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S,ep,tembet 1955 Caring for the Invalid

JEAN M. HOLT

OMFORT for the invalid lying on the side much easier, be- ficiently high. Or push the bed depends on many little cause it partially supports the body against the wall for support, and Cthings. Correct posture, for in the side position. When the pa- place the pillows high enough to instance, can mean the difference tient is in the half-sitting position, prevent the head from slipping between a fretful, fatiguing day take care to place a small pillow backward. Place a small, thin and a day of restful comfort. at the lower curve of the spine and board in the pillowcase behind the When the patient is lying down the full-sized pillows on an even in- second pillow if the supports need his head should rest on a full-sized cline from his head down. When added firmness. pillow, so that in turning from one he is sitting upright, place a head- When the bedding feels uncom- side to the other his head will have rest at the back of the pillows to fortably tight or heavy over the adequate support. A large pillow keep them from slipping if the bed feet, place a pillow on the bottom pressed against the back will make has no headboard or one not suf- sheet and push it as far as possible toward the foot of the bed. This pillow arrangement takes the weight of the bed clothes entirely off the feet, and in warm weather affords better ventilation for the body. A most useful utility pocket for handkerchiefs, eye-glass case, and other items can be made from a yard of cretonne or other stout cloth in attractive colours. A twelve-inch width is satisfactory. From the thirty-six-inch length cut two pieces eight inches long. Sew one piece on one end of the goods and the other on the reverse end, making a pocket at each end but on opposite sides. Bind all edges, sew snap fasteners onto the edges of the reverse side pocket, and in- sert a cardboard in the pocket. Slip this stiffened end under the mattress to give support to the open pocket on the right side. A patient who is able to change from bed to chair for the day will appreciate a well-shaken cushion or pillow to sit on, another at his back, and a foot cushion or stool to raise his feet above floor drafts. To prevent leg drafts, place a small blanket or shawl on the seat L. J. Larson of the chair (before the cushion is Everything possible should be done to insure the comfort of the patient in bed, and cleanliness and neatness should always be maintained. (Continued on p. 9.) 2 THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, SEPTEMBER 1955 The Oriented Wetelunen end Herald Minute 1 c --2 Atectitationo Contents C-3 THE UNKNOWN QUANTITY 46th YEAR OF PUBLICATION D. A. Delafield

September 1955 OBERT moaned over his L. J. LARSON, M.A., B.Sc., Editor algebra paper. "Dad," he R said, "the teacher told me DUNBAR SMITH, M.D., D.N.R., D.T.M. & H. (LOND.) J. B. OLIVER, M.D., D.T.M. that X equals Y minus 5, but I ASSOCIATE EDITOR ASSOCIATE EDITOR don't know how he ever figured it out." FEATURE ARTICLES Page I sympathized with the look of anguish on my son's face. He was Caring for the Invalid 2 echoing the same doleful com- Food Hygiene 6 plaint I had expressed when I How to Keep Fit 8 took algebra in high school The Psychiatrist 10 twenty-five years ago. It was also High Blood Pressure 12 hard for me to figure out how the Sand in the Gears 14 X got to be Y minus 5, or any- Ringworm 16 thing else. Food from the Sea 17 But Bob is doing better than I did. I believe he will get through 18 What to Do for the Common Cold first-year algebra in one year. It Sweet Cavities 22 took me two. Those two years I FOR BOYS AND GIRLS spent on algebra taught me some hard lessons, but I have profited All Over Again 28 from them. FOR MOTHERS We have all seen people who virtually "eat up" their "maths." Recipes -- 20 Some of them become science FOR EVERYBODY teachers and astronomers. The Minute Meditations 3 rest of us find more humble work, What's in the News? 5 suited to our talents. No, I never could quite under- 26 The Doctor Says stand algebra, but algebra helped me to understand life a little better. I learned that things you OUR COVER don't understand may be just as useful as things you do. I also "About the only thing we have left that actually discriminates in learned that it is possible some- favour o' the plain people is the stork."—Kin Hubbard, "Sayings." times to know things even though you cannot understand them. 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But delay gives us —9 Cunningham Road, Bangalore; for Bombay When making any complaint about the late a chance to adjust ourselves to Presidency-16 Club Road, Byculla, Bombay 8: receipt of this magazine, please send the wrap- for Uttar Pradesh, East Punjab. Delhi, and per along with the complaint. This will enable life, and the orientation period adjacent States-23 Curzon Road, New Delhi 1; the post office to fix responsibility for delayed for Bihar, Orissa and West Bengal—"Morabadi delivery. (Continued on p. 5.) THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, SEPTEMBER 1955 3 surfeiting and drunkenness and thereby leave as their legacy to the next generation, disease, enfeebled The Editor Says intellects, and polluted morals. How important it is that every DDA Jurcke produced 834 ceived while the parents were young man and every young children, grandchildren and under the influence of alcohol. As woman should know these things A g r e a t-grandchildren. Of temporary drunkenness is sufficient and that every parent shOuld these 106 were born illegitimately, to produce defective children, it is realize their responsibility. It has 142 were beggars, 64 were inmates not necessary that the parents be been truly written in the books of of institutions supported by the habitual drinkers or confirmed Moses, "Their wine is the poison public in which paupers were alcoholics in order to produce of dragons, and the cruel venom of cared for; 181 of the females be- defective offsprings. A few of the asps." came prostitutes, 79 were sen- anomalies and diseases which may Better leave it alone! tenced for various crimes including affect the drunkard's descendants 7 murders. This is the record of are: hydrocephaly (water on the WOMEN LIVE LONGER the results of one woman's use of brain) as infants, and nervous dis- alcoholic drinks. orders, possibly even epilepsy, HE fact that women live It is of interest to note that the later; considerable mental debility longer than men is well hereditary effects due to alcoholism and an inability to support alcohol known, but the reasons for are transmitted mainly by the plus an irresistible desire for it. longer life on the distaff side were mother. Certainly, the male is According to a theory developed answered in the Journal of the affected by alcohol, and the by Erasmus Darwin, the father of American Medical Association. alcoholic father makes his un- Charles Darwin, hereditary defects The reasons listed by an author- fortunate contribution to the total arising from alcoholism are ity were these: of the heritage which will so largely transmitted to children of the 4th 1. Males are less resistant to affect the child. But it must never generation, unless, of course, in- disease than females, from birth be forgotten that the unborn child tervening generations rigidly onward. in its alcoholic mother's womb al- abstain from the use of alcohol. 2. The death rate from adverse ready bears the inerasable stamp More recently professor Morel conditions is higher for males than of degeneracy. It frequently hap- has established the following table for females. pens that the fcetus is not strong of alcoholic heredity: 3. More males are born dead enough to last to the end and First generation—Immorality, than females. Interestingly enough, abortion occurs. Among such excesses, depravity and brutality. this is also true among animals. 4. Not only is the death rate children who do come into the Second generation—Hereditary world, infant mortality is extremely higher among males at birth but drunkenness, fits, manias, general also during the first day of life and high. Often this mortality is due paralysis. to courses connected with nursing each year thereafter, by about the because the milk of an alcoholic Third generation—Sobriety, same percentage. mother is itself poisoned. tendency to hypochondria, per- 5. Nearly all fatal maladies kill secution mania, homicidal more men than women. Exceptions Those who are accustomed to tendency. deal with infants and young are cancer, diabetes, exophthalmic children readily recognize which Fourth generation—Under de- goitre, and gallstones. child has drunken parents. Squint- veloped intelligence, stupidity, 6. Men die of violent causes ing, general debility, an appear- transition to idiocy and finally, pro- more often than women. This in- ance of age and malformations of bably extinction of the line. cludes murder, industrial accident, the skull are all eloquent signs. It is generally known that alco- alcoholism, and suicide. When a child is conceived by its holism leads to degeneracy of the 7. Men are exposed to more parents when they are in a state race. The children of drunkards are hazards in their work, including of inebriation, its body may be so often stunted, with badly developed accident, violence, and infection. malformed as to be regarded as chests and a predisposition to 8. The death rate from child- a monster. Certain authors contend tuberculosis. birth has been reduced drastically that if there are in one and the Is it not strange that with in the past fifteen years. same family normal children and scarcely a thought or care, modern 9. Lung cancer has increased far abnormal children, it is safe to as- men and women, enlightened as more among men than among sume that the latter were con- they are, indulge intemperance by women. 4 TIM ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, SEPTEMBER 1955 10. Heart disease takes many mo:exexexexexoxo:oxexo:Ete:exo:ea**** more men than women. 11. Home equipment and safety improvements, plus streamlined WHAT'S IN THE NEWS? medical and surgical treatment, The human heart produces enough energy during a lifetime to lift the have cut down serious accidents in battleship "Missouri" 14 feet out of the water. the home. • So there are eleven reasons why you should teach your wife to be a Queen Bees are considered super-sensitive to temperature changes in the larva stage, and are so weak they will die if left only a part of an widow, for the odds are stacked hour without food at this time. But they are hardy creatures when they against us men, and our wives are mature. sure to outlive us! •

A 500-pound sting ray in the pool of Sydney, Australia's Taronga Zoo has become tame enough to eat from the hand of its keeper. This The Unknown Quantity 10-foot creature, the largest in captivity, spends most of its day sleeping in the corner of a pool, but glides to the surface when a titbit is held out. (Continued from p. 3.) • teaches us patience. Sickness If you had trouble this year with your tomato plants because of depresses and weakens us, but we transplanting problems, try this: From three to five days before you are learn sympathy and brotherhood ready to transplant them, spray a sugar solution on the young tomato on the bed of suffering. I know plants. It acts much the same as blood plasma does in combating shock in human beings. The solution is one and a half cups of sugar to a gallon people who think their in-laws are of water. against them. But here we have • • • one of our best opportunities to learn large-heartedness a n d The life of a ten-year-old Los Angeles girl hung in the balance tolerance. recently because of the bite of a black widow spider. The drama began when little Sharon Ann cried out while she was playing in the garage I have a friend, an eminently on her bicycle. Her mother, Mrs. Cecil Strealey, ran to the garage and successful teacher, whose back saw the crushed body of a black widow spider on the handle bars. At the was twisted out of shape by a hospital, doctors began immediately to search for a serum that would save the girl's li.e. They learned that such a serum had once been childhood disease. I had known manufactunt(' but le;t1 since been discontinued. Finally, after a six-hour him for several years, but he search, doctors found Mrs. Martha Moore, who had been bitten by a black walked so straight that I had widow spider not long before. From her blood doctors made a serum that saved Sharon Ann's life. never observed his difficulty. One • • • day I told him that I admired his erect stance. "You stand like a Bacteria in suspended animation, which have been found embedded soldier," I said, "straight as an in the mud of the ocean floor, are thought by some scientists to be the arrow." world's oldest living things. With an earnest look he said, • • • • "Feel my back." I pressed a hand against the A golfer playing 18 holes probably walks about four miles. vertebrae. The bones of the back were curved like a large question Japan's only known uranium deposit is in a Feldspar quarry 150 mark. miles northeest of Tokyo. A sufficient quantity is found there, according "Haven't you ever noticed it?" to Prof. Kenjiro Kimura, of Tokyo University, to provide for an experi ',elite] atomic furnace he asked me. • • 0 "No," I replied. "You stood so tall I couldn't see anything else." 0 The appetites of catfish vary with the temperature of the water. X certainly didn't equal 0 to • They are reported to feed heavily at 70 degrees but will not feed at 40. his noble spirit. The unknown quantity in his life taught him true The largest fleet of trolley buses in the world is claimed by London, values. He bore himself like the England, with its 1,750 vehicles. The system transports 750 million great man and highly successful S passengers a year. teacher he was. * * * • Try to find the answer. But if • It is estimated that it would take 2,000 fireflies, flashing you cannot, breathe this prayer. simultaneously, to produce the same room illumination as a single candle. SI.L "Open my eyes, Lord, that I may • • see." Then wait. In time the 3:E Studies conducted by Pasteur in the field of fermentation are still wonderful Numberer will teach considered by scientists to be among the most important on the subject. you that X always equals some- thing of real value. ):9:6:6:6:6:E3:6:19:8:8:o:ocIscece:8:19:etecisoic6ce:exece:mm:i THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, SEPTEMBER 1955 5 jaad Ny,giene

ROBERT P. LITTLE, M.D.

