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no salt • no added sugar special features Page just sweet! Editorial 4 The Pick of the Pack The World Health Organization. Off to a Good Start—W.H.O. Makes from California's Sunny Orchards the Health of the Whole World Its Job—W. L. Halverson, M.D. 6 Bartlett Pear Halves After 50—What? "The Last of Life, for Which the First Was Made" Yellow Cling Peach Halves —A. C. Ivy, Ph.D., M.D. 8 Yellow Cling Peaches Sliced Expectin' at Your House? For Mothers and Fathers to Be— Fruit Cocktail W. W. Bauer, M.D. 10 Unpeeled Apricots Whole Kadota Figs Your Health Comes From the Soil—Jonathan Forman, M.D. 12 No. 2 cans, 24 to a case, packed all one Emotions and High Blood Pressure—Harold Shryock, M.D. 13 kind or a combination of 4 cans each of Food and Health—Fredrick J. Stare, Ph.D., M.D., and these 6 delicious fruits. Mervyn G. Hardinge, M.D. 14 Have a variety on hand—buy the com- bination case. If your grocer or health Simon Baruch, American Pioneer in Physical Medicine and Rehabili- food store cannot supply you we will tation—Frank H. Krusen, M.D. 16 gladly send you the name of your nearest dealer. Please address Dept. B. A Forward Look at Public Health—Leonard A. Scheele, M.D. 18 Pratt-Low Preserving Company Santa Clara, California regular departments

Your Mental Attitude 5 For Teen Agers Only 23 Clippings From the Medical Press 5 The Family Physician 24 Philosophy of Life 9 The Mother's Counselor 26 News in Small Doses 20 Just For Younger Boys and Girls _ 28 Wings of Health 29

board of editors We Prescribe a Vacation EDITOR George T. Harding, M.D., F.A.C.P. J. Wayne McFarland, M.D. Daniel H. Kress, M.D. Carl J. Larsen. M.D. Lessons for New Fathers Winifred McCormack Edwards, R.N. ASSISTANT EDITOR J. Russell Mitchell, D.D.S., F.A.C.D. D. A. Delafield Arlie L. Moon, M.D. C. Ernest Parrish, M.D. Sickness and Man-made Sunshine CONSULTING EDITORS Lyle C. Shepard, M.D. Theodore R. Flaiz, M.D. Russell T. Smith, M.D. Harold M. Walton, M.D., F.A.C.P. Edward A. Sutherland, M.D. Walter E. Macpherson, M.D., F.A.C.P. Henry W. Vollmer, M.D., F.A.C.S. Soybeans and a Hungry World Robert A. Hare, M.D., F.A.C.P. CIRCULATION MANAGER CONTRIBUTING EDITORS R. J. Christian Are You Allergic to Yourself? George K. Abbott, M.D., F.A.C.S Associate: C. R. Maclvor John F. Brownsberger, M.D., F.A.C.S. D. Lois Burnett, R.N. ADVERTISING MANAGER Alton D. Butterfield, M.D., F.A.C.S. Your Feet and You Belle Wood Comstock, Mi). C. R. MacIvor Leroy E. Coolidge, M.D., F.A.C.S. Julian C. Gant, M.D., F.A.C.P. ART DIRECTOR Horace A. Hall, M.D., F.A.C.S., A.I.C.S. T. K. Martin.

OUR COVER Vol. 64, No. 6, June, 1949. Issued monthly. Printed and Published by Review and Herald Publishing Yes. It is sixty-five years ago that LIFE AND Association, Takoma Park, Washington 12, D.C., U.S.A. Subscription rate, $2.75. Canada and foreign higher. HEALTH came into existence as a pioneer health When change of address is desired, both old and new addresses must be given. Entered as second-class matter journal. Medical science has made tremendous June 24, 1904, at the post office at Washington, D.C., under Act of Congress, March 3, 1879. Acceptance for progress during this time, as is symbolized by the mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Section 538, Act of October 3, 1917, and authorized June 24, two pictures on the cover. The upper, by Sir 1904. Member Audit Bureau of Circulation. Copyright 1949, Review and Herald Publishing Association, Luke Fildes, shows a physician of many years ago; Washington 12, D.C. the lower, by our own staff photographer, shows a modern physician, confident and efficient, making a home call. PAGE 3

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CO- &mien s CEC- Ca OUR ANNIVERSARY ISSUE Ca-Ca VES, we are celebrating our sixty-fifth anniversary. That is a ripe old age for a -Ca I health journal—any journal for that matter—for the mortality rate is frightfully

-Ca high among infant health magazines. Therefore, we feel it is significant that a lay Ca health publication should survive the threescore mark, and we are certain that

Ca- it is due to the fact that LIFE AND HEALTH stands for something different. In order to give you the background surrounding the birth of an infant health journal, we turn back the pages of time, and catch a glimpse of what you might A Delicious Spread have read in the medical literature of earlier days. It was the age of powerful I medicines. Only the rugged survived the ordeals of heavy drugging. We quote Sovex is a savory vegetable prod- from a scientist who disagreed with the accepted form of treatment for pneumonia. uct in paste form which readily "Now let us sum up what the patient was called upon to endure in addition to adapts itself to many flavoring his pathological condition [pneumonia] within twenty-four hours. Calomel, capsicum, opium, podophyllin, each fourteen grains; and also we should say uses. The principle ingredient is about half a drachm of Norwood's tincture of veratrum viride. . What kind of pure dry yeast, a rich source of a constitution would stand such a dosage?" the essential B, and B2 vitamins. And as for appendicitis, it was never suspected that the cause was an inflamed member of the body that needed immediate and prompt surgery. Here's the report 14-oz. jar Sovex $1.00 postpaid of what they knew about that malady: West of Mississippi, $1.15 "The patient died from incarcerated flatus [gas] superinduced by a diet of Dealers write starchy food. He fairly existed on potatoes and bread; which is the primary cause of many deaths from so-called appendicitis." SOVEX FOOD PRODUCTS When it came to the question of diet, well—no one thought diet was important 105 Sherwood St., Holly, Mich. in getting people well. "All or nearly all at that time believed, empirically believed, in antiphlogistin system of treatment (treatment designed to reduce inflammation, understood at that time as bleeding, and the use of salts and antimony), and almost every sick man, or wounded man, or crazy man, for that matter, was put on a diet as near bread and water as possible."

Those were the days when the old family medicine chest carried directions cc like this: "Asofoetida, a medicine very serviceable in those hysterical affections to ca which delicate females are liable; . . . lunar caustic, employed internally in epi-

c« administered to excite the nervous system, especially in palsy."

ca So much for a backward glance at medical knowledge in the good old days of saddle bags and surreys. It was then that LIFE AND HEALTH, called the

ccc << and at a time when night air was thought to be poisonous. PREPARE THEM WITH

ac The use of hydrotherapy and other physical therapy methods, though not THE VITAMIN-SAVING ac popular in those days, were championed by your National Health Journal. Now

Ca this growing field of physical medicine is a recognized specialty. The diet question was unheard of as far as treating people was concerned. Your foods taste better . . . they However, LIFE AND HEALTH pioneered in stressing whole-grain foods and the Ca are richer in minerals, more wholesome when prepared the liberal use of the protective foods, leafy vegetables, fruits, and milk products. It OSTERIZER way. And beat of all, has consistently set forth the advantages of a vegetarian regimen, and has shown meal-making becomes the fastest, easiest thing you do. The OSTER- that on such a program it is absolutely possible to live in good health. The danger Container base IZER liquefies and blends fresh disassembles of tobacco, alcohol, tea, coffee, and other drugs used by the great mass of people fruits, vegetables, nuts and other for easy clean- -C-Ca-K-C-Ca ing . . an ex- foods, giving you nutrient-rich was another health feature distinctive of your journal. clusive Osterizer ingredients for a variety of deli- feature. Fits any cious drinks, salads, soups, des- Problems of mental hygiene were not a concern of medical circles of yester-

Mason jar. E-CEE-a serts, salad dressings, main course year, but that mental attitudes and emotions have a direct bearing on heart beat, dishes. For baby foods and special diets, it's the perfect answer. Send digestion, circulation, and all vital processes is now common knowledge. Such was coupon today for full information. E-Ca-CE not the case when LIFE AND HEALTH began its career. In the words of one of the

John Oster Mfg. Co., Dept. 2 . 6 Racine, Wis. E-CE frequent contributors to early editions of the National Health Journal, we set forth - Send me additional information on the Osterizer. how we felt about body and mind relationships to health.

Name Ca-K "The condition of the mind affects the health to a far greater degree than many Address realize. Many of the diseases from which men suffer are the result of mental City State

CEC-Ca- depression. Grief, anxiety, discontent, remorse, guilt, distrust, all tend to break - down the life forces, and to invite decay and death."

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Sy William C. Wirth. Ph. D. Ao-in. THE MEDICAL PRESS The Well-furnished Mind

I HAVE noticed there are two classes of people in this world of ours," said Machine to Replace Iron Lung tion (34 per cent) reported diets rating Neighbor Smith; "the one give themselves poor. The results indicate need for im- to things, and the other, to thoughts." Not PHYSICIANS at the Harvard School of Public Health have built a special device provement in all the basic seven food quite understanding what he meant, I groups, but the groups most often slighted asked for further information. "Let me called an electrophrenic respirator, which is expected to supplement or even replace are vegetables (especially the green and illustrate it this way," he continued. "I yellow variety), fruits (notably citrus know a man who has plenty of money. He the iron lung. Requiring only 3 cubic feet of space, the unit is plugged into a wall fruits), milk, and eggs. has a beautiful home, supplied with ele- In the case of other vegetables and fruits, gant furniture and all the modern con- socket. Wires from the unit are attached to the phrenic nerve. Raising and lower- the results showed that in all parts of the veniences. He has two or three cars, every- United States less than one half the young- thing that this world can give him for the ing the voltage causes the diaphragm and lungs to contract and expand. The work sters eat the recommended amounts. About comfort of his family. But that's all he has. four out of every ten children in the Cen- He is so taken up with his business that was initiated by Standley J. Sarnoff, M.D. —General Electric X-ray News. tral Midwest and Northeast reported he never takes time out to read good books; enough of these foods, whereas less than he is so absorbed in figuring out ways to Upper Midwest School Children one fifth of the diet records kept by chil- make more money and worrying about dren in the Mountain and Pacific region such property and possessions he already Rate High in National Survey of Children's Eating Habits showed recommended amounts of other has that he has weaned himself from the vegetables and fruits. appreciation of fine music and other cul- WHERE school children live may have The Upper Midwest region led in the tural delights. He really gets very little out something to do with how well they eat. percentage of children having enough of life. And how well they eat depends a lot on milk in their diets. Only about one third "As for me, I'd rather have a well-fur- their knowing how to choose the foods of the children from the Central Midwest nished mind than a well-furnished house. which will give them a well-selected diet. States reported enough milk, and almost I'd rather carry around with me the abid- Recent surveys made in schools interested two in every ten youngsters from this ing knowledge of the many exalted in improving eating habits of children region reported no milk at all. In the thoughts I've gained from great books showed that children in the Upper Mid- Southeast States only one fifth of the than to go home to enjoy for a few hours west (North Dakota, Minnesota, Wiscon- youngsters indicated that they were out of the day the elegant appointments of sin, and Michigan) reported better eating having the recommended amounts of milk my home. My house may burn down some- habits than those of any other region. Even and milk products. day, and then all its fine contents will go up so, only 42 per cent of the children sur- The Upper Midwest region again led in in smoke; but no fire can rob me of the veyed in the Upper Midwest area reported the percentage of diet records which treasury of sublime thinking I have gar- a "good" diet, and almost one third of showed recommended amounts of bread nered from the minds of the thinkers of them had diets rating "poor." and cereals. Less than 2 per cent in any the past as recorded in their writings. To This sectional rating was part of a na- region reported none of this food group, me the melodic music of Beethoven's Fifth tional picture based on surveys of the and in the country as a whole, slightly over Symphony is more satisfying than the eating habits of 29,475 American young- three fourths (77 per cent) reported recom- smooth purring of a Cadillac eight or sters in all parts of the country and in all mended amounts. Many youngsters forgot sixteen—if there are that many cylinders grades from kindergarten through the to include the amounts of butter and mar- now." twelfth grade. Data from these surveys garine they used daily, but the limited Knowing that Smith did live in a very have been compiled and the results an- food picture on these items indicates that nice home with all the average conven- nounced by General Mills. The firm's the Upper Midwest youngsters were way iences, I sensed that his philosophy was not Public Services Department has helped ahead of other regions in the percentage the rebound of his inability to "keep up with the surveys for three years. All types reporting recommended amounts. with the Joneses" but the expression of a of schools are represented, from one-room —Department of Public Services, truly wise man who did not purpose to let rural schools to the large city variety. The General Mills, Inc. the abundance of the things that 'a man scoring devices and forms used in these could possess cheat him of the intangible surveys were developed by Willa Vaughn Eczema Laid to New Chemicals thoughts and meditations and beauties that Tinsley, head of home economics depart- essentially make life great and grand and ment, Southwest Texas State Teachers ECZEMA has increased at least 50 per cent gratifying. College; Clara Brown Amy, professor of in the last ten years because of common home economics, University of Minnesota; use of new chemicals such as chrome and and Jane M. Leichsenring, professor of plastics, Dr. Earl D. Osborne, head of the Erratum nutrition, University of Minnesota. Stand- University of Buffalo dermatology depart- ards are based on their interpretation of ment stated. "Let There Be Light," an article in the the Recommended Dietary Allowances "In everyday life, repeated exposure to May issue Of LIFE AND HEALTH contained (Revised 1945) made by the Food and metals containing chrome, leather tanned a graphic representation of the electro- Nutrition Board, National Research Coun- with chrome, and common solvents and magnetic spectrum. The credit line was cil. paints such as lacquer, synthetic resins and inadvertently omitted. It should have read In the national picture only 38 per cent plastics is responsible for the major in- "Courtesy of the Council on Physical Medi- of the boys and girls reported diets rating crease in dermatitis or eczema," said Dr. cine of the American Medical Association." good, and just a slightly smaller propor- Osborne. JUNE, 1949 PAGE 5 r , •- . f...44411"p

"rector of Public Health, State of California, Alternate United States Delegate to First World Health Assembly and to Second Meeting of the Executive Board of W.H.O.

OFF TO A GOOD START W.H.O. MAKES THE HEALTH OF THE WHOLE WORLD ITS JOB

"On the broad and firm foundation of health alone can the loftiest and most en- during structure of the intellect be reared." —Horace Mann.

