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L. & H. for Christmas! J. DeWITT FOX, M.D., L.M.C.C., Editor DEAR EDITOR: T. K. MARTIN, Art Editor D. A. DELAFIELD, Assistant 'Editor C. E. WENIGER, Ph.D., Editorial Consultant I just happened to pick up your maga- zine in a barbershop, and was so inter- Consulting Editors: ROBERT A. HARE, M.D., F.A.C.P.; WALTER E. MACPHERSON, M.D., F.A.C.P. ested in it that I immediately subscribed HAROLD M. WALTON, M.D., F.A.C.P.; THEODORE R. FLAIZ, M.D.; J. WAYNE MCFARLAND, M.D. to it. I must say that it was one of the Contributing Editors: D. Lois Buegerr, R.N. • M. WEBSTER PRINCE, D.D.S., F.A.C.D. nicest things that could have happened ARLIE L. MooN, M.D. • JOHN F. BROWNSBERGER, M.D., F.A.C.S. • CARL J. LARSEN, M.D. in our family. We all enjoy it very much, LEROY E. COOLIDGE, M.D., F.A.C.S. • HoeAnn A. HALL, M.D., F.A.C.S., F.I.C.S. and I am not satisfied until I have read ROGER W. BARNES, M.D., F.A.C.S. • BELLE WOOD COMSTOCK, M.D. • DANIEL H. KRESS, M.D. CYRIL B. COURVILLE, M.D. • LUCILLE J. GOTHAM, B.A. • GEORGE T. HARDING, M.D., F.A.C.P. every page. E. HAROLD SHRYOCK, M.D. • HENRY W. VOLLMER, M.D., F.A.C.S. I was especially interested in the recent article "What to Do for Snake Bite" [Mark I. D. Fox, author, in September, 1951, LIFE & HEALTH]. I intend to pass that information on to my friends. Incidentally, I also plan to give several subscriptions to friends for Christmas gifts. I FEATURE ARTICLES Page can't think of a single thing more appropriate. MRS. E. E. JUDGE X-ray in the Diagnosis of Tuberculosis ROBERT J. ANDERSON, M.D. 8 Palmyra, North Carolina

Don't Poison Your Child! EDWIN D. NEFF 10 Good Health to All DEAR EDITOR: Water Can Cure! FRED B. MOOR, M.D. 12 I wish to compliment you on the July LIFE & HEALTH. Christmas Dinners You'll Remember JUNE BISHOP 14 All the articles were quite enlightening to me, especially the one "How Your Liver Works." All of us know we have The Skin Grows Old! Part 1 PAUL D. FOSTER, M.D. 16 (Turn to page 4) Aid to Mr. Stork LE ROY K. THOMPSON, M.D. 18

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FOR MOTHERS FOR BOYS AND GIRLS

Family Physician 20 Wings of Health 24

Mother's Counselor 22

Dietitian Says 26

Homemaker Hints 28 MENTAL HYGIENE

Serve Fruit Drinks 31 Philosophy of Life 15

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DECEMBER, 1951 3 Readers' Pulse (Continued from page 3) eatift9 "Re a liver, but I am sure we are quite un- aware of the great importance it plays in our everyday living. I look forward BOYS and GIRLS eagerly to each copy. Best wishes for future publications of LIFE & HEALTH and good health to all its readers. MRS. RALPH BLASEY Silver Spring, Maryland * Recently the editor noticed copies of LIFE & HEALTH vanishing from his private office, 'and it was not until one of his patients had a soul searching and came in to confess that he found out who the culprit was. With the confes- sion came the above letter, for which we say, "Thank you" and, "All is for- given." Mrs. Blasey, of course, is now A a LIFE & HEALTH subscriber, who passes her copies over the back fence to her neighbors.—ED. TODAY — GET YOUR are unbeatable.. 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Send us 10c (to cover mailing and and enjoy wonderful health. handling costs) and your name and Keep up the good work in your maga- Name address. We'll be happy to send zine. It should be in every home. It is you, free, a regular 10-oz. can of full of good advice in a form the layman Age Grade Battle Creek "Steaks." can understand. MRS. REBA S. CARVER Address Practical Nurse Association City Zone State THE BATTLE CREEK FOOD COMPANY New Jersey, Inc. BATTLE CREEK 35, MICHIGAN Morrisville, Pennsylvania 4 LIFE & HEALTH ing deformity that doctors can make it possible for most patients to keep going about their normal daily pursuits. 3. Try to live free of everyday tensions and anxieties. Get as much relaxed rest and sound sleep as possible. A rested body and worry-free mind go a long way toward improving general health and arthritic joints. 4. Make sure you have a well-balanced diet of fruits, vegetables, juices, and dairy products rich in iron and vitamins. Kerosene Bad for Kiddies spread knowledge about surgery, treat- 5. Get into the sunshine. Let your doc- ments, and rehabilitation has also contrib- tor prescribe the type of heat he thinks MANY children who swallow kerosene by uted substantially. most valuable. accident develop some form of pneumonia, The wonder hormones do not bring re- 6. Avoid the strains or pressures nor- which is easily shown on X-rays, Dr. C. lief from osteoarthritis (the degenerative mally placed on the affected joints or H. Heacock states in a review of the sub- disease that affects older people chiefly) parts. If your physician recommends a set ject published in a recent issue of Radiol- nearly so often as they do from rheuma- of exercises, follow his instructions im- ogy. The youngest child in the group toid arthritis, the pamphlet points out. plicitly. studied was one year old, the oldest four, 7. Avoid cold, wet weather if possible. and the average age was 19 months. Don't permit yourself to get chilled by in- The Ibss of life, the suffering, and the sufficient outer clothing or cold showers financial loss resulting from this accident, (leave these invigorating baths for those Dr. Heacock says, can be directly attribut- not having arthritis). able to carelessness in the storage of 8. Don't overeat or permit yourself to kerosene. Apparently it is usually kept in exceed the weight norrlal for your age a jar or milk bottle within reach of the and height. Consult your doctor. He'll child who is able to walk about! know just what you should weigh and how Some doctors think the kerosene to combat overweight without injury to reaches the lungs after rapid absorption your general health. by the blood stream. Others say it reaches the lungs through the child's breathing. 9. Don't listen to old wives' tales or In any event serious pneumonia follows. try fancy "cures," which may do you lots The mishap is usually discovered at once The principal treatment of osteoarthritis of damage and no good. If you show any because of the child's coughing and includes rest for the affected joints, relief recurring symptoms of arthritis, consult strangling. from any stresses, and heat or massage. your physician or an established arthritis Dr. Heacock believes that because of Ten tips for arthritis patients are: clinic. the pulmonary signs of the poisoning 1. No matter from what type of arthritis 10. If you are one of those with severe every child who swallows kerosene should you suffer, avoid patent medicines and arthritis who don't respond to treatment, have a chest X-ray immediately. In some other nostrums. Pain-relieving and sleep- and you are left with a permanent deform- cases the lung changes can be noted in producing drugs should not be used except ity, remember that rehabilitation can do the X-ray film within 30 minutes after as prescribed by a physician. much to help you live a normal, useful the kerosene is swallowed, yet the ma- 2. Enough is known about keeping ar- life regardless of your disability. You jority of the 156 children studied were not thritis patients free of pain and prevent- cannot disable ambition. brought to the emergency room until two and a half hours after the accident! * * *

"Miracle" Drugs in Arthritis

ALTHOUGH the effects of ACTH and cor- tisone are "nothing short of miraculous," these drugs have serious drawbacks and do not in any sense constitute a "cure" for arthritis, Alton L. Blakeslee, noted sci- WHY HYSTERECTOMY? THE BIRTH OF A BABY ence writer, warns in the 20-cent pam- BY READ N. CALVERT, M.D. Knowing that LIFE & HEALTH phlet Arthritis—and the Miracle Drugs, readers are vitally interested in the An article every well-informed issued by Public Affairs, New York City. coming generations, we present the woman should read. The recoveries are only temporary in picture story of the birth of a most people, he points out. And continued baby. The editors trust that it will use of ACTH or cortisone produces bad allay fear and bring new comfort side effects in many patients. Moreover, to the expectant mother. both of the "miracle drugs" are difficult and costly to make and will not be gener- ally available for some time to come. NEW TEETH WITHOUT WAITING Yet sufferers from rheumatoid arthritis, REGULAR FEATURES one of the most prevalent and painful of BY FRANKLYN NELSON, D.D.S. man's diseases, may look forward to ulti- You will be able to face the world MOTHERS COUNSELOR mate relief from this ancient curse, the with a smile immediately after READERS' PULSE pamphlbt predicts optimistically. complete extraction of your teeth. FAMILY PHYSICIAN By no means all the credit for this It is now possible. dramatic change in outlook is given to ACTH and cortisone, however. The anti- biotics have helped by curing new cases caused by infection. New and more widely

DECEMBER, 1951 5 THE EDITOR PRESCRIBES FOR

ANCER, heart disease, and accidents to dominate the "timekeepers" rather "It's not only important to fight today, C are the "big three" on the list of than let them rule us. By rushing through But to live to fight another day." killers; but, says Dr. Richard B. Hoff- life we snip it short, end up in our doc- Our southern friends don't suffer from mann, a New York physician and psychi- tor's office far too early, collapse into a competitive crackups—they seldom die of atrist of 40 years' practice, the three real coffin much too soon. heart attacks and peptic ulcers. killers are found in every home and of- How can you "rule" instead of "run"? 5. Take God along with you through bed an hour earlier. This will fice. Each year this modern trio topples 1. Go to the day- He's the best helper and schedule 800,000 persons into early graves, he esti- give you a head start by replacing lost regulator you can find. He'll see you mates. The three villains are: energy, and produce for you the extra through the tight spots. It is now well The calendar—because it is ever prod- snap and zip to do your work efficiently known by doctors and psychiatrists that a ding us in the back, reminding us of next day. religious attitude toward life and a trust "payments due" and deadlines. It pro- 2. Rise a half hour earlier. By giving in divine power lead to a more relaxed duces tension and anxiety. It hangs in yourself little "cushions of time" you can mental outlook and better physical health. nearly every office and kitchen, exemplify. go through the day without that feeling So don't you be a civilized suicide case. ing the "tyranny of apprehension." It of urgency and inner push—the tightness Take a few minutes off and regulate your tells us we must worry about the future of stomach and muscle that comes with daily program, so that you can enjoy it, —or else. always being "behind schedule." not just endure it. The telephone—because much of today's 3. Eat a good breakfast. The energy business must be transacted by telephone, you need for the day's work should be it is considered indispensable. Yet it can obtained at breakfast. If your stomach Yours for better health, jangle the most steady nerves. Repeated is comfortable, you'll feel better through states of tension induced by the "tyranny the day. of interruption" may cause high blood 4. Take a nonchalant manana attitude. pressure, heart disease, stomach ulcers, Don't take things too seriously. Learn to gallstones, and kidney stones. And who lean back and let go. Relax and laugh a is the genius who can recapture a thought bit. If you can't do it today—do as our shattered and dashed into bits by a tele- wise south-of-the-border neighbors do, and phone call? More brain power is lost by just say, "I'll do it maiiana." telephone interruptions than can be re- claimed by millions of hours of creative Dews/. /951 — thinking. 1 Although it is said that only a mother 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 and a doctor know what interruptions 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 are, more and more Americans are learn- ...Jo 25 26 27 28 29 ing that they must stop and listen, come the jangle of the telephone. And like gas- oline wasted at boulevard stops, much nervous energy, brain power, and physical strength are lost to the telephone tyrant. The clock—robber of sleep, and "tyrant of appointment," incites us to hurry and worry. We gulp our breakfast with one eye on it, another on our coat and the open front door. We keep an eagle eye peeled for the clock as if it were our master. And the alarm clock, which startles us into consciousness each morn- ing, Dr. Hoffmann says is the worst despot of all. "Bodies and minds to be freed of yesterday's debris, must go to bed earlier and let Mother Nature be the timekeeper." Those are the three lethal weapons which modern Americans use to commit civilized suicide. Each of us should learn

