The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-08-18

be reduced to Euclidean treatises
on geometry. Newspapers would
look like the pages Of the integral
calculus. AT the corner Of Twelfth
and Vine Streets yesterday at 4:30
pm. an irresistible body, named
John Jones met an immovable OBJ
ject (either city water hydrant or
Mary Smith,. The result was
chaos" Such might be an item in
your morning newspaper.
AS for the practice of medicine,
1t could be done over the radio, by
a government bureau. "All those
who ate the fish chowder at the
church social last night will re-
pair Immediately to Doerschuk's
drug emporium and consume .
tablespoonful Of Formula 17S."
But we are not much that way.
The person who always reacts just
normally to every event is decid-
edly not normal: at least not aver
age, or not in the majority. The
rest of US range in categories like
phlegmatic, calm, responsive, tenn
peramental, touchy, irritable, ex-
citable, irascible etc.
Nervous Stomachs
Our stomachs and intestines are
just the same as the rest Of our
natures. reminded you yesterday
that some people blanch and blush
readily. So do some stomachs.
There are Sweet Alice Ben Bolts.
"She wept with delight when you
gave her smile and she trembled
with fear at your frown.
There are Alice Ben Bolt stom-
achs and intestines too. They ex-
plods into barrages at nearly any
kind of stimulus. And they do it
throughout life. Their owners are
always asking me what to take for
it, as if it were possible to give
them one thing at one time which
would explode inside them and fix
them up forever.
Take the irritable colon, the irri-
table bowel, mucous colitis, or
spastic colon, whatever you want
20 call it. This" says q famous
doctor, sis not a disease, it is a
condition" And q condition goes
on, you have to live with it as long
as the breath of life continues.
Philosophy Needed
These people are always look
ing for the one, the sovereign
remedy. They will do anything
have any kind Of an operation, 60
on any fool diet, take any kind of
medicine, soothsaying or electric
ity, when what they need is the
philosophy to know what kind Of
people they are and that they must
accept themselves and learn to live
with themselves.
A typical case history Is wom-
an Of As who has attacks Of colicky
pains in the abdomen, excessive
gas with belching, palpitation, al
ternating constipation and mucous
diarrhoea. All this started 16
years ago, after the death Of her
father from cancer. About once q
year she is sure she has cancer.
She has had surgical operations
for the removal Of the appendix,
drainage Of the gallbladder, re-
lief Of adhesions, fixation of the
kidney. None Of them did her any
good. She has been treated extern
sively for food allergy. II did her
no good. When doctors tell her to
70 home and forget about it, there
is nothing the matter with her, she
is miserable.
That last piece Of advice is just
as bad as an operation for these
patients. They need sympathy, ex-
PLANTATION that they are a pecu-
liar kind Of organism and should
regard themselves that way. They
need ISOLATION for the nervous sys-
tenn. In diet they usually need to
be fattened rather than have Of
Tending articles removed from the
diet. But since the colon is irri-
table to outside influences some
times irritating foods should be
withheld. They should be re-
strained from cathartics, but il
they have to take one, liquid petro-
latum is probably the best.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
r. I. c.: Does scar tissue ever
turn into cancer?
A.: There is little danger Of IL
When an old scar is irritated, il
is 4 little more likely To deren-