Food handlers should pass a close physical examination.

ID you know that duck ple butter. Cheap gray enamelware rat poison in the pantry. In the eggs are sometimes a source may contain antimony. Cadmium drawer with the flatware were the of food poisoning? that (similar to zinc) is poisonous if plumbers' tools, shotgun shells, and zinc-lined pails should not be used used to plate kitchenware. fishhooks. for lemonade? that 1 per cent of Sodium fluoride is excellent for Lead paints shduld never be used cats and dogs are carriers of dan- killing ants and roaches, but if on tables where food is cut. The gerous salmonella organisms? stored in salt shakers, it may un- food inspector frequently sees Your food can be polluted in intentionally be used to season kitchen tables scored with knife many ways. Among them is pollu- food, as once happened. Fortu- cuts and almost denuded of paint. tion by chemicals. Commercial nately no one was hurt, because You eat that paint. zinc is frequently contaminated the amount was small. But when Poisonous insecticides are some- with arsenic and antimony, which sodium fluoride was once mistaken times used on fruits and vegetables. acid beverages or foods can dis- for powdered milk and added to Always wash fruits and vegetables solve. This means that zinc-lined omelettes, numerous deaths re- before eating them. Once after a pails should never be used to con- sulted. spraying operation poisonous in- tain sour beverages or as preserv- Never store poisons with foods, secticide lodged on a farmhouse ing kettles. The glaze on earthen- but keep them in special cabinets. roof. The cistern water became ware jars and yellow mixing bowls How often this rule is broken! contaminated from the insecticide, is frequently a lead glaze. This Once when inspecting a hotel I and caused paralysis in a woman means that such bowls should not observed fly spray, paints, sul- of the household. Cistern water be used for tart foods such as ap- phuric acid, lye, roach powder and should never be used for drinking. Moreover, hot water from the faucet is convenient, but it is not best to add it to food. Hot water is a ready solvent and may dissolve poisonous metals from pipes, joints, and storage tanks at times when the water may not have been used freely and thus may not have been kept free of irritating sub- stances. A carful of tourists once were poisoned when they drank the radiator water of their car. Foreign bodies frequently find their way into food, and they may be swallowed, causing injury. Old- fashioned can openers may intro- duce metal shreds, or shreds may become detached from steel wool or metal dish scouring pads. When

0. A. Skau inspecting a certain restaurant I Here is a garbage heap in one of our principle cities. Such conditions must be observed a plate-glass partition that cleaned up in order to keep away flies which carry so much disease. was badly chipped from being

THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, SEPTEMBER 1955 struck by dishes. Did these chips fall into the food? Food poisoning may result from bacteria or their poisons. This kind of food poisoning is far more com- mon than most people realize, for unless a number of people are made seriously ill, the health de- partment is seldom notified. It is hard for officials to pin down the cause. Most people suffer in silence. But who has not been made ill by food? The commonest causes of food poisoning are not ptomaines— these have been absolved—but bac- teria of the salmonella group. The source of these germs is animal or human. Epidemics of salmonella- caused diarrhoea are frequent among cats, dogs, rats and mice. Cockroaches, according to Dr. Theodore A. Olsen of the Univer- sity of Minnesota, may harbour salmonella germs for several days. These germs, when deposited on food or dishes, may remain alive for a month or two. Flies are also carriers. Cats and dogs frequently have the run of kitchens and grocery stores. Sal- monella organisms can infect the human gastro-intestinal tract, caus- ing vomiting, cramps, and diar- rhcea. The victims often attribute such symptoms to change of water or air, ignoring the flies in the rranlal K. Patel Care should be taken to see that articles of food are kept away from duat and germs. kitchen, the cat in the pantry, and Bacterial poisons contaminate food and cause much disease. the mice, rats or roaches that may run over the food and dishes at ticularly dangerous if not re- The staphylococcus toxin causes night. frigerated. Among them are poul- a violent form of food poisoning, Duck eggs (but not hen eggs) try, lobsters, ham, sandwiches and with vomiting, cramps and diar- may carry salmonella germs. An salads. It is wise to avoid cold- rhcea. The source of the infection epidemic in England from duck storage poultry in warm weather. is animal (rats, mice, cockroaches) eggs was once reported by the Veal is a rather frequent source of or human. Any food handler with British Medical Journal. If you eat food poisoning. Mutton and lamb a boil or felon can cause an epi- duck eggs, be sure to boil them have been incriminated, though demic among his customers. Once hard. less often. the poison has formed, boiling of Spray-dried hen eggs may be Bacterial poisons such as those the food does not destroy it. contaminated from their shells, al- produced by the staphylococcus (a The type of food poisoning though hen eggs are safe when un- pus germ) may contaminate food. known as botulism is caused by a broken. Furthermore, salmonella This organism grows especially well soluble toxin. In the United States germs may contaminate milk, in beaten fillings. Indeed, cream the source is usually imperfectly which is another reason for pas- puffs are so notoriously dangerous teurization. that health departments commonly sterilized home-canned non-acid Certain kinds of food are par- forbid their sale in summer. (Continued on p. 12.)

THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, SEPTEMBER 1955 How to KEEP FIT

R. LOMAX WELLS, M.D., F.A.C.P.

HERE is more to keeping a dull boy. And—all play and no Let's take a closer look at some fit than doing your "daily work can make him even duller! of the items in this list. Regular T dozen," believe me. Keep- 4. Keeping your weight normal. visits to your family physician or a ing fit is a full-time job—and a Everybody may love a fat man, specialist in child care for advice worth-while one too. It's a job but the Grim Reaper loves him on feeding and care and for that pays you many dividends. most of all. Nor can I find trim guidance in physical, emotional, What is meant by keeping fit? It figure defined as "bones covered and social growth is a must in a is not merely a matter of muscular by skin" in any of my dictionaries good start for Junior and his exercise; it is the process of main- or books on how to look and keep brothers and sisters. During this taining good physical health and beautiful. time the doctor will advise you good mental health and keeping the 5. Promoting sound habits of about the various immunizing, pro- two in balance. cleanliness. t e c t i v e injections—protection How shall we go about this 6. Having a family physician against smallpox, typhoid fever, business of keeping fit? A little and a dentist who know and under- diphtheria, tetanus (lock jaw), and thoughtful attention to many stand your family and home situa- whooping cough (the last three things and making them a matter tion. are now given in a single injection) . of daily habit will be of great help Make baby's first visit to the 7. Consulting your physician to you. There is no known "sure- dentist by the age of three. And regularly— fire" guarantee against disease and don't forget to keep a close watch To assist in the normal develop- injury, and there are no cure-alls on those new shoes for baby. Very merit of your children. once you are sick or have been young children sometimes need To help maintain health in your injured. Nevertheless, your ability them as often as every four weeks. productive years. to fight off disease and the effects With loving care and good health, To detect signs of chronic dis- of injury is greater if you are in baby is on his way to keeping fit. good physical condition. Your ease. During school years, periodic mental attitude toward the situa- 8. Having regular dental check- physical and dental check-ups tion will be a positive factor in your ups. should be continued. And by the recovery. Keeping fit is how we 9. Avoiding self-prescribed drugs, way, about half of the absences live our lives. How are you advertised "cures," and cure-alls. from school are for colds and other doing? You can get a good idea 10. Avoiding quacks and super- respiratory diseases. Immediate at- by seeing if you are: stitions. tention, proper care, and rest may 1. Providing a balanced and shorten the illness and lessen the protective diet for your family and chance of complications. Accidents yourself. Avoid dietary fads. Do are childhood's greatest hazard. eat a goad breakfast and make it Watch for objects that may injure as leisurely as possible. children, such as portable heaters, 2. Being sure you get proper electric fans without guards, rest and exercise regularly (the electrical appliances with frayed amount and balance between the cords, pans containing scalding two var:es with age). liquids within reach on stoves and 3. Keeping a good balance be- tables, unguarded windows and tween work and play. Remember, stairways, and loose matches left all work and no play makes Jack about. Keep cleaning fluids, lye, THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, SEPTEMBER 1955 laundry bleaches, kerosene, insecti- case of slipping down too far in cides, • and other poisons out of the bed, put one arm behind the children's reach. Be sure medicines person's shoulder and your other are labelled properly. Keep simple arm under the buttocks, and shove first-aid supplies handy, and learn gently upward to the desired how and when to use them. position. Some 4,000,000 children in the If the patient cannot stand or United States of America have eye walk alone, let him take your arm, defects. Find out whether your or put his arm across your shoulder child needs glasses or corrective and yours across his back at the treatment. And while you are at waistline. When you take a pa- the oculist's, better have your eyes Moderate fatigue at the end of tient's arm or put your hand under checked too. a good day's work is normal. How- his elbow for support, he does not Periodic examinations (especi- ever, if fatigue is beginning to get have the sense of security that ally from age 40 on) are important you down, take a good look at your comes when he grasps your arm or in the early detection of signs of way of living. It's time to relax. shoulder. In selecting a companion breakdown, the presence of chronic Keep your work, love, play, and for an invalid, choose one of about progressive disabling diseases, and worship in balance if you would the same height when possible. in helping to establish patterns of have good emotional health. When a patient finds it difficult diet, exercise, work, and recreation All this adds up to making our- adjusted to age. Today physicians to raise his arms, you may cut his selves health-conscious through shirt on the shoulder line and are paying increasing attention to good habits by keeping health in close it with snap fasteners. It will the problems of old age and the its proper perspective and balance, then be a simple matter to slip it science of aging, called geriatrics so that we neither neglect nor over- down to the waist line, and with (pronounced jerry-at-rix). Keeping do it. Good health is a good way the patient's arms at his sides, to fit is part of life at all ages. of life—and a good life is made carry it over his head. For a Building good health at home is better by good health. Life does not woman's gown, one shoulder open- the key to keeping fit. Even though begin at forty, and keeping fit is not ing may be sufficient if there are our housing facilities may not offer a problem for any age, it is for all no sleeves. Simplicity and comfort the last word in space, heating, ages. Are you willing to accept the are fundamental points in selecting lighting, ventilation, and air, we challenge offered by better health clothing, but attractive colour and can do many things to help us habits, and keep fit? Your family style can have a beneficial effect develop and maintain good mental needs you, your community needs on the sick. and physical health. you, your country needs you— I would urge you to build good keep fit, have fun, and enjoy this Plan dainty trays and a varied sound emotional health. Love, good life of yours. You'll be glad menu to make each meal a pleasur- laughter, family fun, and hobbies you did. able anticipation. A good plan is to are the foundation of individual get a little file box and note on emotional health and f am il y cards all foods appropriate and at- growth. A balanced diet, adequate CARING FOR THE INVALID tractive. Have divisions for bever- sleep (seven to eight hours for most ages, soups, main dishes, vege- adults), moderate exercise in the (Continued from p. 2.) tables, salads, and desserts. This fresh air, daily baths, and good in place), seat the patient, cross file is a real time-saver. There is no posture all help build good physical the blanket ends over his knees, part of home responsibility in health. and wrap around his legs and feet. which a good system is more re- These comfort details gain impor- warding than in the care of the in- tance from the fact that the sick valid. person must remain in the same Above all, maintain a cheerful position for long periods, and may atmosphere for the patient. Be kind develop bedsores from pressure at without fail. Life is hard enough uncushioned points where the body for him at best, and he needs all weight falls. the moral support you can give Never lift a sick person by the him. armpits. In heart, stomach, or Make careful plans so that you respiratory troubles, such lifting may give the patient the maximum can cause great distress. If it is a of help with a minimum of effort. THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, SEPTEMBER 1955 9 THE PSYCHIATRIST

HARRISON EVANS, M.D.

The help your family physician may ask of a psychiatrist may prevent troubles that would develop without his guidance.

