The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-10
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 The child with enlarged tonSils and /or adenoids seems to have more frequent cri ('tcolds" to the uneducated). Dr. Kaiser (ChiIdren's TOnsiIs In and Out, Lippincott, 'S2) found that 4,400 children between four and seven years of age with enlarged tonsils in the schools in Rochester, N. Y., had slightly more "coldS" in the course of the year than the same children had in the same period atfer removal of their tonsils. But Dr. Kaiser adds this pertinent observation:
 After ten years of age, the in-
 cidence of colds in the children
 whose tonSilS and adenoidS were not removed" (2,200 children with
 enlarged tonsils) declined with
 even greater rapidity than in the
 children of similar ages" (2,200
 children with enlarged tonsils)
 ''whose tonsils and adenoids had been removed
 Dr. Kaiser's actual statistics must have far greater weight than any off-hand theories or estimates ad- vanced by doctors who have not made any comparable study of the question. Here I simply say that Dr. KaiSer'S figures are real and the conclusions he draws from them are therefore significant. Yet it seems to me that he fell into the error which has long characterized the profession. As Dr. Kaiser sums up the examination of '"The Com mon Cold: Relation to Tonsils and Adenoids''-
 Until the etiological factor
 (our $10 term for cause, folkS) "is positively known, the control of
 the common cold in children will be concerned chiefly with enyir-
 onmental conditions, and the avoidance of such irritating .caus- es" (sic!) "as chilling, wet feet, wet clothing and draughts."
 Now until came upon that weird specimen of medical hokum I had included Dr. Kaisers book in the 2214 inch self of medical books I had bought in the past twenty years that proved worth the money. Now, regretfully, I shall file it away up on the top shelf among the curi- oSa. Whats the use? Until the hypothetical cause of the nonenta- tive common cold" is positively known-which of course is talking through your hat-the old guard will continue making such utter ances, and as long as the laity accepts this ponderous hokum dis tribution of the common respira- tory infections will continue to pro- vide three-fourths of the everyday illness doctors attend.
 l ask you, who is going to worry about conversational cought or sneeze spray when such irritating causes as chilling, wet feet wet clothing and draughtS" will explain everything?
 QUESTIONS and ANSWERS Anyway There are L. F. and ODE.
 At the age of Q'm now 28) took of my long winter underwear in mid-winter and began wearing light, comfortable underwear-the same as I have worn the year around ever since. We children often sat in school with feet and clothes wet, but that didn't do us any harm either, at least we have all grown up remarkably free from respiratory troubles and the like.
 O. PD
 Answer-That makes two of us who don't believe ordinary every day "exposure" to cold, dampness, drafts, sudden change, etc., does any har.sl. In the booklet Gall it Cri'-mailed on request if you in- close twenty-five cents and stamp ed envelope bearing your address I present with restraint, I hope, the acts concerning the respiratory in- fectionS as opposed to the folklore and hokum. I advise not only how to deal with the cri when you have 1t in the home but how to avoid spreading the infection to other members of the family, to fellow workers, playmates and the general public. THAT is a feature about which the public health experts who periodically hand out rules such as "befare of chilling and keep your feet dry and other almanac humor = are generally silent, or if they refer to it at all they put on the soft pedal.
 Reducing Candy My Eye
 How can I get copy of your pamphlet How to Lose Weight? Do you recommend - reducing candy? Does laughing make one gain weight? (Mrs. w. O.
 Answer = Send stamped envelope standard size, not a toy envelope bearing your address, for the pamphlet How to Lose Weight and do not use clipping. Of course no candy, sugar. sweet or substi- tute for sugar reduces. Ordinary sugar or candy or sweet of any kind has precisely the same value. either as regards reducing or sup- plying quick energy, as any fancy nostrum, trick sugar or special can- dy can have. Laugh and grow fat? No, ma'am--in fact, when you feel a laugh coming on, it is better to give 1t full expression, as you would or should a sneeze.
 Copyright 1944, John F. Dille Col to give you at first hand further information on the subject.
 Sincerely yours,
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