The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-02-09
NOW TITS UNUSUAL EXPOSURE

wonder what health or medical
authority writes the full page about
pneumonia for the life insurance
corporation, or whether the cor
poration just engages a bright
young man to handle it--like this !:
Although pneumonia usually at
tacks those weakened by fatigue,
unusual exposure, or grippe, it can
also strike healthy people!
AS a matter Of fact there is no
scientific evidence that those weak
ened by fatigue are more likely to
have pneumonia than you or L
or just you. I never get fatigued,
that is, not in that sense of the
term.
do derive a mild thrill, how
ever, from the qualifying adjective
the insurance corporation uses this
winter-the first time. l believe, the
corporation has abated a jot or tit
lie about exposure. For as many
years as / can recall it has been
just exposure. This winter, you will
have to worry about UNUSUAL ex-
posure only-but don't worry for
1t is still up TO you to decide for
yourself whether any real or imag-
mary exposure Is UNUSUAL.
Here's where all WiseacreS,
FuSs-budgets and cryphobes (cryo-
phobia, morbid fear Of cold)get OFF
The remainder of this talk is for
the young ones, who, because they
know no more about it than I do.
do not bother their heads about
avoiding exposure except as mat
ter of their own personal comfort.
To all young readers, greetings
from OF Doc Brady. What 1 tell
you about exposure is just my own
belief. but there is no other princi-
pie Of health or medicine upon the
soundness of which / am more GER
tain. 1t is this:
Exposure 20 sudden caange, ex-
IRENE cold, dampness, draft, in
sufficient clothing, insufficient
heat, Insufficient to keep one
comfortably, getting wet or any
other environmental condition
you may conceive Of as exposure,
has nothing to do with health or
illness.
That's all.
This is free country and any
one may be just as ignorant as he
wishes about this. But for good
ness sake don't be perverse too and
attempt to infer that I must be Pc
culiarly resistant" or "unsuccep-
tible" or "insensitive" to cold. I
like solid comfort as well as you do
If am less likely than you are to
catch pneumonia my relative I'M
munity may be due to one or more
factors but I'm dead certain it isn't
because 1 do not fear drafts, wet
feet, dampness or going out with
out hat shoes, overcoat or muffier
Basal ALetabOlism
Ny doctor never heard of
thermometer determining basal me-
tabolism, as stated in one Of your
articles. Please give me the name
of a physician who uses that
method. (Mrs. e. r.
Answer-Any physician can use
1t If he so desires. On request, ac-
companied with stamped self-ad-
dressed envelope, I'll refer any ply
sician (MD) to a report of the
method in current medical litera-
ture, but no one else need ask for
the information. 1t is outlined In
booklet Rules for Reductinfi." For
copy send twenty-five cents and
stamped self addressed envelope.
Poor DOpes
Something to or about those poor
dopes or come into a lunch room
and get a piece OF pie and a cup
OF coffee and call it lunch.
IN. p. s. c.
Answer-They wouldn't listen,
I'm afraid. The starch and sugar
In such a lunch OF course Yields |
calories for immediate refreshment, |
just so any sweetened beverage or
piece OF candy or ice cream soda |
or similar pop does. But 1t cheats |
the victim out OF the yitamins and |
minerals he or she SO sorely needs,
and which he or she might get II |
the lunch were a salad, an egg cook
ed as preferred, bit OF whole |
wheat bread or toast, ond a glass |
Or better a pint Of milk. Such food
supplies not only the energy for