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Jhe Oriental 'Watchman and Herald of A Magazine for Wome and Wappiness 4o-the-Minute Artic of Interest For Father * Mothers * Boys and Girl * * Students * * Everybody 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.