HE World Health Organization has been created by Health Assembly. This should be called as soon as twenty-six the nations of the world as a more effective means nations had ratified the constitution. for combating the plagues that still cost uncounted Funds to the extent of $3,000,000 were loaned by the United lives, and for raising the level of health standards Nations to carry on the work of the organization, and by every means that is at its disposal. UNRRA made available another $3,000,000 to carry on proj- W.H.O. came into being as the result of the International ects which that organization had begun in Greece, India, Health Conference called by Economic and Social Council China, Ethiopia, and other places. The principal responsibility of the United Nations in New York in 1946 for the purpose of the Interim Commission was to lay plans for the first World of establishing a single International Health Organization as Health Assembly, to consolidate and continue the work of one of the specialized agencies of the United Nations. At the pre-existing international health agencies, and to continue the New York conference representatives of sixty-one states certain health functions of UNRRA by arrangement with adopted the constitution of the World Health Organization, that organization. bringing into being an agency to coordinate and direct inter- Those attending the New York conference intended the national health work. The constitution states that the objective Interim Commission should function only about six months; of the World Health Organization shall be the attainment by but because the various nations of the world were slow to all peoples of the highest possible level of health, and goes on ratify the constitution, it actually carried on for almost two to define health as a state of complete physical, mental, and years. The Interim Commission finally decided to schedule social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or the first meeting of the World Health Assembly even though infirmity. It states that the enjoyment of health is one of the less than twenty-six states had ratified the constitution. This fundamental rights of every human being without distinction action had a very stimulating effect; and before June 24, the of race, religion, political belief, economic or social conditions, time of the meeting, fifty-four nations had ratified the consti- and is fundamental to the attainment of peace and security. tution, and had signified their desire to become members of Because it was necessary for the governments represented the organization. at the New York conference to ratify the constitution signed The assembly, with representatives of 754 nations, con- by their representatives, it was agreed that in the meantime vened in Geneva, Switzerland, June, 1948, in the beautiful the work of the organization should be carried on by an Palais des Nations. Dr. Andrija Stampar, of Yugoslavia, was Interim Commission, to be composed of the representatives elected president. The nations were officially seated on the of sixteen nations selected by the conference, and that this basis of their ratification of the constitution, and a working commission should continue in power until the first World organization was set up. Four working committees were

PAGE 6 LIFE AND HEALTH formed as follows: administration and finance, program, The assembly concurred in the recommendations of the headquarters and regional organization, and relations. It was program committee, and in addition instructed the secretariat the responsibility of these committees to carry on discussion to develop a program in international epidemiology; that is, of problems assigned to them and to report back to the as- to gather and disseminate information regarding the various sembly on recommendations made. A general committee of communicable diseases which are of international importance, fifteen members, including the president and the vice-presi- provided that international sanitary legislation be revised and dents of the assembly, the chairman and vice-chairman of the brought up to date in order that world trade not be ham- working committees, and delegates of six other states, was pered through unnecessarily strict quarantine regulations. It set up. also requested that health statistics be given study to bring The Interim Commission had prepared agenda for the about greater uniformity in the naming of diseases so that various working committees, which proved very helpful in statistics published in the various countries mean the same directing the work of the committees. thing and thus be more understandable by health workers The program committee had the responsibility of mak- in all parts of the world. The assembly also agreed that an ing recommendations regarding the proposed program of the active program looking toward the standardization of the World Health Organization. The Interim Commission had various biologicals, such as vaccines and serums as well as recommended that the control of malaria, tuberculosis, vene- drugs of various types, should be carried out. real diseases, and the development of a program for the To the committee on administration and finance came the conservation of health of mothers and children be given responsibility of the decision as to the size of the working highest priority. The program committee agreed to this, but budget of the organization. The program suggested by the it also recommended that programs in environmental sanita- Interim Commission called for a budget in excess of tion and nutrition be given first priority. Many other activities $6,000,000. The program committee agreed that this amount were recommended by various member states. These included was a minimum required to work effectively in the field of different aspects of public health administration, the control world health. The committee on administration and finance, of parasitic and virus diseases, and the development of a however, found that $6,000,000 was not available. program for mental health. These were carefully considered The Congress of the United States in its resolution ratify- by the program committee, and it was recommended to the ing the constitution of W.H.O. set a limit of $1,980,000 for assembly that they be given lower priority. This did not carry U.S. contributions. At the percentage scale of contributions the implication that these other activities are not so important of the United Nations, this would allow a budget of only as those given first priority, but that considering the budgetary $5,000,000. The United States delegation tried hard to secure and personnel limitations, more could be accomplished in the acceptance of a scale which would call for an allotment from fields represented by the programs given first priority. the United States of only 25 per cent as compared with 38 per The program committee also recommended that W.H.O. cent for the United Nations. This proposal was not accepted make available fellowships in the various medical and pub- by the assembly. Therefore, the • rn to page 23) lic health institutions of the world, so that young doctors, engineers, and other health personnel from the various countries might have the opportunity for advanced training in their chosen fields.

The Highest Possible Level of Health for All Is the Objective of the W.H.O.

CAREW. ONKMEYER AFTER 50- What ?

A. C. IVY, Ph.D., M.D. Vice-President, University of Illinois, Head of the Department of Clinical Science

"THE LAST OF LIFE, FOR WHICH THE FIRST WAS MADE-"

LTHOUGH America has had the discovery of old What about these increasing numbers of older people? age thrust upon it, it seems unwilling to believe Shall society frankly declare what many employers already what it sees. A recent study in New York revealed seem to have assumed, that beyond sixty-years--or forty-five, that about 40 per cent of the queried employers even—the vitality and intelligence of the average human have arbitrary rules barring the hiring of older workers. being is so impaired that any kind of profitable employment Reading the age specifications laid down in help-wanted is questionable? advertisements in the newspapers might easily lead a visitor If the answer is yes, then certainly the prolongation of life from another planet to believe that on earth few people ever is a cruel mockery. If it is no, then all the evidence is that we get over forty, and that after forty-five, continued existence face an enormous task of reorientation—in education, in social is either impossible or ignored. attitude, in medical research. This is extremely unfortunate, because since 1900 life Obviously the first thing to do is to face the facts of aging. expectancy has increased from forty-nine to sixty-seven years. What really happens to us as we grow older? Are we ready Four years have been added to the average life expectancy of for the shelf at forty-five, or are we as good as we ever were ? those now forty, and a year and a half to those now sixty-five. In considering these questions we must draw a distinction Right now 26 per cent of the population of the United States between certain concepts of time. The statistician,. like the is forty-five or older. We have eleven million persons, or average person, thinks of time in the abstract, that is, as it is 7.7 per cent, who are sixty-five. By 1960 this proportion will measured by the clock and recorded by the calendar. But the have increased to 9 per cent. This indicates that we are going biologist and the physiologist recognize that at forty-five one to have many more people beyond the age of fifty or sixty. person might be a great deal older than another, and that the

PAGE 8 LIFE AND HEALTH same thing might be true of different organs in the same person. This means that laying down arbitrary rules based on the calendar rather than on actual aging leads, us into errors and injustices, yet that is what we do. Keeping these distinctions in mind, we must yet face the fact that mentally and physically we do regress with age. Muscular strength begins to decline at thirty; at sixty-five a man's biceps and back muscles may be less than three quarters their strength at twenty-five. After forty the vital capacity begins to decrease at varying rates for varying individuals. The elastic tissue of the lungs becomes less resilient. At eighty-five the vital capacity may be only 50 per cent of what it was at thirty. There is less saliva; the sense of taste fades; and although the nose increases in size, the sense of smell diminishes as much as 55 per cent at forty-five to sixty years. The heart shrinks; the walls of the arteries thicken and become less elastic; the cardiovascular system is, in fact, one of the focal points in the problem of aging. The blood loses its ability to coagulate in varying degrees; anemias in old age are common. After forty the gastric membrane begins to degenerate, and at sixty about a third of the people begin to have a defi- ciency of gastric juice. Despite this, the digestive system is a ane 0 tifeJ highly serviceable mechanism which, if not cancerous, poi- soned, or infected, could considerably outlast the normal life span. By D. A. DELAFIELD After forty the kidneys decrease in size. Blood deficiency of the kidneys results in high blood pressure, and about half So you plan to get married and have a fam- of the aged people die of this combination of causes. The ily? Good for you. You are intelligent and probably thyroid gland, needed for proper bodily function, atrophies know what you are doing. You are old enough to after sixty-five; but it may be that this can be offset through make this decision, and your mental and physical powers are sufficiently developed to justify this step. administration of desiccated thyroid glands. You have chosen a practical man, and you have given In women those structures dependent upon sex hormones consideration to the responsibilities of the marriage regress with the degeneration of the ovaries during the meno- relation in its physical, social, and spiritual aspects. pause. In some men thickening of the membrane of the You do not have worldly wealth, perhaps, but you testicles begins at fifty; in others there is no apparent testicular have the richer blessing of good health. Mother and dad approve of this step and are acquainted with the change at seventy or eighty. There is no evidence that sex young man. Of course, you love him for what he is, hormones retard the rate of aging, but in men where early and not for what he has. Love, you know, is a holy degeneration of the sex glands is marked, the symptoms of the principle and not just a feeling. You have chu.sen climacteric may appear. Jack because he is honest, aspiring, manly, and pure. No doubt he has asked you to become his wife because As cataloged, these facts of aging may seem to put a you are able to carry your share of life's load, because formidable burden on the debit side of the ledger. Now let he needs the refining influence of your life, anti us try to make a common-sense interpretation of what they because he is certain that you will make him happy. really mean in terms of individual human activity. It is on an Your ability to sew, to cook, to keep house, individual basis that the problems of age will be solved, even to keep books, and to keep friends will make him proud of you. Remember to give love freely without though averages are useful in giving us certain guideposts. exacting it. Don't take him too seriously when he gets For example, Prof. H. C. Lehman has made careful studies upset. Your grit and determination to make wedded showing the age frequency of great contributions in various bliss of your union with him will be needed when the burden of life's cares and perplexities threatens fields of art, science, and learning. On the basis of these to overwhelm you. The storm clouds will gather on extensive tabulations, it appears that works of genius in such the horizon, but when they do, let him do the rum- fields as geology, psychology, music, painting, literature, bling. It takes two people to make a fight, and the mathematics, science, and invention emerge most frequently one who exercises self-control is the winner always. between the ages of thirty and forty-five. In athletic prowess Preserve your individuality. Let him do the same. Never press an issue too far. Have your girl friends; man reaches his apex at twenty-eight; military leadership, at let him have his pals; but let your love for him and forty to forty-four. Political leadership, on the other hand, his love for you be the brightest flame on the altar reaches its full fruition at fifty-five to fifty-nine. of friendship. Then build another altar in your Invoking the rule of common sense, however, we may home—the altar of prayer—and you will find that "marriage, instead of being the end of love, . . . find that too much stress can easily be placed on the apex of f is] the very beginning of love." and that your home man's achievement. After all, this apex is only a point in a in which God is enthroned as King has become "a continuous process. A fire sheds a great deal of heat after its little heaven on earth to go to heaven in." hottest point is past; we do not shut off a sales campaign as soon as it has reached its peak. * PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE * * Mentally, for example, man probably reaches his apex of learning ability in his early twenties, but this does not meaty that older people cannot learn. The (Turn to page 21)

JUNE, 1949 PAGE 9 Syzectea'AT YOUR HOUSE

FOR FATHERS AND MOTHERS TO BE

With such a boom in babies the biggest news on the obstetrical front is that childbirth is safer than it ever has been. About fifteen years ago the death rate among American A mothers was approximately six mothers lost for every thou- sand babies born alive. Today it is less than two, and dropping W. W. BRUER, M.D. steadily. There are a number of reasons for this decline, to which we shall come presently. But right now, let us empha- Director of the Bureau of Health size what this means in terms of mothers living to love and Education, American Medical care for their children, as compared with the number who Association would have perished at the old rate. Let us look at some, avail; able figures. During the year 1948 the three and a quarter mil- lion babies born would have caused the deaths of twenty thousand, if six mothers were lost for every one thousand babies born alive. The actual losses were under seven thou- sand. That is still too many, but it is a lot better than it would have been a decade ago. HERE are more married people in the United Mothers dying in childbirth do not constitute the whole States today than ever before, both as to actual story. For every mother who dies, others must be reckoned numbers and as to percentage of population. Large who recover from the complications attending childbirth, but numbers of these are young couples, married since do not fully regain their health, and perhaps succumb later the war, or married during the war, and having their first to necessary surgery or live on in poor health. The dividends opportunity to establish a home during the postwar era. The of increased efficiency in obstetrics are great in terms of im- babies being born exceed in numbers any previous birth fig- proved health, as well as in lives saved. And now let us see ures in the history of the nation. There have been higher why this happened. Such progress is not accidental. birth rates when the nation was young, but never such A fine record of safety in childbirth means good medical numbers of babies. care and good hospital care. The Government provided it for the families of veterans in the four lower pay grades of the armed forces, but all the Government did was pay the bills. The care was delivered by the doctors and the hospitals already existing in the community, despite the fact that war- time personnel shortages put these facilities on a severe strain. And the wives of veterans did not have all the wartime babies either. The care received by all the mothers of America at the hands of the depleted medical profession and the war-plagued hospitals added up to the finest and safest ever given to mil- lions of women anywhere in the world. That is worth remembering when "Never will education you hear talk about how accomplish all that it deplorable is the state of might and should accom- medical care in this na- plish until the importance tion. of the parents' work is When medical and fully recognized, and they public health authorities receive a training for its began to study reasons for sacred responsibilities." high maternal losses, in —Ellen G. White. the middle 1930's, they pulled no punches. Medi- cal societies, Govern- mental agencies, and PINNEY. MONKMEYER PAGE 10 LIFE AND HEALTH to get expectant mothers to the doctor's office or the prenatal clinic without de- lay. Again, dividends accrued in terms of lives saved. Babies born in hospitals gave the mothers a better chance, because in hos- pitals it was easier to take precautions against infection, and to institute emer- gency measures quickly in case of sud- den emergencies, some of which may occur unexpectedly even when there has been adequate prenatal care. In many communities today the babies born out- side the hospital are so few that they are hardly worth counting. At the same time, incompetent midwives attend fewer births each year. Two of the principal dangers from which mothers have died were infection and bleeding. Infections, commonly ex- pressed as childbed fever, had been ex- posed as the result of faulty medical and nursing technique by Oliver Wendell Holmes, the elder, and Ignaz Semmel- weis, before the turn of the century, and reduced to what might be called the vanishing point as compared with sev- enty-five years ago. But there were still instances. The sulfona- mides and penicillin, with occasional recourse to streptomycin, have helped to settle that problem. Childbed fever is now not only preventable but usu- ally curable as well. Bleeding is still a haz- ard of pregnancy; but when it occurs the doc- tors' weapons, including whole blood from the handy blood bank in al- most every hospital or plasma from the Red health departments studied reasons for deaths, using hospital Cross, may save the mother in many instances when previ- records and death certificates as their basis. Doctors who lost ously she as well as the baby might have been lost. Both in mothers were quizzed by their staff associates, not in a spirit the case of bleeding and in that of infection obstetrical prac- of faultfinding, but with earnest scientific desire to arrive at tice benefits from medical advances made in other lines. the facts and apply them to the saving of lives. Their success One of the unsolved problems in obstetrics, until about was notable. 1940, was babies born dead, or dying soon after birth with It was found, among other things, that there had been anemia or jaundice. Usually it was the second baby. There a trend toward hurrying normal births in order to save the are many second babies due in the years just ahead, a fact mother a measure of suffering. Many women demanded this, which accents the importance of this new knowledge. For and penalized doctors who refused to accede to their requests, now doctors understand why a normal man and woman may by withholding future patronage and influencing others to become parents of one normal child, and then suffer the do the same. Hurrying a normal process was found to be successive loss of baby after baby. The reason is a blood an- unwise, and to cause a higher than normal percentage of tagonism between mother and baby known as the Rh factor, complications and deaths. The doctor now does not interfere a name derived from the fact that experiments proving this in a normal birth, but waits for the natural sequence of events. factor were performed on Rhesus monkeys. He is rewarded with better results. A full description of the Rh factor belongs in a study of Another finding was that women who remained under blood, because it affects transfusions as well as babies. In brief, the care of the physician from earliest pregnancy continuously its obstetrical implications are as follows. A serum developed through birth did best. They gave the doctor the opportunity from Rhesus monkeys and rabbits was found to cause clump- to observe their progress, to recognize complications early, and ing, or agglutination, of the blood cells of 85 per cent -of to take steps to forestall them or deal with them promptly. human subjects, known therefore as Rh positives. The remain- This discovery was followed by the great educational drive ing 15 per cent is Rh negative. These (Turn to page 25)