6 LIFE & HEALTH and she spends them visiting the beauty spots of North America and managing the food service in- summer camps. A 110111.[S great hobby of hers is collecting records of classical music and playing them until Out L2onttiL to ti she memorizes the symphonies. She also spends much time reading, and whenever she has any spare time she can be found with a book. Always happy and cheerful, she says most people do not enjoy life as much as they should. She believes there is joy in learning more and more about people and things. For her there are so many interesting people, good books, and most of his original work has been in the active sports that there just isn't enough latter field. He is coauthor of a physical time to enjoy all the wonderful things therapy textbook for nurses. He has writ- life offers. ten scientific and popular articles in his She plans to continue her career, and field, and several of the popular articles become more efficient in producing the have been published in LIFE & HEALTH. best food in the least time with the most Dr. Moor is a member of the editorial fun. board of the Archives of Physical Medi- cine and also of the editorial board of * * Robert J. Anderson, M.D. ("X-ray in Medical Arts and Sciences. the Diagnosis of Tuberculosis," page 8), Dr. Moor is married and has one son, chief of the Division of Chronic Disease Fred B. Moor II, a senior in medicine at and Tuberculosis, has been a member of the College of Medical Evangelists. He is the U.S. Public Health Service since 1940. also the proud grandfather of a five- During World War H he served as a month-old boy, Fred B. Moor III. medical officer aboard a Coast Guard cut- Mechanically inclined, he enjoys work- ter. In addition he has seen service at ing in his well-equipped shop. He and U.S. Marine hospitals and county and Mrs. Moor go on frequent camping trips State health departments in Neosho, Mis- to the beach, the mountains, or the des- souri; San Antonio, Texas; Philadelphia, ert. For these trips they use a 16-foot Pennsylvania; and San Francisco, Cali- house trailer towed by a Chrysler Wind- fornia. Coming from an assignment as sor automobile. tuberculosis control officer in the Cali- John Nathaniel Krum ("To Baby," fornia State Department of Health, he page 22) is a poet-proofreader. His pri- became assistant chief of the Public * * mary duty as head of the proofroom of Health Service Division of Tuberculosis LIFE AND HEALTH is to assure our readers in December, 1946. He was made chief letter-perfect editions. And the browbeat- of the division in September, 1948. ing he gets from the editor occasionally, Dr. Anderson is a native of Zumbrota, when errors do creep in, has done nothing Minnesota, and a graduate of the Univer- to shorten his 6-foot-4-inch frame. sity of Minnesota School of Medicine. He A printer from college days, where he is a diplomate of the American Board of Preventive Medicine and Public Health. worked at the Washington College Press, Some of the professional societies in in Washington, D.C., he was an English which he holds membership are the major and later took work in literature American Medical Association, American at Maryland University. Public Health Association, American Col- Mr. Krum is also a world traveler, hav- lege of Chest Physicians, and the Amer- ing spent 8 years in Cape Town, South ican Trudeau Society. Africa, part of this time as associate edi- Dr. Anderson lives in Arlington, Vir- tor of the African Signs of the Times. ginia. June Bishop ("Christmas Dinners Krum's chief hobby is writing. His first You'll Remember," page 14) was born in poem was published when he was eleven Venice Center, New York, and spent the years old. His poems and articles have * * * early part of her life on a farm in the appeared in more than 80 magazines and Finger Lakes region. She is the second of newspapers in the United States and Fred B. Moor, M.D. ("Water Can three daughters. abroad. Some 7,000 copies of his privately Cure!" page 12), is professor of thera- Early in life Miss Bishop became inter- printed books of verse and prose have peutics in the School of Medicine and ested in her mother's kitchen, and found been sold. medical director of the School of Physical cooking fascinating. She obtained her Also a lover of good music, Mr. Krum Therapy of the College of Medical Evan- schooling near her home, attending Un- has studied both piano and voice, and for gelists, Loma Linda and Los Angeles, ion Springs Academy, New York, where 13 years has been a member of a Wash- California. He is a graduate of the Uni- she decided to devote her life to food ington church choir. He is an active mem- versity of North Dakota School of Medi- service. ber of the Potomac Appalachian Trail cine and of the College of Medical Evan- After finishing her predietetics course Club, each year spending a dozen week gelists School of Medicine. He has done at Atlantic Union College, in Massachu- ends in P.A.T.C. cabins, hiking the white- graduate study at the University of Chi- setts, in the spring of 1948, she enrolled and blue-blazed trails through Shenan- cago and at Harvard University. He is in the College of Medical Evangelists doah National Park. a diplomate of the American Board of School of Dietetics. Upon receiving her Married and the father of a nurse- Physical Medicine. B.S. degree in 1950, she took the position daughter and two sons, he enjoys taking Dr. Moor has been engaged in medical of assistant director of food service for his family on these outings. teaching for practically all the 30 years of Walla Walla College, College Place, Wash- His abiding philosophy: his professional life. He has taught both ington. "Still achieving, still pursuing, pharmacology and physical medicine, but Vacations are Miss Bishop's delight, Learn to labor and to wait." DECEMBER, 1951 7 X-ray in the Diagnosis of TUBERCULOSIS A ROBERT J. AnDERson, M.D. Medical Director, Chief, Division of Tuberculosis, Public Health Service, Federal Security Agency

ITH the vast array of diagnostic tools that medical science now possesses and uses in the fight against disease, it is difficult at times to remember there was ever a day Development of X-ray—the window when physicians had to work entirely without these tools. In the old days—say, seventy or eighty years ago through which the physician can view —physicians had to rely entirely on a patient's symp- toms and a liberal amount of guesswork before they internal body conditions—marked a could reach a diagnosis. The obvious symptoms of many diseases, including milestone in treatment of tuberculosis. tuberculosis, appear at a late stage, however, when there may be little or no hope of cure. Consequently, diagnosis in the old days often served no other pur- pose than a sentence of certain doom. Today, however, the situation is vastly different and more hopeful. We now have equipment and tech- to record the amount of X-rays penetrating an object nics for achieving the early diagnosis of most diseases, simply by allowing the rays to fall on a photographic which hitherto went unrecognized until too late. As a film after they have passed through the object. If a result, medical science has made rapid advances toward large quantity of X-rays reach the film, as occurs when one of its professed aims—finding disease quickly the rays penetrate a thin object or one of low density, enough to assure effective treatment. the film will be heavily exposed and will darken con- Not the least important of the devices that have siderably. On the other hand, if the X-rays are directed made this possible is the X-ray. Its discovery by Wil- through a thick or dense object, so that few of the helm Roentgen in 1896 marks one of the most signifi- X-rays reach the film, the resulting shadow on the film cant milestones in the history of medicine, for it pro- will be lighter. vides the window through which the physician can A chest X-ray film is therefore a flat shadow pic- view the early appearance of many diseases. For tuber- ture of the chest's internal structure. Bones and thick culosis this development meant as much, perhaps, as muscles show up on the film as light shadows, and Koch's discovery of the tubercle bacillus. soft tissues such as the lungs will appear as dark shad- As we know, X-ray is capable of passing through ows. or penetrating almost any object. In doing so, however, All these shadows, varying in density from dark some X-rays are absorbed by the object itself, and to light, comprise the diagnostic X-ray "picture," some are permitted to pass through. The thicker or which most of us have seen at one time or another. the more dense the object, the greater the amount of Obviously, it is not a picture in the literal sense but X-rays absorbed, and the smaller the amount of X-rays a record of the densities or thicknesses of the various that succeed in passing through the object. organs through which the X-rays have passed. With When X-rays are made to penetrate an object hav- training, a person viewing the X-ray film can translate ing a complicated internal structure, they will pass these shadows into a mental image of the structures through in varying amounts, being absorbed more by traversed by the X-rays. Through his familiarity with the dense internal parts and less by the thinner or the shadow picture of a normal, healthy chest, for less-dense parts. When X-rays penetrate the human example, the physician can recognize abnormalities chest, for example, those areas containing bone or when they appear in the X-ray film. thick muscle will absorb a great deal of the X-rays, Certain chest diseases create fairly characteristic whereas those containing air or soft tissues will per- patterns on an X-ray film. In pneumonia, for instance, mit the X-rays to penetrate more freely. the lung is dense, so that the X-ray film is light where Because X-rays act on a photographic emulsion in the normal film would be dark. In tuberculosis similarly much the same fashion as ordinary light, it is possible characteristic shadows may be found in the X-ray film.

8 LIFE & HEALTH However, one shadow pattern can readily resemble laboratory tests to confirm and elaborate X-ray find- another. As most of us learned in childhood, the shadow ings, tuberculosis can be found early and at such a of our hands can look like a rabbit's or a fox's head. point in its progress that much can still be done to Similarly, the shadow pattern of one disease does some- restore the patient to health and well-being. What is times simulate the shadow pattern of another disease. more, the effects of treatment procedures can be fol- In some instances the X-ray image is so character- lowed by X-ray, so that adjustments or changes in a istic of a particular disease that there can be no doubt patient's care can be made as indicated. as to its interpretation. In others, however, this is not In recent years there have been many refinements the case, and once the X-ray has revealed that an of X-ray technic and many developments that have abnormal condition exists, other diagnostic tools must vastly increased the scope and speeded up the tempo of be utilized to identify the abnormal shadow. Hence, tuberculosis case-finding efforts. Great numbers of peo- blood tests, sputum examinations, tuberculin skin tests, ple are having their chests (Turn to page 21) and other diagnostic devices are used to confirm the interpretation of the X-ray findings and to track down the exact disease process responsible for the abnormal X-ray picture. It is this ability to flag areas of abnor- mality or disease, often ahead of obvious symptoms, that gives the X-ray its greatest value in medicine. In tuberculosis it is fortunate that even the early stages of the disease can produce X-ray shadows capa- ble of recognition by the experienced observer. With the chest X-ray as the starting point in diagnosis and

TECHNICIANS, here studying a chest X-ray in the hospital X-ray reading room, are thus able to detect early tuberculosis as in no other way. DECEMBER, 1951 9 What about your medicine chest—

is it a booby trap for your child? POISON our Child! By EDWIll D. BM

VERY year a million children in this country have needed hospital treatment for poison- ing, and more than five hundred of them have died. Even this is not the whole story, for no one knows how many kiddies will bear the scars of searing, maim- ing poison all their lives. No one really knows, either, how many children are killed by poison never diagnosed by a doctor, or how many are poisoned without ever being reported to the statisticians. The sickening tragedy is that every one of these deaths, as well as the indescribable agonies and life- long scars, is needless. They are the terrible harvest of carelessness—carelessness, usually, on the part of those who love the children most, their parents. We have all marveled at the brilliant record of preventive medicine in saving children's lives. On the other hand, the National Office of Vital Statistics re- ported recently that in a single year the death rate from accidental poisonings was higher in the one-to- four-year-old group than the death rate from whoop- ing cough, nearly as high as the death rate from diph-

UNIVERSAL ANTIDOTE Should the calamity of accidental poison- ing come to your house and the nature of the poison be unknown, this universal antidote may be safely given: 1. Powdered carbon (burnt toast), two parts. 2. Magnesium oxide (milk of magnesia), one part. 3. Tannic acid (strong tea), one part. Fortunately, most of the products in this formula are kept in every household, and can quickly be used. The burnt toast (carbon) should be pow- dered so that it will absorb poisons; the milk of magnesia has a soothing effect on injured tissue and a laxative action that will tend to eliminate the poison. Also, milk of magnesia will neutralize acid poisons, being antacid. The tannic acid in strong tea tends to neu- tralize caustic alkaline poisons. THE BEST WAY to prevent household accidents is to be alert to do all you can to make them impossible. Take an inventory of your home. Is it safe for your child? L