HE average person has be- A more recent and less generally One of the major problems in Tcome accustomed to medical accepted participant in this team medicine is to establish a correct specialization. The surgeon, of medical specialists is the psy- diagnosis. Until this is done, no the cardiologist, the ophthalmo- chiatrist, his training is in the suitable treatment can be carried logist, and the many other special- regular medical course and the out. The psychiatrist can be help- ists are viewed as a necessity by the usual internship, just as the other ful in the diagnostic study of a average layman, and their advice specialists, but instead of taking patient. or special talents are utilized postgraduate work in one of the It is not always clear what the freely. more common fields of special in- underlying causative factors may terest, he spends added years of be in the production of symptoms. training in the study of diseases of In any illness, the doctor has to the mind and the nervous system. consider infection, disturbed cir- Since the recent war the impor- culation, tumour, and other spe- tance of the psychiatrist in the cific physical causes. He also must medical team has become more consider psychological or emo- fully appreciated. How can he fit tional factors as being the cause. into the medical team? The psychiatrist, because of his special training, is in a position to evaluate the patient's psychological and emotional status in order to help determine whether it is play- ing a part in his illness. Mental stress can cause upsets. Let us consider a patient who is suffering from headache. There are numerous causes of headache, such as sinus trouble, eye-strain, high blood pressure, brain tumour, and neuralgia. But one of the most common causes is emotional ten- sion. A careful psychiatric study takes into consideration attitudes, adjustment difficulties, excessive fears, hidden anger, frustrated ambition—all of which may result in inner tension that may cause headache. If in a careful personal- ity evaluation, the psychiatrist finds Your doctor may find it necessary to call for the specialized help of the psychiatrist who will be an invaluable help in discovering the root cause of your trouble. that emotional problems are present

10 THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, SEPTEMBER 1955 and that the headaches began about the same time the problems became acute, the psychiatrist can 5 be of definite help' in arriving at a diagnosis and thus deciding what treatment is appropriate. On the other hand, a patient • may be referred because of head- aches or other symptoms that the referring doctor believes are due to emotional and nervous causes. The psychiatrist, failing to see the signs of emotional mal-adjustment, may find there is no such problem present. He can point out the need for further diagnostic studies be- cause he has helped rule out an emotional basis for the symptoms. I recall a patient who was referred to me because of head- aches that his doctor thought were the result of an emotional treatment of heart d i s e a s e. psychiatrist can adequately give. depression. This doctor believed Every psychiatrist repeatedly Psychotherapy is an u n d e r- that his patient needed special sees patients in consultation solely standing, talking-out form of psychiatric treatment. Careful for the purpose of clarifying the treatment. In it the patient gains study revealed that the patient did problem and giving directions in a deep understanding of his not have psychiatric illness but the patient's management to the distorted attitudes and ways of rather a brain lesion, which needed general practitioner. reacting. His greater understand- the attention of a brain surgeon The third way in which the ing helps along his desired adjust- (neurosurgeon) . psychiatrist assists his professional ment. We see, then, that the psychiat- colleagues is by actively treating When the psychiatrist assumes rist can participate in the medical patients who for one reason or the major and prolonged-treat- team, along with his specialist another cannot be satisfactorily ment role, he is doing no more colleagues, in an important way in managed by the local physician. than his fellow specialist, for the diagnostic appraisal of the The patient may be so ill he needs example, in the field of tubercu- patient. to go to a psychiatric hospital for losis, who also assumes the major A second and important way special treatment measures that the and prolonged-treatment responsi- that a psychiatrist can function in psychiatric specialist alone can bility of a tuberculosis patient. the medical team is by evaluating give. The psychiatric specialist is From these glimpses of the the patient's problem, then advis- trained in using electro- and in- psychiatrist's duties, you may see ing the patient's doctor how he sulin-shock treatments, f ever the value of the psychiatrist in the may better manage the patient's therapy for certain infections of medical team. The patient should nervousness and emotional in- the nervous system, and other not be offended if his doctor wishes stability. A great many people special treatment techniques. to have a psychiatrist's opinion. afflicted with a nervous illness can Just as a surgeon may operate on This request certainly does not be treated satisfactorily by their a patient and then return him to imply that the doctor thinks the local physicians, but suggestions the local physician for usual patient insane or mentally incom- from a psychiatric specialist are medical care, so will the psychiat- petent. Rather, it shows he is an often helpful to the local physician. rist use his special treatment alert, understanding person who is A parallel could be found in the techniques, and upon recovery of wanting to consider all possible field of heart disease. The general the patient refer him back to his causes of the illness in question, practitioner can satisfactorily local physician. including the emotional. manage most heart problems if he In some instances a person Help from a psychiatrist may be has an occasional consultation deeply disturbed emotionally will of tremendous value, and often with a heart specialist, who is need prolonged psychotherapy determines the correct course of better versed on the diagnosis and that only a specially trained treatment. THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, SEPTEMBER 1955 11

--.,iTrU7rrr7M7777777777-' HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE

VERY doctor is aware that blood pressure fluctuates E with the emotional state of the patient, and civilization inhi- B. L S. bits the expression of a person's ally says "No." Yet his life situa- be more tolerant of his wife. He primitive emotions. Doctors treat- tion may reflect an unhappy may need to sit down with his doc- ing mental patients have discovered childhood in a background of tor, talk out his problems, and find that schizophrenics, who have no poverty, experience with death at out exactly where his life can be inhibitions, have no high blood a young age, and a necessity to be- improved. pressure. Coloured people come self-reliant early—too early. Along with his medical treat- in Africa have a low incidence of He lives behind a mask, and ment the sympathetic family physi- high blood pressure, whereas col- may be inwardly fearful. As a re- cian frequently has to dispense old- oured people in the cities of the sult of his abnormal drives, he may fashioned common sense in treat- United States develop high blood achieve material success early in ing the hypertensive patient. If he pressure even more rapidly and life, yet remains fearful; any threat can get the patient to see the wis- severely than the white population. to his security, either actual or im- dom of relaxing and enjoying life, City life is tense and difficult, and agined, provokes severe anxiety. and not taking on heavy duties presumably more of a strain than "A chronic repressed rage leads that overtax his nervous capacity, jungle life. But not everyone in a to chronic elevation of blood pres- he can do much to correct high city becomes hypertensive. Why do sure," says Dr. B. W. Murphy of blood pressure. these people develop high blood the Royal Victoria Hospital, Mon- But in the last analysis the pa- pressure? treal. The hypertensive patient in- tient must co-operate too, by The hypertensive patient has clines toward action rather than changing his daily living pattern, deep-rooted emotional difficulties reflection, and he conceals his de- his mental attitude toward life. He that are far in the past. In con- fects behind a smooth social front. must move from the high-pressure trast to the man who has an upset Yet inwardly he is a tense and to the low-pressure area of living stomach or a peptic ulcer who is rigid personality. if he would bring his blood pres- facing immediate emotional prob- To live with his disease success- sure back to normal. lems, the hypertensive's troubles fully the patient must by all means are deeply buried and of long dura- change his pattern of life and his . tion, and he conceals them behind resentments. He may have to FOOD HYGIENE a front of emotional calm. change his job so that it is not too (Continued from p. 7.) When asked whether he resents demanding on his time and energy. foods, such as spinach, string life or has any hatred or fears, the He may have to forgo the pleasure beans or meat. The death rate is high blood pressure patient usu- of resenting his mother-in-law, and high, and treatment is unsatisfac- 12 THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, SEPTEMBER 1955 tory. Fortunately botulism is rare. land, was one of the first to recog- tomers pass in line at cafeterias A large group of diseases not nize the importance of contact in- and frequently talk over your classified as food poisoning are fectiou. There are numerous food. Cooks and waitresses may nevertheless often spread by food pointed paragraphs in his classic, talk over it too. and water. Pure water in civilized The Sources and Modes of Infec- What would you think of a sur- communities has nearly eliminated tion. He makes the startling state- geon who, after carefully steriliz- typhoid, cholera and dysentery. ment that if our saliva and excreta ing his instruments, allowed in- The occasional case of typhoid re- were indigo in colour, our fingers sects to walk over them or allowed ported today is generally traced to would be continually blue. them to fall on the floor, or who a carrier. Bearing this fact in mind, we operated without washing his In 1940 a milk-borne typhoid can easily see that, without being hands, or who coughed and epidemic broke out in a certain unduly finical, a technique should sneezed into the incision made for town. There were seventy-eight be followed in the kitchen and the operation? cases, with eight deaths. In spite dining room as well as in a surgi- I have, nevertheless, frequently of this disaster the city council re- cal operating room. For example, seen flatware dropped on the fused on the grounds of expense tableware should be picked up by floor, then picked up by the wrong to install a pasteurization plant. the handles, not by the part put end and put on the table without One could point out that the medi- in the mouth. Glasses should be even a wipe! cal expenses for the seventy-eight picked up by the base, not by the Some dining rooms have a false persons ill and the funeral ex- rims. What have those fingers just appearance of cleanliness, but they penses for the eight deceased would touched? Side dishes should not be are not clean so far as germs are more than have paid for the plant. put on top of food, nor cream jugs concerned. The milk is unpas- Meanwhile, the milk remains dan- put in the cups. The bottoms of teurized and standing in the sun, gerous. these utensils are not clean. allowing germs to grow fast. A cat Typhoid fever is not the only Have you ever watched a care- and dog have the run of the disease traced to milk. Milk can less waitress and the sequence of kitchen. Flies abound. The knives also spread tuberculosis, undulant what her hands touched? One and forks are handled by the fever, septic sore throat, diph- picks her nose, another coughs in wrong ends, the glasses by the theria, infantile paralysis and dy- her hand and moistens her thumb rims. Bad odours penetrate even sentery. The great reduction in the with her tongue, another makes into the spotless-appearing dining incidence of hunchback and other change and handles dirty bills, then room. Needless to say, at such forms of bone tuberculosis is di- butters your toast. Is she a "car- places there are numerous cases of rectly related to the more general rier," or does she pick up TB food poisoning, perhaps called pasteurization of milk. bacilli, streptococci, or diphtheria "St. Lawrence" fever or attributed Most people have heard of Ty- germs from the money she han- to change of air. phoid Mary, a notorious cook and dles? If the bacteria are harmless, Restaurants are inspected, but typhoid carrier who failed to wash her habits are merely dirty; if the homes are not, and your health her hands after visiting the toilet. bacteria are dangerous, you may officer cannot see all. Most of the She caused thereby numerous contract disease. responsibility for clean food rests cases of typhoid fever and a num- It is a well-known fact that on you. ber of deaths. The health authori- droplets are sprayed into the air The day is past when anyone ties finally caught up with her, when people talk. Is your food without instruction should be and she was quarantined for life protected from this danger? Cus- thought capable of preparing and on Welfare Island, New York. handling food. This includes the There are few food handlers who housewife and her servants, for invariably wash their hands after probably more cases of food visiting the toilet unless they are poisoning caused by ignorance are specially trained and continually in the home rather than in the reminded. Washing of the hands restaurant, where food handling is after the bodily functions should inspected by the health depart- be a part of one's religion. Ordi- ment. narily, dirty habits are just nasty, Are you sure you are handing but if a "carrier" is involved, an the family food in a sanitary way? outbreak of disease results. Give your work habits a close sur- Dr. Chapin, long-time health vey, and assure health to your officer at Providence, Rhode Is- family. THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, SEPTEMBER 1955 13 Tobacco stands indicted as a L Ruthless Murderer

SAND{ in the GEARS

JAMES J. SHORT, M.D.