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T IS possible for human beings to maintain perfect of land), as insurance against emergency, do contribute to health from the cradle to the grave. This should be the maintenance of optimal health, the most important factor the goal of each of us. In doing so we would likewise is the highest state of nutrition. greatly lengthen our life span; not only would we The maintenance of the best possible state of nutrition add years to our lives, but, what is more important, we would depends upon good food, good digestion, good assimilation, add life to our years. This is our own individual responsibility and good muscular tone; but the greatest of these is good and that of our educational system. It is not a responsibility food. The quality of one's food depends in turn upon the of the medical profession as such, for it has been trained to selection of excellent foodstuffs, which have not been spoiled treat the sick and the injured, when, in fact, there should in the harvesting, storage, processing, preserving, preparing, be none who need its services. Though adequate shelter from or serving. The inherent quality of food, however, depends the elements; proper protective clothing; and a sense of se- upon the quality of the soil where it has been grown. curity that comes from personal possessions (especially a strip The character of the soil is determined by the nature of the rock from which it weathered originally, by the vegeta- tions that have grown upon it unmolested through the cen- A turies, and most of all by its exploitation by man. On the JONATHAN FORMAN, M.D. North American continent our land has been plundered like that of no other part of the earth. Our European 'ancestors Editor of the Ohio State Medical Journal, Vice-President, Friends of the Land, Pro- brought with them a type of agriculture totally unfitted to fessor of History of Medicine, Ohio State the topography and the driving rains of this hemisphere. University They were soon given a moldboard steel plow. From then on, with the development of machinery more people were released to find work in the cities. So for years now we have sold grain and animals for cash, and made little or no effort to replace the precious minerals that were lost from the ground with each of these trans- or-et actions. The hard-pressed American farmer has been compelled to get cash, regardless of its effects on society; and so HEALTH COMES we have the wheat farmers and their dust bowls, the corn farmers who lost their lands to the money lenders, and the 9Tam az cotton farmers who have ruined the lives of their tenants and all too often their own. In most of the country we are using our farms as though they were SOIL mines from which riches could be taken, instead of part of the biological balance that they are. The result is that food has become a market commodity with all the emphasis placed upon volume and not nutritive value. All who have tried to help the farmer have talked in terms of bushels and dollars. They have given him a brilliant array of crossbreeds, in- secticides, weed poisons, and timely warnings against apparent surpluses. Nothing was ever thought about the nutritive quality of his crops or how to restore and maintain the full fertility of his soil until just recently. The plants of the earth take from the soil the mineral elements that they need, plus those that the animals need. The thin green carpeting that covers the earth stands then as the intermediary by which certain elements in the rocks, after their conversion to soil, are made available to man and other animals. The simple inorganic elements of the air and the soil are selected (Turn to page 31)

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Plants Are Able to Take Out of the Soil Propor- tionately Larger Amounts of Certain Elements Agriculture is the keystone of our economic structure Than Exist in the Soil Itself and wealth, welfare, prosperity and even the future freedom LIFE AND HEALTH of this nation are based upon the soil—Louis Bromfield. AND Nigh 13l od Press re

AMIE HAROLD SHRYOCH, The Fast Pace of Modern Living Is No Doubt a Contributing Factor to Emotional Stress and High Blood Pressure M. D.

Dean of the Loma Linda ODERN civilization exacts a tremendous toll in Division of the College of the form of nerve strain and emotional energy. Medical Evangelists, Loma We travel farther in ten minutes than our great- Linda, California grandparents traveled in ten hours; we read of more crime and tragedy in one daily paper than used to be reported in a month; we fight our wars with millions of men parents had been free from high blood pressure would them- and billions of dollars instead of hundreds of men and thou- selves develop high blood pressure. If one parent had been sands of dollars; we stage our quarrels between labor unions known to have high blood pressure, 28.3 per cent of the next and giant industrial organizations instead of between Farmer generation would be so afflicted; and if both parents had high Jones and Neighbor Roberts. blood pressure, 45.5 per cent of the children were so afflicted. Our butter comes from Wisconsin instead of out of the On closer analysis of such studies as the above, it develops churn; our potatoes, from Idaho instead of out of the garden; that the hereditary factor consists of a constitutional instability our summer vacation takes us to Florida instead of to the of that part of the nervous system that controls the blood old mill pond; our fuel comes by truck instead of being car- vessels and thus determines the level of the blood pressure. ried in by the boy with muddy feet. Such instability renders the individual susceptible to the emo- We brag about the wonders of our time, but how helpless tional tensions of everyday living to the extent that he will we feel when something goes wrong with our industrial or develop high blood pressure under circumstances which economic machines. A transportation strike disrupts our would not affect a person who had inherited a more stable whole schedule and even threatens to make us hungry; and nervous system. The hereditary factor amounts to a predispo- as if that would not be enough, dissatisfaction in Detroit sition, then, and means that the individual will develop high delays the new car for another eight weeks; sudden changes blood pressure only when the stresses and strains of life are in legislation change the rate of income tax. Even our accepted superimposed upon this predisposition. It is also true that high methods of recreation involve the factors of speed, competi- blood pressure follows certain types of infection where there tion, and exhaustion. Is it any wonder that with bodies no has been no hereditary factor. better than those possessed by our forebears, the wear and tear Some personalities react more vigorously to the stresses of modern living tends to raise our blood pressures ? and strains of life, and are thus more susceptible to the devel- Some would take issue with the assumption that high opment of high blood pressure. The perfectionist individual blood pressure is one of the consequences of our tense mode who strives so continuously and so consistently toward his of living. These would have us believe that if an individual ideal of success is in danger of becoming intolerant of indi- has inherited high blood pressure, there is nothing that can viduals or circumstances that tend to interfere with his prog- be done about it. ress. He tends to be aggressive in his struggle for accomplish- From statistics it appears that in certain cases high blood ment; but back of the aggression there develops an anxiety pressure runs in families. For instance, one study of family which, because of its emotional counterpart, tends to upset histories indicated that only 3.01 per cent of individuals whose the physiologic balance within the (Turn to page 32)

JUNE, 1949 PAGE 13 AT to your ideal weight after you have eaten what you should," is a maxim which all too many Ameri- cans disregard. This is evidenced by the marked prevalence of obesity, "the American disease," and the many indica- tions of there being nutritional factors in the steady and alarming increase through- out the population in the degenerative dis- eases, such as hardening of the arteries, high blood pressure, cancer, and many types of heart disease. One's chance of being long-lived is closely related to body weight. The statis- tics of life insurance companies reveal that the ideal weight for greatest life expectancy is the average weight at the age of twenty- five for the height and sex of the indi- vidual. Without exception weight depends upon food intake in relation to physical activity. In addition to maintaining, ideal weight, food should provide good nutri- tion. Nutrition may be considered in terms of foods or the various nutrients they con- tain. During the past century scientific re- search has yielded increasing knowledge on the composition of foods. It is now known that some forty to fifty nutrients are essential to the human body. These corn-

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prise the proteins with their amino acids, fats, carbohydrates, sumption during the same period have greatly reduced the the vitamins, and minerals, and all may be obtained in ade- intake of certain vitamin and mineral constituents of the quate amounts from the foods we eat. diet. During the past century the sugar consumed in the When the diet is composed of foods well selected from a United States has increased tenfold or from approximately variety of natural sources, it is usually safe to say that, if one ten pounds to one hundred pounds. a person a year, and dur- takes care of the calories, the nutrients will generally take ing this period the change to a more highly refined white care of themselves. In this and many other countries to ob- flour also occurred. Such changes resulted in a decreased in- tain sufficient calories is no problem for the great majority take of vitamins of the B complex and of minerals. of the population; in fact, the problem is to keep the calories The flour-enrichment program of the last half dozen years down in order to maintain ideal body weight and at the same has been highly beneficial and has appreciably increased the time secure adequate amounts of the many essential nutrients. intake of thiamine, as well as that of the other nutrients used This latter problem is made more difficult by the increased in flour enrichment. The enrichment program does not, how- availability of a large variety of processed foods. The tendency ever, apply to sugar, and deals with only certain specific nutri- to replace natural foods with increasingly large amounts of ents in the case of flour. This may encourage a false sense of highly refined and concentrated foods may be nutritionally security. The packaged sugars of today, regardless of source, a risky practice. are for practical purposes pure sucrose. Brown and raw sugars Two foods that make a major contribution to the caloric are eaten in but negligible quantities. Much of the sugar con- intake of the American dietary are white flour and sugar. The sumed is not purchased in visible form but comes from candy, patent milling of flour, introduced in the latter part of the carbonated beverages, ice cream, and other sweetened foods nineteenth century, and the enormous increase in sugar con- and drinks. Sugar-containing foods such as ice cream, which

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furnish protein, minerals, and vitamins, contribute obviously lag between the initial curtailment of refined and purified valuable nutrients from the nutritional viewpoint. foods (sugar and low-extraction flour) and the subsequent Recent reports from studies in Europe, and more particu- reduction in dental caries would tend to indicate that it is larly in Norway, tend to emphasize the dangers of too liberal some factor, the absence of which during tooth development, a use of highly refined foods, particularly sugar and white predisposes to the occurrence of dental caries. flour. The per capita consumption of sugar and white flour Certain advantages of sugar should not be overlooked. It is in Norway is similar to the figures given earlier for this the cheapest source of food energy, each pound yielding about country. In 1939 the available sugar was reduced by 50 per eighteen hundred calories. It is compact, easily shipped, keeps cent due to World War II. At the same time the flour extrac- well, is an excellent preservative for foods, and has a universal tion was increased from 75 to as high as 95 per cent. In 1940 taste appeal. In present and future world food problems the an additional reduction of 20 per cent in the sugar ration oc- providing of sufficient calories is important. As more is curred, thereafter being increased to 60 per cent of the prewar learned regarding human nutritional requirements, it may level. The caloric intake of the populace was maintained by prove wholly compatible with good health to include sugar increasing the consumption of the unrefined flour and of to the extent of five hundred to one thousand calories a day in vegetables, both excellent sources of minerals and vitamins. the dietary, providing other foods are eaten to supply adequate The accompanying chart illustrates dramatically the decrease body needs for protein, fat, minerals, and vitamins. Also in terms of world health, sugars may serve as food for growth of yeasts and molds, from which may be developed sources of high-quality protein. There is growing evidence that the diet of the mother RELATIONSHIP OF during pregnancy and lactation, as well as the child's diet OF CARIOUS PERMANENTSUGAR TEETHCONSUMPTION OF TO during growth and development, has profound effects upon IN YEAR- OLDS IN NORWAY' CIDENCE general health. Although one cannbt directly apply results ob- tained from animal experiments to human nutritional prob- lems, findings from such investigative work should not be disregarded. The dental caries, for example, in the rat and hamster, simulating if not identical with those seen in man, can now be produced consistently by dietary means.

Professor of Nutrition, Schools of Medicine and Public Health, Har- vard University, Boston, Massachu- setts

SUGAR CONSUMPTION 1111 CARIOUS PERMANENT TEETH OF 7-YEAR- Daly from Sognnoes, OL DS Science 106 448 (1947)

F. J. STARE, M.D.

FREDRICK J. STARE, Ph.D., M.D., and M. G. HARDINGE, M.D.

MERVYN G. HARDINGE, M.D. Graduate Student in Nutri- tion, Harvard School of Pub- lic Health

in the caries incidence in one of the younger segments of the What can be done from a practical viewpoint to improve population which occurred during this change in national nutrition in America, so we can really say we are a well-fed dietary. By 1945 the prevalence of caries, as observed in seven- nation? We can improve and expand nutrition education, year-olds, had decreased by 75 per cent. That this reduction in particularly among young children where food habits are caries may have been due largely to some factor other than formed. This means learning what good nutrition is, the im- local action of refined foods in the mouth, is indicated by the portance of variety in food consumption, and the meaning continued caries reduction through 1946 and 1947, even and significance of ideal weight. Protein foods, milk, eggs, though at the close of hostilities in 1945 the prewar level of cereals, fruits and vegetables should make up the bulk of our sugar and the 75 per cent extraction of flour were reinstated. diet. Habits, whether good or bad, are formed in childhood Similar findings, though not so complete, were noted in and carry over to adulthood. Good food habits are the best Germany and elsewhere following World Wars I and II. The way to secure a more healthy America.