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theria and measles, and even higher than the death rate from polio. Here is the kind of thing that is happening every WHAT TO DO day in every part of the country: Unbelievably, the wife of a Washington, D.C., phy- IN CASE OF sician left cologne and perfume on her dresser until her youngster had twice been poisoned by drinking them; she was going to teach him to leave her things alone Emeleacy by spanking him. After the second episode she sadly agreed to keep her cosmetics where the child could not possibly get at them. In another part of the city a father left his favorite oil of wintergreen liniment on a night table before MINOR CUTS going to bed. Early next morning Junior discovered the tantalizing aroma. It smelled just like candy. He By ROY LYMAN SEXTON, M.D. tried a few swallows, and shortly was in convulsions. Washington Safety Services Committee He died within a few hours. What father didn't know American National Red Cross was that the liniment contained a deadly poison. He hadn't noticed the word POISON in big type on the label. WHEN the bleeding of a But parents are not wholly to blame. Curiously, wound is not severe the im- family doctors and even baby specialists seldom men- mediate first-aid need is to tion the dangers of accidental poisonings, though they prevent infection danger spend hours every day preaching the importance of by applying a sterile dress- orange juice, milk, and cod-liver oil. ing and consulting a doctor immediately. If a sterile Physicians in the Children's Hospital in Washing- dressing is not available, ton, even though used to suffering, were shocked when the best substitute is a they searched through four years of accidental-poison- ----1 clean, freshly ironed cloth ing records and discovered the roster of deadly potions or a cloth that has been the youngsters ate or drank. There were 250 cases and washed in soap and water. two deaths from a total of 61 different poisons. Even what may be considered a minor cut or scratch These unhappy youngsters had innocently swal- should not be neglected. The family doctor should be lowed—in order of frequency—kerosene, sleeping tab- consulted regarding its care. Some recommend care- lets, lye, camphor, turpentine, cleaning fluids, alcohols, ful cleansing in tap or boiled water, then application phenols, belladonna, thyroid extract, boric acid, sulfa- of a sterile dressing. Others suggest use of a mild antiseptic. If a minor cut or scratch becomes the least diazine, furniture polish, and even baby powder (when bit sore, consult a doctor immediately, since no matter inhaled it can cause pneumonia). how small the wound, it may always be large enough It is no wonder that Dr. Milton B. Rubin and the for thousands of germs to enter. other Children's Hospital doctors closed their report In the case of puncture wounds such as may be to the District of Columbia Medical Society with this caused by a penetrating object—nail, end of wire— plea : the first aider should encourage bleeding by applying "We should like to add household poison ingestions mild pressure to the edges of the wound with a sterile swallowings] to the growing list of preventable dis- cloth. Then apply a sterile compress, and bandage eases, and to urge every baby specialist to include a snugly into place. It is particularly important to get word of instruction about their prevention as one of medical aid in the case of puncture wounds, because danger of tetanus, or lockjaw, is especially great. his well-baby routines. As soon as the baby is walking No attempt should be made to remove penetrating and has the run of the house, his mother should be in- objects from any wound. If debris is present, dressing formed, preferably in writing, of the dangers of house- should be loose. hold powders, flakes and solutions, and of the impor- tance of keeping these, as well as the usual galaxy of This is the fifth in a series of tips on first aid prepared especially for home remedies, out of sight and reach of small snoop- Life and Health by the American Red Cross. ers." During an interview Dr. Rubin told a frightening story of parental carelessness. Cleaning fluids, which contain all manner of poisonous ingredients, were left about the house in soft-drink bottles. Deadly roach acid, for example, seems an old reliable friend, but powders were scattered in the very corners where in- taken internally it is poisonous. Mothers have actually fants played most often. Candy cathartic pills, brightly confused it with dextri-maltose and mixed it with milk colored, were left within easy reach of tiny hands, and for the youngsters. Again, mothers have prepared one youngster swallowed thirty before mamma noticed boric acid solutions as an infant eyewash, then con- what he was up to! fused the solution with pure water and served it with By no means, however, are the dangers of house- orange juice for the children's breakfast. Such acci- hold and medical preparations always obvious. Boric dents have caused death, (Turn to page 21)

DECEMBER, 1951 11 6 NVator Medi cine QFRED B. M OOR,tical M.D. ngelsts School of Medicine Professor of Th Eva and, Ph!! College of Medical

HE use of common, ordinary water in the treatment of certain diseases and injuries T seems so exceedingly simple that some scoff at it. Nevertheless, hydrotherapy does have a scientific basis in well-established principles. The activities within our bodies are influenced by the tem- perature, the humidity, and the altitude of our environ- ment. These same physiological processes may be in- fluenced by altering this environment through the application of water at varying temperatures and pres- sures to the surface of the body. A simple example will serve to illustrate. Aunt Sue, who was forty-two years of age, suffered from the deforming rheumatic disease called rheuma- toid arthritis. Her doctor prescribed hot tub baths, to be administered three times weekly by the nurse who was caring for her at home. The bathtub was filled two thirds full of water at 100° F. and Aunt Sue was placed in it so that the trunk of her body and her arms and legs were fully covered. By the addition of hot water, the temperature of the bath was gradually raised to 106°. The nurse kept a careful record of Aunt Sue's temperature, pulse rate, breathing rate, and blood pressure, for the doctor's inspection. During the next fifteen minutes as the temperature of the bath rose, the patient's temperature also increased to 101°; her pulse rate increased from 110 to 120 per minute; her breathing rate, from 16 to 20; and her blood pressure, from 110 to 120 millimeters of mercury. H. M. Lambert These body changes are only a few of the more DREAD getting out on an icy winter day? For the most stimulating obvious effects of the hot tub bath. In the chemistry send-off you can possibly have, just try a really zippy cold shower! laboratory we place a Bunsen burner under the test tube to hasten the chemical reaction that we are try- joints were less tender, that muscle spasm was re- ing to produce. Although the comparison is admittedly duced, and that joint motion was freer. crude, in a similar manner we are able to speed up the Therefore we see that this very simple and familiar chemical and physiological processes in the human water treatment does produce definite physiological body by raising its temperature. changes within the body. These effects could have been If the doctor had determined Aunt Sue's consump- markedly increased by raising the temperature of the tion of oxygen after the hot bath, he would have found bath and prolonging it. In fact, the hot bath can be it to be augmented. If he had counted her white blood distinctly dangerous if carried too far; therefore, be- cells, he would have observed them to be increased. fore such a procedure is attempted medical advice He would have discovered on examination that her should be sought.

12 LIFE CI HEALTH immersed his foot and ankle in the hot water for three minutes and then changed to the ice water for one minute. This was repeated six times, ending in the Water has power to give nature a cold water. Between treatments the ankle was snugly wrapped with an elastic bandage. After only a few days on this program Jimmy was back in circulation, much big boost in keeping you healthy. to the glee of his neighborhood friends. Severe sprains may require a considerably longer period for complete healing, however. The contrast bath is the most potent known stim- ulus to local circulation in the extremities, as has been experimentally demonstrated in a well-known scientific laboratory. It was shown that the rate of local Jimmy, aged six, responding to one of those blood flow may be increased as much as 62 to 100 per thoughtless youthful urges born of inexperience, cent. A copious blood flow is essential to the healing jumped from the edge of the garage roof to the ground. processes in injury and disease. Even this rash act may not have caused serious con- Mary Lewis went to see her doctor, complaining sequences had not the edge of one foot landed on a that she was tired all the time, could not seem to get small wooden block. This tipped his foot acutely and her housework done, and made life unpleasant for her sprained his ankle. The pain was severe and the part husband, John, because of an irritable temper. After immediately began to swell and become discolored. a careful diagnostic study the doctor found nothing Summoned by Jimmy's wails, mother helped him to the seriously wrong with Mrs. Lewis. She was somewhat house. Remembering instructions given in a home under normal weight and slightly anemic, apparently nursing class, she placed his foot and ankle immedi- due to bad dietary habits, and irregular periods of rest. ately in cold tap water with a few small pieces of ice After giving her some advice regarding her daily man- added. This quickly relieved much of the pain and held ner of life and supplying her with written instructions back the swelling. The foot and ankle were kept in the concerning her diet, he surprised her by saying, "Mrs. cold water for thirty minutes and were then removed, Lewis, in addition to these things I have told you, I elevated, and snugly bandaged. Over the bandage were should like you to take a cold bath on rising each placed two layers of wool flannel, and, finally, an ice morning." bag was placed on the swollen side of the ankle. This "But, doctor," protested Mrs. Lewis, "won't that treatment was continued for twelve hours with thirty- make me catch my death of cold? Why, I have never minute rest periods every two hours. done such a thing in my life. I have heard of people At the end of twelve hours, after consulting her taking cold baths, but have always considered them home nursing notes, Jimmy's mother began giving mentally deranged." contrast baths three times daily. She put hot water at "On the contrary, Mrs. Lewis," insisted the doctor, 110° in one foot tub and ice water in another. Jimmy "the cold bath will help to protect (Turn to page 29)

Review & Herald Photo EVEN A WEAK, bedfast patient is entitled to the boost that water treatments will give. But take every precaution to keep him warm. DECEMBER, 1951 13 H. A. Roberts THE FAMILY together at Christmas—how many mother hearts long for this joy! As the years pass and ties grow stronger, not only mothers, but all the boys and girls—little and big—love meeting at home. Christ/ Has ifruters leellieffloer By JIM BISHOP Dietitian, Porter Sanitarium and Hospital, Denver

Your attractive Yuletide table and the tasty and unusual dishes you place upon it will strike a final happy note in a joyous Christmas Day.

HE rush is on—the Christmas season is al- —it will be a perfect day. Christmas has to be, you most upon us, with last-minute shopping, know. T loudly whispered secrets, holly, mistletoe, The traditional Christmas dinner is much the same sleigh bells, and Christmas trees. As the day everywhere. A fine big dinner always helps to make approaches, our hearts swell with the ever-growing the day more festive. It must be different, delicious, feeling of joy and excitement and with the plans and and abundant in both quality and quantity. secrets hidden within them. Perhaps in the following ideas and recipes you will Your dream may be of a white and sparkling day find inspiration to try something new on your own. among the pines of New England, where the snow is Tomato Juice Cocktail glistening and crunchy beneath your feet—the kind 11 tbs. grated onion 46-ounce can tomato juice of day reserved for sleigh rides and tobogganing, 11 tbs. finely chopped celery 11 tsp. sugar or honey laughter and- carols. 11 tbs. finely chopped pepper 21 tsp. salt Or your thoughts may turn to the soft green South- 6 tbs. lemon juice 11 tsp. soy sauce land and a warm, lazy day full of flower-scented Combine all ingredients. Chill 2 hours. Strain and pour breezes, to a green Christmas, wrens and Spanish moss into glasses. Place the filled glasses in the refrigerator one adding to the enchantment. hour before serving time. Yield is 17 cocktail glasses. You may serve this without straining if desired. The ingredients Wherever you are—New Hampshire or South Caro- may vary according to taste. Also you may freeze it to a lina, Michigan or California, in a mansion or a cottage soft mush and serve.

14 LIFE & HEALTH Wheat Sticks 4 cups whole-wheat flour 1i cups chopped nuts or * PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE * shredded coconut 1 cup brown sugar cup shortening 1 cup cold water 1 tbs. salt Combine all ingredients, using only enough water to make a stiff dough. Knead thoroughly. Roll out to 1-inch thickness. Cut into strips 1 by 3 inches. Bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes. Watch carefully, for these wheat sticks may brown quickly. Yield is 6 dozen. Christmas Tree Salad Make up a vegetable gelatin as directed on the package. When it is partially congealed stir in sliced red radishes, lots of them. Put into Christmas tree molds or into pointed paper cups supported in glasses. Serve on salad greens with dressing. Jelled Cranberry Fruit Salad 9 tbs. strawberry vegetable 11 cups cranberries 1 medium orange gelatin THE BEST CHRISTMAS OF ALL cup chopped celery 3 tbs. sugar or honey A 1 cup cold water 1 apple, diced By D. A. DELAFIELD 1 cup boiling water cup chopped walnuts Dissolve vegetable gelatin and sugar or honey in boiling Let's make December 25, 1951, the best Christ- water. Add cold water. Grind cranberries and orange. Mix mas of our lives—with gifts for the family, toys for into gelatin and chill. When gelatin mixture begins to the children, and useful presents for husband and thicken, fold in celery, nuts, and apple. Pour into individual wife, mother and father, friends and relatives, the molds or serving dish. Chill until firm. Serve on salad Christmas tree, nuts, fruits, and candy, Christmas greens, and top with desired dressing. Serves 8 or 10. dinner, and Christmas spirit. All of these will liven the festal day. Mock Roast Duck And when you buy your gifts, please remember 2 cups dry bread crumbs cup finely chopped celery that Christmas is Someone's birthday. Not really, 11 cups cooked rice 2 cups thin cream gravy of course, for we have no proof that Christ was 11 cups ground walnuts sage, onion, salt, food tone born on December 25. But December 25 has come 2 or 3 hard-boiled eggs (any monosodium gluta- to be accepted as the anniversary of His nativity. 2 raw eggs mate product) and sea- So include Him in your plans for the day. 1 cup pitted ripe olives sonings Not many people put Christ on their shopping Make a thin cream gravy and pour over the bread list. Not one in thousands will be looking for a crumbs. Let stand until cool. Mix rice, nuts, olives, celery, gift for Him this year, yet it's His birthday we're sage, onions, hard-boiled eggs, salt, and flavorings. Add to celebrating. bread. Mix well and fold in beaten eggs. Shape into drum- Listen, there is something you can do to make sticks. Makes 12 to 16. Bake at 325° for about one hour. Him happy this year. Buy a gift for one of His Serve with sour cream or egg gravy. needy children, and He will accept it as if you had Walnut Potato Loaf given it to Him. Seek out some poor family. It may be a widow 1 cup ground raw potatoes 1 tbs. melted butter and her children. Armed with a neighborly smile 1 cup ground walnuts 1 ground onion and a basket of Christmas cheer, you can set the 3 eggs (measure before grinding) candle of hope burning again. 1 cup dry bread crumbs 1 tsp. salt Make a visit to the municipal jail and carry 1 cup hot tomato juice tsp. sage along several gift packages for the prisoners. Set Mix together and steam 2 hours. Slice and serve with a Christmas candle burning there. tomato sauce or brown gravy. This is delicious served cold Drive out to the reformatory, the old folks' or sliced in sandwiches. home, the hospital, or the sanitarium and take a Cranberry Relish pleasant package or two along. Watch the expres- Wash 4 cups of cranberries and 2 oranges. Quarter the sion on those care-worn faces when eager hands oranges and remove the seeds. Grind cranberries and or- clasp your gifts to their hearts and exclaim, "Some- anges together. Add sugar or honey to taste, and let stand one remembered!" several hours or overnight. Fill hollowed orange halves Send a gift overseas to a worthy family or to and arrange around your roast alternately with parsley. some GI you know in Korea or Western Europe. Use your ingenuity in cutting the edges of the orange shells. Buy something useful and send it with a seasonal For a garnish with your main dish, drain canned pear catd, colorful, hopeful, cheering. Breathe a little halves, saving the juice. Color the juice green and flavor prayer that God will take the gift and bless it. with mint. Put the pears back in and let stand overnight. Think of what would happen if everyone cele- Drain and fill each half with currant, cranberry, or other brated Christmas this way. It may be a new red Jelly. Arrange around roast with a little parsley. You thought. But isn't it worth thinking about? Said may grow parsley in a window box, in a pot in your kitchen, the great Teacher, "Inasmuch as ye have done it or in your garden. It usually will stay fresh and green under unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have the snow most of the winter. done it unto me." Frozen French-cut green beans make an extra-fine vege- "God so loved the world, that he gave his only table dish when a few sliced blanched almonds are added, begotten son." Christ loved the world, and He having been heated in a little butter. Also you may add gave Himself. The Christ spirit in your heart and color by putting some diced green pepper and pimentos into mine will make Christmas Day, 1951, the happiest whole-kernel corn. Mashed or baked squash or sweet po- and the best Christmas of our lives. tatoes in a casserole or candied are always welcomed. Try a casserole of sliced cooked yams or sweet potatoes alter- nated with layers of thinly sliced red, (Turn to page 27) tVWCKWCATA.

