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IN THIS ISSUE

How to Begin the Day

Motorists Beware!

Cancer—Curable and Preventable

Mealtime Beverages

Backache

Eggs—All Ways

»-«wt Children’s Supplement

In the Consulting Room

January, 1935

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Marvels of the Body—1. Electricity and Life 3 “Children’s Good Health” and Children’s League How to Begin the Day : D. A. R. Aufranc, of Health: Auntie Pearl 11 M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., L.D.S., R.C.S. 4 Backache : W. F. Martin, M.D. 16 Motorists Beware! “Streamline” 6 Eggs—All Ways : Margery MacKenna 18 Cancer—A Curable and Preventable Disease : C. E. Nelson, M.D., F.R.C.S., F.R.I.P.H. 8 I Can’t Eat T h a t! George Abbott, M.D. 19 What Shall We Drink? O. V. Hellestrand 10 In the Consulting Room 22 EDITOR: C. E. NELSON, M.D., F.R.C.S., F.R.I.P.H. OFFICE EDITOR : W . L. EMMERSON

MARVELS OF THE BODY—1. Electricity and Life

T he twentieth century is often spoken of as the electrical age. The movements of the most powerful battleships that plough the mighty ocean, the electric trains that cross the towering Alps, or the delicate seismograph that records the quaking of the earth thousands of miles away, are all operated by electric currents. Yet even more wonderful are the electric currents which play so important a part in the functioning of the human body. The brain is a central power station and the millions of delicate nerves are highly insulated electric wires carrying the currents from the brain to all parts of the body. These delicate wires do not all have the same function. Certain nerves are called motor nerves because they carry impulses to muscles; others carry pain sensations from the skin to the brain. There are nerves that transmit light impulses, nerves that transmit impulses caused by vibrations in the air upon the ear, which the brain interprets as sound, and nerves carry­ ing impulses from the tongue which are interpreted as taste. In addition to the electric currents carried by nerve cells, it is now known that every living cell is a storage battery and by means of delicate meters it is even possible to measure the electric potentials of these cells. Thus electricity plays an important part in the chemical changes that take place in tissue. Another interesting chapter of the electricity of life is in certain species of fish, par­ ticularly the Brazilian electric eel and certain African catfish which catch their prey by stunning them with electric shocks. In these fish are found electric plates which carry charges that have the power of rendering a needle magnetic, of decomposing chemical compounds, and emitting a spark, all being wholly dependent upon nerve stimulus from the brain of the fish. The strength of current in a rayfish two to three feet long is sufficient to disable a man. c .e .n . 4 GOOD HEALTH, JANUARY, 1935 How to BEGIN the DAY TIMELY ADVICE FOR A NEW YEAR

By D. A. R. All FRANC, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., L.D.S., R.C.S.

© Anne Shriber Too little attention is given to the English breakfast. More often than not it mars First, and most important the rest of the day from a digestive point of view. of all, we must have plenty of good, sound sleep. This O n c e again we have come to the dawn of a will be impossible if we retire late, even if we New Year. But from a health point of view, this try to make up for it by sleeping on into the is not of very great importance except for the fact following day. Sleep taken in this way is seldom that we may be making resolutions for better sweet and refreshing and often leaves behind a health during the coming months. Each day headache for the following day. The correct way comes to us as something new and what a won­ is to retire early and rise early. Ten o’clock derful thing a new day really is. Dawn with its should be the latest time for going to bed. For crimson sky and virgin freshness and the hours most people the time of rising will probably be as yet untouched stretch out before us. But the influenced by the season of the year. Seven joys of the day will be marred unless we have o’clock may be taken as an average time, but in good health. How important, therefore, that wc the spring and summer one may often wish to begin the day correctly and do nothing that wili be up before this. Few things can compare with handicap the body in the carrying out of its the early hours of a glorious day. functions. Next in importance to sleep is food. When one Effects of Yesterday is in normal health, it is always best to have the To do this it is not sufficient to begin with last meal at least two or three hours before go­ thoughts of the morning. At this time the effects ing to bed. Sleep is much more likely to be sound of the night before are very often still in evi­ and peaceful when the stomach is empty than dence. Preparation for a day, therefore, should when it contains undigested food. Late suppers be made at least the night before and it naturally are not only a common cause of disturbed sleep ‘follows that the better we live day by day, the and heavy heads in the morning, but of many better will each succeeding day become. Health digestive troubles, since they prevent the is a matter of habit, regularity, and routine far stomach’s obtaining proper rest. When the habit more than most people realize. of eating late at night has been formed, some What, then, are the chief points we must ob­ difficulty may be found in discontinuing it. A serve in making preparation for to-morrow ? little patience and practice, however, will soon JANUARY, 1935, GOOD HEALTH 5

overcome this and then great benefit and im­ reason for believing that there is a close con­ proved health will be experienced. nection between pig’s flesh and cancer. Another important point is fresh air during Third, almost everyone eats too much pro­ the night. If one sleeps in a stuffy room, one is tein. Eggs and bacon both contain it and it is not likely to rise in the morning feeling fresh most unwise to eat protein at three or even two and vigorous. The bedroom window should be meals a day. left open all the year round while avoiding a Tea, by itself, is injurious and causes indiges­ direct draught on the sleeper. tion, but it is rendered especially harmful when A bad habit practised by many is the habit of taken with meat owing to the action of the tannin. reading in bed before going to sleep. Many com­ From a health point of view, the ideal break­ plain that they cannot go to sleep unless they do fast consists of fruit. This may be either fresh this. While reading in this way may induce or stewed. This, with some wheat preparation sleep in some cases, the one addicted to the habit and a little cream if desired, should be the chief usually finds in time that he is unable to go to item for the morning meal. sleep without it. Thus in a way it becomes a cause Time should be taken over this meal and this of insomnia. is made possible by rising in good time in the On waking in the morning, it is not best to morning. Following breakfast, there should be jump straight out of bed, neither is it wise to lie a set time for the bowels to act. This should be a long while before rising. After giving both made a definite, daily habit as it is a most im­ brain and body a few minutes in which to become portant point in promoting health. The daily completely awake, get up and dress. While dress­ taking of fruit will guard against constipation ing, or about this time, one should sip slowly one and will ensure a regular, daily motion. or more glasses of hot water. In the summer If these few points are carried out, we shall time cold water may be taken if preferred. This at least begin the day in such a way that we are is a most important item in correctly beginning not placing a handicap upon ourselves as regards the day as it has many beneficial results. Chief health. In these strenuous days of keen compe­ of these is the washing out of the stomach, kid­ tition, this means much in the race of life. It neys, and intestines, and the stimulating of the will give us a distinct advantage over others who bowels to act a little later on. At this stage some are careless in these matters. It will also go a may like to take a bath, but a note of warning long way toward making us better tempered and should here be sounded. Unless one is young and happier, and if this were the only result it would in perfect health, a cold bath is not without risk. surely be worth while. Others at this time may prefer some form of exercise such as a short, sharp walk to sharpen the appetite. Failing this physical exercises may be taken indoors.

