is incorrect even to run up and down stairs, then sneaking out, in disguise if necessary, and enjoying from two to six miles of oxygen on the hoof every day; real exercise is the best corrective, preventive or antidote you can take for nervousness It is difficult to teach people i who, in their snug conceit, think | they know more about nerves" and nervous exhaustion" than I do, the great remedial value of ex- ercise for what really ails them. have found that belly breathing or somerSaulting tends to rationaliZe i their thinking and even make them want to DO SOMETHING-and people who have SOMETHING TO DO are not obsessed by nervous ness"
 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS How to Change Doctors
 Have been under the care of a physician for months but have lost confidence in him. Would like to change doctors but don't know how to go about it ethically. Should I tell my present doctor that I am changing or should just leave him? (S. Al
 Answer - Such consideration is rare. If your doctor is fair and square he will appreciate the cour- teSy of your explanation that you have lost hope and so you want to see what another doctor can do for you. Far better to sever relations with the doctor on such understand ing than to drop him as you might drop one kind of hair oil to try an other, leaving him to wonder what he said or did to offend you. White Blood COrpuscles 1 Is the blood count made to de- l termlne the seriousness Of appen- dicitis only, or does it go up from other kinds of infection in the body? Child of had blood count of $500 but doctor refused to operate be- cause he doubted there was acute infection in the appendix.
 (Mrs. E. B. W0 AnSwer-Number of white blood corpuscles 5Qeucocytes) in the blood in healthy person is approximate ly 1000 per cubic millimeter of blood | (perhapp 100000 in a drop of blood). The number increases when acute inflammation or suppuration (pus- formation, abscess) occurs anywhere in the body. If only 5000 to 1000. found, it indicates the patient is putting up poor battle against the infection, be it appendicitis, endo- carditis or pneumonia. More favor able is a count of 10000 white cor l puscleS Qeucocytosis) in any acute infection. The doctor probably did right in refusing to operate-the i child showing only 5000 leucocyto- sis may have had no infection at all. Copyright, 1944, John F. Dille Co.,