DECEMBER, 1951 15 Vhe SKIN draws Old! A PAUL D. FOSTER, M.D.

Man is ever learning to hold Father Time at bay a little longer.

S MODERN medicine gives us a longer life der the name geriatrics, medical management of the span, each of us desires to remain young, diseases of old age. virile, and attractive. So skin health becomes The progressive changes coming naturally with the A doubly important in this day and age of lon- aging process have their own certain dignity, gradu- gevity. We live a relatively short time with our skins ! ally appearing and rarely in themselves bringing dis- In 1850 life expectancy at birth was but a span of ease. However, atrophy, wasting away of the skin due forty years. It seems now a simple matter to stay to nutritional failure, often leaves the surface of the youthful for that relatively short period of time, but body subject to injury and infection. Also slowing of art and literature reveal a contrary state of affairs the circulation can affect the metabolism of all bodily in the past, and women especially appear to have been as aged and wrinkled at forty as the grand- mothers of seventy today. PART ONE OF A TWO-PART SERIAL With a life expectancy increased to sixty-three years or more today, neither women nor men are re- signed to showing their age. Even when time eventually has demanded its inevitable toll, many are the nostrums, rituals, and artifices em- ployed to outwit and delay payment. Actually man should live 180 to 200 years if his potential span were based on the flexible theory that animal life should survive ten times its growing time. The turtle, which has a slow growth of twenty-five years, often lives to be 250 years old. The horse, full grown at two years old, may live to be twenty- five. It seems probable that the men- tal and emotional upheavals in mod- ern man impede and cut off the longevity that is his birthright. Certainly the skin of the aged at death is usually perfectly capable of sustaining a much longer life. Changes in the skin at various ages are due partially to the "aging process" and due partially to the diseases of the elderly. Old age is not a disease itself, as believed for many centuries. In the light of new understanding, Brooks, From Monkmeyer many of the infirmities of the aged GIVE THOUGHT, and plenty of it, to your health at the earliest possible time in your life. are now given special attention un- What you do in the early years to keep your body well brings your later years much comfort.

16 LIFE & HEALTH figurement. If psoriasis has not attacked by mid- dle age, it is unlikely that it ever will. The same can be said of tuberculosis of the skin, lupus er- ythematosus, and the skin diseases caused by al- lergies. As with eczema of the climacteric, the patient with menopausal psoriasis may have had the dis- ease previously. Most authorities now agree that psoriasis is an allergic reaction of the skin, not caused by a virus. There is a relation between psoriasis and the rheumatic diseases. In child- hood it is often associated with rheumatic fever and streptococcal infection of the throat. In adult men there is an association with gout; and in women, with menopausal arthritis. Although a "baby" skin is a rare thing in the aged, a skin of old age is occasionally seen in the young and middle-aged. The skin, we must remember, is not merely an envelope to protect or insulate the body, al- though it does both. It is the largest and one of the most important organs of the body. It has a blood-vessel and nerve supply; it secretes, ex- cretes, and takes part in metabolic processes and responses bringing about immunity to disease. Constantly exposed to both external and internal influences as it is, it is dependent on the efficiency of its many functions for the preservation of health, perhaps for the difference between life H. M. Lambert and death. THE ATMOSPHERE that a sweet little granny brings the household makes The senile skin has a decidedly thinned epi- everyone happier. Learn how to make grandmother happier and healthier! dermis, due to atrophy, and it usually has some degree of glossiness. The horny layer remains al- tissues. The degeneration of the lymphoid tissue most the same as that in the young, or in some cases throughout the body, occurring in old age, is especially increases in thickness to a great degree. The basal significant, inasmuch as the lymph nodes and the layer of the epidermis is intensely pigmented, and the spleen are threatened. Their constitute an important skin is no longer pink and white but muddy or sallow. barrier against the bacterial invaders of the body. Wrinkling, a usual change, is partly caused by a loss The ability of the body to form antibodies against bac- of fat under the skin. Breakdown of hair follicles is teria is seriously impaired when the lymph nodes and progressive, with slow loss of hair and progressive the spleen are disturbed, for antibodies are formed whitening of hair shafts; and the sweat glands are less readily in aged persons than in younger adults. less active and fewer in number. Germs of relatively low strength may initiate serious In chronic skin disease the skin shows thickening, diseases, because the process of aging and the maladies loss of elasticity, cracking, and possibly darkening. that go with it have done so much to undermine the The formation of folds in the aged skin is an inter- natural defenses of the body. esting phenomenon. At twenty the hands and face are Some of the diseases of age, such as a chronic itch- free of wrinkles, but gradually, as the individual nears ing, may have been constant or recurrent since child- the age of fifty, the skin of the hands tends to become hood. Others, such as cancer, are almost always pe- rough, dry, with a tendency to darkened, horny spots. culiar to middle or old age. The effects of certain child- The neck becomes the site of deep, interlacing folds hood diseases contribute their early destruction to the and crisscross lines. The folds become deeper toward aging of the skin. Elderly persons may bear disfiguring the age of eighty, and the toothless mouth has a curious marks of acne, chickenpox, smallpox, dark-colored disposition to show folds and lines radiating from it. scars, or the effects of a nervous habit of scratching Pathological changes in the skin—those due to dis- the skin since childhood. In elderly persons there may ease—are mostly due to blood-vessel changes. Barring be blemishes of the various pigmentations, patches of disease and given adequate diet and normal living horny scars, enlarged scars, large pores, and black- conditions, a man might live on indefinitely if his heads. arteries didn't wear out. Many of the chronic adult skin diseases begin in Hardening of the arteries and other conditions are early life, although the young may suffer many trou- associated with advancing age. Hardening of the ar- blesome skin conditions that the aged are spared. By teries includes changes such as diminished elasticity, the detection of these conditions in their early stages, stretching, and tortuosity of the arteries. However, it much can be done to prevent later suffering and dis- is no longer believed that this (Turn to page SO)

DECEMBER, 1951 17 Courtesy of Lederle Laboratories AUREOMYCIN, lifesaver of mothers and babes, owes its origin and progress to these men. Dr. Benjamin Duggar (center), its discoverer, ponders its marvels with Charles Pidacks and Dr. F. E. Fontaine, who help produce it. AID TO AAR. STORE' A LE ROY H. THOMPSOR, M.D.

Miracle drugs make childbearing safer today than ever before.

OT too long ago the stork frequently assumed ing adequate diets have less difficulty bearing children the guise of Edgar Allan Poe's raven, a har- than those who approach childbirth without such nu- binger of disaster, and caused many parents tritional foresight. In addition, steps are taken to see to say, "Nevermore!" As recently as 1940 that diets are adjusted so that babies do not enter the babies came the slow and painful way, and very often world too fat, a condition that makes childbirth more tragedy followed in their little footsteps. difficult. But the baby business is changing, like everything Most adults can easily remember when the cor- else in this fast-moving, modern world. Fortunately, ridors of maternity wards rang with anguished cries, new and startling developments are not limited to su- and first labors quite commonly lasted twenty-four personic jet planes, robot mechanical brains, and atomic hours, seldom less than twelve. Today that is all explosions. Quietly, but quite efficiently, medical re- changed. Pain-killing drugs, expert obstetrical care in searchers have been working to make life-giving easier specialized departments of hospitals, emotional adjust- and safer. ment of the mother, and many other factors have made Today childbirth is relatively painless and safe— Mr. Stork a tame and welcome household visitor. not absolutely painless and not absolutely safe, but Steadily increasing birth rates show that young relatively so. A number of developments have brought married women appreciate these advances, and are about this remarkable progress. more willing to bear children. First, doctors have learned the importance of con- But there has been one speck of a dark cloud on the trolling the mother's diet before the birth of her baby. horizon to mar this otherwise beautiful picture—in- Statistics prove that mothers in good health and eat- fection.

18 LIFE & HEALTH Until• the sulfa drugs came into use, there was al- On November 25, 1950, the Journal of the American most nothing that could be done effectively to prevent Medical Association announced that for the first time and treat childbirth infections. Sulfanilamide and in history the maternal mortality rate for this nation sulfadiazine helped the doctor considerably. The sulfa had been pushed to slightly below the apparently ir- drugs, however, are chiefly effective against a rela- reducible minimum of one maternal death for each tively narrow group of bacteria, called the Gram-posi- 1,000 live births! tive invaders. Many of the Gram-negatives and many This is an enormous reduction from the 1933 rate other germ invaders were left almost completely un- of 6.2 maternal deaths for each 1,000 live births. But checked. these bare statistics do not tell the whole story. Then came penicillin, which is still useful in many Obviously the average for the entire country is cases. Its widespread production on a large scale and much worse than the average for cases that attend its relatively cheaper method of production have re- clinics, take every possible precaution, and are cared duced its price to a low figure. But, like the sulfa drugs, for by competent physicians in good, well-equipped penicillin has too narrow a range against germs that hospitals. In other words, even the national average, cause infections after childbirth, and against some it weighted down by averaging the worst cases with the is totally ineffective. best, gives a statistical chance of 999 out of 1,000 of Penicillin is relatively nontoxic, and although it is surviving childbirth. But under the best circumstances sometimes very effective in large doses, it usually has the chances are even better than this—possibly soon to be administered with a needle. they will be as high as 9,999 out of 10,000. Late in 1948 the discovery of a new miracle drug In the spring of 1950 a report was published in was announced by Lederle Laboratories at Pearl River, the Journal of the American Medical Association from New York. It was aureomycin, the "golden wonder the departments of obstetrics, preventive medicine, and drug," which achieves near perfection in attacking bacteriology of Johns Hopkins University on the use most of the common germs to which human beings are of aureomycin in obstetrics. The authors pointed out heir. that the normal condition after the arrival of the baby was for the mother's womb to contain a wide variety of bacteria, a vast majority of which were found to be sensitive to the action of aureomycin by test-tube experiments. These experiments were compared with actual ef- fects in patients. Where mothers received aureomycin, only about 12 per cent showed bacteria on culture tests; whereas among those who did not receive this new antibiotic drug, 75 per cent showed bacteria. Further, it was found that the drug is highly useful for infec- tions of the lining of the abdomen (peritonitis), in- fected miscarriages, and similar infections. Aureomycin is also effective (Turn to page 30)

BEING a baby is not the hazardous occupation ONE of the tanks that hold the mash from THIS precious infant, born in the year 1951, it once was. Today's infant is shielded from which is produced aureomycin—that watchdog has a better chance to live to be President of former dangers by highly trained physicians. of babies that protects them from infection. his country than any of his kind in history!

