The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-20
DECLARATIONS ON LUBRI-
 CATION

n ASo0SA 4A0uAAACS WAACbAlCE tIilAA- eral oil is harmful to use regularly as laxative orinternal lubricant.
 Mineral oil, liquid petrolatum, liquid paraffin, Russian oil, Ameri- can oil, as 1t is variouSly called, does not coat the lining of stomach or intestine to serve as lubricant, but mixes intimately with the stom- ach and intestinal contents, be- comes emulsified.
 Mineral oil is :ot antiseptic. It is not absorbed, hence has no food value. Contrary to a common the ory it does not cause or predispose to cancer.
 Mineral oil retards digestion by coating particles of food and pre- venting the digestive juices from reaching them. It interleres with absorption of minerals and vita mins from the food for the same reason. It prevents reabsorption of bile from the intestine and there by lessens both biliary and pam creatic secretion. This lessening of secretion of bile and pancreatic- juice means lessening or failure of the normal physiological stimula- ton of the bowel wall, lowering of intestinal tone" or vigor of peris- taltic action.
 Mineral oil also prevents absorp- tion Of water from the fecal masses in the colon and this tends to keep the intestinal contents both bulky and soft. These effects may be de- sirable in few exceptional cases. But the untoward effects of miner al oil-interference with digestion and assimilation of essentials of nutrition-outweigh any such ben eflcial effects, in my opinion, and condemn 1t, in whatever form, as remedy for or corrective of consti- patton.
 I have some suggestions which, If you follow them, will do all the good mineral oil can do for you and at the same time actually benefit your health,
 Buy from drugstore or seedstore pound Of unground flaXseedS. Take a teaspoonful or a tablespoon ful daily, washed down with water or mixed with jelly or breakfast cereal. believe this more nearly serves the purpose of natural in- testinal lubricant than mineral oil,
 QUESTION and ANSWER
 Going to the Chair
 Young woman gets nervous and weak she can hardly walk out of the dentists office after a filling, She is not afraid, sits quietly for the injection to numb the tooth, but when the drill starts she goes all to pieces. (K. c, W.
 Answer-For such & patient the dentist or the physician may give the patient suitable sedative be- fore such treatment
 Country Doctors Book
 Once you recommended highly kind of guidebook for diabetics by country doctp somewhere in Michigan, Recently learned that I have diabetes and so. ...
 AnSwer--"A Book for Us Dia- betics.' by Dr. Don H. Duffie, Gen. tral Lake, Michigan, the best $2 investment diabetic can make or a friend can make for him. Yes, Dr. Dufhe is a country doctor of whom all country doctors-and city doctors-may be proud.
 Rheumatiz
 Started taking POO GOO units Of vitamin D daily in short time l noticed marked improve ment However, pr. - learned about 1t and had me so upset ... asked that he consult two doctors at hospital He told me they advised against 1t .. | but I preferred to continue rather than do nothing at all in another two weeks was up and around, the swelling gone from hands, in six months so much better was practically well.
 (MrS. ----) Answer-Thank you. Ma'am. In the booklet "The Ills Called Rheu- matism" I describe briefly the mas sive dose Wtamin D treatment (200,000 to 500,000 units daily but that is all--the treatment requires your physicians supervision. For the booklet send ten cents and stamped self addressed envelope. If had chronic arthritis I'd make 1t a rule to seat an optimal daily ration of calcium and vitanin D as regularly as breakfast regardless Of any special treatment. I give de- tails of this in the pamphlet Cal cium and Rheumatiz available on written request clipping will not Sufficedf you provide stamped self addressed envelope.
 Embarrassed
 l would like to know why every member of my family should take a nip Of idoine" and how to ask for it at the drugstore without be- ing embarrassed by the salesclerk.
 (Mrs. R. s.
 Answer-Send a stamped self ad- dressed envelope and ask In writing do not use clipping-the pamph- let The Iodln Ration"
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