(Second of Two Articles)

for tobacco advertisements in news- papers alone in 1953. Of one thing we may be certain: General en- lightenment regarding the real nature of tobacco addiction and its frightful toll of human suffering from physical deterioration and economic waste has resulted in a telling blow to the industry and those who profit from it. The brazen, soul-seared purvey- ors of exaggerated misinformation who write their advertising and coin their slogans have not yet had • the effrontery to claim positive M ONSENSE. I can give the advertising is obvious. The virtues for their poison—at least up tobacco any time I tobacco interests are on the de- not to my knowledge. N like. It has never had a fensive. Their advertising is "If tobacco is so harmful, why hold on me." That has a familiar negative. It disclaims certain harm- do the doctors not take a firmer sound, hasn't it? Although some ful effects. All of this is significant, stand against it?" ' people have given up the use of and is a tacit admission by their A fair question that deserves a the weed after becoming tho- propaganda departments that fair answer. Two reasons are roughly addicted, the number who tobacco stands before the bar of obvious. One is that most doctors have done so is relatively small. public opinion indicted as an smoke. Being just as much slaves Multitudes of others have tried, enemy of health. to the weed as their patients, and but failed. How many millions are spent in finding it just as difficult to be free, How familiar the cigarette blatant advertising to break down they cannot forcibly advocate total slogans have become! Although public suspicion against tobacco abstinence from tobacco without one brand extols its alleged virtues we may never know. Jack Geyer, appearing inconsistent. They there- and another ballyhoos certain columnist, stated in a 1954 fore admonish their patients to cut other supposedly beneficial quali- summer issue of the Los Angeles down on the amount of daily con- ties, one common characteristic of Times that $20,137,000 was spent sumption. 14 THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, SEPTEMBER 1955 For certain conditions, however, reply was that the result of his smokers in the work of school and your smoking medico usually does inquiries among leading scientific college" and "tobacco in school insist on total abstinence. These are workers showed that their findings and college is always associated Buerger's disease (a form of had been so predominantly adverse with poor scholarship." gangrene), stomach ulcer, and to tobacco that the editor had Further, he stated that high heart pain. He looks for little im- frankly informed him that he could school principals "could not over- provement from these conditions not publish it. Tobacco companies look the fact that the records of the as long as the patient continues to are heavy advertisers, hence news smokers in their schools were con- smoke. He knows also that many adverse to their interests must be clusive in showing that the use of functional symptoms are due to played down if not suppressed tobacco by pupils is detrimental to tobacco, and pronounces a taboo altogether. intellectual effort, and in extreme on it because of them. Indigestion, There are those who argue that instances it paralyzes mental activ- jittery nerves, insomnia, headache, tobacco sharpens intellect or at ity." vague pains, and a host of other least helps the thought flow. But "The smokers among high symptoms frequently disappear we cannot leave our smoking school pupils were not as a rule when tobacco addiction is finally friends even that small comfort. inferior in scholarship before they overcome. Comparisons with non-smokers began smoking. All the evidence Another reason for your doctor's prove otherwise. indicates that tobacco exerts a apathy in encouraging complete An extensive report bearing retarding and disturbing influence cessation of smoking is the forlorn directly on this question is found on the intellectual processes of prospect of its accomplishment. in the book Tobacco and Mental high school pupils," said Professor Frequent failure to overcome the Efficiency, by M. V. O'Shea, a O'Shea. smoking habit in the well-seasoned former professor of education, As to mature persons, the results addict has produced this attitude. University of Wisconsin. of laboratory tests showed "that But the outcome is so vital that this Professor O'Shea found so tobacco tends to retard and to dismal possibility does not justify much bias and prejudice in then- disturb intellectual processes of the his giving up the attempt. current literature that he decided majority of them." As individuals, physicians fre- to make an attempt "to secure The direct testimony of mature quently deplore smoking by them- data on this subject which would smokers in various walks of life selves or their patients. "I wish I not be coloured by prejudice or was conflicting, ... and Professor didn't" falls from their lips often. propaganda." O'Shea believed that no final con- Doctors are becoming more His investigations were exten- clusions could be drawn from their opposed to tobacco because of the sive and well controlled, his con- opinions. volume of clinical and scientific clusions fair to both sides. But he Tobacco is under strong suspi- evidence rising against it. The was forced to the conclusion that cion also as a cause of cancer. In medical literature showing that "it is significant that in every one fact, there are many well-informed tobacco adversely affects health is of the foregoing reports, smokers people who believe the case is impressive. are shown to be inferior to non- (Continued on p. 21.) Some of the written evidence against tobacco is not known to the public, and the reason is not hard to find. A few years ago George W. Gray, author of The Advancing Front of Science and The Advanc- ing Front of Medicine, called upon me to inquire as to my researches in the fields of tobacco and public health. He had been asked by the editor of a leading magazine to get the facts on this controversial subject. His contribution, he said, was to be published in a certain issue some months hence. When it failed to appear I called Mr. Gray to ask the reason. His 15 THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, SEPTEMBER 1955 RINGWORM

PAUL D. FOSTER, M.D.

WILDFIRE is a better name for the disease that is neither ring nor worm. 1

MEDICAL misnomer that and broken stubs of hair. healthy part of the child's own A has become painfully At the first suspected sign of scalp. For this reason his hair must familiar to thousands of ringworm take the child to a be clipped very short or shaved. families is ringworm, especially doctor so that a diagnosis may be When you do this, take precautions ringworm of the scalp. This ex- made and treatment begun at to gather up all the cut hair and ceedingly annoying skin disease is once. To diagnose ringworm of the burn it. incorrectly labelled. It is not scalp the doctor has a special kind In the early part of the epidemic caused by a worm and often is not of ultra-violet lamp, called a Wood years the occurrence of ringworm in rings (although many skin dis- light. He takes the child into a created a serious social problem for orders that are not ringworm do darkened room and focuses this children in may areas. Because of form rings). light on the child's head. Most the infectious nature of the disease, By its very nature, ringworm is types of ringworm will show up as as soon as a child was discovered to an extremely difficult disease to a brilliant green, in sharp con- have ringworm he was whisked out eradicate. It is caused by a tena- trast to the surrounding hair and of school and isolated from other cious little fungus that must be scalp. A few other substances also children insofar as possible. From controlled and confined usually for reflect green under this light, such the doctor's viewpoint the child months to keep it from spreading as lanolin and blood, but they are with ringworm is healthy; he and to kill it. Because it is very too obvious to be confusing. simply has a communicable disease infectious, being easily passed from The treatment of ringworm of of the scalp. He feels well, is not in- person to person, and most of its the scalp is long and difficult. You capacitated in any way, and is victims are children between the must prevent the child from eager to continue his interests and ages of six and eleven, the mere spreading his disease further to exert his energies as normal chil- matter of preventing its spread himself or others. This means that dren do. His imposed isolation becomes a major battle. The dis- you cannot allow one single in- placed him under a handicap of ease recognizes no social, geo- fected hair to drop where it can missing valuable months of school- graphic, or economic boundaries. infect someone else or to fall on a ing, placed a stigma of "untoucha- Wherever children play and go to bility" on him, robbed him of a school together it may spread from great many social outlets, and one to another. (some authorities believe) created The first sign of ringworm is a a tendency toward delinquency as small scaly patch or a red pimple- he rebelled against his cruel like hair-bearing bump on the circumstances. scalp. This area rapidly spreads, The care and treatment of the turning grayish in colour and be- disease itself is trying enough for coming covered with heavy scales (Continued on p. 20.)

16 THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, SEPTEMBER 1953 ••,,•,,•,••••,,,•••, Top of his class !

"Another win for Arun !" his school friends said, when he won his second race at the Annual School Sports. For Arun has been having a lot of "Firsts"— in the classroom as well ai on the playing field.

His class mates do not grudge him his success because, being full of fun and high spirits, he is very popular. But they do envy him his almost boundless energy.

And Arun knows he has to thank his mother for this. For she realises that, even when the food at home is of the best, growing children in hot climates usually need extra nourishment if they are not to outgrow their strength. That is why she gives Arun Nestomalt malted milk each day—a drink rich In Vitamins and minerals which gives him that store of vitality he needs to keep at the top of his class.

FEEL FITTER BY TAKING NESTOMALT Malted Milk with Vitamin B1 Added Its Top of Its Class Too ! A NESTLE'S PRODUCT M/G/I

44444,444444444O4‘444 THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, SEPTEMBER 1955 17 What to Do for the triN Ga o h1 C

J. WAYNE McFARLAND, M.D.

H, IT'S nothing. Just a that any extra tension load— The function of stopping dust head cold. And what an whether overwork, lack of sleep, and germs and preparing the air awful time to have one over-eating, or a quarrel with the for the lungs requires a well-regu- —with a carload of relatives com- neighbours—can change the body's lated filtering system. The normal ing! I haven't the slightest idea defences and lay you wide open to nose is just that, and a very fine where I picked the thing up." attack by many types of organisms. one when treated properly. Have you ever said such words? Back to this head cold of yours. One of the important factors in More than likely you have, and The nose is a wonderful organ. It keeping you from catching colds probably you didn't have the houses the nerve endings of smell; is the tiny microscopic hairs slightest idea that the extra tension it is the entrance for life-giving (called cilia) that line the entire you were under in getting ready oxygen to the lungs and body; it nasal cavity, which includes the for the in-laws had anything to do is one of the escape hatches for bony cavities in the face called with your sniffles. But such is ex- poisonous carbon dioxide given off sinuses. Two, the maxillary, are actly the case, and now medical by the lungs; it acts as a very effi- located deep in the cheek-bone; research can tell you how this cient air conditioner by warming, and two others, the frontal, are just whole thing works. We now know humidifying, and filtering the air. above and lateral to the bridge of the nose. Then hidden deep in the bones are to be found the ethmoid and sphenoid sinus cavities. It is the job of the cilia, or hairs that line these sinuses, to be con- stantly waving ever outward a con- tinuous stream of very fine mucus. This sheet of mucus is actually a layer that lies on top of these fine hairs. It is like a continuous belt that is on the move, being pushed forward by the movement of the cilia. Germs, dust, and foreign par- ticles are trapped on this layer of mucus, and are conveyed to the nasal passageway. So efficient is the cleansing action of this remarkable germ and dust trap that it can kill on con- tact many organisms. To give you an idea of how remarkable this protective mucus and the cilia on Gobind Lal which it rests really are, we take an Randolph Turpin, contender for the World Middleweight Boxing Title, eats 20 grape fruit per day. The vitamin C contained in citrus fruits help those suffering illustration from Dr. Arthur W. from colds. Proetz, a leading scientist in the 18 THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, SEPTEMBER 1955 field of ear, nose, and throat dis- eases. He compares the nose and its sinuses with a duplex apartment, the sinuses being the rooms. He states: "These rooms have no doors, only ventilators. The wallpaper (mucus) in these apartments, miraculously, is self-regenerating. As it forms, it slides slowly along the walls, to and through the ven- tilators, to merge with the paper in the hall. From here it is un- ceremoniously thrown down the back stairs (throat) into the in- cinerator. Fancy ! clean carpets and wallpaper from cellar to garret every twenty minutes." Dr. Proetz continues by showing what would happen if the maxil- lary sinus in one cheek-bone, which is little more than an inch square, were a room ten feet square! "It is dark, for the only com- munication it has with the out- doors is an eight-inch ventilator, and that opens under a penthouse in the hall "The walls, ceiling and floors of this antrum are lined with the line. It also changes its consistency, circulation. It has been found that thinnest imaginable velvet, for the becoming thick and heavy, and the person who has cold hands and cilia even now are only 1/42 inch the little hairs cannot move it feet and who is sensitive to drafts long and 1/300 inch thick. And yet along. It becomes a perfect hotbed has an abnormal circulation not if one were to heave a washtubful for germs. only of the skin on the outside of of molasses and a bucket of sand What can change the mucous the body but also of the skin lining into that room, they would mop it secretion to alkaline? Ah, that is the inside of his nose. These per- up, carry it across the floor and where the quarrel with the neigh- sons would see a very interesting discharge it through the ventilator bours, a week of too much tension, thing happen at the time they sit in a short ten minutes !"—Essays or lack of sleep plays a major role. in a draft could they look inside on the Applied Physiology of the Scientists have by very fine instru- the nose. When their arms and legs Nose, pp. 219-221. ments measured just such reactions are chilled, they have a constriction on the nasal secretions. From the of the blood vessels in the skin of Whatever upsets this mechanism normal acid side they change over their hands and feet. At exactly of the nose is going to produce to the alkaline reaction. the time this is going on they would trouble for you and me, and that's Most of us have organisms in see inside the nose the blood ves- where a common cold comes in for the nose that can produce head- sels grow smaller and slow down. some discussion. The chemical re- cold symptoms. But they never get Normal persons may have some action of the mucous secretions of a chance because our resistance is slowing down of circulation when the nose is normally slightly acid, high. When we are cold resistant, they are cold, but never does it but when we start out with a head the secretions of the nose are acid, last as long as in these cold-sensi- cold, that secretion becomes alka- and we are keeping them that way tive persons. by getting regular rest, by using a When the circulation slows.down Germs are everywhere. wholesome and adequate diet, and anywhere in the human body, we by controlling our emotions. are headed for trouble. In the nose Why do they ever gain Another factor in this complex it means that those germs are a foothold? problem of the common cold, and ready to go to work. one not stressed enough, is a good (Continued on p. 28.) THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, SEPTEMBER 1955 19 1 egg, beaten; 1 cup cooked channa; salt. Add salt and butter to potato water. Bring to boil, then add HOMEMAKERS' HELPS noodles. Cook until tender. Stir the beaten egg into the boiling noodles. ~o44Ob40-0-040 004` Add channa with its liquid.