DECEMBER, 1951 19 ct: AMIN PHYSICIAN

We do not diagnose or treat disease by mail, but answer general health questions. Enclose stamped, addressed envelope. Address: Family Physician, LIFE & HEALTH, Washington 12, D.C.

Low Blood Sugar However, the problems may be largely "Blue Baby" Cure psychological. Your family physician, I have been told I have low blood a man of long experience, frequently Can surgery cure a "blue baby"? sugar. Does this mean I am a diabetic? can give excellent counsel in dealing The condition commonly called "blue What can I do? with the problems of this diagnosis. baby" results when an opening be- It is quite possible that the low blood Nervous strains and mental tensions tween the right and left sides of the sugar you complain of is associated have much to do with conditions some- heart remains patent and lets the with an overproduction of insulin times thought of as neurasthenic mani- blood mix without its passing through rather than an underproduction, as in festations. Improper function of the the lungs. This, if very slight, may not the diabetic patient. internal glands and organs may result hinder the development of the child. There are a number of conditions in weakness. If it is marked, and the child becomes that may enter into the low-blood- blue on activity, the disorder must be sugar picture. A depressed activity of regarded as more or less serious. the adrenal glands, a disturbed func- There are some instances where sur- tion of the liver, a poor digestion of In the next issue . . . gery has been done successfully on starches and sugars, or exhausting these children. In a very young child physical activity may be considered WHY DID the hazard would perhaps be more than among the causes of low blood sugar. what is usually undertaken. The ab- A person with low blood sugar fre- HE DO IT normality present in the heart must quently is comfortable if he eats six be considered in deciding about sur- or seven times a day. The main meal By J. Edgar Hoover gery. should be taken as usual, but between meals a sandwich or a glass of fruit An article that is certain juice may hold him over and enable to disturb ... him to take the day's activities quite and arouse you! normally. Some recommend including a fatty food in the between-meal Shortness of Breath snacks. We have seen good results without the use of the fat. How can I avoid shortness of breath Pernicious Anemia when exercising? My physician tells me I have per- We would gather from the symp- r * * nicious anemia, and my eyes trouble toms you mention that your heart is me a lot. What are my chances? weakened to some degree, and is not Neurasthenia Pernicious anemia no longer need able to carry on in suddenly increased Is neurasthenia a serious disease, bring the dread feeling it formerly exercise. The throwing up of food may and what medicine do you recommend? did. By the use of certain vitamin B accompany an overburdening of the preparations and liver extracts the heart in periods of increased activity. Neurasthenia is a diagnosis not condition is thoroughly controlled, and We would suggest that as soon as often made by doctors at the present the expectation of life is essentially you feel any tendency to weakness time. It used to be a relatively com- normal. However, one afflicted with coming on, you stop and rest a few mon one. Because many of the condi- this disease should be under the regu- moments. Plan your trips in such a tions formerly listed under the general lar care of a physician so that any way that you do not have to be under term neurasthenia have come to be changes in the blood count or nervous a strain for more than a short period understood more fully, better and more symptoms may be noted and cared for of time. You may be active for a few exact diagnoses are made. promptly. minutes, then rest, and later resume If you have opportunity to consult We do not think of any essential activity without unfavorable symp- a neurologist, or one who specializes reason for the eyes to be involved in toms. Perhaps a doctor knowing your in diseases of the nervous system, you this disease. They should have care condition by actual observation could probably would receive as much help as indicated by the symptoms present prescribe medicine that would give you as any one person might give you. at any time. a little greater range of activity.

20 LIFE & HEALTH Don't Poison Your Child! they contain only what the labels claim. (Continued from page 11) For your benefit container labels and some hospitals have dispensed en- must carry the word POISON in big tirely with boric acid for just these type—if the contents are poisonous— reasons. and for your doctor's benefit they Shaving cream, toilet soap, aspirin, must tell the ingredients and the anti- and cigarettes are other innocent- dotes. appearing items that can cause trouble Remember this well: No label, no inside Junior. And, remember, young- matter how carefully written, will do sters in the dangerous one-to-four- any good if you pour the poisonous year-old group don't seem to care contents into a plain pop bottle. I Discovered How To about taste. They swallow first and The Department of Agriculture ad- regret later. vises everyone to read all labels care- A Chicago father nonchalantly fully and follow directions to the last dropped a cigarette butt in his half- dot. They were written for your pro- HEAR AGAIN empty coffee cup, then went off to tection, but no law can help you if work. His young daughter promptly you ignore them. IN 20 SECONDS drained the coffee, and came down As for the poisonous bug and rodent I was in despair when I began to with a nasty case of nicotine poison- killers, the most painstaking precau- lose my hearing. Then one day—in ing. The coffee had soaked up the tions are necessary. Many doctors ad- just 20 seconds—I discovered how to poison from the tobacco! vise the employment of professional hear again. Thanks to the new Beltone Dr. Rubin and experts in the Chil- exterminators for pest problems. They Phantomold — a transparent, almost dren's Bureau of the Federal Security are far less likely than amateurs to invisible device — NO BUTTON leave wisps of poison lying about for SHOWS IN MY EAR. Discover how children to eat. you, too, may hear again. Write today "No one ever asked you to worry— Modern science has given us un- for valuable FREE new booklet—tells that was your own idea." counted useful drugs, household prep- all the facts. No cost or obligation arations, and chemicals for our gar- whatsoever.A penny post card will do: dens. Is it asking too much of parents Agency believe the only precaution is, to use them properly and store them wherever possible, to keep locked up safely—for their children's sake? whatever you don't want children to MONO-PAC eat. They warn against merely putting ONE-UNIT HEARING AID things out of reach. Kiddies know how Beltone Hearing Aid Co., Dept. 261 F to use chairs for climbing. Even an X-ray in T.B. Diagnosis 1450 West 19th St., Chicago 8, III. ape knows enough to put a crate under a banana hung from the top of his (Continued from page 9) cage. X-rayed in mass surveys all over the In the kitchen, for example, why not country. Entire schools, institutions, put canned foods in the easy-to-reach industries, and even communities are cabinets, and 'keep a special, locked thus receiving chest examinations in cabinet for all the cleaning fluids? the fight against tuberculosis. Abnor- Poisons, by the way, should never be mal shadows found in these mass sur- kept in pantries for any reason what- vey films are being followed by fur- soever. ther X-ray studies, tuberculin tests, It is easy to keep the bathroom med- sputum examinations, and other tests, icine cabinet locked, but don't forget and cases of tuberculosis are being MODERN MEDICAL FACILITIES to include soaps and shaving creams. found. Most often the cases discovered for the treatment of They may contain alkalies. are the "hidden" cases, those who MEDICAL, SURGICAL, OBSTETRICAL, Powders, perfumes, facial creams, would otherwise have continued un- AND NEUROLOGICAL CASES and hair-wave preparations can be wittingly to spread the disease in their In Healthful Colorado kept in a locked dresser drawer in the homes and communities. Moreover, the bedroom when not in use. cases are discovered early, so that PORTER SANITARIUM AND HOSPITAL We might include a word of warn- treatment can be started while the Colo. ing about toys and paints containing patients stand the best chance for re- 2525 South Downing Denver, lead, a slow-acting but subtle and covery. powerful poison that causes a chronic The X-ray, then, has proved itself disease. beyond any doubt an invaluable Parents must take these simple pre- weapon in the war on tuberculosis. cautions on their own responsibility. With the mobility and economy of the SUBSCRIBE TO But in the complex field of economic chest X-ray it is fast becoming the de- poisons (there are 20,000 registered vice through which every year mil- with the U.S. Department of Agricul- lions of Americans take action against ture) your Government can and will the disease. For most Americans the help. A law requires the most detailed X-ray is their picture of health; Sam labeling of the myriad Preparations whereas for those found to have the for killing weeds, bugs, rodents, and disease the X-ray is their "ticket to FOR YOUR FAMILY'S SAKE! fungi. Further, the Government chem- health," through prompt treatment ists check the preparations, to be sure and care. DECEMBER, 1951 21 OTHER'S COUNSELOR By BELLE WOOD COMSTOCK, M.D.

Questions for this department should be addressed: Mother's Counselor, LIFE Cr HEALTH, Washington 12, D.C. Enclose stamped, addressed envelope for reply. •

Child's Jealousy I think one great mistake we moth- relationships most important to them. ers make is that of talking too much It is well for every mother to try to My five-year-old daughter has been when it comes to discipline. Say a see each situation with her children's a problem since our son was born. thing once. If the children don't pay eyes. If she could once get their view They are three years apart. She has attention to it, do something about it. of her, it might help her to see the never been mean, but she teases him Yet don't expect too much of them. problem as it really is. a lot. That is another mistake we often I know at first I was too busy to make. show her enough attention. She is a As to punishments, I fear you are nervous child, and doesn't obey very making a mistake in your spankings. Baby's Eczema well. It seems as if I can talk and talk, When there is defiant disobedience, of but the children just don't listen. I My four-month-old daughter has would like to know other punishments, been suffering with eczema on her face for I think I spank too much. Spanking and in her scalp. She was breast fed doesn't seem to help mine to obey. go Y3aty and bottle fed on whole milk for the I am very sympathetic with you in By NATHANIEL KRUM first six weeks. The doctor has taken your problem. I know how difficult it her off that, and now her diet consists is to avoid such situations unless one Cuddle in my arms, my little dear; of mull-soy milk, a few vegetables, is aware of the danger before it devel- Cuddle in my arms beside me here. carrots, string beans, peas, and mixed ops. It is easy to understand how a Cuddle in my arms and coo awhile; vegetables. No fruit juices. The eczema little three-year-old can feel pushed Cuddle in my arms—I love your smile. had almost disappeared, but she is out when a new baby comes. There is Cuddle in my arms and look at me; itching very much again, and little nothing sweeter than a three-year-old Cuddle in my arms so tenderly. bumps are returning to her face, neck, baby girl, and before the baby was Cuddle in my arms while shadows creep; ears, and scalp. born she was the center of admiring Cuddle in my arms and go to sleep. Very often in a case like your little interest. daughter's there has been a food in- Then you were thrilled over the new jury in the early feeding program. arrival, and at first sister received course something needs to be done Perhaps her food was too concen- little attention and all at once was summarily, such as withholding a trated. treated as an adult. A three-year-old privilege or putting the child to bed. By now she is five months old. I cannot understand the reason for all If spanking is administered, it should would put her on low-fat milk or even this, and can suffer all the misery of be done in such a way that there will skimmed milk, boiled for three min- being discarded by those who have be little likelihood of a repetition. utes and no sugar added. Gradually made so much over her. There is some When a child becomes defiant in dis- you could put the cream back into the similarity between the child's feelings obedience, a smart spanking that milk. and those of a rejected wife. stings sufficiently may be necessary, She could have her puréed vegeta- I can see no other way now but that but it will not need to be repeated bles and cereal as you have been giving you make it up to the dear little girl often. her, but no added sugar or fat. by paying her a great deal of attention If little sister teases brother too To be sure about each food she takes, and not paying very much attention to much, it may be practical to separate consider a quart of boiled milk her the little boy when she is around. You, them entirely. Whatever you do, let it basic food. To this add one thing, such of course, will not neglect him, but for be indicated that you are master of the as mashed banana. In two or three a while special loving should not be situation and not a helpless victim of days add another food to the milk-and- done in her presence. your children's antagonisms. With banana diet, say, a vegetable or a In any way you can, let her do some- your children at the ages of two and cereal. Gradually add one thing at a thing for the baby, even if it is just five you still have every opportunity time until you are sure no one particu- bringing you a diaper. Make remarks with wisdom and dignity to bring lar food is causing trouble. to others in her presence as to how about a state of obedient cooperation I hope this eczema can be corrected much help she is in taking care of from them. They will thus have re- now, because it often becomes less brother, and let her know continually spect not only for your authority but responsive to treatment as the child how much you love and depend on her. for all the general principles of human grows older. I wish you full success!

22 LIFE & HEALTH Christmas Time By RICHARD F. RIDEOUT

Oh, can't you have fun with a Christmas tree And a houseful of children small, A tree that's alight with tinsel bright And a tip that is straight and tall!

The presents scattered beneath the glow Are a wonderful sight to see. I know there's a toy for each girl and boy, And there may be a toy for me!

I think it's grand to have girls and boys To share in the Christmas cheer. And don't you agree that the spirit of glee Makes every wee one more dear?