The English Breakfast And now we come to a most important item— breakfast. It is here that most people in this country fail. The typical English breakfast, con­ sisting chiefly of bacon and eggs washed down by tea, is about as bad a way of beginning the day as one can imagine. There are several reasons for this. In the first place, fried and fatty things are hard to digest and the stomach therefore has to begin its day with a heavy burden. If it con­ tains, in addition, some undigested food left over from the night before, one can only imagine what this poor organ’s condition must be. Second, the flesh of the pig is not health giving. Those who eat it run very grave risks. It has, of course, been proved that tapeworm is By courtesy of the Health and Cleanliness Council A good dose of fresh air is the best morning contracted in this way, and there seems veiy good medicine. 6 GOOD HEALTH, JANUARY, 1935 Motorists BEWARE! HOW ALCOHOL IMPAIRS THE JUDGMENT

By " Streamline "

A screeching of brakes! Pedestrians look up with alarm but no crash follows. Quick decision, nerves of perfect tone, and lightning-like re­ sponse of muscles have averted disaster. A fraction of a second more and . Ours is an age of speed. The ordinary tourist car is capable of an average speed of forty to forty-five miles per hour, while many of the sports models and higher- powered cars can cruise with ease at sixty to seventy miles per hour. Speed, however, is not an unmixed blessing, and the weekly toll of the roads presents a disturbing prob­ lem in our modern civilization. Trains run on rails, are scheduled with reasonable intervals between them, and are controlled by a highly efficient system © Fox Photos which reduces the human factor to the A typical traffic stream in a main London thoroughfare. Suck congestion demands the clearest judgment on the part of drivers. minimum. Ocean traffic has the advantage of a large expanse of water, while air ser­ vices enjoy the wide sweep of the skies. In these sluggish or whose reflexes are slow can make a modes of travel great care is taken in the choice good driver, and it is precisely because alcohol and training of men for drivers, navigators, and impairs the judgment and reactions that it is the pilots. Sound and quick judgment, and nerves most dangerous influence on our roads to-day. in excellent condition are essentials for efficiency. In the case of road traffic the need of care and Alcohol Impairs Efficiency efficiency is not one whit less. Here we have the I am not inferring that the majority of drivers problem of a complex movement of all types of get drunk. Actual cases of real drunkenness vehicles travelling at varying speeds and all con­ while in charge of vehicles are, fortunately, fined to a narrow ribbon of street or highway. probably few, and legislation deals with such in­ Here, the human factor is of paramount impor­ stances. We all know that it is not considered tance, for each vehicle has its own driver and “ quite the thing” to-day to get drunk—not res­ the manoeuvring space is strictly limited. These pectable and all that—but it is safe to say that conditions call for the greatest alertness and un­ so-called moderate drinking is more wide­ usual quickness of judgment and reaction to meet spread than ever, and right here lies the danger. every emergency. Strict driving tests, new Let me explain. Medical science has estab­ arterial and by-pass roads, speed controls, traffic lished the fact that the first effect of alcohol is lights, etc., njay all serve a useful purpose and to impair the higher faculties as judgment and help to lessen the dangers of the roads, but they reason. Delicacy of movement and control is leave untouched the greatest problem of all— also affected very early. Alcohol has a special alcohol. No man whose judgment is poor or affinity for the nervous system and this is proved JANUARY, 1935, GOOD HEALTH 1

by the fact that when all traces of it have dis appeared in other parts, it can still be detected in the cerebro-spinal fluid. For movements re­ quiring skill or accuracy, efficiency is suspended for a time by so small an amount of alcohol as is found in a pint of beer or about one and a half ounces of whisky. If a larger quantity of alcohol is taken, the efficiency of judgment, already i early affected, is seriously impaired, and muscu­ lar movement becomes sluggish and inaccurate. It is quite probable that the person who has i had a “ nip” at a friend’s may get into his car for the drive home feeling “ simply fine,” for the alcohol has caused a flushing of the skin and a temporary tonic effect. Because of this, it is difficult for him to realize that his judgment is affected adversely, but it is a fact, whether he must be passed on to the muscles of the hands cares to admit it or not. This peculiar effect of and feet and they must operate the steering wheel alcohol— of causing an immediate sense of well- or brakes or do what is necessary to avoid the > being while at the same time the judgment is im­ danger. If the driver’s faculties are in good tone, paired— is put very aptly by Fisher and Fisk all this need take but a fifth of a second, but if t who say : he is not alert, or if his judgment is dulled by “ The man who Svakes up’ under alcohol is alcohol, the decision and reaction might take a really going to sleep as far as his judgment and full second and disaster with perhaps fatal con­ reason are concerned.”— “ How to Live,” 1924, sequences might be the result. Evidently it is a page 210. matter of split seconds. I can almost hear our moderate drinkers say­ Split-Second Decisions ing, “ Oh, you state an extreme case,” but I do It is driving efficiency with which we are now not. Anyone who drives much knows that to concerned and the point I wish to emphasize is handle a car on our modern roads often demands that one drink impairs the quickness of the lightning-like judgment and control, therefore driver’s judgment by a fraction of a second and you cannot afford to take risks. may cost him his life. On our modern roads Cut Out Alcohol with the need of 100 per cent alertness, where Any time you may face a situation that de­ even tenths of a second may make a vital differ­ mands split-second decision and action. You may ence, even a small amount of alcohol may cause be quite sober to all outward appearances, but if fatal results. you have had “ just a glass” or that “ wee nip” A car travelling at forty-five miles per hour your driving efficiency is affected, and you may covers sixty-six feet in one second and in even meet with disaster. A police surgeon writing on one-tenth of a second traverses six and a half this very point says : feet. Supposing that there is a dangerous situa­ “ Indeed, my friends may think that I am per­ tion just ahead, let us note how the driver must fectly capable of driving—until the vital neces­ react to it. The eye must first receive the im­ sity of quick judgment and prompt action arises. pression and it must be transmitted to the brain, My advice to all motorists—and I am not a the brain must respond by making a decision or teetotaller—is this : Don’t touch alcohol in any judgment as to what is best to do, that decision form during a drive, and don’t drive even after a glass of beer until ample time has elapsed for all the effects of the alcohol consumed to have passed off.”— 1“Daily Telegraph,” September 18, 1934. It might simply be added that since even a small amount of alcohol thus lowers efficiency, the only common-sense course is to leave it strictly alone at all times. CANCERGOOD HEALTH, JANUARY, 1935 A CURABLE AND PREVENTABLE DISEASE By C. E. NELSON, M.D., F.R.C.S., F.R.I.P.H,

amount of money and time has been spent on cancer research, and as knowledge is acquired it is given to the medical profession all over the world; hence one should not be led astray by faddists who claim some secret remedy.