JUNE, 1949 PAGE 15 AMERICAN PIONEER IN PHYSICAL MEDICINE AND

REHABILITATION

William Gymnasium at Posen, the provincial capital. At the early age of fifteen young Simon Baruch came to the United States, where he settled immediately in Camden, South Caro- lina. Arriving alone in this country, he knew only one person, FRAIN H. HRUSED, Mannes Baum, owner of a general store in Camden. Mr. Baum became Simon Baruch's friend and counselor, and by M.D. 1859 young Simon had saved enough money by working as a bookkeeper for Mr. Baum, and had acquired sufficient Director, Baruch Committee on knowledge of the English language, assisted by reading Physical Medicine, Head of Section of Physical Medicine, Mayo Clinic, American history with a translating dictionary beside him, to Rochester, Minnesota begin the study of medicine. Throughout his lifetime Baruch was exceptionally studi- ous, artistic, and imaginative. He read assiduously, and was extremely interested in many fields of human enterprise. Ac- cording to a common custom of the times, he started his career in medicine as an apprentice to two physicians in Cam- N MODERN times we hear much about physical den. After a year of study with them, not content with an medicine and rehabilitation. Physical medicine is the ordinary apprenticeship, during the year 1860 he continued treatment of disease by physical agents, including his medical training at the Medical College of the State of light, heat, electricity, water, and mechanical agents. South Carolina. Despite the threat of war between the States, Rehabilitation is the preparation of a disabled person—physi- he was not to be diverted from his career by the troublous cally, mentally, socially, and vocationally—for the fullest pos- times, and continued diligently at his studies, entering in 1861 sible life compatible with his abilities and disabilities. the Medical College of Virginia at Richmond, which was the

The Baruch Committee on Physical Medicine was estab- only medical school in the South which functioned without lished in November, 1943, by Bernard Mannes Baruch to interruption during the war. advance education, practice, and research in physical medicine Baruch received his degree of doctor of medicine from this and rehabilitation. But few people have realized why Bernard institution on March 6, 1862. Having already become a true Baruch was interested in these fields of medical endeavor. son of the South, Baruch immediately joined the Confederate Only a few persons have yet come to realize that the first Army, "without having lanced a boil," as he used to say; was real American medical pioneer in these fields was Bernard appointed assistant surgeon; and took over the surgical care Baruch's father, the distinguished New York physician, Dr. of five hundred infantrymen. He served with Robert E. Lee Simon Baruch. In recent years I have been working in the for three years, was captured three times, and each time was field of the application of physical agents for the treatment placed in charge of battlefield hospitals and later released. His of disease and in the rehabilitation of seriously disabled, con- third imprisonment took place in 1865, just before the sur- valescent, or chronically ill persons. As I have studied the render of the Confederate Army. When the war ended he writings of Simon Baruch and read about his life, I have was formally paroled, and he returned immediately to Cam- gained more and more inspiration from him. It is my hope den. He served this community with ever-increasing distinc- that this brief description of his career will inspire other tion as a practitioner of medicine for sixteen years. On Novem- persons to carry on with the fight, to bring succor and com- ber 27, 1867, he married, at New York, his long-time sweet- fort, hope and independence to severely disabled people. heart, Isabel Wolfe, of Winnsboro, South Carolina. His fine Simon Baruch (1840-1921), son of Bernard and Teresa medical achievements were so outstanding that by 1874, when (Green) Baruch, was born in Schwersenz, West Prussia, on he was only thirty-four years of age, he was elected president July 29, 1840. He was educated later at the Royal Frederic of the South Carolina State Medical Society. A further indi-

PAGE 16 LIFE AND HEALTH his major interest in hydrotherapy, he was interested in other phases of physi- cal medicine, including light, heat, elec- tricity, and mechanical agents. Within a short time he was writing extensively about physical medicine and about his particular love—hydrotherapy. He pub- lished his first book on Uses of Water in Modern Medicine in 1892, and his book on The Principles and Practice of Hydrotherapy, published in 1897, ran through three editions and was trans- lated into German and French. Baruch was a striking figure of a Man. His courtly bearing, his erect and military posture (bespeaking his three S years of service with Robert E. Lee), and his trim beard and unwavering blue eyes inspired confidence and respect. Despite his dignity, like all great men, 44 1 he was very human, and never lost his love for the South. It has been said that when he heard "Dixie," "disregarding dignity and throwing decorum to the winds, he became a red-hot, dyed-in-the- wool Confederate again and no matter where he was, he got up and gave the

The American Physician Who Championed the Scientific Application of Hydrotherapy—Simon Baruch

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cation of the high regard in which he was held by the people of this State came when in 1880 he was named chairman of Bernard Mannes Baruch the South Carolina State Board of Health. Small wonder that one of his biographers described Simon Baruch as "a true friend at the bedside of the sick and suffering—a friend rebel yell." This tall, mild-mannered, kindly physician was from whom one may draw counsel on all difficult questions a true crusader, and not the least of his contributions was his of practice with the assurance that only that which has been pioneering effort toward the establishment of free public proved, sedulously examined, and critically sifted will be re- baths. ceived for the benefit of the sick." In 1890 Baruch studied under Dr. Wilhelm Winternitz, Looking for still wider fields in which to serve humanity, the professor of hydrotherapy at the University of Vienna. Baruch moved to New York in 1881 and soon established his What.he learned from Winternitz influenced his entire career. medical practice. As reported by Dr. Gerard Sands in the He introduced shower baths into this country, and fought for New York Medical Journal, 1889, Baruch, with his usual the introduction of free public baths. He found that the poor keen perception, made the diagnosis in the first recorded in- of New York City had almost no bathing facilities. Therefore, stance of perforating appendicitis in which operation was suc- he began a vigorous crusade for the establishment of public cessful. The same year he wrote a paper entitled "Cold Water baths of the indoor shower type. He pointed out that river Treatment of Typhoid Fever." From this time on his medical baths, especially in the vicinity of New York, were unsanitary. interests began to center more and more on that phase of He defined Manhattan Island as "a body of land surrounded physical medicine in which he was to become the undisputed by sewage." With characteristic tenacity and vigor he em- international authority—hydrotherapy. And, in addition to barked on a ten-year battle which (Turn to page 20)

JUNE, 1949 PAGE 17 IFE AND HEALTH has already outlived by twenty years the average life expectancy of infants born the year this magazine was founded. In 1885 the average baby born in the United States could expect to live forty-five years. Today life expectancy at birth is sixty-seven years. The chance for longer life is the gift to mankind of medi- cal and public health science. The dramatic victories of scien- tific medicine and public health have been reported in LIFE AND HEALTH throughout the year of its existence. To under- stand vividly these advances, compare the list of first ten causes of death in 1900 with the same list for 1948. 1900 1948 1. Pneumonia and influenza 1. Heart diseases 2. Cancer 2. Tuberculosis 3. Diarrhea and enteritis 3. Cerebral hemorrhage 4. Heart diseases 4. Nephritis 5. Senility and ill-defined 5. Accidents (excluding causes motor-vehicle) 6. Cerebral hemorrhage 6. Pneumonia and influenza 7. Nephritis 7. Tuberculosis 8. Accidents (excluding 8. Premature birth motor-vehicle) 9. Diabetes mellitus 9. Cancer 10. Diphtheria 10. Motor-vehicle accidents These two lists tell an interesting story. Diphtheria has disappeared as a major health problem. In 1900 diphtheria killed three of every four children who contracted the disease. We now have inoculations which protect infants and children from diphtheria. Intestinal infections, such as diarrhea and enteritis, also have disappeared as serious threats to life. Safe water and milk supplies and better ways of feeding and caring for infants and young children have saved millions of lives. Pneumonia is no longer the number one killer, because sulfa drugs and penicillin now save the lives of many patients. Tuberculosis is at an all-time low, as a result of the natiofial program to find the disease in its earliest stages, and get the patients under medical care. The list of first ten causes gives us only a partial view of the achievements of medicine and public health during the past A brward ,Cook a

fifty years. Many diseases have been reduced to a point where they no longer rouse the fear of devastating epidemics. We know how to fight these infections when they do appear; W. P. WOODCOCK and we are fighting them successfully. Among the conquered epidemic diseases of the past are Smallpox is a scourge that has taken its toll of thousands yellow fever, smallpox, typhoid fever, and malaria. Not a case of lives. It used to occur frequently in the United States. of yellow fever has occurred in the United States for forty- In 1927, for example, nearly 103,000 cases were reported. In five years. But we have to be ever on the alert to keep the 1948 there were only fifty-three cases of smallpox. This victory disease out of this country. Many of our Southern cities still is the result of smallpox vaccination. If infants are vaccinated, have plenty of the mosquitoes that spread yellow fever. To they are protected against this dread disease. Children and protect ourselves from the terrors of yellow fever, the United adults should be revaccinated every three years, to keep their States helps other countries fight the disease. In January, 1949, immunity to smallpox. for example, the Public Health Service sent 250,000 doses of In the United States 3,700,000 babies were born in 1948. yellow fever vaccine to Panama to halt an outbreak there. But the infant death rate reached a new low. In 1915 one

PAGE IE LIFE AND HEALTH A LEOHARD R. SCHEELE, M.D.

Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service Federal Security Agency

in the middle and older age groups. Senility and ill- defined causes no longer appear among the first ten; this is a result of better diagnosis and reporting. The diseases which take the largest toll of life nowadays are those associated with aging. In 1948 diseases of the heart, blood vessels, kid- ney disease, and cancer were the first four causes of death. They accounted for 60 per cent of all deaths in this country. In 1900 the same group of diseases accounted for less than one fourth of the deaths. Since 1900 the death rate from heart disease and related ailments has increased from 333 per 100,000 population to 466 per 100,000. In the same period the death rate from cancer has more than doubled— from 64 per 100,000 in 1900 to 134 in 1948. Other diseases associated with middle and later life cause a great deal of ill-health, although they seldom cause death. The chief of these cripplers is arthritis and rheu- matism. Mental disease also has increased rapidly during the past fifty years. Young adults and older people are its chief victims, although modern psychiatry shows that much mental illness has its roots in our childhood experiences. An industrialized, highly competitive society; wars and threats of war affect

Increased Knowledge in Medical Science Has all our lives. These pressures put severe strains on the human Lengthened the Average Life Expectancy of being—physical, mental, and emotional. The six hundred Infants More Than Twenty Years Since 1885 thousand patients who fill our crowded mental hospitals every day represent only the smaller, visible part of the "iceberg" of mental illness. Beneath the surface is an incalculable amount of undiscovered illness and maladjustment. The chronic diseases and mental illness, then, are the killers and cripplers of our day. These are the problems which medicine and public health must recognize. Each responsible Wk _Health adult must do his part to fight the killers and cripplers. At the present time medical and public health sciences do not have enough scientific facts and methods to prevent chronic diseases and mental illness. But we do have a great storehouse of knowledge which can prevent much suffering hundred in every thousand babies died and many deaths. We know that if every man, woman, and before they were a year old. In 1948 the child had regular, comprehensive medical examinations, early rate was only thirty-two per thou- signs of the crippling and killing diseases might be detected. sand live births. Premature birth, the We know also that the present methods for treating heart chief cause of death among infants and one of the ten leading disease, cancer, other chronic diseases, and mental illness are causes of death in 1948, presents a challenging problem in the most effective if used in the early stages of the disease. further reduction of infant mortality. We know how to save Scientific research is needed to discover facts about the many of these lives. We must work harder to provide the best causes of the crippling and killing diseases. When we know care for expectant mothers and infants. more about the causes we can improve methods of treatment. Our gains in fighting epidemic diseases and in saving the Perhaps we can even find ways to prevent some of these con- lives of infants and children have changed the list of first ditions which cause the largest amount of ill-health. Since ten causes of death. The population of the United States is World War II there has been a great increase in medical aging. In 1900 only 18 per cent of the population was forty-five research. The Federal Government and private agencies have years and older. Now more than 26 per cent of the people are joined together to help the nation's (Turn to page 30)

JUNE, 1949 PAGE 19 Simon Baruch philanthropic natures prompt them to endow an institution or to contribute to its (Continued from page 17) support may find a double reward in the NEWS IN finally led to the establishment of free consciousness that they have not only public baths, not only in New York, but ameliorated present distress, but they have in many other American cities. A man of also conferred great and lasting benefits on Swat/ 7,o4e4 lesser courage than Baruch's would soon suffering mankind everywhere." It is not have abandoned efforts such as he was surprising, therefore, that Bernard M. forced to undertake, but with great perti- Baruch, distinguished philanthropist and • GARDENING as a hobby is one recreation humanitarian, as a result of the inspiration that really pays dividends. nacity and a truly philanthropic spirit he fought on until he succeeded. By 1917 the of his father, has continued with filial de- votion to support the field in which his • NINETY per cent of the world's supply first great bathhouse, built on Rivington of canned pineapple is produced in Hawaii. Street, New York, was named officially father pioneered so ably. the Dr. Simon Baruch Public Bath. This It has been my great privilege to serve as • AN unusual and remarkable aid in the bathhouse accommodated seven hundred the director of the Baruch Committee on healing of peptic ulcers is raw cabbage thousand people the first year it was in use, Physical Medicine. The generous support juice. and by 1938 there were in the United given by Bernard Baruch has made the States more than one hundred bathhouses activities of this committee eminently suc- • SKIM milk, buttermilk, dried milk, and cessful. In the annual report of the Baruch canned milk are equal to fresh whole milk in operation, all as a result of the early pioneering efforts of Simon Baruch. Committee last year it was possible to state in calcium and protein value. that the philanthropies of Bernard Baruch During all this time Dr. Baruch was de- had established firmly and for all time this veloping his interest in rehabilitation, and • THE current rate of producing peni- special field of medical practice in which especially rehabilitation of the chronically cillin in the United States is about 125,000 his father had been a leader, and to report ill patient. The term rehabilitation, as we times larger than it was in the first six that in the future it will "relieve the suffer- now use it, was not even known in his day. months of 1943. ing of untold millions of sick and disabled However, at the Montefiore Hospital for persons and will aid in their prompt resto- • EUROPEAN food production is only 3 patients who were chronically ill, Baruch ration to happy and productive citizen- per cent below the prewar figure, but soon was pioneering in proper methods for ship." By a strange coincidence, the report population growth has added about 10 the rehabilitation of chronically ill per- unwittingly paraphrased Simon Baruch's per cent more mouths to feed. sons. He became the chairman of the at- statement regarding amelioration of pres- tending staff at the Montefiore Hospital, ent distress and the conferring of "great • X-RAYS are proving most effective in and in his report on October 30, 1885, he and lasting benefits on suffering mankind the treatment of unsightly birth blemishes, wrote, "It will be a proud achievement everywhere." so tragic to young girls, according to three when our records will tell that a goodly Simon Baruch was a great crusader, a Philadelphia physicians. proportion of those who have entered our wise physician, a kindly philanthropist, a gates only to die in peace have again issued • IN discussing human organs most peo- real patriot, and an inspiring leader. He from them entirely or partially restored ple forget that the skin is counted as one has inspired his famous son to advance and enabled again to enter upon the battle of them. It is the largest, too, for it com- the humanitarian concepts for which he of life from which they had regarded them- prises about 16 per cent of our weight. strove so valiantly. He has inspired those selves as permanently banished. During of us who, as physicians, are attempting the past two years we have discharged out • RATS are one of the most expensive of to follow in his footsteps, and to work of a total of 119 patients admitted as in- nature's animals, living as a parasite at the toward the provision of better lives for our curable, eight as improved and three as expense of man. They are known carriers sick and disabled fellow Americans. May cured." This idea of Dr. Baruch's is the of typhus fever, plague, and trichinosis. his example inspire you to support the very essence of the idea incorporated in principle of offering improved services for • TUBERCULOSIS can be cured in any the modern philosophy of rehabilitation the sick and disabled for which he stood, climate. Fundamental in the treatment of and "the restoration of the handicapped to because, as John Galsworthy once said, "a tuberculosis is rest under medical super- the fullest physical, mental, social, voca- niche of usefulness and self-respect exists vision, preferably in a tuberculosis sana- tional, and economic usefulness of which for every man however handicapped; but torium or hospital. they are capable." that niche must be found for him. To carry Montefiore Hospital soon was affiliated the process of restoration to a point short with Columbia University. Dr. Baruch was of this is to leave the cathedral without Our Anniversary Issue appointed professor of hydrotherapy at this spire. To restore him and with him the university and served in this capacity for (Continued from page 4) future of our countries, that is the sacred many years. work." We make no apology for still including In 1920 Simon Baruch, at the age of a philosophy of life that is strongly tinc- eighty, published his last book, An Epi- tured with good old-fashioned religion arid tome of Hydrotherapy. This final work of Insulin the quoting of the Bible. So far no one has a great man, which incorporated his prac- improved on this prescription: "A merry tical experiences of thirty years' activity as A NEW one-a-day insulin combination heart doeth good like a medicine." a successful pioneer in physical medicine that eliminates the many injections re- So there you have the story, a. health and rehabilitation, with particular refer- quired by diabetics has been announced periodical that felt that natural physical ence to hydrotherapy, has been called his by Arthur R. Colwell, M.D., associate pro- measures, rational diet, and mental hygiene "last will and testament." A year later, fessor of medicine at Northwestern Uni- would someday make headlines in medical after an illness of several months, Dr. versity. Tested successfully for 6 years on science. It has. And so with a "merry heart" Baruch died, June 3, 1921. more than 500 cases, the medicine is a LIFE AND HEALTH takes a new lease on life Simon Baruch dedicated his last book to two-to-one preparation of standard insulin with the largest circulation of any ethical his famous son, Bernard M. Baruch, "in and protamine insulin, the latter slowing lay health journal in the world, thanks to appreciation of his filial devotion and un- the absorption of insulin from the in- each of its many friends—readers, contrib- stinting support of the author's life work." jection site. Protamine insulin alone is ade- utors, advertisers, and all—around the Simon Baruch once said that it may come quate for mild diabetics.—General Electric circle of the globe. j. w. MCF., D. A. D. to pass that those "whose kindly and X-ray News. PAGE 20 LIFE AND HEALTH After Fifty—What? sensory disabilities were placed on jobs exercise over infectious diseases. In so (Continued from page 9) that they could do despite certain limita- doing, it has greatly increased the number tions, setting free other people for more of persons in those age groups where de- learning rate regresses very slowly; the arduous tasks in military duty, trades, and generative diseases are likely to occur. learning ability of an octogenarian is about professions. This means that an increasing amount the same as that of a boy of twelve. The If we are to meet the problems of an of attention will have to be given over not rate of decline of learning ability among aging population, these techniques should only to the cause of aging itself but to such people who want to learn is about one be applied on a much wider front. We problems as diseases of the heart and cir- sixth of the rate of ascent. Of course, as must place less stress on chronological age culatory system, degenerative ailments of everybody knows, the memory for recent and more on biological age. Fit men of the skeletal system, cancer, and other dis- events worsens with age, but the judgment forty-five or fifty-five should not be dis- eases associated with old age. and correlative ability, which are products placed by unfit men of forty, simply be- We must increase our knowledge about of time and experience, remain after a man cause they fall within certain age groups. physical and chemical changes which have passes his prime, and may even improve. Careful medical and psychometric tests to do with the aging of tissues; we must Inasmuch as the prolongation of the av- should gauge performance ability and learn more about the effects of diet, exer- erage life span has become a fact, the pro- actual physical age. cise, and nervous and endocrine influences longation of useful life is an urgent neces- Facts collected by the Labor Department on the heart and circulatory system. sity if we are to escape an embarrassing indicate that older people stay on jobs At present we are oriented toward the social dilemma. The problem is individual, longer and that accident frequency is lower idea of a fixed span of life. Scientifically, social, and scientific. than that of young workers. Workers forty there is no reason to accept this idea as Inevitably men grow old, but many can to fifty-five had 30 per cent fewer accidents axiomatic. This has been shown by animal remain active producers even after sixty- than the group twenty to thirty. Offsetting experimentation. By restricting the diet of five. Output may diminish, or a different this, of course, is the sickness rate which rats, it has been shown that the life span kind of work may have to be done by inevitably is higher in the older age groups. can be increased over the average. them, but the usefulness can be there. This brings us again to the problems of If we can conquer the individual, social, During the war emphasis was placed on medical care and research. and medical problems of old age so that the techniques of fitting men to jobs, of Basically, the reason right now for the the declining years can be made worth matching needs with potentialities. In this increased life expectancy is the high degree while, then the prolongation of life will way persons suffering from physical and of control medical science has been able to have been made worthy of achievement. • ' • • IS )101,,anyro- .**