DECEMBER, 1951 23 "Yes, you may. There is something for each of the twins and something for you, Tommy," said Daddy. The children looked puzzled as the package was finally opened. Inside Wings of Hea were three boards about twelve inches square. Down the left side were little places where pieces of cardboard could By VEDA SUE MARSH. R.N. be inserted, and beyond each of these was a row of thirty-two holes. In a box were little colored wooden pegs. A CLUB FOR BOYS AND GIRLS There was also a package of cardboard pieces. "Mother can help Tommy letter his A PACKAGE WRAPPED IN GREEN cardboard pieces, but my Little Jays I T WAS New Year's Eve as the Little "What bird is this on my knee?" can print so nicely they may label Jays and Tommy were busily pop- asked Daddy, acting greatly surprised. theirs," said Daddy briskly. ping corn in the fireplace. Mother and "This is your knee bird," laughed A table was set up and everything Daddy came in with trays. Joan. "But, Daddy, you did not an- was finally in readiness. It was still a "Oh, goody," said Tommy, "baked swer my question. What night is deep, dark secret. What was it all apples and nuts !" this ?" about? Should they put the pegs in "And bowls for popcorn and milk," "It is Monday night!" now? added Joan. "Oh, Daddy, you are just trying to Daddy began to explain. "I thought That was a favorite "fireplace sup- tease me!" these wooden charts would be fine to per" and a treat the children looked "It is New Year's Eve, Joan dear." use for many of the projects we might forward to with great joy. "At last you are right! And that carry on. Perhaps our best New Year's resolution this year might be to work out a well-balanced day. In order to keep healthy and grow tall and strong, we need to keep our days well bal- anced. Mother can be our secretary as we work out this well-balanced daily program. It may need some variations for each one of you, but most of the points will be the same. "We shall put each item on a slip of paper and insert it at the left. Then as you do that particular thing each day, the pegs can be put in. If you have a perfect record at the end of the month, a gold peg may be inserted in the last place." "What fun!" said Joan. "Let's make out the list." This is the way the list looked when completed: 1. Brush teeth. 2. Regular elimination. 3. Well-balanced breakfast : Orange, cereal, toast, milk, and fruit. 4. To school on time. 5. Well-balanced dinner: Potatoes, two vegetables, one green or yellow Ewing Galloway and one raw frequently, protein dish "Haven't we had a wonderful always means we can stay up later." such as cottage cheese or gluten Christmas !" said John. Daddy smiled over Joan's head at steaks, whole-wheat bread and butter, "How fine it would be," said Daddy, Tommy in the firelight. "Son, would and milk. Perhaps a simple dessert. "if every boy' and girl in the entire you like to look on the library table 6. After school, practice or chores. world could have as nice a Christmas. and bring the package you'll find there 7. Play period. I am proud of my family. I think it wrapped in green paper." 8. Supper: Fruits or soup, toast, was a great idea that each of us give Away ran Tommy. It is such fun protein dish, milk. up one toy or present we would really opening packages. Tommy had thought 9. Story period. enjoy, in order to have a large offer- they were through opening packages 10. Brush teeth. ing for missions. It is much more im- for this year, but now on the last eve- 11. Baths three to seven times a portant to give to others than to have ning of the old year Daddy had an- week. so many luxuries ourselves." other package for them. 12. To bed early. Tommy at 7 P.M. "Daddy, do you remember what It was quite heavy, and something Little Jays at 8 P.M. night this is?" asked Joan as she rattled. How would you like to balance your climbed onto his knee. 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In at bringing new strength and vigor to who are married is now at the highest the country as a whole the proportion body, mind, and spirit of each medical, surgical, and obstetrical case admitted. point in at least sixty years, and the of adult males who are single has fal- same is true for men at all but the len from 35 to 29 per cent between EUGENE LELAND MEMORIAL HOSPITAL advanced ages. 1940 and 1949; among women the cor- Riverdale, Maryland "The increase in the married popu- responding decrease was from 28 to lation results to some extent from the 23 per cent." DECEMBER, 1951 25 If you have a question or problem regarding food or diet, address: The Dietitian, LIFE Cs HEALTH, Washington 12, D.C. Enclose stamped, addressed envelope for reply.

The Food Budget raisins, prunes, or figs. Lunch : Milk, help to make these plain foods accepta- hard-cooked egg when not used at ble. Please print a diet list of the foods dinner; sandwiches with mashed There will be week-end suppers for most important for good health. We beans, potato salad, grated-carrot-and- which you will have perhaps just pop- are a family of six, having four chil- onion or peanut butter filling; an ap- corn and milk; vegetable stew, toast, dren 8 to 12. My husband works hard, ple or raisins. Dinner: Beans, dry and milk; or the old standby maca- and he and two of the children have peas, eggs, cottage cheese, or roast of roni and cheese with carrot or cab- borderline anemia. leftovers; potatoes cooked in the skin bage salad. The following daily food consump- as a rule; vegetable as salad, canned Try cottage cheese with milk, an tion list represents a balanced and ade- tomatoes, lettuce, cabbage, or raw egg or two, margarine, and garlic as quate diet. Prices in the markets may a sauce instead of more expensive in- vary somewhat. It would be wise to gredients. You will find it tasty. shop once a week, and if possible, It would be ideal if you could make purchase canned tomatoes, sauer- your own bread, so far as healthful- kraut, and molasses in gallon size, ness is concerned, but usually it does which are available in many big not pay the city family that can se- food markets. Sometimes raisins and cure day-old bread. If you can pur- prunes can be purchased in wooden chase the flour in large bags and use boxes at a saving. Buy potatoes, ap- a yeast starter instead of fresh yeast, ples, dry onions, and beans by the you can reduce the cost. Water may bushel. be used in place of milk in making the This diet may seem a little monoto- bread, and fat can be omitted. The nous, but it includes the best blood flavor may be varied by the use of builders, such as eggs, molasses, potato water, caraway seeds, raisins, greens, dried fruits, and whole-wheat molasses, brown sugar or honey, soya bread. The whole-milk allowance will flour, and wheat germ. probably be given largely to the chil- dren and husband to buy milk at lunchtime to go with their home-pre- BUY CHRISTMAS SEALS pared sandwiches. The dried skim milk is quite satisfying on porridge FIGHT TUBERCULOSIS Washing Dishes and as a beverage. Mix the skim milk What is considered the best ap- with whole milk half and half when proved method for washing dishes? you can, as on the week end. Some families never have anything but skim It is thought best to dispense with milk. spinach leaves; milk to drink, whole- the dishcloth and use in its place a wheat bread with margarine. bristle brush that is easily cleaned Daily Food Consumption List Dessert is not planned, for it is not and dries quickly. One with a handle is 3 quarts whole milk .60 a daily essential. An extra apple, an convenient. Some like the new sponges, 3 quarts dried skim milk made up .21 6 eggs .35 oatmeal or a molasses cookie, molasses which can be sterilized by boiling. Canned tomatoes, raw cabbage, lettuce, spinach .25 cake, peanuts, or popcorn are best des- For tins a metal scraper is efficient 1 pound raisins, figs, or prunes .25 serts. and sanitary. Some consider the fat- Apples .30 Potatoes .25 As you know, many tasty roasts and free dishwashing compounds more Carrots, dry onions, rutabagas, sauerkraut, or beets. Greens every other day when patties can be made by grinding left- sanitary than fat-containing soap. possible .25 over beans, potatoes, corn meal mush, When the hot water breaks soap down Beans baked with molasses ; dry peas, or soybeans .20 vegetables, or what have you with dry the fat may lodge in crevices of dishes, Oatmeal or corn meal, wheat or rice oc- casionally .10 onions, sage, dry bread, and an egg and breed toxic germs. Margarine and salad dressing .20 for each cupful of the mixture. It is considered wise to scald dishes Day-old whole-wheat bread .50 Extras such as salt, sugar, flour, and fat .15 Vegetable leftover shepherd's pie after thoroughly washing and rinsing and soup are also tasty. The skillful them. Let them air dry in a rack. The This list is based on meals like use of dried parsley, dried celery tea towel used to dry silver should be these: Breakfast: Cereal, milk; apple, leaves, celery seed, sage, and basil will used only once before laundering.

26 LIFE & HEALTH Christmas Dinners You'll Remember green for your various arrangements. For another lovely setting, try this THE LOW SALT DIET (Continued from page 15) one : Use a plain white cloth of cotton CELLU K-SALT unpeeled apples. Put a little butter and or linen damask (tint it a pale green • Adds a salty tang to im- brown sugar between each layer. Sprinkle if you like). Make rustic candlehold- prove flavor of foods, without brown sugar on top, pour orange juice ers by sawing one-inch lengths from adding to sodium intake. over it, and bake slowly. a tree limb about three inches in di- SEND FOR YOUR COPY OF LOW SODIUM FOLDER Baked Stuffed Onions ameter. Drill a hole the size of the candle about halfway through the PU:POSEFULLY,,PREPARED Get mild, big onions, enough to serve center. Use red candles and surround everyone present. Boil for half an hour. the base with ivy, holly, or pine CE Drain and rinse. Remove the centers of CHICAGO DIETETIC SUPPLY HOUSE Inc. the onions, leaving the bottom intact if boughs. A wooden bowl containing an 1750 West Von Barton Street Chicago 12, Illinoi possible. For six onions take a pound of arrangement of polished red apples ' Chicago Dietetic Supply House, Inc. Vegemeat, the yolk of an egg, two table- and evergreens is all you need to finish 1750 West Van Buren Street spoons crisp dry buttered bread crumbs, it off. Chicago 12, Illinois two tablespoons cream or condensed milk. This is a centerpiece that your Please send me folder on Low Sodium Foods. Season to taste. Blend this together and friends will remember: Fasten a can- Name stuff it into the center of the onions. Ar- dle snowman or Santa Claus with Address range them in casserole. Bake slowly and City State baste occasionally with a little Vegex melted tallow to the bottom of a bat- broth. When nearly done sprinkle gen- tery jar or fish aquarium. Insert small erously with grated cheese. evergreen branches into one-inch can- dle ends, and fasten to the bottom Paradise Pie in the same way, for trees. Fill with Owe a friend a favor ? 2 medium oranges water. Add twenty to twenty-five moth 1 sliced banana balls, one teaspoon citric acid, and 1 Send him a subscription to I cup coconut teaspoon baking soda. The moth balls 1 cup whipping cream 1 tbs. sugar or honey will bob up and down, making a pretty 1 tsp. vanilla snow scene. More citric acid and soda Use your favorite recipe for coconut may be added from time to time to cream pie or just plain cream pie. In- keep them active. Arrange greenery stead of putting plain whipped cream or around the bowl as desired. meringue on top, grate one teaspoon of Here are the menus in a nutshell: rind from the orange and set aside. Pare Tomato Juice Cocktail and dice the oranges, mix with the ba- Jelled Cranberry Fruit Salad nana slices and most of the coconut. Whip Celery Olives Pickles cream until stiff, add sugar or honey and Mock Roast Duck With Egg Gravy vanilla. Spread a little whipped cream Mashed Potatoes over the pie. Cover with the fruit mixture, Frozen French-cut Green Beans and top with the remaining whipped With Almonds cream. Sprinkle the orange rind and co- Baked Squash conut over the top. Chill and serve. Rolls Jam Butter Raisin Tea Raisin Tea Assorted Christmas Cookies 2 cups chopped raisins 1 quart water Christmas Tree Salad Olives Pickles juice of one lemon Potato Walnut Roast sugar or honey (optional) Vegex Gravy Pour boiling water over chopped rai- Sweet Potato-Apple Casserole sins. Bring to a boil, and simmer for 10 Stuffed Onions minutes. Work through a fine sieve. Add Buttered Peas or Asparagus (Frozen) lemon juice and sugar or honey if desired. Breads Cranberry Relish Butter Serve very hot. Serves 4. Jam Paradise Pie Postum A plain white cake may be made, to Assorted Nuts Through tiny jeweled pin! look festive by using a fluffy white ic- You can place this beautiful brooch Buffet Supper anywhere on your costume—with no ing and arranging green and red mar- outside connecting microphone cord aschino cherries around the edge. You Cole Slaw With Apples and Celery —and you get unmuffled reception, with no clothes-rub noise, even on may make snowballs of vanilla ice Tinted Cream Cheese Sandwiches swishy silk or taffeta. Learn the many cream rolled in coconut and add a Wheat Sticks smart ways you can wear the new Olives Almonds Sonotone so that it actually adds a whole maraschino cherry and holly touch of glamour to your costume. leaves on the plate when serving it. Assorted Christmas Cookies Mail coupon for free fashion booklet, Postum With Milk illustrated in color, crammed with Then there is the problem of the fresh style ideas. centerpiece and the table covering. Ice Cream Snowballs These don't need to be conventional. Have no regrets if you lack time or This is a good place to try your in- facilities to prepare a special meal for SONOTONE genuity at something new. A large your guests. Remember that just as • Box LH- I. Elmsford, N. Y. wooden bowl or platter piled high with a simple dress of quality is more pleas- ■ m Pleaseseadthenewexciti ng popcorn balls on a plain tablecloth of ing to the eye than a too ornate dress, ■ FREE • Passport to Poise." deep green with bright red napkins so the most simple food perfectly pre- 1111 Name makes an attractive table. The pop- pared and served is also the best. The ■ Address Apt corn balls may have candy-cane han- essential ingredient for Christmas • City State dles, or they may be tinted pink or dinner is a joyful and thankful heart. 1111 ■ 1111 ■■■■■■■■■■ 1111 ■ DECEMBER, 1951 27 When writing, please enclose stamped, ad- dressed envelope for reply. Address: Home Editor, LIFE & HEALTH, Washington 12, D.C.