Wrong Impressions about Cancer Until recently early diagnosis of cancer was rarely made, and the disease was usually so far advanced before the patient sought treatment that nearly all died of the disease. This led to two erroneous impressions : first, that cancer was in­

© Fox Photos curable, and second, that if a patient got well Modern X-ray apparatus makes possible the discovery from the disease, then he did not have cancer. of deep-seated growths before serious harm results. We know now that thousands are cured annually from cancer by the use of either surgery, X-ray, T h a t cancer is a curable and preventable dis­ or radium, as these are the only real curative ease hardly seems consistent with the records of methods at present known. the Ministry of Health, which show that the scourge causes one out of every eight deaths in Any patient who has had treatment for cancer this country at the present time. Actually it and is free from evidence of the disease and with­ ranks third as a cause of death, being exceeded out symptoms for five years or more after treat­ only by diseases of the heart and blood-vessels ment, is regarded as cured. In one city, at a and by diseases of the respiratory tract. The recent meeting, there were 8,840 cases reported question that naturally arises is, Why this high that had been cured from cancer. These figures death-rate if the disease is preventable and cur­ could be duplicated in many large centres. able? Cures are more easily obtained when the dis­ In the main, the reason is that medical advice ease is diagnosed in its early stages. To-day even is not sought early enough, or that advice given some cases of advanced and neglected cancer, if is not heeded. Many are led astray by false be­ subjected to proper treatment, may be cured. liefs or foolish fears. It is surprising how many Three-fourths can be arrested, relief from pain people are afraid to seek medical advice for fear obtained, and years added to the life of the patient. a cancer may be found. Cancer is a broad term applied to a group of There is no danger of transmission of the diseases. There are various entirely different and disease from one person to another; hence if a distinct forms. It may occur at any age, but member of the family is affected, there is not the cases seldom occur before the twentieth year and slightest risk of others contracting it because of are most frequent after the age of forty. When their contact with the cancer patient. a new symptom appears and persists— especially How Cancer May be Prevented pain, bleeding, unnatural discharge, lump, ulcer, As cancer is a preventable disease, the old indigestion, or loss of weight—the advice of a proverb that an ounce of prevention is worth a qualified physician should be sought at once. pound of cure is doubly applicable. Chronic irri­ During the past two decades an enormous tation leads to cancer. The irritation caused by JANUARY, 1935, GOOD HEALTH 9 nicotine is responsible for ninety per cent of I have long believed that cancer never develops in a cancer of the lips, mouth, and throat; chronic healthy stomach. In about twenty-five per cent of cases malignant degeneration (cancer) occurs in simple gastritis or chronic inflammation of the stomach ulcer (of stomach) and in the remainder it occurs in leads to cancer of the stomach. chronically inflamed mucous membrane. . . . It should Fifty per cent of all cancer is located in the be possible to prevent the development of cancer of the stomach by preventing chronic gastric ulcer and chronic stomach; hence what we eat and drink has much gastritis or, when this fails, recognizing and overcom­ to do with its production. Anything that causes ing them at as early a stage as possible. Prophylaxis consists in preventing the various exciting causes of chronic gastritis or ulcer of the stomach may ulcer and gastritis which have already been described cause a cancer. and which, trivial as they may appear to be, are none As to the chief causes of gastritis, A. F. Hurst, the less of supreme importance. M.A., M.D., F.R.C.P., senior physician to Guy’s Since cancer of the stomach forms about fifty Hospital, London, in an article in the British per cent of all cancer, let us again enumerate Medical Journal of October 13, 1934, gives the following : these causes for the sake of emphasis : Alcohol, tobacco, strong tea and coffee, pepper, mustard, The chief chemical irritants are alcohol, especially pickles, etc., together with prolonged use of many when taken undiluted on an empty stomach, or mixed common drugs, especially those used in the with other irritants in the form of cocktails; strong tea and coffee; excess of curry, pickles, pepper, and treatment of rheumatism and headaches, and mustard; drugs, such as bromide, iodide, mercury, sleep-producing mixtures containing bromides. digitalis, quinine, and salicylates (aspirin group) which are taken continuously for long periods ; and the poisons Other Possible Causes which are swallowed when too many cigarettes are smoked. As to other common causes of cancer, we Speaking further on the relation of chronic might mention irritation from gall-stones. Sta­ inflammation of the stomach (chronic gastritis) tistics show that five to eight per cent of gall- and ulcer of stomach, he says : ( Continued on page 21.)

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MEALTIME BEVERAGES IN THE LIGHT OF MODERN RESEARCH

By O. V. HELLESTRAND

W h e n we consider the thousands of plants that could have been used for making beverages, it is remarkable that mankind should have picked on about six extraordinarily alike in action, though most unlike botanically—tea in China, coffee in Arabia, cocoa in Central America and West Indies, maté in Paraguay, guaraña in Bra­ zil, and kola-nut in Africa. The “ active princi­ ples” of these are practically identical; in fact, they are absolutely identical with the exception of theobromine in cocoa, which, how­ ever, differs too slightly to matter. The active principle is caffeine in varying amounts, and it is to this that their stimulating effects are due. Tea, coffee, and maté are all straight-out stimu­ lants, and apart from the milk and sugar used in preparation, their food value is nil.

The evils arising from the use of tea, coffee, © Anne Shriber and similar beverages are more numerous than So many hostesses seem to regard a cup of tea as a most people realize. People who are dyspeptic, necessary adjunct o f the social call. nervy, shaky, grouchy, irritable, or impatient, could frequently trace their troubles to the use expend. Such stimulation of the cell is unnatural of these beverages. Their free use is more in­ and always harmful. When one feels unfit, the jurious than the mild use of alcoholic drinks such condition that seems to call for stimulation, it as wine. The poison in alcohol is readily elimin­ is most likely because the cells are lacking in ated, being volatile,but the caffeine of these drinks stored energy, like a run-down battery. They is not only more toxic, but also has a tendency to need charging by food intake or rest, or both. accumulate in the system. The effects of these Caffeine destroys the sense of fatigue, but does drinks on the nervous system is most pernicious. not in any way whatever repair the vital losses This can readily be seen in the shattered nerves which result from work. It only increases the of the users of these mild intoxicants. losses. The increasing consumption of tea, coffee, and Dr. Nansen, the famous Arctic explorer, says : maté in this country is due to the extensive “ My experience leads me to take a decided advertising campaigns organized by the distribu­ stand against the use of stimulants and narcotics ters of these drugs. The claims of the distribu­ of all kinds, from tea and coffee to tobacco and ters concerning the virtues of these drinks ren­ alcoholic drinks. It must be a sound principle that der necessary a warning as to the dangers one should live in as natural and simple a way arising from chronic caffeine poisoning. as possible, and especially when the life is a life Caffeine produces a kind of stimulation which of severe exertion in an extremely cold climate. forces the cells of the body to do more work The idea that one gains by stimulating body and than they would naturally do, but without re­ mind by artificial means betrays, in my opinion, paying them by replacing the energy which they (Continued on page 15.) Vol. 3 (New Series). No. 1. January, 1935 Julia’s Calendar

Ju l ia hung up the beautiful niest procession that Julia had new calendar which Mother had By Daphne Lacey ever seen. given her on her bedroom wall, “ Come along there—hurry and made up her mind that she up,” exclaimed a gruff voice, and round the room, and suddenly, would do her very best to keep a very old man with a white her eyes, following a straggling all her resolutions this year, and beard appeared on the scene. moonbeam, lighted on the calen­ with this thought in her brain “ And I hope people will serve dar. Very slowly each month was she climbed into bed. you better under the rulership tearing itself off and clambering of the New Year than they did down on to the mantelpiece— under me,” he said. “ Resolu­ Julia sat up with a start—■ January, February, March—- tions ! Just like piecrust—made what was that funny rustling down they all came, walking with to be broken!” noise—where could it be coming little thin legs and long arms from? She peered curiously swinging; they made the fun­ ( Continued on page 4.)