Noodles in Egg Gravy RECIPES Two tablespoonfuls oil; 1 onion, minced; 1 egg; 2 table- spoonfuls flour; 5 cups water; Cottage Cheese Loaf Boil rice until tender, drain off Noodles made with 2 eggs. water if necessary. Beat eggs slightly, One cup unseasoned cottage add milk, cheese, parsley and mix Fry onion in oil in a large sauce- cheese; 2 tablespoonfuls butter; with rice. Add melted butter and pan. Add egg and stir until it is finely 1 cup nuts, ground; 11/2 cups to- pour into a greased ring. Bake stirred. Add flour, a little cummin if mato puree; 1 cup dry bread 350°F. for 30 to 40 minutes. Ring desired, and fry until egg is brown. crumbs; 1 teaspoonful Marmite; may be filled with hot creamed or Add water. When water boils add 1 medium onion, diced; salt and buttered vegetable. noodles. Serve with tomato sauce and sage to taste. squares of nut roast. Cooked channa Saute onion in butter. Heat tomato Spaghetti and Cottage Cheese may be added. puree sufficiently to melt the Marmite. Spanish Rice Mix all ingredients together and put Eight ounces spaghetti; 1 cup in oiled baking pan. Bake 45 minutes cottage cheese; 2 eggs; salt to One cup rice; 11/2 cups liquid in 350°F. oven. Uncover and brown taste; 2 cups milk. slightly at end of baking period. (water and tomato juice); minced Serve with gravy. Boil spaghetti in rapidly boiling green pepper and onion; 2 table- water until tender. Drain. Combine spoonfuls fat. beaten eggs with milk, cottage Slightly saute green pepper and "A lack of protein may create a cheese and salt. Pour over spaghetti onion in fat in pressure cooker. Add craving for something sweet, produce in greased baking dish. Bake in mod- rice and saute to light brown. Add a feeling of chronic tiredness and erate oven 1 hour. liquid and bring pressure up to 15, lack of stamina, and is often accom- allowing pressure to remain only 2 panied by dizziness and weakness. Noodles minutes. Reduce the pressure and It may result in stunted growth in serve immediately. This is a dry, Two eggs; 2 tablespoonfuls flaky Spanish rice. the young." water; 1/2 teaspoonful salt; flour. Beat eggs lightly, add salt and Lentils water. Mix well and add sufficient Cottage Cheese flour to make a very stiff dough. Roll One cup lentils; 2 cloves of as thin as possible—paper-like thin- garlic; 1 teaspoonful Vegex or Powdered skim milk may be used Marmite; salt. in making cottage cheese. Clabbered ness. Cover and let dry half hour Combine ingredients, cover with milk for a starter may be obtained Roll in a tight scroll, slice and dry. water and cook until tender. If sim- in the bazaar. It is called "dahi." When needed, place in boiling water mered over a low fire the flavour will When milk is soured and clabbered, and cook rapidly for 15 minutes. be better. cook it over a slow fire—or in the Spanish Noodles oven—at a very low heat, until the Macaroni and Parsley whey separates. Pour off the whey, Noodles; 1/4 cup butter; 1 me- put curd in a bag and let it dry for 1/ Eight ounces macaroni; 1 several hours without squeezing. dium onion; 4 cup flour; 1 Bell cup pepper; salt; 21/2 cups tomato parsley, minced; 1 clove garlic; This may be stored in the refrigerator oil or cream; salt. or in a cool place until needed. To juice; 6 hard-boiled eggs; 1 cup Boil macaroni in salted boiling prepare for table use, season with cheese. water. Wash in cold water and salt and cream. When the milk is Chop onion and pepper fine and drain. Return to fire, add oil or clabbered it is well to retain a cup- fry in small amount of shortening. cream, garlic and salt and lastly the ful for future starter. The starter may Mix with tomato juice and cheese, if minced parsley. Serve immediately. be placed in the freezing compart- available. Blend the butter, flour and ment if it is not to be used soon. salt and mix with the tomato sauce. Arrange a layer of cooked noodles, Cottage Cheese Rice Ring eggs, then sauce until entire amount RINGWORM has been used. Bake until bubbly. (Continued from p. 16.) One cup rice; 3 eggs; 1 cup a small child without the added chopped parsley or dhanya; Vegetarian Chicken Noodles cup butter, melted; 1 cup un- complication of his being placed seasoned cottage cheese; salt to One cup noodles; 2 tablespoon- in a social vacuum. The second taste; 2 cups milk. fuls butter; 2 cups potato water; step in handling this problem was

THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN. SEPTEMBER 1955 to allow infected children to close fitting to cover the entire study of 7,398 autopsies by Dr. attend school, but only in "ring- scalp without slipping. The child Philip B. Motz of the United worm classes." This plan did not must understand that he must States Veterans Administration work out, for it was impossible to neither remove his cap nor move it showed that lung cancer increased prevent the infected children from around on his head. 121 per cent in the period from coming into contact with the non- In a local epidemic of scalp ring- 1932 to 1937, whereas cancer as a infected children outside the clas.s- worm, keep your unaffected child whole had increased only 28 per room. away from public places as much cent. In Dr. Motz's series, lung Fortunately the prevailing atti- as possible. Ringworm infection cancer comprised 13 per cent of tude now is to permit the child to abounds not only in barber-shops all cancers. attend regular school-room classes where conditions are insanitary but The explanation for this appears as well as go to public places and also in places where hair is likely to be fairly obvious. Anyone who associate with other children so to fall or touch a child's head, has examined a well-smoked pipe long as proper precautions are particularly the backs of seats in has noticed the large amount of tar observed. public auditoriums and public deposited. Tar is a well-known The best and quickest treatment transportation vehicles. factor in the production of skin for ringworm of the scalp is the Control of ringworm of the scalp cancer among those who come in total (but temporary) removal of is actually a community effort, in contact with it, such as road the hair by X-ray treatment. Be- which health officials, parents, and workers. When it is applied to the cause the fungus infection pene- children must all work together skin of cancer-susceptible animals trates the hair shaft both above willingly. Only by a united effort it will readily produce cancer. and below the skin, the entire hair, can the disease be intelligently We can reasonably assume that roots and all, must be destroyed. handled and the danger of future tobacco tar, carried into the lungs, However, this treatment may not epidemics eliminated. may well be a factor in the pro- be available, and it should never duction of cancer of the lungs. be attempted by anyone but an Increase of lung cancer coincides expert. An over-dose of X-ray can with increased consumption of be dangerous and can produce SAND IN THE GEARS cigarettes. permanent baldness. (Continued from p. 15.) The second best treatment is one Although medical literature has that will be recommended by proved and the criminal convicted. for many years carried articles your family doctor, your skin What are the facts? pointing out the dangers from specialist, or a clinic. It involves tobacco, not much filtered through Cancer is produced by chronic keeping the child's head closely into the lay press. Recently the irritation to susceptible tissue. For shorn and giving him daily night violent reactions of physicians, many years it has been recognized and morning shampoos with a scientists, and statisticians to the that cancer of the tongue occa- sulfated oil soap followed by the tobacco evil could no longer be sionally develops at the site where application of a salicylanilide oint- suppressed. Newspapers are at last a pipe stem comes in contact with ment, which is rubbed into the giving out the findings and it. It was thought that the pro- entire scalp, with special care given opinions of those best qualified to longed irritation of smoke upon the to affected areas. Sterilization is an judge such matters. Although it is tongue provoked the cancer. Be- important part of the treatment. only fair to say that medical fore the actual development of the Boil clippers, razors, towels, and opinion is not unanimous in con- cancer there frequently appear caps for at least ten minutes after demning tobacco, a look at the sores called leukoplakia, or smok- each use. A cap on the order of a record, in my opinion, leads to ers' tongue. These sores, generally stocking cap must be worn by the only one conclusion. recognized as a precancerous con- child at all times, including his Physicians in England recently dition, can frequently be made to sleeping hours. You must boil these made an extensive survey of lung caps before washing after each disappear by the elimination of cancer and concluded that the use, and put on a clean one at tobacco. But unless the use of incidence among smokers is much night and in the morning. If stock- tobacco is stopped there is no hope. greater than among non-smokers. ing caps are offensive to your Forty years ago cancer of the In fact, they stated that incidence child's vanity, use a reasonable lungs was considered a rare dis- in non-smokers is negligible. substitute—a sailor cap, for ease. It has increased rapidly, E. C. Hammond, Sc. D., and example—provided it can be until it constitutes an important boiled and is sufficiently large and portion of all cancer mortality. A (Continued on p. 24.) THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, SEPTEMBER 1955 21 8VW1r C VITM

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HE eating of sweets is a refined sugar in sweets and chew- amount of disease in the tissues characteristic of the modern ing gum makes them special about the teeth, such as pyorrhcea, T way of life. It is not alto- targets for criticism. A stick of grows larger as we continue these gether a desirable one, though it is chewing gum contains the equi- bad habits. magic to many small children! valent of a half teaspoonful of Chewing is important to keep Unlike the rest of our foodstuffs, sugar. These sugars are the most the mouth healthy. The gums need sweets are most often eaten be- readily converted in the mouth to the exercise of chewing carrots, tween meals and at odd hours. the acids that etch the teeth. celery, lettuce, coarse breads, and Because we do not habitually brush Other foods sharing this con- apples. And good tooth brushing our teeth after our between-meal demnation are cakes, pies, biscuits, is another valuable form of gum snacks, the sticky sugar mass clings soft breads, gravies, and potatoes. exercise. Only by the stimulation to the tooth surfaces between teeth All these sweet or starchy foods of exercise can the blood circula- and at the gum line, helping to have materials in them that are tion be kept active and tissues form new cavities. easily converted into sugar acids in healthy. Teeth that are not allowed The sugars promptly produce the mouth. All of them form a the work of chewing may become acids, which etch the enamel film on the teeth that is not re- loose, because the bone around surface. This leaves tiny rough moved by simply rinsing the them cannot stay healthy without niches, in which decay bacteria can mouth. And none of them have exercise. Nature tends to destroy start their insidious work. Even the fibrous texture so necessary to anything the body does not use. though the mouth is rinsed with provide exercise for the gum The time to take care of our teeth water, enough sugary deposit re- tissues. is while we still have them in good mains in the little crevices and Perhaps you did not know that condition. between the teeth to carry on this the gums need exercise just as There are two general classes of harmful process. other parts of our bodies do. In dental disease. The first is disease Why do dentists talk so much times of more primitive civiliza- of the teeth themselves, namely about the harmfulness of sweet tions, people did not cook their decay, and its results. The second eating? Are sweets the only things foods so mercilessly as we often do is disease of the gums and bone that harm our teeth? No, almost nowadays. They ate more raw support of the teeth. Such diseases any food left as debris in the mouth fruits and vegetables. Their bread as gingivitis and pyorrhcea fall in after eating may help to produce was coarser, and required harder this class. dental disorders. Sweets are more chewing. They had less pyorrhcea! We can see that our eating harmful than many of our foods Today we mash, chop, shred, slice, habits may play an important role because sweets have a sticky and puree our foods until the in causing diseases of both kinds. texture and because they are teeth no longer have much to do in If we eat many sweets and fail to usually eaten between meals, when mastication. Instead of eating brush our teeth promptly, we may we cannot conveniently clean the whole raw carrots, we often shred expect to have a higher rate of mouth. The high concentration of them or cook them. And the dental decay. If we neglect to eat

