The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-19
TEETH 10 CANDLE WITH


 She cannot seem to get help from any doctor. for paralyzed eyelids or droopy lids. One lid is completely down and the other halfway down. The focus is wrong but the eye sight is O. K. Twenty-six of her teeth were sound but were removed to see if 1t would help. It didn't help & bit, (K. H. O.
 Dropping eyelid (doctors call 1t ptosis) usually affects both upper lids, though one lid may droop more than the other.
 If the condition is congenital (present at birth) the lids of both eyes droop and only operation which connects the lids with the muscles that elevate the brows will correct the trouble. Tn some cases of ptosis of only one lid the condi- ton may be from paralysis and with medical treatment 1t may be remedied in the course of a few months. Tn any case if the lid droops enough to partially cover the pupils, 50 that the individual has to throw back the head to get clear vision or to see out from under the dropping lid, some sort of operation should be done.
 This operation may be done un- der local anesthesia, painlessly. It involves no risk to the eyes or eye- sight.
 The correspondent states that "twenty-six of her teeth were sound but were removed to see if 1t would help. It didn't help Q bit"
 By way of compensation for that atrocity thirteen teeth of the den- tist and thirteenth teeth of the doc- or who conspired to perpetrate that crime should be removed to see If 1t would help, that is If two such perposterouS r1ountebaH1ks can mus ter that many teeth between them.
 This shocking malpractice wheth. CT committed by the doctor or by the dentist or by both in collision, calls for Q drastic remedy. A law suit for damages in Q reasonable Sum-neyer less than 4l,000 per tooth-seems indicated. If my teeth were involved you betcha there would be such suit.
 Mind, now, I do not believe or imply that extraction of one or, rarely, more than one tooth, may not be the best treatment for this or that condition which, inI the judgment of a physician and den. tist, is due to focal infection. do believe and say that 1t is never jus- tifiable to remove such Q tooth or teeth in the circumstance unless the doctor and dentist have first con- sidered and question in consulta. ton and agreed upon the sacri. fee of the tooth or teeth.
 I wish people would not tell me these things. shudder every time that statement recurs to mind: 'sTwenty-six of her teeth were sound but were removed to see if it would help" It seems painfully evident that something is rotten in the state of Medicine.
 QUESTIONS and ANSWERS
 Lead AFsenate
 May have the instructions printed some time ago for remov- ing lead arsenate residues from vegetables, leaves, fruit, etc2
 (Mrs. M. A. FJ AIaswer-O Ordinary washing will not remove all of the dried residues of such spray from greens, fruits and above ground vegetables. After ordinary washing, rinse or stand for c few minutes in isd hydroch- loric acid solution in water, then rinse the acid away with clear run. ming water. To prepare lTS hydro- chloric solution mix pint of rnedi- cinai Dilute Hydrochl0ric Acid (UsP, BP) which is i0% strength, with nine pints of plain water.
 BeIlyache and Nausea What effect would mild poisoning