By courtesy of Life and Health. 2 THE CHILDREN'S GOOD HEALTH, JANUARY, 1935

By Miss O. Lazarus Your Kingdom THE FIRST OF A FINE NEW SERIES OF TALKS TO YOU AND ABOUT YOU

along the bright red stream, but gradually the canal would divide and subdivide until it became very small indeed. Then it would become larger again and as it did so" your journey along the now almost purplish stream would be much smoother. In time, your sail would end again at the pumping, station only at a differ­ ent place and by another canal. ; Near here are two large gas works. They are very noisy _ Anne Shriber Every boy is a king and every girl a queen of a wonderful kingdom. What do you think it is? places, as you may guess, for Do you realize that you are a the right temperature. they are pumping air and gases king (or a queen) and have a If you wanted to travel about in and out all day long. whole kingdom in your charge? in your kingdom, you would have One of the funny things aboPt In many ways it is more won­ to take a boat and go by canal, your kingdom is that all its im­ derful than any other kingdom like you do in Venice. A large ports consist of manufactured in the whole world. It contains pumping station controls all goods which its various factories everything you need to make you these waterways (though this is break up into raw materials. well and happy, only in order to not quite the correct word for Even in the port of entry itself, be that, you must know who them), so you might start at the there are workmen and chemists your subjects are, what work entrance of one of the four large who set to work immediately on they do, and also what are the canals which enter it. Your boat everything that comes in. After­ laws you must obey in order to would have a rough passage wards, they send it on to a great be able to rule wisely and well. factory where the goods are Let me tell you something “ Here Begins Another broken up still more before they about this kingdom of yours and are again sent on to the finishing then, at the end, see if you can Year” stations from where living boats guess what it is. “Here begins another year, Full of promise, good, and cheer. carry them to different parts of In shape it is much longer May each day it gives to you the kingdom, each of which than it is wide, and although Bring its blessings bright and true; M ay each sun that rises hold takes what it needs. here and there on its surface Love and thoughts as pure as gold; there are thick bushes as well as May the brightness of the skies Besides its chemists, workmen, lighter growths, yet its chief Be reflected in your eyes; soldiers, and storehouses, your May each day bring friends and fun treasures lie below. There are oil And some duties finely done; kingdom also has a most wonder­ wells and also wonderful mines May the coming days bring all ful parliament, upon which the which, unless something goes That shall make you strong and tall; whole life of your realm depends. May your happy hearts fulfil wrong, keep your land at exactly God’s good wishes, God’s good will.” For not a single thing is done, JANUARY, 1935, THE CHILDREN’S GOOD HEALTH 3 not a single thing happens even, happening outside your kingdom. There was a geography lesson unless parliament, by means of I wonder if you have guessed that morning and the teacher its hundreds of messengers, first what its name is? It is your own told the children all about the gives the command. Its offices body. The palace in which you products of South Africa. She are enclosed within the strongest live. You are its ruler, and so I mentioned how many oranges fortress your land possesses. On am sure you will want to travel grew in that land. I’m afraid these premises also are two wire­ about it with me, so that you can she was interrupted many times less stations which keep head­ learn more about it and so how with sneezes and coughs from all quarters informed of what is best to reign over it. parts of the room. “ Oh children,” we heard her say, “while we are talking of oranges, don’t you know that they are the finest The Penny’s Story preventive of colds and influenza. If you take my advice you will By Auntie Pearl eat plenty of them. The examina­ tions are coming next week and I t was so dark in Uncle Reg’s and although it sounded as if you all want to be strong and pocket and we six bright, new we were jingling merrily in his healthy so that you can do your pennies were just longing to see pocket, we were really quaking best.” the light o f day. Suddenly we lest we should be wasted on Just then the penknife whis­ heard a voice calling, “ Tommy, sweets. pered to us that Tommy was Tommy. Here is Uncle. You “ W e’ve nearly got to the shop,” very anxious to be top in the can just come down and see him whispered the penknife. Was he examinations, for his father had for a few minutes before you go going to stop? Yes! Tommy promised him a football if he to bed.” pulled us out of his pocket and succeeded. Immediately there was a clat­ counted us to see none was lost. ter of feet down the hall stairs Through his fingers we could see In spite of his weaknesses we and the little fellow bounced into the window of the little shop. had taken a liking to Tommy the room. Such laughter and jok­ There were such a lot of things and so were overjoyed when, on ing followed, and when Tommy to tempt a boy— chocolates and the way home, instead of stop­ finally said good-night, Uncle’s toffees of all descriptions, jars ping at the sweet shop, he went broad hand came down into the of red, white, and green sweets, a little farther and walked into the fruiterer’s. Here he bought pocket and brought us all out. and rows of sherbet suckers, six lovely, golden oranges, and W e chinked together in excite­ marshmallows, and many other we were handed over in ex­ ment when we were laid in highly-coloured dainties not a change. Tommy’s hot little palm, and his bit good for a little boy ! * * * fingers closed tightly over us. Tommy looked longingly in As soon as he was fast asleep, the window for many minutes W e six pennies were dropped up piped a sharp voice from the and then muttering to himself into the till and I happened to bottom of the little trouser pock­ that he would spend that six­ roll right to the back. Far a et in which we were to spend the pence on the way home, went off long time I lay there in the dark­ night. It was Tommy’s penknife. to school. ness but one day I was pulled “ Ah friends,” he began, “ I’m out for change. Before I was pleased to see you, but I’m afraid shut away in a lady’s purse I you won’t be here long. Tommy Be Kind to the Birds heard her say : “ Oh yes ! Tommy spends all his money at Mr. Little children, never give was top in the examinations. He Jones’ sweet shop.” We were Pain to things that feel and live. was so pleased, because now we very worried to hear this and Let the gentle rohin come have bought him his football, For the crumbs you save at home. hoped the penknife’s gloomy H e’ll repay you with a song, and, do you know, he says he is foreboding would not prove true. For the food you throw along. sure it was because he took the Tommy rose bright and early The little lark goes soaring high teacher’s advice and ate plenty To the bright windows of the■ sky, the next day and as soon as Singing as if ’twere always spring, of oranges. All the other chil- breakfast was over, donned hat And fluttering on untired zving. ren were sneezing and coughing and coat and set off for school. Oh! let him sing his happy song. around him, but he was perfectly Nor do these gentle creatures wrong. He ran quickly down the road, — Selected, fit and could think quite clearly.” 4 THE CHILDREN’S GOOD HEALTH, JANUARY, 1935 The Children's League of Health Rules 1. Clean hands before meals 4. Eat some vegetables or fruit daily 2. Brush teeth night and morning 5. Breathe fresh air day and night 3. Thoroughly chew food 6. Exercise daily in open air 7. Drink plenty of water