AVOID THESE ! ! THEY CAUSE DENTAL CARIES 22 THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, SEPTEMBER 1955 Let's take a straight look at this matter of sweets and your teeth. foods that need real chewing, and leave food debris around the teeth to irritate the gums, we may expect problems in the tissues about the teeth. "But," you say, "what about my friend Sam? He eats lots of sweets and brushes his teeth only once in a while, and he never has to go to the dentist!" There are some people whose natural resistance to decay is great enough to withstand decay-pro- ducing influences without having B. I. s. Take your child for a regular check-up of his teeth and make sure that all cavities cavities form in their teeth. Un- are given early attention. fortunately, only a very small per- centage of people are so immune control—proper diet and good is to stop eating too many sweets, to decay. The inherited immunities tooth-brushing habits. to stop eating between meals, and or resistances to decay vary some- Vitamins and minerals are to thoroughly clean the mouth im- what among various persons. needed to keep the gums healthy. mediately after each meal. Drink Decay may progress rapidly in Vitamin deficiencies often are first milk regularly. Your dentist will be some mouths, and more slowly in detected by symptoms in the glad to teach you good brushing others. In any case, the rate of mouth. A diet low in calcium and methods. Both your physician and decay is hastened by bathing the vitamin C results in soft, flabby your dentist may suggest improve- teeth in a film of sugar or starch. gums, which bleed readily when ments in your diet. Remember to We do well not to presume too brushed. This condition improves include hard foods for gum exer- much on our natural resistance to rapidly with proper tooth brush- cise as well as foods needed for decay. ing, gum massage, and the use of good nutrition. Is all decay caused by the eating oranges and apples in place of A friend of mine told me that of sweets and poor tooth brushing? starchy foods and candy. Our diet his shop sells a large quantity of Of course not. There are many should allow for only a small cheap sweets every day to chil- factors that help cause cavities. amount of cake-sweets-pie desserts. dren at a nearby school! Can this Some of them are unknown, and Fresh and dried fruits are much be why our kiddies have so many some are beyond our control. For more healthful, both systemically holes in their teeth? Children form example, we cannot choose our and dentally. a taste for sweets during their parents, and so have no control Perhaps it is not necessary to infant years, just as they learn to over hereditary influences. We eliminate quite all the sweets like other types of food. If chil- must work with the factors we can from our meals. What is necessary dren are not introduced to sweets

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THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, SEPTEMBER 1955 93 until school age, there is a good produce damage to the muscle. A chance that they will not crave The Publishers of this Magazine sudden closing of one of the larger sweets then. It is not practical for Insure Their Motor Cars and branches of a coronary artery may children to brush their teeth six or produce sudden death. The im- Property with: eight times a day. It is better to portance of these vessels can hardly teach them to eat only at meal- be over-emphasized. time. This is the programme of The National Is there any relationship be- health from every viewpoint. tween the great increase in This advice is intended to help EMPLOYERS' cigarette smoking and the similar you keep your teeth. Your own increase in deaths from coronary teeth are far superior to any substi- artery disease? Are the two purely tutes. But remember : No one can Mutual General accidental? Let's look at the record. preserve your teeth for you, not Dr. J. P. English and co- even your dentist. It's up to you— Insurance workers of the Mayo Clinic in they're your teeth! 1940 published the article Association "Tobacco and Coronary Disease." SAND IN THE GEARS They found in their studies a (Continued from p. 21.) Limited greater incidence of coronary dis- Daniel Horn, Ph. D., reported ease among smokers than among from the Statistical Research Head Office for the East: non-smokers in the younger age Section, American Cancer Society, 32 Nicol Road, Ballard Estate, group—those under fifty. Coro- New York, on a follow-up study of Bombay 1. nary disease was greatest among 187,766 men between the ages of Telephone: 22823 excessive smokers, least among 50 and 69 years. Although their Telegrams: "EMPLOMUTUA" non-smokers, and intermediate study was not completed, they Chief Office for Northern India: the non-smokers. reported in the Journal of the 4 Peareylal Buildings, Queens- Dr. Harry J. Johnson in 1940 American Medical Association for Way, New Delhi. published a study of 2,400 electro- August 7, 1954, that an analysis of Telephone: 7625 cardiograms of apparently healthy information then available indi- Telegrams: "EMPLOMUTUA" males, from observations made at cated that "the over-all death rate, the offices of the Life Extension Chief Office for West Pakistan: the death rate from diseases of the Examiners of New York. He found Atiya Building, Bank Square, coronary arteries, and the death that there was a fifty per cent Lahore. rate from cancer are much higher increase in abnormal electrocardio- among men with a history of Telephone: 3516 grams in the smoking group over regular cigarette smoking than Telegrams: "EMPLOMUTUA" the non-smokers. among men who never smoked." Dr. Bellet and co-workers in They believe their findings re- would die of lung cancer in the 1941 published the results of their present cause-and-effect relation- same year. studies of tobacco smoke and ships. There are many more such nicotine on the heart. They found Dr. Alton Ochsner of the articles in recent literature. If you that in a heart muscle already Ochsner Clinic in New Orleans, are interested in reading them, damaged, marked electrocardio- who as a surgeon has had exten- you may do so at any good medical graph changes were obtained with sive experience in removal of lung library. a dose of nicotine or tobacco cancers, has a similar but much But perhaps the greatest inroad smoke that was one fourth of the more emphatic conviction. He on life and health by tobacco is amount required to produce only believes the Government may found in its effect on the heart. slight changes in normal heart eventually be obliged to intervene Along with the striking rise in action. In other words, if your to halt this needless, insidious, but cigarette smoking of the past thirty heart is already damaged, beware! definite, carnage. years there has been an alarming Older men are dropping out Henry Lee, a lay writer, stated and abrupt rise in deaths from dis- with increasing frequency from in Pageant for February, 1954, ease of the coronary arteries. These degenerative heart disease. This that recent clinical and statistical arteries, it must be remembered, fact accounts largely for their evidence shows that only one in have the important duty of supply- excessive mortality as compared to 10,000 non-smokers would die of ing blood to the heart muscle it- women. But such disease is not lung cancer in the year but as self. Any shortage of blood supply increasing among the older genera- many as one in 300 heavy smokers to the heart muscle will rapidly tion of women. 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liV14.48e-X51 army of women smokers, the out of the cradle before they take doting mothers. Exaggerated? Not younger generation, will provide up smoking. Casual observation a bit. Remember that nicotine is the final answer. How sad that they shows many school children in the one of the most potent poisons should become human guinea pigs lower grades puffing at cigarettes. known, and that a relatively small and victims of insidious poisoning More than this, it has been amount of it can produce symp- to provide an answer to this reliably stated that babies them- toms. Certain digestive disturb- difficult problem! selves get their daily dose of nico- ances in nursing infants have been Today many children are hardly tine while at the breasts of their traced to nicotine secreted in the THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, SEPTEMBER 1955 25 mother's milk. Perhaps a fitting be sufficient to produce a major under a net to prevent the mosquito paraphrase of an old adage might blocking effect. becoming infected and transmitting the disease to others and also to be, "The hand that holds the Many are the evils of tobacco. prevent repeated infections which cigarette ruins the infant." Scientific articles and books on the will cause greater trouble in the What is the probable mode of subject are so numerous that space future. will not permit even a reference to action of tobacco in causing heart 9 impairment? The answer in part many of them. One thing that is the narrowing of the arteries appears clear beyond the shadow WEAK HEART: Ques.—"My going to the heart muscle. Just as of a reasonable doubt is that Lady heart is weak. I feel so. What exercise, after a smoke the vessels in the Nicotine stands condemned before diet, or medicines should I take?" skin can be seen to narrow and the bar of science as a vicious Ans.—How do you know your obstruct the blood flow, so those of saboteur. She has proved herself to heart is weak? This could only be be expensive, dangerous and determined by an examination by a the heart muscle also may become physician. Many complain of weak constricted and obstruct the flow. deadly destructive. The only safety heart when poor nutrition or some- If the vessels are already thickened, is in making a complete break with thing else is responsible for their a slight additional narrowing may her. condition. Of course, there is such a thing as a weak heart, which may be due to anyone of a number of 9 causes, such as high blood pressure, rheumatic fever, obesity, syphilis, or AIR SWALLOWER: Ques.—"In as a result of certain infectious the April issue of "HEALTH" you THE diseases, etc. The treatment may answered a questioner who complained vary according to the cause. The of gas trouble. You asked him DOCTOR cause should be removed, and unless if he was an air swallower, etc. May the heart is damaged too much, it I know how one can be called an air may recover its strength to a normal swallower? What makes one such? SAYS state. I would suggest that you see a qualified physician, who can make What is the cause and remedy." L Thus question and answer service is tree Ans.—One becomes an air swal- only to regular subscribers. the proper diagnosis and prescribe lower as a result of nervousness, 2. No attempt will be made to treat disease the treatment indicated. nor to take the place of a regular physician in caring for individual cases. which manifests itself in this unusual 9 way. Many times those afflicted do 3. All questions must be addressed to The not realise what they are doing. One, Doctor Says. Correspondence personally with the doctor is not available through this service. when this is suggested to him, can by NASAL ALLERGY: Ques.—"In 4. Questions to which personal answers are every changing season between closely observing himself usually tell desired must be accompanied by ADDRESSED AND STAMPED ENVELOPES. Answers cannot February and April I am attacked by whether he is indulging in air swal- be expected under ONE MONTH. lowing or not. Anyone who belches what my doctor calls allergy. It considerably is probably an air swal- 5. Questions sent in on Post Cards will not attacks my nose and one nostril receive attention. remains mostly closed; sometimes lower. The habit can be broken by 6. Make questions short and to the point. exercising a little will power. Type them or write them very clearly. both are blocked. Will you suggest some precautions so that I may be 7. Questions and answers will be published 9 only if they are of such a nature as to be of saved from this trouble in future?" general interest and without objection, but no names will be published. Address "The Doctor Ans.—I too am suffering with Says," Oriental Watchman and Herald of ORCHITIS: Ques.—"I am suffer- Health, P. 0. Box 35, Poona 1. nasal allergy. My trouble begins in ing from Orchitis accompanied by the middle of August and lasts until fever. This is the first attack that I frost in cold countries. Here I am ever had. My physician has declared bothered only when in higher that it is due 'to Filaria. Some people Repeated infection over a period of altitudes such as Simla, Mussoorie, are of the opinion that Filaria is years may result eventually in "big Bangalore, etc. incurable and can only be suppresed leg" or massive swelling of some If one cannot move or go to some for a time. Kindly give me your other part of the body. other climate during the hay fever opinion and advice. I would like to The organisms grow to maturity in season, I would suggest the following confirm my physician's conviction, i.e. the lymph channels, and in time the programme: (1) Pyribenzamine tab- whether Filaria is now really incur- female produces the young in lets by Ciba. Take 1/2 or one tablet able. I will be 45 years of age by enormous numbers, which give rise to every four hours or as needed. next September." temperature and other symptoms. It Personally I can get along very nicely Ans.—The Orchitis of which you is extremely difficult to kill the adult on half a tablet two or three times a complain is probably due to Filaria. worms, but in time they die of day. (2) Some good nasal drops such It is also probable that you have themselves. Probably the most suc- as Neosynephrine 14%, three or four become infected some months or years cessful treatment is the use of drops in each nostril every four to before this difficulty. Filaria is Hetrazan or Banocide tablets three six hours gives considerable relief. transmitted by the bite of an infected times a day for four weeks. Even (3) Massive doses of Vitamin C help mosquito. One infection may not more important than taking the some people. I would suggest 200 cause much in the way of symptoms. tablets is the necessity of sleeping mgm. every eight hours. 26 THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, SEPTEMBER 1955 SPARKLING DRINK enWhotweather stomach upsets'