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1110SHIDGIOI1 SO 11 110111 11111111111011 111 HOSPITAI Washaingtnioan 113a2r,kD.C. The World Health Organization (Continued from page 7) of W.H.O. was limited to $5,000,000. Headquarters of W.H.O. were estab- lished at Geneva. The delegation of TEEN MRS the United States had hoped to have the headquarters in a medical center of the ogie, world, but was not in position to request the organization be set up in the United ..111., • • • -•••• • •••••••••••••.... States, because the United Nations as well as several of its specialized agencies are al- ready headquartered in this country. The By DEAN W. B. CLARK only serious contender of the headquarters was Switzerland; therefore, the decision was unanimous. It was agreed that much of the activity of W.H.O. should be carried out through I am eighteen and have been married five months. My husband and I both feel that regional organization, and after a discus- we made a mistake. He is working, but doesn't make much. We can't have the things sion six geographic areas were delineated other couples have. We are talking of quitting and living our independent lives. Don't as follows: the Western Hemisphere; you think that would be best? Europe; the Eastern Mediterranean area, I, too, think you made a mistake, but listen: Two wrongs never yet made one right, including the Arab-speaking countries; and they won't in your case either. You have no time to be lamenting this mistake and Africa, with the exception of the north; seeking some easy way out. Southeastern Asia, including India, Burma, Our pioneering forefathers had privation for a steady diet. Can't you youngsters take Ceylon, French-Indo China; and finally the it for a while? The strength and the stability of this country were built on that sort western Pacific area, including China, of thing. Japan, Korea, Australia, and New Zealand. Granted that you married prematurely, it is still possible for you to build a happy Already a Southeastern Asia region has home if you're willing to put forth the effort and make the necessary sacrifices. You been set up and is functioning. The Pan- promised before God that you would stay by each other. There is happiness for you if American Sanitary Bureau has been con- you keep your pledge, and only heartache and regret if you don't. stituted the regional organization for the Sit down together; take stock of yourselves. Determine that you will make a go of it Western Hemisphere, and the Pan-Arab no matter what it costs. Study your financial problems together, and determine you Sanitary Bureau is in the process of revi- will do your best. Thoughtful attentions paid each other won't cost a dime, but the end sion and will constitute the regional or- result will be love and that can't be bought at any price. ganization for the Eastern Mediterranean In addition to this, give God a chance. If you and your young husband will take a region. The program for Europe will be few minutes each day to get down on your knees together and promise God you'll do administered from Geneva, although a your best and seek His help, you just can't fail. regional organization and a regional com- mittee may be developed for Europe. It is anticipated that several years will elapse / am sixteen years old, and have a brother two years younger than I. My father and before regional organizations will be devel- mother give him most of their attention. They are always looking out for him, but don't oped in the other geographical areas indi- seem to worry about me. I have talked to them about it, and they just say it's nonsense. cated. What can I do to get an even break? How does the World Health Organiza- tion actually work? Its most spectacular In exceedingly rare instances parents show partiality. Perhaps this is one of those activity is demonstrated in fighting an epi- exceptions, but I doubt it. demic. In 1946 Egypt was threatened with When you become the father of two children and reflect back upon your present cholera. In fact, tens of thousands of cases experience, no doubt it will appear in a somewhat different light from what it does and thousands of deaths had occurred be- just now. fore action was taken. Within seventy-two There is always room for an overworked imagination and a feel-sorry-for-myself hours hundreds of thousands of doses of complex. Make sure you are not pampering yourself. Do you think your own attitude cholera vaccine and teams of workers had toward your brother may have anything to do with it? Could it be that father or mother been dispatched from the various parts of may find it necessary to come to his rescue because of your treatment of him? the world to Egypt. It was only a matter There are two things I would like for you to remember. In the first place, be of a few days until the epidemic had been sure you are measuring up to your high privilege of being a big brother. If you are on stopped. Egypt, relatively a small country, the job in a positive way, you may not be aware of some of these slights you think found it difficult to marshal the resources you see. necessary, but an organization with the In the second place, a young man of sixteen years is coming into manhood and prestige of W.H.O. was immediately able should begin to look at things as a man should. He doesn't need all the attention to get material and personnel to cope with a fourteen-year-old boy does. the situation. Stop worrying about your slights; be a dutiful and helpful son, a "sure enough" big Less dramatic is the work in the control 'brother, and a self-respecting young man. I think that will help a great deal. of diseases which do not constitute an epi- demic threat to the world. How, for ex- I am a girl and a senior in high school. For some reason I don't have close friends. ample, does the World Health Organiza- I realize I can't dress like some of the other girls. What can I do to have friends? tion assist governments in the control of malaria? My heart aches for you, for I am sure your problem is very real to you. But you didn't On request from a government where ask for sympathy, and furthermore, it isn't sympathy you need. malaria is a real problem, the World In the first place, I want to remind you that young people your age are often very Health Organization dispatches a team of cruel to each other. They don't mean to be, and in the majority of instances don't realize experts. In this case sanitary engineers, en- it. They are inclined to be self-centered and thoughtless. (Turn to page 25) Your desire for friends is only natural. Be sure, however, (Turn to page 25)

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Gaining Weight speak specifically. It would be wise to place Hodgkin's Disease yourself under the care of an ear specialist, You have answered many questions on if possible, for hearing is a very important Is there any new form of treatment, other than X-ray and nitrogen mustards, reducing body weight, but so far I have sense. used in treating Hodgkin's disease? missed any questions on gaining weight. I Inflammation in the inner ear may cause am very much underweight, am thirty-four dizziness, and the particular line of treat- We do not know of any new treatment years old, five feet four inches tall, and ment to be followed will be determined that offers an assured degree of relief from weigh about 103 pounds. I work every day by the cause and extent of the irritation. Hodgkin's disease. Treatment with X-ray and have a good appetite. Could you give is palliative and the use of nitrogen mus- me a prescription or tonic, or recommend "Liver" Spots tard is still in the experimental stage, as is vitamins to make fat? the use of certain phosphorus preparations. The gaining of weight is an undertaking My mother is eighty years old and in It is a disease of unknown cause, and until that calls for a study of one's general nutri- good health, but the last few years brown something more of its nature is understood, tion. Frequently the metabolic rate is a con- patches about the size of a dime have been it is probable that an effective treatment tributing factor; then again one's digestive appearing on her forehead. We think it is still will be looked for. ability and whether he or she is able to liver trouble, but do not know for sure, digest food in a normal way should be and would like to know how to cure the Stuttering Child trouble. considered. We have a little girl, twenty-eight Vitamin preparations rich in vitamin B The brown spots that you mention are months, who has just started stuttering. Is often are a tonic or stimulant to the diges- commonly seen on hands, face, and legs as there anything we can do to help her tive tract and aid in the digestion of food. one grows older. They are frequently re- overcome this? It really seems to bother The thorough mastication of food is es- ferred to as liver spots, but it is likely they her very much. sential, and digestive aids such as extracts have no connection with the liver but are The problem you are facing with your of the pancreatic gland may be used. merely the result of changing pigment little girl is one that we hope you can solve To gain weight, one must eat more than concentration in the skin. We know of before it becomes a public matter, when it is actually needed to maintain the body in nothing that will change them or prevent may be much harder for her to overcome its normal activity. Frequently the use of their being formed. it than at the present time. a small portion of food halfway between Encourage her to speak easily and the regular meals, such as a sandwich or an Chronic Sinus slowly, and not to worry and fret because enriched drink, will prove an aid during the words do not come. If you can rather the period of gaining weight. Exercise, Please tell me how to treat chronic sinus, rest, a proper attitude of mind, and normal which keeps one of the nostrils plugged overlook the fact that she is delaying her utterance, it may help her. Particularly, do emotional responses are helpful adjuncts. most of the time and causes frequent head- aches. not criticize or suggest scolding her, but rather assure her that she can say the word Dizziness and Loss of Equilibrium Treatment of chronic sinus infection if she will just wait a moment and form calls for many devices and agents. With the the sounds properly with her lips. She is Several weeks ago I was suddenly taken present availability of penicillin there is ill with dizziness and nausea. A week young, and every effort should be made to added to our list a very useful drug that establish confidence in herself that she will later a doctor discovered that the trouble will work wonders for many people. This was in the inner ear, which was swollen, be able to speak, and that she can learn can be sprayed or sniffed into the nose to speak just as well as others. causing loss of balance, due to excessive with good results. Oily sprays, medicated salt, he said. He prescribed a low sodium or plain, often are a help. Sometimes the Eye Difficulties diet, distilled water, and ammonium use of adrenalin sprays, which will shrink chloride tablets with each meal. I am much the membranes of the nose and promote When I look down or read I get a head- better. He says it will probably be eighteen better drainage, is indicated. And in a few ache. My eyes start to hurt and draw from months before I will regain my equilib- instances washing the nasal membranes the top of my head down toward the nose. rium. (I am thirty-eight years old.) Nat- with normal saline fluids has proved help- I feel as if I were burned. I am forty-four urally I am rather depressed about this and ful. years of age, and have had this difficulty wonder how serious this condition is. The placing of hot pack's over the nose for about two years. What would be best to If the low salt diet removes your dizzi- and the face for a period of fifteen to do? ness, we see no harm in following through twenty minutes twice a day gives a great It would seem likely at your age that the program you have started. However, deal of relief by promoting a better circula- changes are taking place in the lens of the we are not convinced that in a person of tion and drainage through the sinuses of eye, and possibly in the contour of the your age the dizziness is due to the use of the head. Sometimes the nose and throat eyeball itself. A careful examination of salt. Without knowing details of your specialist finds it expedient to aspirate or the eyes and the fitting of glasses might health at the time, and other matters such withdraw pusylike material that collects in give you a considerable degree of relief. We as blood pressure, it is not possible to the sinuses. would suggest that you consult an oculist.