(Address your letters to A u n t ie P ear l MOTTO: Children’s League of Health, Stanborough Park, Watford, Herts.) Hraltlj for exercise in my brisk days?” E r u i e r Julia's Calendar “ And what about me?” put ( Continued from page 1.) in April. “ People think I’m only “ I hear the New Year is go­ good for showers and measles!” My dear little Health-seekers, ing to have a Health Campaign,” “ If they only realized how N IN E TEE N - TH IR T Y - said January. much good there was in all of FOUR has gone—not one moment can be The Old Year snorted, “ So us,” breathed June softly. recalled! Have did I ! Look at all the children “ Well, I wish the New Year you all been faith- who promised to go to bed early the best of luck. Give him my -v ful to your health resolutions, or are there any Julias with no fuss, and clean their teeth love when you meet him and tell in our League? If you read the regularly and wash their hands him I hope he’ll be the healthiest story on our front page you will before meals. Why, there’s one and happiest year the earth has learn how upset the poor Old Year was as he watched children carelessly right over here in this room!” ever known!” sighed the Old breaking the health rules. I know and he waved his hand toward Year. “And I’m sure I hope that none meant to grieve him so, and Julia who dived under the bed­ people like the little girl pre­ that you will try to give the New Year as much pleasure as possible clothes, trembling with fright. tending to be asleep over there during his period of office. “ W e have to put up with a ■—Julia had just put her head I know you will all be pleased to lot as well as you,” grumbled over the bedclothes again— “will hear that we have now reached a membership of 2,032! If the New February. “Look how everybody realize some day how they hurt Year can see us all well and strong hates me. Why don’t they wrap the feelings of the reigning Year and obeying the health rules, I’m up warmly and take plenty of sure that will cheer him on his way. by making all these grand reso­ I am still very anxious to receive lutions and breaking them at more members for our League. There once. must be so many who read our pages Cut out this slip and send to Auntie Pearl, “ Children’s League of Health,” but do not join! Why not make Stanborough Park, Watford, Herts. * * * * this your first New Year resolution Dear Auntie Pearl, The clock struck twelve and ■—I W IL L JOIN THE CHILDREN’ S LEAGUE I wish to grow up strong and OF HEALTH AT ONCE ! healthy and agree to keep the rules Julia woke with a start— the of the Children's League of Health We are going to do all we can as given on the Children’s Pages of bells were chiming merrily, wel­ this year to help you to be healthy! G o o d H e a l t h . Will you please enrol coming in the New Year. The In this issue we are beginning a me as a member and send my mem­ bership card as soon as possible. very special series of talks about calendar on the wall was just a these wonderful bodies of ours. Be I will read the Children’s Pages and calendar again. sure that you don’t miss a single League Letter in G o o d H e a l t h regu­ larly and try to follow all the instruc­ “ I must have dreamed it,” issue this year, or the story will be tion given. I will write to the League incomplete! at least once every three months. I thought Julia sleepily, “but I shall also go in for the competitions And now for the competitions. Will and hope to win a prize. will try and do better this year.” you please write down neatly on a (Print in block letters) sheet of paper what you consider are the ten most important resolutions N am e ... Results of October Painting you should keep this year. The other A d d ress competition is to colour the picture Competition on our front page. Please send your Prize-winner.— Sylvia Parsons, 113 New Church Road, Hove, Sussex. attempts to A u n t i e P e a r l , C h i l ­ T ow n ...... Honourable mention .— N an cy Saunders d r e n ’ s L e a g u e o f H e a l t h , S t a n - (Nottingham); Linda Britton (Cardiff)._ b o r o u g h P a r k , W a t f o r d , H e r t s ., A g e ...... Those who tried hard.— Gwendoline Will­ son (Mansfield)j Olive Reid (Antrim); together with your full name, age, N o te .— Members sending in six forms Mary Gray (Snainton); Ernie Stacey (New and address, not later than January duly filled up by children wishing to Southgate); Dorothy Wild (Oldham); enrol in the Children’s League of 31, 193S. Betty Spires (Worcester Park); Vera Health will receive a special wallet Jacobs (Uxbridge). A very happy new year to you all! containing League notepaper and en­ velopes. Prize for three honourable mentions.— Yours affectionately, Linda Britton, 22 Fairfield Avenue, Vic­ A u n t i e P e a r l . toria Park, Cardiff. JANUARY, 1935, GOOD HEALTH 15

{Continued from page 10.) not only ignorance of the simplest physiological laws, but also a want of experience by observa­ tion.” Indulgence in tea and coffee is particularly harmful in kidney disease, heart disease, and high blood pressure. It makes the kidneys and heart work overtime instead of lightening the load. A Japanese professor has stated that he be­ lieves that tea is one of the outstanding causes of cancer. Dr. Bullard, after the study of a large number of cases, has arrived at the following conclu­ sions : (1) That the action of tea is cumulative, and is most pronounced on the young and those in a depressed physical condition, although persons otherwise healthy not infrequently show poison symptoms. (2) That, as a rule, in adult women the average amount needed to cause poison symptoms was a little less than five cups daily; and, (3) That chronic tea poisoning is a frequent affection, the most common symptoms of which are loss of appetite, dyspepsia, palpitation, head­ ache, vomiting and nausea, combined with ner­ Once you have tried Be-vita you will vousness, and hysterical and neuralgic affections, realize that its distinctive flavour adds frequently accompanied by constipation and pain a unique character to all savoury in the region of the heart. dishes. To enable you to make the most of Be-vita Dr. J. H. Kellogg says he has seen many cases an attractive free Recipe Book has been of blood pressure drop twenty to forty points prepared. after the disuse of coffee, and with a very no­ Be-vita is exceptionally rich in Vitamin ticeable improvement in health. B, and has been used with great success I have recently been asked my opinion of in the medical treatment of many cases maté, or Paraguayan tea, as efforts are being of ill-health. Be-vita is the best way of made to introduce into England this caffeine- ensuring a supply of Vitamin B in the containing product of South America. Many diet which maintains good health. claims are made concerning the virtues of this From Health Food and other High Class Stores mild intoxicant, but these claims can be viewed 2-oz. jar 10d. 8-oz. jar 2/6 in the same light as the claims of patent medi­ 4-oz. jar 1/6 16-oz. jar 4/6 cine vendors. But the properties of maté are Each jar has a wide opening for the spoon so that there is no waste. essentially the same as those of tea and coffee.