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•••••■••• molomosommoNommIlw THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, SEPTEMBER 1955 27 "Funny," said Daddy. "The fact is that mixing concrete and getting ready for examinations are very KIDDIES' KORNER much alike. To prepare for ex- aminations you have to put in just the right amount of study and the right amount of play. Otherwise ALL OVER AGAIN you'll never succeed. About three to one, I would say. The study will ARTHUR S. MAXWELL get your mind ready for the ex- amination, and the play will help "Why do we have to be so par- RICHARD came home from to keep you in good trim. If you ticular?" said Richard. school looking very blue. put in too much play and too little "What's the matter?" asked "Because that's the way to make study, the result won't stand the good concrete," said Daddy. Daddy. test of time—or of examinations." "Why don't we put in ten parts "Failed !" said Richard. "I guess I didn't put in the of gravel and only one of cement? "Failed in what?" asked Daddy. proper amounts last time," said "Arithmetic," said Richard in Wouldn't that save money?" Richard. "It would save money to start disgust. "Got to take the examina- "But you can try again," said with," said Daddy, "but we would tion all over again." Daddy. "Well, what happened? Why soon have to do the job all over "I surely will," said Richard. did you fail?" again. So it would cost us more in "And next time the mixture will "I suppose I didn't give the the end. In fact, the only reason be right." teacher as many apples and flowers why we have to do this job now as the other kids did." is because somebody did a poor "I don't think it's a matter of job before. Probably the person WHAT TO DO FOR THE apples and flowers," said Daddy. who made that slab outside the COMMON COLD "There's another reason." back door never bothered to meas- "What?" asked Richard. ure the amount of gravel and ce- (Continued from p. 19.) "Preparation," said Daddy, "or ment he put in, or he didn't mix the lack of it." it properly, or he made it too wet. Can we do something to ward "Well, don't I study?" said Somewhere in the process he didn't off colds? Is it possible to change Richard. "Don't I study as much make the right preparation. And from cold-sensitive and cold-sus- as the others do?" that's why it all broke to pieces ceptible to noncold-sensitive? I am "Maybe so," said Daddy, "but and we have to do the job again." glad to tell you that you can do not as much as you need to. As I've "Are you trying to tell me some- something, and the first thing I told you a dozen times, you play thing about getting ready for ex- want to mention is getting adequate too much and study too little." aminations?" said Richard with a rest. "Who wants to study, anyway?" sly grin. In all the experiments con- said Richard, walking off in a huff. "Why, Richard," said Daddy, ducted on human beings to dis- "Oh, just a minute, Richard," grinning back at him, "whatever cover what could be done to help said Daddy. "I want you to help made you think that?" them build up resistance to the me with a little job for a few "Oh, it just sounded like it," common cold, one factor cannot minutes." said Richard. be overlooked. It is rest. Fatigue "What is it?" asked Richard causes an imbalance in circulation, suspiciously. particularly chronic fatigue such as "Mixing some concrete. You For style, comfort and one would have from loss of sleep. know, we have to re-lay that slab perfect vision Even more interesting were the outside the back door that cracked VISIT tests run on persons who had many all to pieces the other day." head colds. When these persons in POONA OPTICIANS They mixed the concrete just the experiments were lying down outside t h e garage. Daddy (Qualified opticians) and at rest, the secretions of the shovelled in the gravel and Richard 1 Mahatma Gandhi Road nose would always return toward the cement. Poona 1 the normal acid reaction. But if "Let's not forget the formula," N. B. Sight tested scientifically they got 'up and continued their said Daddy. "Three parts of free of charge. everyday activity, the secretions of gravel and one of cement." .10...... /./.../•••••••••••••••••wswowliftwow• the nose stayed abnormal, alkaline, 28 THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, SEPTEMBER 1955 and it took longer for the secre- tions, or mucus, to finally become acid. That means the cold hangs on. For rule No. 1 we say, Get regu- lar hours of rest. A haphazard pro- gramme of eating, sleeping, and recreation tends to frustration and fatigue. And fatigue and exhaus- tion are at the opposite end of the scale from rest. For cold prevention the rule is plenty of physical rest. We should point out very clearly the effects that emotional tension can have on a person. I imagine that emotional tension is one of the big factors in frequent colds. A certain man who was part of the experiment on colds had been following faithfully the instructions given to build up his body resist- Citizens of +Calcutta are familiar with the Victoria Memorial ance. The tests the scientists per- as one of the leading land-marks of their fine, city. They formed showed that his circulation are also familiar with the name 'West End when it comes had improved and he was getting to buying a fine watch. along very well, being free from This good reputation, built up over 80 years, is based on unvarying standards of craftsmanship. Some West End sniffles for quite a period of time. watches ere elegant and costly, others of workmanlike Then again he began to have one design and moderate price. All can be relied on to keen cold after another. The physicians accurate time, and to give long•lasting service. checked the man's programme for Be sure that the name 'West End Watch Co.' appears on preventing colds. He hadn't slipped the dial of your watch up on anything; his schedule was exactly right. Yet he was having colds, and the tests showed poorer circulation in the nose. But how to account for this condition? West End Finally they checked on his emo- tional health, and discovered that Watch Co. he was very much worried about

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NE of the most perplexing sin in its very conception, and be- the unfallen worlds would never have questions that has puzzled the fore it openly manifested itself, what understood sin's nature and evil con- minds of human beings is, would the rest of His creatures have sequences and the necessity of "Why did an all-wise God permit thought of Him? Would they have un- punishing it. Lucifer charged God sin to enter the universe?" How derstood God as a God of love if, in before the angels as being arbitrary could a God of love permit such a such a seemingly arbitrary manner, and unjust in requiring His creatures hideous thing as sin to arise, with He had blotted His creatures out of to obey His commandments, so that all its evil consequences, its woes, existence? Would they not have looked they were not free to do what they miseries, sorrows, sufferings, and its upon Him as a tyrant, and not as a pleased. Therefore God had to allow final end—death? It is hard for God of love and mercy? Would they sin to manifest itself openly and to finite minds to comprehend God's not thereafter have served Him from become an object lesson to all the in- way of solving the problem of sin. the motive of fear and terror, rather habitants in the universe of God, a Infinite Wisdom did not see fit to than from love in their hearts? perpetual demonstration of the evil prevent sin from coming into the God's kingdom is based on the nature of sin and its fearful results. universe of God. Since "God is love," principle of love, and the only serv- God has promised that, after its and, as Moses said, "His work is ice that God accepts is one motivated future ultimate destruction, sin is not perfect:... a God of truth and by love. God does not want anyone to lift its head a second time. In without iniquity, just and right is to serve Him whose allegiance does referring to the final overthrow of not rest upon a conviction of His He," all that God does must be just, sin and all God's enemies, the right, and prompted by a motive of justice, love, and benevolence. When prophet asks: "What do ye imagine love. the God of heaven proclaimed His against the Lord? He will make an name to Moses on Mount Sinai, He God could have prevented sin by utter end: affliction shall not rise up revealed that He was "The Lord, the making human beings and angels the second time." Nahum 1:9. God, Lord God, merciful and gracious, automatons or mechanical robots, in His wisdom and foreknowledge, long-suffering, and abundant in without brains, without the privilege saw that the rebellion against His goodness and truth, keeping mercy of thinking thoughts of their own, kingdom could only be solved for without the power of choice as free for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that time and eternity by permitting sin moral agents, moving only by divine to manifest itself in all its hideous- direction. We would thus have been will by no means clear the guilty." Exodus 34:6, 7. ness, serving as a perpetual re- just machines and tools in the hand minder to all the inhabitants of this If God had blotted Lucifer (whom of God, like any other tools or world and the unfallen ones, and He created "perfect," but who was machines in the hands of men. How thus demonstrate that Satan's charges the first sinner) out of existence much pleasure does a mechanical against God are false, and that His when sin first appeared in his heart, robot enjoy? None whatever! It has government is just and perfect. no brains, no privilege of choosing the inhabitants of heaven and of or enjoying anything. It has no feel- God is a God of peace, and not ing, no thoughts, no pain, no ecstasy, until the problem of sin is solved will and no happiness. God knew there He set up His everlasting kingdom. would be no pleasure or happiness Then universal peace will perma- for Him, or for the beings He nently reign everywhere, fulfilling the created, if there were no voluntary divine promise, "They shall not hurt thought and action and moral nor destroy in all My holy mountain: freedom. for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters God could have destroyed the first cover the sea." Isaiah 11:9. sinner and every subsequent one as soon as lust conceived sin in the "Nation shall not lift up a sword heart. He could have nipped evil in against nation, neither shall they the bud before it brought forth its learn war any more. But they shall fruit. But if God had dealt thus with sit every man under his vine and THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, SEPTEMBER 1955 31 under his fig tree; and none shall It was impossible to solve the sing the song of Moses and the song make them afraid: for the mouth problem of sin when it began. Its of the Lamb: of the Lord of hosts hath spoken it." hideousness and terrible consequences "Great and marvellous are Thy Micah 4:3, 4. had to manifest themselves in order works, Lord God Almighty; just and Then the righteous "shall fear Thee to be understood. It took millenniums true are Thy ways, Thou King of [God] as long as the sun and moon to demonstrate the awful results of saints." endure, throughout all generations. sin and fully unmask the arch-de- There is no longer any doubt in .In His days shall the righteous ceiver before the inhabitants of the the minds of the redeemed, who have flourish; and abundance of peace so universe of God. When the redeemed passed through the time of Jacob's long as the moon endureth. ' Psalm are finally delivered from the hand trouble in the final conflict between 72:5, 7. of the great enemy and stand on the Christ and Satan, concerning the The reason God permitted sin to sea of glass before God's throne, and righteousness of God's judgments, enter the universe through the crea- divine judgments are poured out and the way God deals with the un- tion of free moral agents, giving upon their enemies, the saints ex- repentant in eliminating sin from them the right and privilege of claim: "Who shall not fear Thee, 0 this world. choosing good or evil, was to de- Lord, and glorify Thy name? For God does not leave any question velop a character that would endure Thou only art holy; for all nations of truth or error unsolved in the con- any test in the future, and enable shall come and worship before Thee; troversy between Him and those who them to comprehend more fully the for Thy judgments are made mani- rebelled against His law and autho- fathomless love of God in giving His fest." The saints of God will then rity. The fearful consequences of Son to die for the sins of the world. vindicate the justice of God as they (Continued on p. 34.) The Apostle Paul tells us that "God, who is rich in mercy, for His great love wherewith He loved us, even when we were dead in sins, 4-low about god's Share ? hath quickened us together with Christ, ... and hath raised us up D. A. DELAFIELD together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus; LVIN DARK, field captain heaven for you and pour down for that in the ages to come He might and shortstop of the world you an overflowing blessing. I will show the exceeding riches of His champion New York Giants, rebuke the devourer for you, so that grace in His kindness toward us is a believer in the old-fashioned Bible it will not destroy the fruits of your through Christ Jesus." Ephesians 2: principle of tithe paying. soil; and your vine in the field shall 4-7. Thus during eternity God will On the morning after the final not fail to bear, says the Lord of unfold His great love in giving His game with the Cleveland Indians in hosts." Mal. 3:10, 11. R.S.V. only-begotten Son to die for us that which the Giants won the World The Creator gives us power to we should not perish but have ever- Series, Dark hurried over to the make a living. He also gives us life. lasting life. Eternity will not be long Calvary Baptist church and addressed Heartbeat follows heartbeat a n d enough to bring us a complete revela- a class of boys in Sunday school. He breath follows breath because moment tion of the boundless and inexhausti- told them that he started earning by moment He sustains us. That ble love of the Father for poor and $2.50 a week as a newsboy and gave mental and physical exertion which unworthy sinners. twenty cents in tithe. From that time brings the weekly or monthly pay The beings on the unfallen worlds on he has practised tithe paying, or, check is possible only because we and the angels in heaven may sing: as he calls it, "giving ten per cent of receive life from God. Then why "Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Al- my earnings to God." It is reported shouldn't we recognize our depend- mighty, which was, and is, and is that Mr. Dark gave ten per cent of ence on Him by gifts to His cause, to come." But, in the words of the his World Series bonus, or about particularly the tithe, or the one tenth, familiar song, "When I sing redemp- $1,000, to a Southern Baptist church which He claims as His own for the tion's story, they will fold their in his home town of Lake Charles, support of His church? Think of it, wings, for angels never felt the joys Louisiana. when we tithe we enter into business that our salvation brings." The ex- We admire Mr. Dark for his with God. We become junior partners perience of redemption from sin is liberality. But, believe it or not, there with the Life-giver. a joy which no unfallen being ever are many thousands of Christians The Senior Partner in this arrange- experienced. Jesus said that those "to and Jews in all parts of the world ment can declare, "All the silver and whom He forgave most ... love Him who follow the, same practice. When the gold is Mine, all the cattle on a most." Luke 7:43, 42. We would you stop to think about it, ten per thousand hills, and all the beasts of never have known the exceeding cent for God and ninety per cent for the field and the forest." He is able riches of God's grace were it not Alvin Dark isn't unreasonable, is it? to make the material as well as the that "where sin abounded, grace did According to earthly arithmetic, spiritual resources of heaven and much more abound." Romans 5:20. you lose when you pay tithe. Accord- earth available to us. It takes faith 0 grace, marvellous grace, God's ing to divine arithmetic, you gain to believe this. But if you will test His grace that is greater than all our every time. Here is the Bible promise word, you will find it true. So tithe, sins! None can wander so far into that proves it: "Bring the full tithes my friend. Imitate the example of sin but the grace of God can reach into the storehouse, that there may be Alvin Dark and other conscientious and reform them, if they wish to food in My house; and thereby put people who cheerfully discharge their be reached and transformed. Such is Me to the test, says the Lord of hosts, obligation to the One who gives us the matchless love of God for sinners. if I will not open the windows of life and breath and all things. 32 THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, SEPTEMBER 1955 men 'Who Proved the Bible grue—llo.