PAGE 24 LIFE AND HEALTH For Teen Agers Only secretariat of the Interim Commission. Im- mediately below these were other members (Continued from page 23) of the secretariat and members of the press. HARD OF HEARING You've Waited for This! it isn't popularity you crave. Having good, The floor of the assembly hall was assigned dependable friends and being popular may the delegates from the nations. Galleries in HERE IT IS! be two different things. Good looks, fine the rear and on the sides were reserved for clothes, or the ability to spend money observers. NO RECEIVER freely can always draw a following. Don't Very soon an understanding was devel- envy such. The desire for popularity is not oped between the various delegates, and BUTTON a worthy ambition. there was none of the acrimony between IN THE The matter of chief importance to you nations from Eastern Europe and those EAR! just now is that of developing character, from the West that so often characterizes the kind of character that wins the respect the meetings of the United Nations Gen- • The Phanto- of your associates, your teachers and other eral Assembly and the Security Council. mold combined elders, and your God. If you will do this— W.H.O. is an organization in which the with the Beltone Hearing Aid assures you of unsurpassed hearing quality for notice I said will, not can—you are sure to nations work together in harmony. The executive board held its second ses- both tone and volume. But best of all, have friends, the kind that bring lasting even your friends won't notice that satisfaction. sion in Geneva from October 25 to Novem- you are wearing a hearing aid. You Clothes are important, but the impor- ber 11. Its actions included the recognition owe it to yourself to see this newest tant thing about them is not the quantity of the Pan-American Sanitary Bureau as hearing improvement and convince or the amount paid for them, but rather the regional organization for the Western yourself that now for the first time that they be well chosen and tidy. Sloven- Hemisphere; approval of the establishment you really can conceal your deafness,) liness and uncleanliness is inexcusable and of the Southeast Asia regional office, and always repels. the establishment of expert committees to Guaranteed by Good Housekeeping A cheerful disposition and an unselfish guide activities for all important health 1011.150 14.* and helpful attitude will win friends in programs. spite of other handicaps. Probably the most important action Next year you will be going to college. taken by the executive board was to adopt MONO-PAC Because of your financial problems you guiding principles to be followed in the ONE-UNIT HEARING AID consideration of granting requests for as- Beltone Hearing Aid Company, Dept. LH-6 must select a college with moderate fees. 1450 West 19th St., Chicago 8, III. By all means live in a college dormitory if sistance and at the same time authorizing possible. Dormitory life pretty well offers the director general to make the allocations Beltone Hearing Aid Co., Dept. LH-6 equal opportunities for all. Roommates fre- to the various nations. 1450 West 19th St., Chicago 8, quently develop into lifelong friends, and The first World Health Assembly chose Please tell me more about the new ample opportunity is afforded for culti- Dr. Brock Chisholm, of Canada, as the invisible PHANTOMOLD. vating the friendship of a large circle of director general of W.H.O. and contracted Name acquaintances. his services for a period of five years. Dr. Address Chisholm is now in process of selecting Town State the members of his staff. In doing so, he must not only give consideration to their The World Health Organization ability but, according to the constitution, tive can immunize the blood of the nega- (Continued from page 23) all things being equal, must consider a tive. This is a simple statement of a reasonable geographic distribution. This is complicated situation, because there is not tomologists, physicians, and nurses were necessary to prevent large numbers of only one Rh factor but several. Fortunately, sent, together with such supplies and technical staff being recruited from any all but one are relatively unimportant clini- equipment necessary to carry on the pro- one country. cally, and so we shall let them plague the gram. The World Health Organization is off scientist while we look and see what the W.H.O. does not go into a country and to a good start. Its budget of $5,000,000 Rh factor does to babies and their'mothers, develop a program of its own. It works as is quite small, it is true, considering and how, and why. an agent of the government in the country the great responsibility it has to carry; To begin with, if both father and concerned, and fully integrates its activities however, it has already accomplished mother have blood of like Rh character, with that of the health department in the much. These augur for the future success there is no trouble. With 85 per cent of all nation and in the locality. Only in this of the organization. people Rh positive, there is a much greater way can the health workers become truly The association of health leaders from chance of two positives marrying each familiar with the methods used by the the various countries of the world, which other than of one negative marrying a demonstration team. The demonstration takes place at the time of each annual positive. There is also the likelihood of team tries to develop ways of doing the World Health Assembly, is a positive factor two negatives marrying, in which case job as simply and as economically as pos- in the promotio'n of international good again there will be no trouble. When the sible. This is necessary because countries will. The World Health Organization will mother is positive and the father negative, with malaria have little money. not only assist nations in solving their babies seldom show signs of abnormality. The assembly hall of the Palais was a health problems but help to promote good Only when the father is positive and the spectacular setting for the meeting of the will. unborn baby follows his blood type though first. World. Health Assembly. The presi- NUM—Since the organization was the mother is negative do we' find the Rh dent sat at his podium in the front of the formed, the Soviet, the Ukraine, and factor working to the disadvantage of the assembly hall, well above the level of the Byelorussia have withdrawn from W.H.O. baby. floor of the auditorium, flanked on one The number of Rh-factor babies should, side by the secretary of the Interim Com- (Turn to page 27) mission and on the other by a representa- Expectin' at Your House? tive of the United Nations. Immediately (Continued from page 11) below him was a rostrum from which the ARE YOU MOVING? translations were made. The working lan- blood characteristics are inherited, the You should notify us in advance of any change of address, as the post office will not forward your papers guages were French and English. On either positive being dominant and the negative to you even though you leave a forwarding address. side of the translators were members of the recessive. Moreover, the blood of the posi- Your compliance in this matter will save delay and expense. JUNE, 1949 In replying to advertisements, please mention LIFE AND HEALTH PAGE 25 Conducted by BELLE WOOD COMSTOCK, M.D.

Questions for this department should be addressed to the Mother's Counselor, LIFE AND HEALTH, Takoma Park, Washington 12, D.C. Always enclose stamped, addressed reply envelope.

Boy's Hands and Feet Go to Sleep so that he gets fewer calories without les- Crisis With a Six-year-old sening his protein value, it would be a defi- Please advise me as to what to do for 1 am sick at heart and wonder whether my little five-year-old boy. He cries often nite advantage. I would suggest that you remove some of the cream from his milk. you can advise me about what 1 should do. because of his hands and feet. They go to I just discovered quite by accident that my This will leave him the protein and calories sleep. He has always seemed to be a nor- six-year-old daughter has been abusing that are important. This diet list we often mal boy. herself for almost a year. 1 had no idea of use for children who need to lose weight. I would need to know more about your this until recently. What can 1 tell my little If more than this amount of food seems girl, and how can 1 help her? I am expect- little boy in order to be able to advise you. necessary, it should be in the way of vege- It may be entirely a nervous condition; it ing another baby soon. table, fresh fruit, skim milk, or cottage may have something to do with his meta- cheese. Your problem is indeed a serious one, bolic condition; or it may be that his nutri- and I am deeply sympathetic with you in tional program is not just right. Be sure BREAKFAST your anxiety. I am sure you have prayed the home atmosphere is cheerful and 1. Raw fruit or fruit juice or tomatoes. earnestly about this matter, and if so, you happy. There are many things to be con- 2. Eight to ten ounces of hot or cold skim milk, may be assured of the Lord's blessing and sidered. The best thing for you to do is to buttermilk, cottage cheese, or an egg. guidance in connection with it. First, I see a doctor and have your little boy 3. If any addition to above, let it be a slice of think you should have an earnest talk with examined by him, and get advice from one toast, wheat germ, or equivalent cereal, such your little girl. Do this without too much who can study his case from close at hand. as try cereal, or Wheaties, all to be eaten without sugar. If fruit is very acid, for instance, perturbation or horror. But present the strawberries, you may add 3 teaspoon of honey. matter very seriously to her. Read to her Nursing Problems Group three may well be omitted. from the Bible the scripture: "Know ye not that your body is the temple of the LUNCH 1 am an expectant mother. 1 have always Holy Ghost?" Tell her that her body is had trouble nursing my baby. The breasts 1. Raw fruit or raw vegetables. holy, sacred, and to be guarded carefully seem to become inflamed and crack. Will 2. Skim milk, buttermilk, cottage cheese, an egg, against improper use or defilement of any you please tell me how to prevent this? or any two of these. kind. Tell her that if she wants to grow Make a solution of boric acid, about 3. In addition to above there may be allowed: up a beautiful young woman, she must a. Scant one teaspoon butter, mayonnaise, two two teaspoonfuls to a cup of water. Then or three dates, walnuts, or three or four carefully guard herself from anything of a add a cup of rubbing alcohol and shake olives. similar experience that she has had the well. This will give you a pint of the com- b. If not reducing sufficiently, it is best to omit past few months. bination. Every night before retiring touch a portion of group a. Vegetable soup may be substituted for raw vegetables in group one. Explain to her that the most wonderful your nipples thoroughly with a bit of cot- gift of God is woman's privilege of mother- ton dipped in this solution. Let it dry five 3 OR 4 P.M. hood, and that her future happiness as a to ten minutes. Then rub your nipples and homekeeper and mother depends upon Fruit, fruit juice, or skim milk. If not reducing breasts well with warm sweet oil of any fast enough, choose tomato juice instead of herself, by keeping herself and her body kind. This treatment will both soften and orange juice. from common, cheap, unholy experiences. toughen the nipples so that they will be Undoubtedly you say her prayers with her less likely to give you trouble. When the DINNER at bedtime, and it would be well to take a baby begins to nurse, an application of 1. Raw vegetable freely or vegetable soup. few moments to ask God's protection dur- compound tincture of benzoin after each 2. Skim milk or buttermilk. ing the day just before school. Strive ear- nursing will help. This should be washed 3. One slice bread or equivalent, for example, nestly to be her confidante. Don't act in off, of course, before the baby nurses. small serving macaroni, potato, green corn, such a way that she is afraid to be honest dessert, or dried beans. with you. Plan happy occasions to which 4. No additions to this meal, except perhaps pat Overweight in a Child of Eleven of butter or scant teaspoon of honey. she can look forward with pleasure. Get If very hungry between meals, he may have toma- her to talk about the baby that is coming. Our youngest son is eleven years old, is toes or tomato juice or raw carrot or skim milk. Explain the opportunity everyone has to five feet tall, and weighs 130 pounds. He have health and guidance from above. carries a lot of his weight through his Then watch with eagle eye her activities. waistline. He weighed eight pounds at I believe now that you know what has birth, and was never overweight until he happened, and what the possibility might had his tonsils removed when he was six be, that you can prevent a repetition. And years old. Since then he has gained steadily. out of this you may be able to turn the His appetite is good but not extreme. We experience into a lesson of the sacredness have two other sons who are older, so we of holy things and the importance of doing know how they ate at his age. He is get- right because the heavenly Father's eye is ting to be sensitive about his size. What continually on her. My prayer is that in do you suggest I do for him? some way you may turn this situation into I think that if you would adjust his diet a blessing rather than a disaster.

PAGE 26 LIFE AND HEALTH Expectin. of Your House? deny to women the right to have their death. This has been one of the hitherto babies painlessly. The truth is, of course, unpredictable complications of pregnancy. (Continued from page 25) that any doctor would be silly to deny The general trend of modern obstetrics then, be small. It is estimated that such relief from pain, because he could build is to recognize childbirth as a normal func- babies might theoretically be expected to his practice and his reputation no more tion, and to let it be normal when it is. be born in only one instance out of from effectively than by giving patients what Complications are recognized promptly, two hundred to three hundred and fifty they want. The simple truth is that every and attended to without delay. Anesthesia pregnancies. The actual experience is even anesthetic method has its dangers, either is used to the greatest extent possible with smaller—only about one case in from one to the mother or to the baby. There is due consideration for safety of mother and thousand to two thousand pregnancies. small point in relieving pain at the expense child. Infection is conquered by modern Here is how the Rh factor works. Given of one or both of the objectives of mother- drugs; hemorrhage, by transfusion and an Rh-positive father and unborn baby, hood—a living, healthy baby and a living, plasma. The Rh problem is on its way to and an Rh-negative mother, substances healthy mother. solution. Psychological thinking is being from the blood of the baby enter the body The newest development in anesthesia applied to the pain problem in childbirth of the mother and immunize her negative during childbirth is, almost half a decade with some indications of success. Best of blood against the positive Rh factor. The old now. It is continuous caudal analgesia, all, the mother of today has more reason substances formed in the mother's blood which was hailed with sensational pictures than ever before to look forward to having then pass again through the placenta and of mother-to-be eating a meal and taking a a healthy baby and to being healthy herself react against the red blood cells of the nap, all during the process of giving birth. to enjoy and care for her baby. baby, causing anemia in mild cases, jaun- There is certainly much to be said for this dice in moderate ones, and severe red-cell procedure, but many women have such destruction known as erythroblastosis in bony structure of the spine that for them serious cases. it is impossible, and they must rely on the Must Rh-negative women married to older methods. These include sedative Rh-positive men resign themselves to hav- drugs injected into the veins, gas-oxygen ing but one baby because the first baby inhalation, ethylene or ether inhalation, alone escapes the effects which its gestation and sedative drugs injected under the skin. woolliso has caused? Not necessarily. In some in- By combinations of these methods most Toxolem, the all-vegetable laxative, helps restore normal elimination! In- stances, by waiting a number of years be- women can have their babies with very stead of harsh laxatives, use this gen- tween pregnancies, the inimical blood fac- little pain. tle- but positive-moving BULK for

••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••...... Dr. Grandy Dick Read, of London, is constipation! SAMPLE FREE, or mail currently attracting much attention with $1.00 for 30-day can on money-back Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling guarantee. New Health Products Co., through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts his theory that childbirth was not meant to 14 Main St., East Aurora, N.Y. a channel into which all other thoughts be painful, and need not be. He considers are drained.—Arthur Somers Roche. that three factors enter into the pain of •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••.....e...g...... childbirth—pain itself, tension, and fear. tors may die out, but this is not always Take pain away, as the modern obstetrician A:V*0NA* true. Even so, consider the chances—one in does, and fear and tension remain, accord- one thousand to two thousand pregnancies. ing to Dr. Read. But remove tension, and Numerous other factors in marriage offer pain and fear disappear. He has tried it, greater hazards than taking a chance on a and it works, though not in all cases. possible Rh incompatibility. American physicians are respectful of Dr. Besides, the Rh baby can now be treated, Read's theory and practice, for he is obvi- usually with success. Several measures are ously no charlatan, but they are skeptical used. The baby's blood count is watched as to its general applicability. Certainly no daily so that treatment may be instituted one could disagree with Dr. Read's conten- promptly. Transfusion is the first treat- tion that the horror tales about childbirth, ment, using blood from an 0-type donor, peddled too often by childless spinsters, who is also Rh negative. If such a donor do the young pregnant woman no good, is not available, the mother's blood is given and tend to increase her apprehension and after the cells have received a special wash- fear, and hence her tension, at the approach ing. The baby is not nursed by its mother, of labor. Only benefit could be derived because the antibodies have been found in from a happy expectancy of woman's breast milk. Plasma and glucose may also crowning function. Dr. Read, despite his be given into the veins. The baby is kept faith in his method, does not advocate ST1M•U•LAX in an oxygen tent. doing away with anesthesia where needed; To anticipate the possibility of Rh anti- he merely believes that the need for it can JUNIOR bodies, and to be prepared, certain pro- be reduced. Now you'll find massage more valuable than ever because it is more easily and more effectively cedures are now recommended. Blood tests The modern obstetrician believes that applied with an OSTER STIM-U-LAX Junior. Amazingly different! The rotating-patting move- are advised for every woman who has had babies need not be spaced at least two years ments delivered by an OSTER are controllable a previous pregnancy; and if she is nega- apart for their own welfare and that of by the pressure of your hand—mildly soothing or deeply penetrating. Only an OSTER can pro- tive, the blood of her husband should be the mother.- A young and healthy woman duce this result ... only an OSTER has Suspended Motor Action. That's why an OSTER is the world's investigated in case it might be positive. is not harmed by frequent pregnancies. finest massage instrument. Pain in connection with childbirth has Moreover, there is a return toward the been a subject of conflict in every genera- primitive in the trend now growing more Get the facts... write for FREE Massage Manual. tion since Sir James Young Simpson and more universal—to start women exer- battled the clerics over the curse upon cising in bed soon after birth, in order to John Oster Mfg. Co., Dept. 146 Eve and won his case because Queen Vic- get them up out of bed more quickly and Racine, Wisconsin toria made anesthesia fashionable in child- active in their regular occupations. This Please send free Massage Manual birth by taking it herself. In this country helps to strengthen muscles and improve Name influential lay journalists, motivated more the figure, and cuts down the danger of Address by emotion than •by information, have blood clots turning loose in blood vessels City State made it appear that doctors stubbornly and producing severe complications or L N-33 j JUNE, 1949 In replying to advertisements, please mention LIFE AND HEALTH PAGE 27 VEDA SUE MARSH, R.N. LIFE and HEALTH LEAGUE • Be a HABITEER, CONQUEROR, and LEAGUER A DR. JAYS