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B a c k a c h e is one of the most common com­ explanation of the condition and the causes res­ plaints. Many people suffer from it all the time, ponsible for it. He wants to know why. How­ and almost everybody has it some time. It is so ever, there are still some who place their hopes common that many patients resign themselves to for a cure in a liniment, a pill, or a manipula­ it as a condition incident to life, to be expected tion of the spine, and spend their time, effort, and endured. They even fail to mention it as and money seeking relief by treating the symp­ one of their symptoms unless specifically asked. tom, instead of first ascertaining the cause. By Of this complaint there are many types, many determining the pathological lesion responsible grades, and many causes. No area of the entire for the backache, its relief can be more certainly back, from the base of the brain to the end of and speedily obtained. the coccyx, is excluded and no age, from youth to senility, is exempt. It may range in severity Causes from a tired feeling or mild ache to a severe, The causes of backache are legion. In the disabling pain. It may be transient, intermittent, medical literature of nearly every specialty, or continuous. It is always a symptom, not a articles abound enumerating the frequency, types, disease, and there is always a cause. grades and location of pains in the back, as a Frequently patients will say, “ I have a pain direct, referred, or remote symptom of a condi­ right there” (pointing to some spot in their tion involving the disease of some organ, included back); ‘‘What causes it?” It was easy for the in that specific branch of medicine. doctors of the old school to say, “ That’s probably Backache as a symptom especially concerns the lumbago,” and prescribe a laxative, some salicy­ urologist, proctologist, gynaecologist, orthopaedist lates, and a porous plaster. But we. cannot get by and neurologist, for within the spheres covered so easily to-day. The causes of backache are by these specialists there are many conditions better understood and can be positively deter­ responsible for pain in the back. One out of mined. The intelligent patient now demands an every three patients consulting a urologist suf­ JANUARY, 1935, GOOD HEALTH 17 fers from some form of backache, and the text­ Backaches are Exhausting books enumerate fifty-one different diseases of Whatever the cause may be, a pain is devitaliz­ the urinary organs producing backache as one of ing. It exhausts nerve energy. Any condition their symptoms. There are likewise many dif­ which irritates a nerve-ending excites the flow ferent diseases of the organs concerned in the of a nerve current which is carried over the sen­ other specialties mentioned, having pain in the sory nerves to the brain. It is interpreted as a back as one of their symptoms, making the total pain. Another current is dispatched to the number of different causes for backache many muscles in that locality causing them to contract score. W e will mention a few. for the purpose of limiting motion. This con­ A dull pain at the back of the neck may be stant flow of nerve currents uses up the nervous due to arthritis caused by infected teeth, tonsils, energy stored in the nerve cells, just as the con­ or sinuses. It may be neuritis or myositis or due tinuous flow of electricity through the headlights to exhaustion. Diseases of the chest, such as spends the electrical energy of the storage battery pleurisy, may cause a severe pain in the back. of a car. Anybody suffering from a chronic con­ Liver and gall-bladder diseases produce pain of tinuous pain, especially one which disturbs sleep, different types and degrees of severity and re­ is doomed to a state of nervous exhaustion. Such ferred to several locations, principally under the a one is of necessity required to spend more than shoulder blade. The kidneys are considered by the average time resting in order to recharge his patients to be the most common cause of back­ nerve cells and be able to maintain reserve nerve ache and we find many medicating themselves energy. with pills and potions on a self-made diagnosis A backache lessens one’s endurance and limits when their kidneys are perfectly normal and not his capacity for work. It modifies his judgment the cause of their backache. Not a few have and confines his perspective. It is apt to kill initi­ injured their kidneys by such a practice. ative. No one suffering from backache, especially There are many different types of kidney if it is severe, can think with his brain or work diseases giving rise to backache. The most pain­ with his muscles with the same degree of effi­ ful are usually the least serious. As a rule, the ciency as he should. serious lesions of the kidney are unaccompanied A backache not only interferes with one’s by pronounced pain in the back. The cause is ability to succeed in his work, but it also can in more often found in disease of the lower urinary other ways take the joy out of life. It lessens tract—bladder, urethra, seminal vesicles, and the one’s tolerance and is apt to make one sour and prostate gland. Disease of the prostate gland is grouchy. It is difficult to smile and be pleasant responsible for about eighty per cent of the back­ when in pain. A backache puts lines and wrinkles aches suffered by men over forty years of age. in the face. It makes one look and feel older Diseases of the female pelvic organs are liable than his years. to cause backache. A simple displacement, an Treatment erosion of the cervix, infections of the fallopian A kinked back or muscle spasm is best re­ tubes and perineal lacerations are almost always lieved by hot packs, infra-red rays, diathermy, accompanied by a special type of lower back pain. hot baths, manipulations and movement; bending There are many conditions involving the ver­ backward is one of the most helpful procedures. tebrae producing pain in the back. These may be A hot immersion bath will often relieve a pain congenital in origin; the result of an injury; or due to kidney stones or kinked ureters better than caused by some infection. Postural defects are morphine. very common. They follow bad habits of sitting Pain from chronic arthritis is best relieved by or standing. Tonic spasms and relaxations of rest, immobilization, infra-red rays, diathermy, muscles causing strain on the tendons are other and hot baths; when involving the sacro-iliac frequent causes. Sprains and partial dislocations joints strapping with adhesive plaster or wearing of the sacro-iliac and lumbar sacral joints cause a tight belt is helpful. Backache from postural a persistent backache sometimes quite severe. defects is relieved and usually cured by correc­ There are also many remote causes such as tive exercises, sinusoidal electricity, and massage. broken arches and other diseases of the feet and The low sacral backache caused by diseases of extremities. The causes cited are sufficient to the lower urinary organs can be easily relieved illustrate the intricate problem involved in diag­ by a few simple treatments directed at the cause, nosing a case of backache. ( Continued on page 22.) 18 GOOD HEALTH, JANUARY, 1935 EGGS: All Ways By MARGERY MacKENNA

Eggs Brouelles Ingredients*— Eggs, a little butter, cream, salt. Method.—After breaking the required number of eggs into a basin, season with salt and beat well. Melt a little butter in a saucepan and put the mixture in. Cook over a slight flame and stir from time to time. Just before time to serve, put a little cream in and stir well.