"Candle in the Kitchen." My first Decals and Dustpans. The decal little book contains a poem, "Winter folks are just brimming over with Loveliness." I wrote it a number of ideas, and these bright little transfers years ago, but every winter I am re- do dress up many things. A painted minded anew of the winter loveliness and decorated dustpan would make an that is its theme. I quote it here: unusual Christmas gift. Use eithei a new dustpan or clean and paint an "Soft snow gleaming with a million old one. Make it a covered-at-the-top diamond glints, type of dustpan. A dustpan as pretty Lilac bushes laden down with as yours can well make a handy little flowers fluffy white, wall rack to hold kitchen memos, laun- Pine trees waving dull green and dry lists, and shopping notes. sparkling tints, Rose bushes cuddle close, once This bit of whimsy can also lend beautiful and bright. itself to some very clever dustpan planters, which will delight the green- "Bare boughs sighing and swaying thumb artists among our readers. A in the wind, jet-black dustpan spilling over with Ivy vines still clinging to a red English ivy, trimmed with yellow rose brick wall, decals and a bright blue memo rack, Misty stars floating round a pale for example, blends in well with Penn- moon's rim, sylvania Dutch designs. And o'er the distant marshes comes the wild duck's call. A white dustpan decorated with cool green ivy decals is just the thing "Home lights beckoning and calling Kabinette for Kiddies. A Christmas to hold your kitchen chives or your us to come gift sure to make a hit with the young- parsley. And spend a night of books, and sters is a child's special cabinet, for You may paint the dustpan to har- warmth, and bliss. nursery or bathroom, designed with monize with your color scheme (flat The air is fragile, frosty, and snow- the little folks in mind. It's a clever paint is best), then add your favorite drifts tempt our feet, good-habit builder. Made of gleaming, decals. Simple as ABC. Using the Oh, we could not stay inside on easy-to-clean white plastic, it comes lovely transfer designs is an easy way such a night as this." _complete with a comb-and-brush set, to brighten kitchen or breakfast-nook Of course, December isn't really cup, a pair of colorful toothbrushes, walls. winter until around Christmas time, and a mirror built right into the door. but we do have some snows that beau- With its clever penguin decoration it's Good Will. Now while songs of tify a brown old world. We can huddle a bright invitation to good grooming. peace and good will are on our lips, around a fire at night, or we can go let us bury any hatchet of bitterness out for a real beauty treatment. Isn't that may be left around. Peace and it wonderful to have the choice! good will is a neighborhood matter as well as an international one. Let us make this Christmas bright Shoe Bags. Shoe bags can be used for for the lonely ones, happy for the old articles other than shoes. Cleaning folks, bountiful for some family that and polishing equipment can be stored doesn't know where its Christmas joy in the handy little pockets. And a shoe is coming from. Let us remember the bag is a helpful gadget in your sewing sick, the needy, and our veterans. room. Fastened to the back of a door The simplest gift, proffered in love, or a sewing screen, it may hold your will make a beautiful present; it will patterns, shears, darning egg, tape let someone know you think of him. measure, thread, crochet patterns, and To be remembered at the Christmas embroidery transfers in the different season is to have the joy of real par- compartments. ticipation in the spirit of the season.

28 LIFE & HEALTH • Wafer Can Cure! -New! (Continued from page 13) you from colds. And as for being men- tally deranged—some of the smartest "EXCLUSIVE! persons I know like a daily cold bath." Husband John fairly snorted his Golden Chip Flaked disapproval when Mary told him about the cold bath. He could not understand how such artificial hardship could do with A.P.F. Vitamin 8-12 any possible good. However, inasmuch as it did not cost anything and he did Better, Natural Vitamins— not have to submit to it himself, he Tissue-Building Protein Rely This new chipped Brewer's Yeast, unlike the or- finally concluded that it might be all dinary powdered type, is delicious and provides on right to try it. 2-way nutrition: 1. It provides complete B-complex . . . includ- The next morning at breakfast ing B-I, B-2, Niacin, Choline, Inositol, and Mary Lewis fairly glowed as she re- many others natural to dried yeast. CERAPLEX 2. It is fortified with the fabulous Vitamin B-12. marked, "John, that cold spray made This is important, because Vitamin 13-12 is a spe- A FOOD SUPPLEMENT cial Animal Protein Factor from Vegetarian sources me feel just wonderful; I feel so warm which makes the Yeast protein biologically more OF EXCEPTIONAL MERIT nutritive for adults. It also has beneficial influence and invigorated! I'm certainly not go- on children's growth. It's organic base of wheat, alfalfa, ing to miss it any morning. I think parsley, watercress, rice, yeast, you should take it too." 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DECEMBER, 1951 29 The Skin Grows Old! cal condition. This checkup should in- (Continued from page 17) clude a thorough history, laboratory studies, blood count, urinalysis, jaun- condition must necessarily accompany dice index, chest X-ray, microscopic old age. It is believed that the narrow- study of enlarged lymph nodes, and ing of the artery tubes, due to de- possibly patch or scratch tests. The posits, seriously affects the function physician should improve the general of tissues and organs throughout the health with such aids as a well-bal- body, particularly those functions hav- anced diet supplemented if necessary EFFECTIVE HELP FOR ing to do with local defense against with vitamins, liver extract, and iron. NEURITIS, COLDS, "FLU" infection. Prevention and treatment of diseases in the heart and blood- with THERMOPHORE To understand your skin better and—most im- vessel system would greatly prolong portant—learn tips on skin care, don't miss the "HOT APPLICATIONS" second and last article by Dr. Foster in the Jan- Simple • Fast • Easy-to-Use life and make man's declining years uary Life and Health. RELAX with relief from pain and soreness under quick, electric, moist more comfortable. beat "hot applications" (fomenta- lions). Ready at the snap of switch The characteristics of infection in the Battle Creek THERMO- the aged complicate both diagnosis * * * PHORE gives you convenient, pain-soothing heat . . . no wet and treatment, for they are complex. towels ... replaces messy old-style Aid to Mr. Stork "hot packs". 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It is obvious that any relief from a forms of influenza, Rocky Mountain condition with so many possible causes spotted fever, "rabbit fever," Q fever, must call for a complete investigation and practically every form of pneu- of the patient's background and physi- monia known! 30 LIFE & HEALTH Different Cocktail 6 tablespoons powdered sugar or honey 1 cup orange juice 1 cup heavy cream, whipped 1 teaspoon vanilla 4 cups chilled orange juice Ice Add half the sugar to one cup of orange juice, stir until dissolved. Fold the re- maining sugar into whipped cream; add vanilla. Pour the sweetened orange juice into freezing tray of refrigerator, put whipped cream mixture on top, freeze un- til firm. Pour the chilled orange juice over cracked ice in tall glasses and put spoon- ful of frozen mixture on top. Serves 6.

Apple Delight 1 quart of apple juice cup lemon juice Ice Mix the two juices well, pour over ice cubes, and serve. Garnish with a green mint leaf and a bright red maraschino cherry.

Jim-Jam Punch 2 cups raspberry jam (or other fla- vor if preferred) 1 cup boiling water cup lemon juice 4 cups water Mash jam, add boiling water, place over heat and melt, stirring constantly. Add lemon juice and water, strain, ,and chill. Serve in tall glasses with ice, and garnish with lemon slices. Frosted Grape Beverage 2 cups chilled grape juice 2 cups sparkling water White of one egg 2 teaspoons corn syrup or honey Combine all ingredients in jar and shake well. Pour over ice in tall glasses. t'h urn 1:ril:<:y of the Author

YOUR Christmas and New Year's callers will rate you a heedful hostess if you help make their holidays happy by serving tasty fruit beverages. Serve 9tale needed

LTHOUGH the English people A serve their traditional "spot of TO HOLIDAY CALLERS tea" at four every afternoon and too many Americans are prone to serve By LOUISE PRICE BELL coffee far too often, we all know that

fruit drinks are popular. Almost every 'X1,) 1X1 man, woman, and child likes fruit and ) ) ?‘`' 4,14" ) ) ) ) ) , -V44' , 1.4e. 74r. 141, -14 fruit juices, and it's a very good hos- r. pitality habit to form, this serving of a fruit drink to callers. _ delicious fruit drinks. Achieve the Strawberry Shrub It doesn't matter what the season, festive touch by chilling the top rims cup sieved strawberries, canned fruit drinks are always good, and of the glasses and dipping them in or frozen there is a wide variety from which lemon juice and then in powdered Juice of one lime to choose. Fresh orange, pineapple, sugar. You'll find you have a delight- Ice water lemon, bottled apple, loganberry, and ful frosty look. And serve in your pret- cranberry—in fact, almost any juice tiest glasses, of course. Combine strawberries and lime juice you can mention—fits into the plan. Here are some suggestions your and pour into glasses. Add a little ice, If you want to do something special Christmas and New Year guests will then fill glasses with water. Top with a for the holidays, serve your callers enjoy—without later headaches. cherry.