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PART from Jericho, to which captains in them, and store of victual, we have alluded in an earlier and of oil and wine." 2 Chron. W. L. EMMERSON A article, one of the most 11:5-11. thoroughly explored mounds of Lachish was three times captured Southern Palestine is that of Tell el during the Hebrew period, once by nezzar, which have become famous as Duweir, the site of ancient Lachish, Sennacherib and twice by Nebuchad- the "Lachish Letters." a border fortress guarding the Judean nezzar, and all three disasters have Unearthed in 1935 from among highlands from incursions from the left their records in the ruins. the charred remains of the guard coastal plain. Sad to say, the leader "In the fourteenth year of King room at the main gate of the city of the expedition which worked here Hezekiah," Sennacherib came up destroyed in the final burning of for many years, Mr. J. L. Starkey, against the "fenced cities of Judah" 588 B.C., they comprise some eighteen was murdered in 1938 by Arab and Lachish became his temporary pieces of pottery written upon with brigands while he was returning to headquarters during negotiations carbon ink in early Hebrew the site after a visit to Jerusalem. with the king in Jerusalem. (2 Kings characters. The messages reveal them On the lower slopes near the north- 18:13, 14). That the taking of to be military dispatches from a west corner of this city mound, a Lachish was regarded as a great person called Hosaiah—a biblical small Canaanite temple was found victory by the Assyrian king is name found in Jeremiah 42:1 and early in the excavations, belonging to evident from the great bas-relief re- Nehemiah 12:32—to "my lord the later half of the second mil- cording the event on the walls of his Ya'ush," the military governor of lennium B.C. In and near it were palace at Nineveh, and now on view Lachish, and penned a few weeks or discovered seven scarabs of Amen- in the Assyrian Gallery of the British perhaps only a few days before the hotep III of Egypt (1413-1377 B.c.), Museum. destruction of the city by Nebuchad-. one of which is definitely dated at On the roadway approaching the nezzar. about 1403 B.C. by the statement on entrance gate of Lachish the exca- The actual events recorded in the it that up to Amenhotep's "tenth vators found a bronze helmet crest letters throw a vivid light upon the year" he had killed "lions terrible mount just like those in the Nineveh last days of the Hebrew monarchy. 102." reliefs, and many arrowheads, pikes, Letter Four provided conclusive The fact that these are the latest and scale armour dropped during the evidence that Tell el Duweir was the relics found in the temple, ties in Assyrian attack on the gates. city of Lachish, a fact not certainly with similar finds at Jericho, and While Sennacherib did not destroy known when the excavation was supports the Bible account that Lachish, evidences that it was burned begun. Lachish fell during the southern by Nebuchadnezzar were found in Letter Six complained of the campaign of Joshua around 1400 abundance by Dr. Starkey. "Large "words" of certain princes which B.c., when, of course, the temple sections" of the wall "bear evidence were "not good" and which were would cease to be used for the of having been brought down by fire, "weakening" and "slackening" the idolatrous Canaanite worship. the south-west corner bearing the hands of the army officers. Evidently (Joshua 10:31, 32.) main brunt of the Babylonian at- these men had been impressed by Higher up the slopes of the Lachish tack," and two layers of charred the prophecies of Jeremiah, whose mound, Dr. Starkey found a great strata underlie buildings of the enemies declared, "he weakeneth the double wall of Hebrew masonry, Persian period all over the city area. hands of the men of war." Jer. twenty-five feet high in places, and A clay seal once attached to a 38 :4. enclosing an area of some twenty-two sheet of papyrus was discovered with Professor Torczyner, the translator acres. A sloping roadway was found the impress of a signet ring bearing of the letters, believed he had found running up the south-west corner of the words, "For Gedaliah, he who is in Letter Three a glimpse of Urijah the mound to two great gates, with over the house." A person of this the prophet who also prophesied massive flanking towers on either name was left in charge of the "according to all the words of side, while within the city the remnant of the Jews by Nebuchad- Jeremiah" and in consequence of foundations of an inner citadel with nezzar after the deportation of persecution had to fly to Egypt, but twelve-foot walls of Hebrew masonry Zedekiah and the nobles of the land. was brought back to die a martyr's was uncovered. (2 Kings 25:22; Jer. 40:5, 6; 41:2). death. (Jer. 26:20-23.) This same Solomon began the work of fortify. letter refers to "Nedebiah, grandson ing Lachish against the Philistines, THE "LACHISH LETTERS" of the king," who is named in 1 but the greater part of the construc- Chronicles 3:18 as one of Jehoiakirn's tion was probably done by Reho- Most important of all the literary grandchildren. boam, of whom it is recorded: "Reho- finds at Lachish, however, and Well, therefore, might Professor boam dwelt in Jerusalem, and built indeed one of the most important Torczyner write of the letters: "Up cities for defence in Judah. He built discoveries ever made in Palestine— till now we have got even out of our even Bethlehem, and Etom, . . . and were a series of inscribed potsherds most fortunate excavations, only- Lachish, and Azekah. . . . And he belonging to the period of the final outside evidence concerning the con- fortified the strongholds, and put overthrow of Lachish by Nebuchad- tents of the Bible, reports written THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, SEPTEMBER 1955 33 mostly by Israel's enemies about "houses of ivory" (Amos 3:15) and Persian king "returned the gods" wars, seiges, captures, and destruc- also the "ivory house" which Ahab captured in earlier times "to their tions. Now, for the first time, we built for himself. (1 Kings 22:39.) shrines." This helps us to understand have got in our letters real internal Beneath the court of Ahab's palace the deeply religious character of this records written by the men them- was a subterranean chamber, perhaps man, who also declared, according to selves who wrote our Bible, concern• an enlarged cave, which had evidently the Bible records: "The Lord God of ing their religious thought and their been used as a prison. This may heaven hath given me all the sufferings within the last period of have been the actual dungeon into kingdoms of the earth; and He hath Judah's independent history, adding which Micaiah was thrown after his charged me to build Him an house thus a most important chapter to our fearless prophecy of Ahab's doom. at Jerusalem, which is in Judah." Bible." (1 Kings 22:27.) Ezra 1:2; 2 Chron. 36:22, 23. ISRAEL'S CAPITAL UNCOVERED The outlines of a large pool near With the return of the Jews after the palaces is believed to be the Pool the Assyrian and Babylonian capti- In the northern kingdom, the most of Samaria, where the chariot of vities the Old Testament story ends, important excavation has been at Ahab was washed out after the and with it must close our present Samaria, the capital of the ten-tribed king's death. (1 Kings 22:37, 38.) survey. The story of archaeology and kingdom of Israel, and here again the New Testament is another vast most valuable confirmatory light has COMPLEMENTARY FINDS field upon which there is here no been thrown upon the Bible story, IN MESOPOTAMIA space to embark. by the successive expeditions of But as we look back over the array Harvard University, the F i e l d While at times we may regret the of evidences which we have, as it Museum of Chicago, and the Palestine paucity of material on Palestine sites were, been able to call forth from Exploration Fund. substantiating the Bible story of the the dust of the ages, in confirmation The gate of the city was found kingdoms of Judah and Israel, finds of the absolute trustworthiness of the low down on the north side of the in Egypt and Mesopotamia have Bible record, there is surely none mound, with masonry of the Hebrew often come to our aid and filled in but will echo in mind and heart the monarchy p e r i o d and also of the historical details in a remarkable fine words of Oliver Wendell Holmes: Herodian times. On the top of the way. "I believe in the spade. It has fed mound the palaces of Omri and For example, the fact that "Ahab the tribes of mankind. It has Ahab were identified, with additions the Israelite" was on the throne just furnished them with coal, gold, iron, by Jeroboam II. These are among the before the middle of • the ninth water. And now it is giving them finest Israelite masonry known, and century B.C., is confirmed by the fact truth, the mines of which have never show evidences of intimate ac- that Shalmaneser III mentions him been open till our times." quaintance with the palaces of as an important king on his "Monolith Assyria and also with the architecture Inscription," now in the British of Syria and Phoenicia, which is Museum. what one would expect in view of At Khorsabad, about ten miles THE PROBLEM OF SIN AND Israel's much closer contact than from Nineveh, Paolo Emilio Botta THE WAY OF SALVATION Judah with the nations to the north. uncovered the palace of Sargon II At Samaria, as later at Lachish, (722-705 B.c.), the conqueror of (Continued from p. 32.) a number of inscribed potsherds, or Samaria according to the Bible, setting aside "the perfect law" of ostraka, were found written in ink whose very existence the critics once God are now revealed before all in primitive Hebrew characters. doubted. When his very substantial created beings. The history of sin These date from some time prior to palace was found they had to beat and rebellion against God has now the capture of Samaria by Sargon, a hasty retreat. Later excavation of reached the end of its slimy trail king of Assyria—possibly around the Sargon's palace uncovered w all and will never be forgotten. The les- time of Jeroboam II. The personal reliefs and inscriptions which listed son of sin with its deadly conse- names on the Samaria ostraka, in the capture of Samaria as the out- quences has been learned, not only contrast with those at Lachish, standing event of the first year of frequently include the name Baal, his reign. by the redeemed of the earth, but showing how much more rapidly the The building inscriptions of by the inhabitants of unfallen worlds. "The whole family in heaven and northern kingdom sank into idolatry Nebuchadnezzar illuminate vividly than the mountain kingdom of that king's boastful attitude toward earth" will join in ascribing praise Judah. the city of Babylon as recorded by to God. Equally as important as the Daniel. (Dan. 4:30.) The cylinders John the Revelator, in describing ostraka found by the Chicago expedi- of Nabonidus fill in the details of the final deliverance of God's saints, tion, was the discovery in Ahab's the last days of Babylon, and it was says: "And every creature which is palace during the later British ex- on them that the name of his son, in heaven, and on the earth, and un- pedition, of a large number of fine Belshazzar, was first found, again to der the earth, and such as are in the ivory fragments carved with the discomfiture of the critics who sea, and all that are in them, heard mythological figures of Egyptian, had pronounced the Bible account of I saying, Blessing, and honour, and Syrian, Assyrian, and Babylonian him entirely fictitious. glory, and power, be unto Him that origin, which once formed part of Finally, the cylinder chronicles of sitteth upon the throne, and unto decorative panels on the palace Cyrus dovetail with Daniel's account the Lamb forever and ever." Reve- furniture. These recall the indict- of the fall of Babylon in a remark- lation 5:13. ments of Amos against the nobles of able way. One of Cyrus' cylinders The entire universe has been Samaria reclining upon their "beds found at Ur of the Chaldees tells how, cleansed from sin. God Himself has of ivory" (Amos 6:4) in their after the capture of Babylon, this solved the problem of evil. 34 THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, SEPTEMBER 1955 The glass doors of this Book Case open up and then... just disappear! This handsome all- steel Book Case will protect your favourite books from dust,

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