Curried Eggs Ingredients.-—Four hard-boiled eggs, brown bread­ crumbs, curry powder, a little tomato sauce, parsley. Method.— Cut the eggs and take out the yolks. Mix the yolks up with a little curry powder, then add the few drops of tomato sauce and salt. Mix up, then add sufficient brown bread-crumbs E g g s are widely recognized as a valuable food. so as to make it stiffen Cook and sprinkle a little The English housewife mostly cooks them in two chopped parsley over before serving. ways— poaching and boiling. In France, however, the art of producing appetizing egg fare goes to Eggs Frits Ingredients.—Two eggs, butter, cheese, flour, £ pint amazing palate-tickling extremes. In the follow­ milk, seasoning. ing recipes we have avoided complicated dishes Method.—After making a sauce of butter, and feel sure that the handy housewife will find flour, and milk, put it on one side to cool. Break these suggestions full of interest. the eggs in and beat up well; add the cheese and Eggs Sur le Plat seasoning. Fry the mixture in deep fat and Ingredients.— Eggs, butter, salt. serve piping hot with fried parsley. Method.—After putting a nut of butter in a Eggs a la Creme fireproof dish, gently break the required number Ingredients.—Eggs, grated cheese, nutmeg, cream, of eggs in, seeing that you don’t break the yolks salt. or the dish will be spoiled. Sprinkle a little salt Method.—After buttering several small china over and place the dish over a moderate fire for cases, break an egg into each, sprinkling over a few moments. Before done, place the dish in salt and half a teaspoonful of grated cheese. a medium oven for a little while, then serve. Pour over a large teaspoonful of cheese with a touch of nutmeg. Place in the oven long enough Savoury Poached Eggs to set the eggs, then serve. Ingredients.—Three or four eggs, I pint gravy, small onion, I oz. each of butter and flour, teaspoonful of Eggs Frits au Saffron capers, salt, toast. Ingredients.-—Eggs, butter, rice, saffron sauce, and Method.— Boil the gravy in a stewpan and salt. poach the eggs in it and, when done, place these Method.—Allowing one egg to each person carefully on buttered toast on a hot dish. Rub fry the required number in hot, smoking butter. flour and butter together and stir it into the boil­ Before they are done gently turn them over and ing gravy with chopped capers and seasoning. see that no yolks are broken; season with salt. Keep on the boil for a few moments, then pour When done serve on a dish covered with boiled over the eggs and serve while hot. rice. Eat with saffron sauce. JANUARY, 1935, GOOD HEALTH 19

I Can’t Eat That! NUTRAV1TE REGD. The Health Beverage for all times, pure, wholesome, and nourishing. Invaluable to sufferers from Indiges­ tion, Gastric Troubles, or Sleeplessness. It is made By George K. Abbott, M.D. from the choicest nuts and full cream milk, malt, etc., etc., and is rich in food values.

“ I c a n ’t eat starches; they give me gas.” There Sold in tins 1/3, 3/-, 5/-, and 10/- is a grain of truth in this idea concerning starchy by Health Food Stores, Chemists, etc., or direct from food. But this grain of truth is poorly understood and almost wholly misapplied. Sixty-five per cent Nutravite Ltd., Rosslyn Crescent or even more of a normal diet should be starches Wealdstone, Middlesex and sugars, that is, carbohydrate food. So, much more than half of what we eat should be this particular food element. The real trouble is not with the food, but with its preparation. When thoroughly cooked, starchy foods are very easily digested and give little or no gas. The trouble is insufficient cooking or wrong methods of cooking.

Potatoes, which are largely starch and water, makes a real Ginger are not well cooked by ordinary boiling. The W ine perfect in flavour starch granules are not broken up. The starch and aroma. Warming and refreshing. itself is not dextrinized. A baked potato is much A 9d. Bottle make 8 pints. more readily digested than a boiled potato be­ Sold by Grocers, Chemists and Stores everywhere. cause the baking disrupts the starch granules. Newball & Mason, Ltd., Nottingham. Dextrin is the first stage in the changing of starch to sugar, which is necessary before it can be ab­ sorbed. The potato if boiled, “ should fall to FOR HEALTH/AND VIGOUR pieces.” This is the evidence that it is well cooked. Cooking potatoes under steam pressure DURING THE WINTER MONTHS is even better than baking. The potato, when so START NOW AND DRINK cooked, has an unusually sweet taste and “ melts in the mouth.” GEL0Z0NE HOT CHOCOLATE When boiled, sliced thin, and browned with EVERY NIGHT just enough butter or cooking oil to prevent stick­ ing and burning potatoes are also well cooked. But they are more appetizing and digestible than Gelozone Chocolate, besides being a delicious beverage, contains unique when prepared only by boiling. Some have the health-giving minerals and the hot notion that this is frying, and so have used the drink method is one of the simplest grease or cooking oil, but have failed to “ cook” ways of introducing them into your or brown the potato. Soaking in grease, especially diet. Gelozone is easily digested without browning, makes the potato unappetizing by everyone. and less digestible. Gelozone Chocolate $ lb. 1/-, 1 lb. 2/- From Leading Health Food Depots, Macaroni, Bread, Rice Departmental Stores and G rocers. Any starchy food that is browned is well cooked. For this same reason scalloped potatoes, macaroni, etc., should be put in thin layers in the o n e baking dish and thoroughly browned. Boiled macaroni and similar foods are likely to cause gas in one who is susceptible, while the toothsome, CHOCOLATE browned macaroni digests well. Bread, which is, of course, also largely starch, WHIFFEN & SONS, LTD., CARNWATH ROAD, LONDON, S.W.6 should be well cooked. The browned crust is ______

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better cooked and more largely dextrin than the ing man might experience no great amount of dis­ inner soft part. For this very reason the “heel tress from such a diet, but the brain-worker of of the loaf” is the best part. sedentary habits, the city-dweller, and the invalid Boiled rice, especially if stirred while cooking, will certainly find trouble in using such foods. and rice pudding, are difficult of digestion and Then, too, these dishes have but a very small “ gasey” because the starch is poorly cooked (not content of the vitamins so necessary for diges­ dextrinized), and is sticky. To make rice palat­ tive and especially nutritional harmony. Eat able, appetizing, and easily digested, take the dry starchy foods without refining; eat them as Na­ rice and put it in a thin layer in a dry tin in a ture made them and with thorough cooking, and hot oven. Stir frequently until it is well browned. they will give you no trouble. Then add to this This rice should then be cooked in a double boiler an abundance of fruit, green vegetables, and without stirring. When well done, each kernel some milk, and you will have a well-balanced diet. will be almost like puffed rice— light, fluffy, and The Use of Fruit sweet. There will be no raw-starch taste left. Served hot with a little salt, butter, and cream, “ I cannot eat fruit.” This statement is by no it makes a most toothsome dish. means uncommon. Various reasons are assigned for this notion, such as, “ It gives me gas.” “ I Diet for Arthritis have too much acid already.” “ It gives me heart­ Certain recent investigations of the disease burn.” “ It makes sour stomach.” As with nearly known as arthritis have shown that oxidation is all erroneous ideas, it has some basis in fact. deficient in patients with arthritis, hence foods Fruit and vegetables do give more gas than meat requiring oxidation will be poorly utilized by such and bread. But some gas in the intestines is per­ patients. On this basis, such patients are advised fectly normal. Nearly all fruit-eating or herb- to reduce their starches and sugars. If this re­ eating animals have some gas. The horse that sulted in leaving off confections, pastries, sweet eats both grains and herbs has intestinal gas. If desserts and refined sugars, and in the moderate the bowels moved twice a day with thorough use of breads and cereals, no harm would be evacuation, there would usually be little accumu­ done. But often it results in cutting down on lation of gas, and so but little, if any, distress vegetables and fruits, and this does a great deal from it. of harm. Raw fruits, such as apples, give more gas than One physician has observed marked improve­ cooked fruits. As cooking fruit does not destroy ment in a very high percentage of arthritis pa­ its nutritive qualities, cooked fruits may be sub­ tients by the use of a diet made up largely of stituted for raw if this excess gas occurs. fruits, vegetables, and milk without any other Many of the common distresses of supposedly measures of treatment or medicine. These are well persons are due mainly to a lack of fruit the foods (with vitamins, minerals, etc.) so (and vegetables) in the diet. The usual chemical necessary for normal nutrition and the preven­ changes in the body are acid-producing. Meats, tion of infections. The thing necessary in arthri­ breads, cereals, eggs, cheese, sweet desserts, tis is not cutting down the food to suit the oxi­ pastry, and confections are in their use acidify­ dation, but stimulating the oxidation to take care ing, as are also tea and coffee. These acids, of the normal amount of food and especially the therefore, if not neutralized by a very liberal natural carbohydrates in the fruits and vege­ amount of the alkalies of fruit and vegetables, tables. Heat and massage to the joints stimulate will be in excess, and so result in a state of so- the circulation and oxidation as well as relieve the called acidosis. pain, soreness, and disability. A simple and practical rule for securing an “ Don’t eat too much starch. Starchy food pro­ alkalizing balance in the diet is to use from three duces acid.” Just where this erroneous idea comes to five servings of alkaline-ash foods to one of from it is difficult to say. Probably because acid-ash foods. Even much more than this of poorly-cooked starches do result in a feeling of alkaline-ash food will do no harm. An excess heaviness and in the production of gas from slow amount of fruit will not overalkalize the system; and imperfect digestion. Boiled potatoes; soft, so one need not be afraid of too much fruit and poorly-cooked bread; rice pudding; cornflour green vegetables, but much harm is done by even pudding; bread pudding, etc., are by no means the the customary English diets which usually con­ best foods. A hard-working farmer or a labour­ tain a great excess of acidifying foods. fANUARY, 1935, GOOD HEALTH 21