DECEMBER, 1951 31 INDEX for 1951

General Articles

Aid to Mr. Stork Le Roy K. Thompson, M.D.—December Warts and Witches Paul D. Foster, M.D.—October Alive Today!—What You Can Do About Cancer Water Can Cure! Fred B. Moor, M.D.—December Alton Ochsner, M.D.—April We Are All a Bit Neurotic William G. Wirth, Ph.D.—May America's No. 1 Skin Ailment Arthur Gaskell, M.D.—September What About Virus Pneumonia? Appendicitis Rowland F. Wilkinson, M.D.—July Horace A. Hall, M.D.—February Are You Physically Fit? A. M. Libasci, M.D.—September What the Doctor Ordered .... J. Wayne McFarland, M.D.—August Are You Traveling With a Baby? . Ruby Price Weeks—January What to Do for Snake Bite Mark I. D. Fox—September Balance Your Nerves Harold Shryock, M.D.—March What You Should Know About Tuberculosis Be Careful About Prescriptions Lewis J. Moorman, M.D.—May . Erwin E. Nelson, M.D., and Wallace F. Janssen—November Whooping Cough H. 0. Swartout, M.D.—Marcb Bottled Sunshine Richard Kovacs, M.D —November Why Nose Colds From Cold Feet? Breakfast Is Basic Andrew Duncan—February Charles H. Wolohon, M.D.—November Breathe Deep! Theodore R. Flaiz, M.D.—June Woman's Role in National Defense Can I Walk Now? Mary Bayley Noel, R.N.—January Esther Boorman Strong, Ph.D.—October Chickenpox H. 0. Swartout, M.D.—April World's Best Filtering System, The Christmas Dinners You'll Remember .... June Bishop—December Henry L. Hadley, M.D.—October Chronic Bronchitis George A. Skinner, M.D.—March X-ray in the Diagnosis of Tuberculosis Convulsions in Children M. G. Peterman, M.D.—June Robert J. Anderson, M.D.—December Cooling Citrus Drinks J. L. Heid—August Your Child's School Lunch Cooperative Hobbying Jeanne Edwards—January Betty A. Lockwood, Dr.P.H.—September Danger at the Campfire Henry James—September Dentifrice Foolery Charles A. Levinson, D.M.D.—March Diabetes and Insulin Charles H. Best, M.D.—November Editorials Diet, Darling Daughter Ernestine Morris, R.N.—April Divorcees Anonymous Samuel M. Starr—March Easy Does It July Do You Need Your Gallbladder? Health for National Defense Herbert M. Giffin, M.D.—October Leonard A. Scheele, M.D.—January Does Your Skin Itch? Robert P. Little, M.D.—January Health—Our First Line of Defense Don't Be a Dope! Robert V. Seliger, M.D.—October Maj. Gen. Harry G. Armstrong—September Don't Have Diphtheria John E. Affeldt, M.D.—February Health—Our First Line of Defense Don't Poison Your Child! Edwin D. Neff—December Rear Adm. Lamont Pugh—May Father, We Thank Thee Esther L. Gardner—November Is There a Cancer Virus? J. Wayne McFarland, M.D.—April Fighting Smallpox H. 0. Swartout, M.D.—June Live to Be 100 March Health and Humus Jonathan Forman, M.D.—September New Hope for Hearts Howard B. Sprague, M.D.—February How I Keep Healthy The Hon. Alben W. Barkley—April Polio Pointers for 1951 August How to Improve Your City's Health Mark I. D. Fox—May Sure, You Can Afford a Doctor! October How Your Liver Works Andrew C. Ivy, M.D.—July Take Stock of Yourself Maj. Gen. Raymond W. Bliss—June Is There a Cure for Arthritis? Today's Tyrants December W. W. Bauer, M.D.—January, February Vitamins—Bargains vs. Ballyhoo November Is Your Child Having an Operation? Maj. Gen. Paul H. Streit—April Keep Your Teeth J. Russell Mitchell, D.D.S.--January Philosophy of Life Listen! Don't Be Deaf Leslie D. Trott, M.D.—April Mad-Dog Menace, The Raymond Schuessler—August Best Christmas of All, The December Mary's Runny Nose Leon Z. Wolpe, M.D.—September Diamond Dust October Measles H. 0. Swartout, M.D.—May Down to Earth! September Meatless Meals and Food Conservation . Della Reiswig—May Excess Baggage May Modern Bone Surgery August W. Spinier, M.D.—July First Place March Myopia, or Nearsightedness Richard A. Bergin—February Hungry for Kindness August Name Your Poison! J. F. Montague, M.D.—February Let Us Be Thankful November Of Course You Can Reduce! Elspeth Bennett—November Magic of Music, The February Problem Husbands Harold Shryock, M.D.—June Relaxed Living July Protect Your Liver Andrew C. Ivy, M.D.—August Time Out to Think January Relax and Open Wide, Please! Albert C. Koppel, D.D.S., Wedding Bells June and Elizabeth Adams Koppel, M.D.—April When Things Go Wrong April Scabies—the Itch Molleurus Couperus, M.D.—May Simple Care of the Sick William Swallow—October Skin Grows Old! The Paul D. Foster, M.D.—December Miscellaneous Start Now to Prepare Your Child for School Ernestine Morris, R.N.—August Accidents and Vacations John M. Chapman, M.D.—June Stress Hormones, The Morris Fishbein, M.D.—August ACTH and Surgery October Subtle Menace to Health—the Ameba After a Hearty Meal Louise Price Bell—November Harold N. Mozar, M.D.—June Alcohol Is Not Food! October Sweets—Good and Bad A. B. Olsen, M.D.—January Appetites Anonymous February Swim Your Way to Health William E. Power—July Are Your Eyes Ready for School? September Teen-Age Acne Molleurus Couperus, M.D.—March Aureomycin for Heart Ailment August Tension Headache Harold J. Hoxie, M.D.—November Autumn Days Are Golden Days June Bishop—October Those Tricky Tonsils W. W. Bailer; M.D.—May Before They Go to School ‘ September Ticks Are More Deadly Than You Think Breakfast Boost March John L. Chasselt, M.D., and Lois Miller—June Cheer for the Chubbies March Today's Doctor John W. Cline, M.D. July Cherries Make a Cheery Ice Cream Tart February

32 LIFE & HEALTH Cost of Health, The November Tight Corsets and Ulcers March Delicious Fig Recipes February Tips for Parents of Children Starting to School Dental Briefs January James L. Hymes, Jr.—September Diet Rich in High Quality Protein Lucille J. Gotham—September To Know Each Other Better October First Aid for Defense June Tooth Decay February Forgotten Ills and Pills Louise Price Bell—January Try Squash Lydia M. Sonnenberg—August Guard Against Typhoid Fever July Wake Up Morning Appetites! March Hay Fever October Wee Lad Gets Ready for a Tonsillectomy, A Hot Orange Juice, Too, Has High Vitamin Rating March MariLynn Rideout Spencer—August How to Manage a Dust-free Room September Winter Gardens Edyth Y. Cotterll—October Infants and Flies November Your Influence March July Fruit Lore Anita. Ching—July Keep Holidays Happy August Kiddie Kickbacks February Poems Lunch Box Salads September After Rain Edna Atkin Pepper—June Memo to Mothers Jean B. Pinney January Apple a Day Harriet Day—June Miracle Drug Holds Peril September Mildred L. Judkins—November More People! Are You Bored? August At the Hospital Caroline Eells Keeler—August New Drug for T.B. August Brook, The Mabel Hatton Marks—May New Germ Killer, A October Nathaniel Krum—July New Year Wish, A Child in Trust Goethe—January Christmas Time Richard F. Rideout—December News in Small Doses September, December Bein—January No Fear Compensated Mrs. Donald August Contentment Frank Wallace Kern—October Now They Can "Drill" Your Teeth With Air Dad Author Unknown—June Edwin D. Neff—October One in Eight Early Morning Mabel Hatton Marks—April M ay Harriet Day—November Parsley for Your Health Educational Failures Mildred Constance Lane—August Fall Bouquet, A Selina Putnam—November Parsley Praise August Pen Pals Give Me Air! Harley E. Rice—June January God Loves Gardens Jessie Wilmore Murton—July Personality Traits February Kern—September Picnicking With Baby God's Gifts Frank Wallace Louise Price Bell—August Nathaniel Krum—March Profiles of Our Contributors Heart of the Home January-December If You Stand Very Still Author Unknown—August Readers' Pulse January-December Red Cross Rides ' Johnny's Eyes Harley E. Rice—March April Model Girl Nathaniel Krum—September Salt in Cooking Cuts Vitamins April Nathaniel Krum—May School Lunch Box Mother Lucille J. Gotham—September New Dawn Caroline Eells Keeler—June Serve Fruit Drinks to Holiday Callers Pomposity B. Courtney Lorenzen—September Louise Price Bell December Pulp Harriet Day—February Six Survival Secrets for Atomic Attacks October Smile Rhymes for Health Norman C. Schlichter—February Thackeray—October Snowing Nathaniel Krum—February Smoking Hazards to Babies' Eyes March Harriet Day—July Staff of Life, The Straight From the Shoulder Lucille J. Gotham—September To Baby Nathaniel Krum—December Sugar Shortage Benefits War Children January Too Late! Harriet Day—March Summer Canning Days Lillian Pruden King—July Frank Wallace Kern—September Summer Is Health Time Wealth August You Get What You Pay For Harriet Day—October Summer Lightning Caution August Summertime and Poison Ivy Anne Bernard, R.N.—July Sunburn Norman Shigon—August What to Do in Case of Emergency Super Soup-and-Salad Suppers Naomi Snyder—June Ten Commandments for High Blood Pressure Sufferers Artificial Respiration August February Fainting and Unconsciousness October Terramycin for Pneumonia October Minor Cuts December There Are Nice People Mark Evans—July Sprains and Strains September There's Healing in a Visit Evelyn W. Fox, R.N.—August Sunstroke and Heat Exhaustion July

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The Dietitian Says Stomach Digestion February Diabetes May Sweets for Treats March Diverticulosis May About Dry Milk October Vitamin C July Eczema February, October Accent February Vitamin for Eyes March Fruit for Diabetics March Apple Coffee Cake November Vitamin K September Hardening of the Arteries June Caffeine and Burning Stomach October Warmed-over Food May Headache Injections February Calendar of April Breakfast Specials, A ... Washing Dishes December Hearing Through Vibration .... November April High Blood Pressure March Degerminated Corn Meal September Hypoglycemia October Diabetic Dainties November The Family Physician Infectious Mononucleosis March Diabetic Questions and Answers August Intestinal Worms April Diet and Round Shoulders March Acute Indigestion August Low Blood Pressure June Fighting Fatigue January Adequate Protein September Low Blood Sugar December Food Budget, The December Albumin Poisoning September Multiple Sclerosis May, November Food for a Plump Boy November Arthritis Cures July Muscular Dystrophy January Get a Flour Mill! July Babies and Dogs October Neurasthenia December Goat's Milk May Bell's Palsy March Numbness in Hands September Homemade Bread January Birthmarks August Parsley Tea April Honey Cookies October "Blue Baby" Cure December Peptic Ulcers January Laxative Foods May Caffeine and Aspirin November Pernicious Anemia December Making Buttermilk January Carbon Monoxide November Psoriasis November Meat Necessary? July Carbonated Drinks August Pulse Rate March Pasteurization of Milk September Chlorophyll June Pylorus Spasm March Prickly Heat July Cold Hands June Reducing April Protein Foods June Coronary Insufficiency July Ringworm August Sandwiches February Cretinism July Shingles February

DECEMBER, 1951 33 Shingles Aftermath June Household Pictures March Low-Fat Diet for Heart Disease Shortness of Breath December Inflatable Boat August February Skin Ulcers September Kabinette for Kiddies December "Miracle" Drugs in Arthritis December Stomach Ulcers April Late Jams and Jellies October New Drug for Shakes May Thinning Hair January Lunch-Box Interest March New Migraine Treatment March Tingling in Arm September Lunch-Box Timber October New Seasoning Agent, A January Torticollis October Make a Dolly September Nuts and Fruits for Cardiacs October Transfusions February Marching Along With March March Old Colic Cure August T.B. Precautions June Mashed Potatoes May Operation for Ulcers October Vaginal Discharge February Merry Month of May, The May Oral Cancer October Vitamins and Pain October Merry Ring August Ouch, My Hot Tooth! March Warts April My Pastry Brush April Penicillin Tooth Powder March Warts and Unwanted Hair May New Ideas for Sandwiches .... September Rich Food Reduces Offspring! August Water and Eyes? January October Brings Harvest October Seaweed Stops Bleeding May Oil Pastry Method July Smoking and Lung Cancer June Old Friend, An February Sound Waves Break Gallstones July Gardening Oven Care August Stuttering July Painted Walls? April Sulfa Drug Subterfuge August Autumn Garden Work October Pansies March Surgery in Darkness June Care of Evergreens February Paper Towels November Tibione for TB January Cultivating Asparagus November Parfait a la Florida June Too Many Exceptional Children .... April Family Garden, The March Refrigerator Bags July Useful Appendix, The March Kill Weeds Now June Rice and Green Beans August Vegetable Diet Adequate November Rice Casserole June Vitamin C for Prickly Heat August Salad Dressings February Vitamin for Nausea January Hobbies Savory Roast September Whooping Cough Remedy November Sewing Aid October X-rays Aid Injections September Mail Call—for Collectors Only January Sewing Backwards March Photographing Flowers June Shoe Bags December Shell Collecting October Slip Covers? June The Mother's Counselor Small-Scale Hobbies March Soup Softly, Please January Stamp Collecting February Active Little Girl August Sour Cream? October July May Asthma Soy Cereal Baby's Diet and Tonsils September Home Treatments Spoon Bread March December April Baby's Eczema Spring Fever Boys' Problems January July Exercises for Arthritis March Strawberry Pie Child's Appetite March Exercises for Weak Feet November Strawberry Roll June Child's Jealousy December August Hydrotherapy (Water Treatments) ; The Stuffed Scalloped Squash Children's Nerve Strength October September Neutral Tub Bath July Suds and Save Curiosity September Wet-Sheet Pack for Fevers .... September Thousand Island Dressing February June August Diet in Bronchial Asthma Three-Way Whisk Broom Dirt Eating May Time to Go Nutting November Homemaker Hints Eggs for Baby? November To Freeze Pineapple June July May Family Worship Tossed Rice Bowl November Adventure Unlimited July March Fearful Child Vineyards May Aluminum Foil May Walnut Gluten Roast November Masturbation And You August Milk for Baby November Wealth of Household Lore, A .... 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Cooky Hints October Dental Anesthesia for Children May Cutting Cake November Doctors in U.S. March Animals Are Wise August Decals and Dustpans December Drink Water—Reduce Tooth Decay Breakfast Is Ready February Decorating Theme June September Children's Home Army, The October Easy Cleaning August Drugs and Teeth August Doctor Charles June Eggplant Sandwiches February Eyes and Headaches August Nature's Scouring Powder April Eye-Pad Mask May Facts Not Faddists January Package Wrapped in Green, A December Flavorings October Female Sex Hormones and Cancer April Flexible Mixing Bowl July Flu Test October Madge Haines Morrill, M.A. Flower Arrangement November Happy Husband? November Folding Clothes Rack November Hives and Hatred June Frisky Calves May Garbage Safe July Housewife Hazards February Indians at School November Glamorize Carrots September Insulin for Blood Vessel Disease April Policeman and Mosquitoes January Good Will December Kerosene Bad for Kiddies December Something New at School September Hail Hearty August August LIFE & HEALTH Research Grants "Washing Out" Our Lungs March Herb Flavorings May January What's Wrong With Bob? July

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