Cancer: A Curable and Preventable Disease ( Continued from page 9.) stone cases develop cancer of the gall-bladder or liver if left untreated. Chronic infection of the uterus, especially fol­ lowing injuries or lacerations at childbirth as­ sociated with chronic leucorrhoeal discharge, that are not properly treated may lead to cancer. Certain types of pigmented moles or warts, especially if irritated or inflamed, may lead to cancer. The type that is commonly found in elderly people in cheeks and nose, and tends to ulcerate, is particularly susceptible to cancer formations and should be carefully watched. Cancer of the breast often follows chronic in­ flammation called mastitis. A previous abscess or an injury may lead to a growth. Every lump in the breast past the age of thirty-five should be removed before it becomes cancerous. It is wise for women over forty to examine their breasts KEEP THAT once every few months by placing the palms of the hands over the breast and rolling it against the chest wall. Any lumps will easily be felt. Statistics show that primary cancer of the % o£ tk Snub lung has increased 175 per cent during the past ten years, and one large life insurance company that has very carefully compiled statistics of over IN HIS EYES several million policy holders, definitely attributes the increase in primary cancer of the lung to the O UTH ! That is the time of physical increased use of cigarettes. Y growth and development. It is the time when food is all-important. Every mother It is difficult for the layman to realize that he should see that her children get a full share of may have a cancer and not feel pain. As a matter N a tu r e ’ s finest form of nourishment— of fact, there is very little pain associated with SHREDDED W H E A T . This is pure whole most cases unless they are located near nerves. wheat, rich in Vitamin “ B ” and containing all Unnatural bleeding, however, is always a danger the bran. It feeds signal, especially in cases of cancer of the colon the young system and rectum. The patient often attributes bleed­ healthily, promotes ing to haemorrhoids and uses one of the usual strength, energy and straight lim bs. haemorrhoid remedies without seeking advice, Eightpenceper until the growth has attained considerable size. packet (in U.K.). One of the best methods of preventing cancer is to have an annual physical examination so that . . KEEP HIM if any malignant growth appears appropriate FORTIFIED ON treatment may be instituted early. WHOLE WHEAT SUNRAY LAMPS SHREDDED WHEAT New Eight Guinea Models, Guaranteed. 55/- MADE BY THE SHREDDED WHEAT CO. L T D ., each, Carriage Paid. Another Model at 32/6 WELWYN GARDEN CITY, HERTS. Carriage Paid. A. G. Musham, Killinghall Road, Bradford.

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LOW TEMPERATURE.—W.G.S.: “Could you please advise me with reference to the condition of hypo- pyrexia?” Ans.— I can readily understand that you would be rather disturbed at this period of the year that your boy’s kidneys and bladder are in a when your body temperature is slightly subnor­ healthy condition, and to do this you would need mal. O f course in a letter such as this I cannot to have a specimen of water thoroughly examined, adequately go into all the causes of hypopyrexia. both chemically and microscopically, to see if Sometimes there is the under-activity of the there is any infection in this area. If such does thyroid gland, resulting in a sluggish burning of exist he can, of course, be treated and the matter the food in the body and a slow circulation. In improved. the absence of any heart disease, it may be just The matter of habit also enters into the ques­ your tendency to be subnormal, and your seden­ tion and it would be a good thing to make him tary and mental occupation does not help to over­ pass water at specific times during the day, and come the tendency. I should strongly advise during the night also if necessary. It would be you to pay close attention to getting some daily worth while wakening him at two in the morn­ exercise, enough to warm you up and cause per­ ing and making him get up. In this way he spiration, without undue fatigue, and be very would establish habits of control. Sometimes a careful about your elimination. By attention to simple prescription of tincture of belladonna, these details you should improve. five to ten drops, at 4, 6, and 8 p.m. may be help­ The question of under-active thyroid or ful. Also give the child as little liquid as possible diseased heart could only be decided by a quali­ after 4 p.m., including water, milk, and soup. He fied physician. If there is any question in your should also be quiet and not run around much mind, I should advise you to visit your doctor. after four o’clock. Give him no sugar, sweets, or cake; nor should he have any jam or any­ SCIATICA.—J.P. : “Could you please tell me the best treatment for sciatica?” thing containing much sugar. Ans.— It is first essential to eliminate all poisons. Sluggish bowels must be corrected, the Backache diet should exclude meat, fish, and poultry, and include an abundance of vegetables, fruits, eggs, ( Continued, from page 17.) and dairy products; but you should eat very such as prostatic massage, the revulsive hot and moderately of cheese and breads. cold sitz baths, sprays, diathermy, etc. Acute sciatica should be treated with rest and Pains from diseases of the female pelvic the application of heat in the form of hot packs, organs can be relieved in a similar manner. When hot-water bottles, infra-red rays, or hot electric a displacement exists, an effort should be made to pads. Any infected teeth, tonsils, or other in­ relieve the pain by correcting it before resorting fections should be sought for and removed. to radical surgery. In all cases, even where surgi­ cal lesions seem apparent, it is wise first to utilize BED-WETTING I.S.: “May I ask your advice with the simple, rational physiotherapy methods before reference to bed-wetting?” resorting to surgery. It is a sad experience to the Ans.—The problem of bed-wetting and fre­ patient and embarrassing to the physician to find quency must, I am sure, give you much worry. the pain still present after a painful and expen­ First of all I think that you should make sure sive operation. JANUARY, 1935, GOOD HEALTH 23

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