4. To be taken at 6:30 A.M. Apply 4 18. Take p.c. (after meals). (Tiny vigorously. (Toothbrush and tooth paste, bird books all in color.) washcloth and tiny bar of soap.) 1; 19. To be taken at bedtime, not later 1 5. To be taken before breakfast. than 8 P.M. One only each bedtime. (Bed- HE Little Jays were happily at work (Some bite-size Ralston.) time storybook.) Twrapping interesting-looking packages. 4 6. To be taken immediately after "It is time for us to go to the hospital," "We must not get these mixed up and breakfast. (An arrowroot cooky.) said Mother. "Are your prescriptions forget what is in each one," said John. "I'm 1-i 7. To be taken at 9 A.M. following ready?" going to write the names on small pieces bath. Apply gently. (Talcum powder.) "Just about," said Joan. "It is such fun of paper to put under the packages as we 4 8. Take at 10 A.M. if feeling very to fix up interesting things for our friends. wrap them; then we shall be sure to get good. (Bar of soap and paring knife with Why couldn't we fix up a big surprise the right numbers on each package." instructions to carve a chow soap dog.) box to send to our Pen Pal friends? It List in hand, they were all ready to 1; 9. Take at 11 A.M. (Book to read, would be such fun to send one to Singa- number them. A Happy Healthy Day.) pore." "I think it would be nice to let him open 1; 10. To be taken a.c. (before meals). "We will think about it," said Mother. one this afternoon, and perhaps one at (These were vegetable dolls: one with "The problem would be to send something bedtime; then we could have the others ar- string bean arms and spinach skirt and that could go duty-free. Are my doctors ranged like a doctor's prescriptions to be blouse; and the other with onion head, ready to call on their patient at the hos- taken at the times specified tomorrow." potato body, and carrot arms and legs. pital?" A little friend of the twins, Chuck Wil- Sally Spinach and Charley Carrot.) "All ready," answered the Dr. Jays. liams, had had a severe injury to a bone 4 11. To be taken p.c. (after meals). in his right leg. He was in the hospital, (This was a snow man made of marsh- and the twins were fixing up some pack- mallows. His features were made of choco- ages to take to him. Let us listen in while late put on with a toothpick. His eyes were Junior Life & Health League they arrange them. tiny raisins, and his hands were tiny gum- Rules 4. 1. Open as soon as we are gone. drops.) 1. I take two baths each week. 2. I brush my teeth twice daily. "What shall we have him open first?" 1 12. To be taken at 1 P.M. (This is 3. I drink milk every day. (Preferably 1 qt. daily.) ' 4. I wash my hands before eating. "Something that will make him curious for naptime. A wise old owl who will 5. 1 eat daily: vegetables, fruits (fresh, canned, or about tomorrow's prescriptions." watch you while you take your nap.) dried), whole-wheat or enriched bread. 6. 1 play or work out of doors six days a week when "How would it be to fix a Doctor's 4' 13. To be taken at 2 P.M. (A color weather permits. Order Sheet, so he will know a little about book and crayons.) 7. 1 sleep 8 to 10 hours every night. 8. I try to be courteous and cheerful at all times, and the plan?" "I think Chuck will enjoy this color do one good deed for someone each day. This is the way it looked. book. I'd like to color those pictures my- Progressive Class Requirements self," said John as he tried to make the HABITUE: Observe the rules for two wccks, and continue "Doctor's Order Sheet color book fit into the prescription box. to keep them. CONQUEROR: Be a Habiteer for six months, and continue "Patient: Mr. Chuck Williams. "This is a funny prescription box," said to observe the rules. LEAGUER: Be a Conqueror for six months, and continue to; Date: June 2, 1949. Joan. "Most prescription boxes are small, observe the rules. Enlist one new member in the "1. Patient must be kept cheerful at all times. but this is such a large cardboard box." League. Send in one new subscription to LIFE AND "2. Give 3 2 and 19 at bedtime-not later HEALTH. "We are modern doctors," said John. The Habiteer, the Conqueror, and the Leaguer receive than 8 P.M. membership cards, and in addition the Leaguer receives "3. 1 4 apply vigorously. "We do things differently." a button. "4. 3 2, 6, and 17 if temperature normal. 1 14. To be taken slowly at 3 P.M. Pledge "5. 3 8, 13, and 15 only when feeling good. (A cblorful storybook.) I have read the rules of the Junior Life and Health "6. All prescriptions to be O.K.'d by the nurse. League, and have been observing them for (two weeks 1 15. To be taken at 4 P.M. (This was ), (six months ), (one year I shall con. "[Signed] DR. GET-WELL-QUICK." tinue to observe them, and will read the Boys and Girls' a pyrography, or burning, set, with needle page each month. Please enroll me as a (Habiteer _ ), The twins giggled as they folded the and wooden plaques with designs to burn (Conqueror ____), (Leaguer of the Junior Life and Health League. order sheet and put it in place number one into the wood and also paints to paint them.) Name in the prescription box. Address I 16. To be taken at 5 P.M. (Some I 2. To be taken at bedtime-not later Age Grade than 8 P.M. (This was two pink jelly beans more interesting books and a large pencil for sleep.) and pad of paper.) Directions Copy the above pledge in your own handwriting, sign 1 3. To be taken on waking in the 1; 17. If your nurse feels you are able, your name (very plainly), and give your age, and grade you may take this trip to the zoo. (A box if in school. Then write your address and the name of morning. (A Bible and Morning Watch your father or mother. Mail this to Aunt Sue, LIFE AND Calendar.) of animal crackers.) HEALTH, Takoma Park, Washington 12, D.C.

PAGE 28 LIFE AND HEALTH MADGE HAINES MORRILL, M.A.

UP IN THE AIR WITH AUNT MADGE

DEAR CLUB MEMBERS, fast speed. Quickly we felt an unusual Have you ever wondered how it would smoothness; and looking through the win- feel to ride in one of the large passenger dow at the ground below, we knew we planes? And have you wondered what it were off the ground. We were in the air! would be like to make a landing through We saw the big wheels under the wings fog so dense that the pilot could not see being drawn up into the plane. the ground below? The houses below us seemed to grow A few days ago I took a trip in a United smaller. The city streets grew narrower. Owens Valley and Mono Lake. We felt Air Lines fifty-passenger plane (a DC-6), In a few seconds we were above the like birds high in the sky as we looked and as I was enjoying the thrilling ride in city and past it; the farmland was be- down on the beautiful scene below. For a the clouds I thought of you boys and girls, low us, like a large patchwork quilt with time we circled over the lake and the and wished that you could be there with varied colors of squares. In a few min- craters of that section; then our pilot turned me to enjoy the things I saw. utes we were past the broad valley, and the ship back toward the mountains, and Some of us schoolteachers who live near going over the range lands of the foothills. we headed for San Francisco. First we Merced, California, had made arrange- On ahead we could see the snowcapped passed over high mountains, then lower ments with the United Air Lines to charter peaks of the High Sierras, and almost be- mountains. Soon we were over low foot- a plane for a day so that we could ride over fore we could realize it we were right there hills, and then the broad, flat San Joaquin Yosemite Valley and be able to see the above those beautiful mountains. Valley was below us. The sun was shining mountains from the air. The large airship bright and clear. could not land at the regular city airport, But as we neared the coastal range that and it was necessary "to borrow" the Army we must cross before reaching the city, we airport at Castle Airfield. "Our" big four- PEN PAL CLUB saw a bank of clouds and fog. Soon we motor ship came down from the sky as Donna Grace Reidy Ho Eng Choon were in the fog, and there was no sight easily and gracefully as a large bird fly- 1114 Eighty-second Municipal Stores of land. Only white fog outside the win- Street Brick Kilu Road dow. It was announced that in twenty ing to the ground. We watched the plane North Bergen, Genang, Federation as it taxied in from the long runway. We New' Jersey of Malaya minutes we would be in San Francisco. Yet all we could see was the cold, white could see the pilot and the copilot in the Mavis Vassel control room over the nose of the airplane, 7a Oxford Street fog. and we admired their ability to handle the Kingston P.O. We checked our watches. At just the plane. How smoothly it had landed, taxied Jamaica, B.W.I. right time we could feel the plane losing to the place where we were waiting, and altitude. We were coming down! down! then turned around as easily as a boy on down! But where were we? Over the roller skates. ocean? Over mountains? We had no way The all-aboard signal was given, and we Our pilot guided the plane over Yosem- of knowing. walked up the gangplank and into the ite Valley and circled twice so we could It was time to fasten our safety belts (as cabin with its comfortable coach chairs. get a better view of Glacier Point, Half we do before landing). The stewardess Presently we heard the motors begin to Dome, El Capitan, and the other world- began to bring the ladies' coats to them. hum, and we felt the throbbing all through famous rocks and mountain formations. Then, all at once, right below us we saw the ship. Through the window we could "If the weather is clear enough," an- the long runways of the San Francisco see the ground moving, and we knew the nounced the guide in the plane, "the cap- airport. Our plane came down exactly on plane was going down the runway. It tain will take us up over the highest peaks time, and on exactly the right strip of run- seemed to go for miles still on the runway; of the range and over into the valley on way. then we could feel the brakes applied as the other side." Later we talked to the captain and the the ship came to a stop. We felt the vibrat- Our plane headed up into the white engineer of the plane. We were proud of ing of the motors and the roar of the en- clouds that appeared to be sitting on top of those men who were able to bring our gines as the pilot tested out the plane before the peaks. At times we could not see the plane over mountains, through clouds, and the take-off. Louder and louder the motors land below us. We knew that the highest then land it safely in blinding fog. sounded, and stronger and stronger the mountain was Mount Whitney, and its Ever since the trip that day I have vibrations grew. Our pilot must be sure elevation is more than fourteen thousand thought about all the pilots who guide that the motors were in perfect condition feet. We wondered whether our plane was ships through the air. When I hear the before leaving the ground, for we were to traveling higher than that. Then the stew- sound of a motor in the sky I think of the fly over dangerous mountains, the High ardess came and told us that we were men who know how "to drive" airplanes. Sierras, and the pilot would not risk start- flying at an altitude of seventeen thousand Our country is proud of them. They must ing off with even one of the four motors feet. We knew that was three thousand feet be men who have full control of their not in perfect condition. above Mount Whitney. minds. They must be men whose minds We felt the brakes released. The plane Suddenly we came out of the clouds, and are not clouded, whose minds are not out began to move down the runway at a very there, thousands of feet below us, was (Turn to page 30) JUNE, 1949 PAGE 29 Many Doctors 2014, EFFECTIVE Prescribe Fomen- Reeee‘ tations for the WITH MOIST HEAT THERMOPHORE following Conditions:

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A Forward Look at Public Health Many health departments today are pro- Up in the Air With Aunt Madge viding diagnostic services for physicians (Continued from page 19) in their local communities. New commu- (Continued from page 29) medical scientists. More young men and nity hospitals are being constructed. These, of control by the infhience of alcoholic women are being trained for research. too, will provide good workshops where drinks. More money is available to pay for re- physicians may use the modern methods It is the rule of the air line companies search. It may take years to get the answer of diagnosis and treatment. More health who hire these pilots that the men must to one particular question, but we can all departments and hospitals can give these not drink before going on trips. Men who be sure that eventually scientists will find services if the people in the communities have been drinking would not be able to the answers. decide that they want to have better health. guide a ship safely. Their eyes could not In the meantime we must use more ef- judge distances. Their muscles would not fectively, for the benefit of all the people, -Good health is like water—we take act quickly. They would not know how the knowledge we now have. Parents and it for granted until it's gone." to read the instruments of the plane. Their children must cooperate with their physi- brains would be muddled, and they would cians and their health agencies so that each be likely to wreck the planes and kill the The fight against diseases known to be passengers. preventable must be continued until they I am glad, club members, that you are Acidophilus Therapy are finally conquered. Other infections keeping the creed of the club. And I am IT cannot be too strongly emphasized must be brought under control. The attack especially glad that you have signed the that acidophilus treatment, to be effective, against chronic and mental diseases must pledge that states: must involve the administration of massive be strengthened and spread to all parts of "I hereby solemnly pledge: Never to use, buy, doses of L. acidophilus culture. Further- the country. At the same time all of us sell, or give tobacco in any form; never to use, more, favorable results may be expected must begin to think of health as something buy, sell, or give beer, liquor, or other alcoholic only when the large doses are accompanied more than freedom from disease. drinks of any kind." by relatively large amounts of lactose, . . . The constitution of the World Health Many of you have written to me telling dextrin or dextrin-yielding foods, like Organization gives all people everywhere a how you are keeping this pledge. One girl grains, potato and bread, which are rich new ideal of health. "Health," says the wrote that her classmates in high school in starch. Unfortunately, these long-estab- World Health Organization, "is a state of were trying to get her to smoke, but be- lished points have been too generally over- complete physical, mental, and social well- cause of our club she was not going to looked or ignored.—Lactobacillus Aci- being, and not merely the absence of dis- smoke and ruin her body. A boy from dophilus and Its Therapeutic Application. ease or infirmity." Hawaii wrote that he had given up smok- member of the family receives the benefits LIFE AND HEALTH and its readers can ing and that he would not touch strong of preventive medicine. Family health is look forward to the time when this ideal drinks. He wanted to keep his body in the unit on which we must concentrate, if of health will be a reality for millions of good condition. we are to have better community health persons who have never yet experienced We are proud of you, boys and girls, as and better national health. health and for millions yet unborn. you keep this pledge. We are proud to PAGE 30 In replying to advertisements, please mention LIFE AND HEALTH LIFE AND HEALTH have boys and girls in our country who metabolism of plants and their vitamin will not use harmful drugs and poisons. content. Although it is true that the vari- These are the boys and girls who will grow ations in the vitamin content of plants are to be strong, useful citizens. They will not related to many factors such as varietal need to be sent to insane asylums or to differences; climateric and seasonal differ- prisons because they have lost control of ences; 'and, to a much less extent, differ- their minds and bodies. Boys and girls who ences in the degree of fertilization, it can- take good care of their bodies are the not be emphasized too strongly from the young men and women of tomorrow who practical side that those soil treatments will help our nation to be a better nation that give the highest crop yield are also the of tomorrow. ones that produce the highest vitamin We are counting on you, club members! yields. It must be realized also that we are We are proud of you! May God help you not seeking unusually high vitamin figures, always to keep the creed of our club. just those that are optimal for the plant— Yours for health, best for its health. The natural balance AUNT MADGE. must be kept, for we are seeking for our tables the healthiest of plants, not neces- sarily plants unusually rich in any one Your ElecCith CC,MCS From the Soil particular. (Continued from page 12) Carbon is obtained from the air in the form of carbon dioxide. The hydrogen and and built up by the plant into complex, a good deal of the oxygen are obtained organic compounds which then may be from the water that the plant absorbs. The WHO NEEDS further elaborated with selection and elimi- bulk of the oxygen, of course, comes from nation of elementary components by the the air. The abundance of these elements YOGURT? animal into blood, bone, and flesh. for plant nutrition is, therefore, only lim- Plants have the ability of taking out of ited by the water supply. This fact makes Everyone can eat Yogurt every day to the soil certain elements in proportionately our diminishing water supply the most real health advantage. Its beneficial re- larger amounts than exist in the soil itself. critical of all our conservation problems. sults will be especially noticeable by those who suffer from malfunctioning Animals have a similar, but less pro- of the Nitrogen is brought down from the sky digestive system and who are in 'need of nounced, faculty for screening out certain by the rains, added to by the nonsymbiotic a nutritious yet bland diet food. elements from the plants. For instance, soil organisms, and largely supplied by the More and more Americans are getting the ratio of calcium in the composition symbiotic legume bacteria. Nitrogen tends the daily Yogurt health habit. They find of soils, plants, and animals is about to accumulate so that, when it is not re- a large serving each day helps them keep 1:8:40; of phosphorus, 1:140:200; and of moved by cropping, and when there is or- fit and "regular"; helps to keep the digest. sulfur, 1:30:130 respectively. As Browne ganic matter enough to prevent leaching, ive tract clean and the body young. Re- has pointed out, it is also significant that the supply of nitrogen as plant food gets member, too, Yogurt is a delicious cul- the two most abundant mineral elements tured milk food—not a medicine. Yogurt richer and richer. As the result of the is delicious, custardlike milk food. It can of the earth's crust—silicon and aluminum photosynthetic processes in the leaves of be eaten straight or sweetened with honey, —are found only in the merest traces in the the plants, sunlight produces simple or- sugar, or preserves. Yogurt is also a great bodies of animals. At the same time it has ganic compounds by the combination of ally in putting new taste, new zest, new been shown that animals require compara- water and carbon. These, together with adventure into everyday cooking. Most tively large amounts of sodium and chlo- nitrogen and the mineral elements, are people use cow's milk or goat's milk to rine and traces of iodine and cobalt; it has later elaborated into more complex or- make their Yogurt at home. never been proved that any of these ele- ganic compounds. In this way nitrogen ments are essential to the life of plants. By enters into the structure of the amino Good News! the same token animals differ in their need acids, amides, alkaloids, hormones, en- for these elements. Sheep are more sensitive zymes, proteins, and cell structure in both Those who have developed a to a lack of cobalt than cattle, and horses plants and animals. It produces a lush preference for soy milk will be can live where sheep and cows are dying growth, even to the point where it inter- glad to know that canned soy from a lack of this element. Plants, on the feres with reproduction. Any deficiency of milk makes an excellent other hand, demand a trace of boron and this element in the soil is quickly apparent molybdenum, whereas animals may not. in the growth and color of the plants Individual plants have been shown to growing thereon, so its lack is never hidden be capable of taking up, whether they need for long. them or not, sixty different chemical ele- In considering the growth of plants, we To make Yogurt at home, simply take ments. Of these, more than one third are may think of this growth first as a photo- milk (cow's, goat's, or soy milk) , add now known to be essential to the life of synthetic performance. This action builds our genuine Culture, and follow the plants or animals. Others may still be the woody framework of the plant, using simple ABC directions. Ask for the genuine Rosell- nternational Yogurt added to the essential list later. The energy- only a limited amount of the soil's fertility Culture at your health-food dealer. If producing elements of carbon, oxygen, hy- mainly as a catalytic agent to set up the he is not supplied, send us $1.80 (plus drogen, and nitrogen make up 95 per cent factory and supply the fuel. In the second 20c for air mail), and we will send post- of the dried weight of plants and animals. paid enough Yogurt Culture to make place, as Albrecht, of the University of your own Bulgarian Yogurt or Soy Milk The major ash elements left when the Missouri, has pointed out so many times, Yogurt for a month. Do it today! Eat plant or animal is cremated are phospho- plant growth is a biosynthetic performance Yogurt for one month and feel the rus, potassium, calcium, magnesium, sili- into which the soil's fertility enters directly, difference it makes—not only in better con, aluminum, sodium, sulfur, and to have its phosphorus, sulfur, nitrogen, health but in better meals. chlorine. These make 4 per cent of the and other elements made up into protein, ORDER FROM OR WRITE FOR dried weight. The remaining 1 per cent vitamins, hormones, and other compounds ADDITIONAL INFORMATION is composed of the various so-called trace valuable for body function rather than for INTERNATIONAL YOGURT CO. elements. fuel. It is soil, then, rather than the sun- 377 Melrose Avenue, Department H-3, There has been relatively little work shine and fresh air, that determines how Los Angeles, California done on the relationship between mineral well the plant really gives us nourishment. JUNE, 1949 In replying to advertisements, please mention LIFE AND HEALTH PAGE 31

For us the highly proteinaceous plant is sickness tax, erroneously called "health in- the plant of choice; but for the insect pests surance," will never contribute a thing to VIVI-TA HEALTHFUL FOODS it is the more woody, less proteinaceous the health of anyone. The health centers Alfalfa Tablets, rich in alkalizing minerals .75 Alfalfa Tea, good source of Minerals, Chloro- plant that meets the need of their nutri- of the future must not be granite and phyll, Vit. A, K .39 tion. Insect pests, therefore, prefer to eat marble buildings at the county seats, but Special Blend Tea, alkalizing, very pleasant .45 Bevasoy, coffee sub., roasted soybeans, fruit .30 the - plants growing on the poorer, more rather farms where soils are being con- Peppermint Tea .75 depleted soils. They tend to leave the served and their fertility restored. Sassafras Tea, try this with cream after meals! .15 Soy Milk Powder (use liquefier for milk shakes) fields of the good farmer alone if there are lb." .35 fields with poor soil to ravage. Soy Malted Milk Powder Soyalac lb. .84 •Unconsciously, as the fertility of our soil Brewers' Yeast Powder, high potency, lb 1.25 Emotions and High Blood Pressure Brewers' Yeast Tablets, good source of Vitamin has been steadily depleted, we have gone B 1.25 Meataste, brewers' yeast for broth and gravy .75 from a proteinaceousness and high mineral (Continued from page 13) Kelp Tablets, mineral- and iodine-rich seaweed .65 content in our plants, which were growing Chlorophyll tablets, rich in minerals, 100's 1.00 blood vessels of his body until he becomes Rice Polishings Tablets, rich in calcium, etc. . .50 in a soil under construction, to a carbo- Okra Tablets, soothing vegetable mucin, 100's 1.00 naceousness and a mineral deficiency in not only a candidate for but a victim of Black-Strap Molasses Powder, rich in iron, 8 oz. .35 plants growing in soils under destruction. high blood pressure. Lecithin Paste, good source of phosphorus, 6 oz. .75 Lecithin Capsules, 50 for $1.00, 100 for 1.90 The nutrition of our people and our ani- The personalities most prone to the de- Soy oil, light or dark, rich in lecithin, pt. .75 Vegetable Salt in shaker (8 oz. refill 35c) 7 oz. .40 mals at the same time tend to go from a velopment of this ailment are those who Nut Embryos, rich in protein, amino acids, 1 lb. .35 early in life manifested certain evidences Soy Cracks, like grapenuts, starch-free pro- level of bone building, sound construction tein food for cereal loaves, roasts, dressings .25 of teeth of superior quality, strong muscle of hypersensitivity in the control of their Snitzler, Quick Veg. Shredder (3 for $13.95) .... 6.95 Soy-Grass Cookies, Wheatless, Sugarless, pkg. .35 building, and fecundity to hydration, blood vessels. They are the ones who are Peanut-Oil Skin Cream, for beauty's sake, pure 1.50 obesity, weakened bones, flabby muscles, most subject to blushing; to the tendency Flex-Seal Pressure Cooker, best, not aluminum 15.70 Whiz-Mix Elec. Liquefier, drink your vegetables, 29.75 to say nothing of sterility, toothless mouths, to have cold, sweaty hands; to nosebleed; make milk shakes, health drinks, 2 for 39.90 Gluten Cutlets, or Cutlet-Burger, 20 oz. .54 alveolar bone destruction, and many other to fainting and dizzy spells. They are the Claire's Veg. Jel for instantly molded salads serious but chronic complaints. persons who find it difficult to relax. They and desserts, sweetened with raw sugar, 8 flavors and plain Researchers with their minds fixed upon have a feeling of insecurity. In their rela- Larger Quantities at Wholesale Prices tion to others they have a tendency to be WRITE FOR COMPLETE PRICE LIST AND a very narrow segment of this problem of CIRCULARS soil-health relationships are as incensed as always on the defensive. They feel com- we are embarrassed by the use that adver- pelled to work beyond their associates and ViViTa WHEAT GERM tising copy writers have made of our writ- competitors in their unending struggle ings and those of others who agree with to avoid the pangs of insecurity. They are ''HEALTH Natural Source of Vitamins B & E, organic minerals, protein lecithin us that by promoting normal biological the ones who hesitate to take time for ade- Full' amino acids. Vitamins B and E are necessary for Normal Nerves processes in the soil, healthy plants, live- quate recreation or physical exercise. They Heart, Digestion, Energy. 3 lbs. $1.16 FOODS postpaid (West of Mississippi $1.40) stock, and human beings will be produced; may even neglect friendships because of that man is not the independent lord of their intense urge to press on toward a par- Vegetable Products Co., Box 1204, Syracuse, N.Y. creation that he imagines himself to be, but ticular goal. They are more susceptible to AIN.A.ALL. rather the lucky inheritor of a very special- anger than is the average individual. They ized set of conditions. As biologists, we are have and retain fewer intimate friends than aware of the perverse genius of man to do those with more healthy personalities. destroy the very kind of environment es- The level of blood pressure is controlled, FEETACHif sential to his survival. In agriculture his throughout the body, by alterations in the GET FOOT COMFORT WITH first action is to remove the natural cover caliber of the blood vessels. This caliber is which has produced the virgin soil. We adjusted to meet the demands of the mo- BURNSeffhoid‘ are pleading for better practices that will ment by the so-called vasomotor com- not expose the topsoil to removal, and ponent of the nervous system; that is, when Make walking a pleasure! Try will continue, instead of arrest, the proc- the individual encounters such circum- these famous feather-lite, Cali- ess of soil development and maintenance, stances as make it necessary for him to fornia-made Foot Balancers. They exert himself more vigorously than usual, give amazing foot comfort! Worn and will keep our soils under construction, in shoes. Recommended by doc- as Albrecht calls it. the vasomotor, or blood vessel, center of tors and nurses. Sold in shoe We, therefore, protest as strongly as any- the brain, by way of its myriads of nervous stores and shoe departments. For one such statements as: "One carrot may connections with the tiny muscles in the men, women, children. Demand ADVENTISM BURNS CUBOIDS! A MERICAN not be as good as another carrot although walls of the blood vessels, reduces the cali-

ASSOCIATIONP'° 'CAI they may look alike." "The one grown ber of the vessels, and causes the stream of For Name of Your Dealer Write' PUBLICATIONS upon deficient soil may be worthless as blood to be propelled against an increased BURNS CUBOID CO., SANTA ANA, CALIF. food." "A baby won't have good bones or resistance (increase in blood pressure). teeth if he drinks milk from a cow whose This resistance requires the heart to work food comes from soil deficient in calcium with greater force in order to maintain the NOW AVAILABLE and phosphorus." elevated blood pressure. At the same time Common observation confirms our con- the stream of blood under increased pres- tention that there is an intimate relation- sure flows more rapidly throughout the ship between the quality of the soil, the tissues of the body and delivers more nutritive quality of the plants that grow oxygen and nutrient materials to the mus- thereon, and the health of those who eat cles. So, when a person runs to catch a bus, those plants. It is self-evident that poor his blood pressure is automatically raised farming makes poor land; poor land makes in order to make it possible for his muscles poor, sickly people; and poor, sickly peo- to function with added vigor and thus ple make poor land poorer. Your health bring him more quickly to the corner will always be your own responsibility. where the bus is waiting. You, therefore, have a major stake, no The vasomotor center of the brain is K&K SHREDDER JUICER matter where you live, in agriculture and closely connected with other parts of the For details write in education for normal living. Optimal brain which are concerned with conscious KNUTH ENGINEERING CO., Dept. T, health is primarily a matter of good nutri- thoughts and with emotional reactions. 2617 N. St. Louis, Chicago 47, III. tion. The currently proposed compulsory This intimate connection among the sev- PAGE 32 In replying to advertisements, please mention LIFE AND HEALTH LIFE AND HEALTH eral parts of the brain is what makes it tional tension has persisted for a long possible for the vasomotor center to control period, the vessel walls and the moderator the blood pressure in such a way as to meet mechanism may suffer to the extent that 1Plaelat the needs of changing circumstances. the high blood pressure becomes chronic ALFALFA TEA The vasomotor center not only responds and the individual may properly be said to have developed essential hypertension. (3143i add a ica,poonful to to demands for increased physical exertion water) (running to catch the bus) but also reacts A bereavement, the anxiety incident to the loss of money, the thwarting of a cher- A delicious, refreshing, protective food—ready to the conscious awareness that an emer- flavored with true lemon and fruit sugar. Con- gency is in prospect. Even though the ished ambition—any of these, reacting on tains ALL the COMPLEX FACTORS of ALFALFA. BIO BRAND INSTANT AL- individual does not run to catch the bus, an individual whose nervous system is FALFA is made by a special EXTRACTING sensitively tuned to this sort of experience, METHOD (percolation and spray dried). but is only anxious lest he might be de- Generous supply $1 postpaid. Special summer tained, the vasomotor center reacts to this may serve as a beginning for chronic high sale: Zestone A $1—flavors flat vegetarian dishes with 'beef-like' flavor. Zestful wheat prospect as though it were an actual emer- blood pressure. In the usual case it takes (M.S.G.) derivative. Also on high-Protein gency and so produces a temporary eleva- more than a single emotional insult to and other dehydrated foods. tion of the blood pressure. upset the normal balances between the At your dealers or direct from All intense emotional states have the vasomotor center and the moderator mech- BIO-FOOD PRODUCTS (Dept. LH) effect of stimulating the vasomotor center. anism. The average person can stand many 3000 Boston Blvd., Detroit 6, Fear, anger, and aggressive desires, even such insults, and his blood pressure returns Michigan though based on imaginary circumstances, to a normal level after each. But repeated tend to produce an elevation of the blood and prolonged insults gradually "wind up pressure just as is produced by actual emer- the mainspring" of the vasomotor center gencies. until the blood pressure no longer returns In the natural course of events, elevations to normal even after the emotional panic FEET HURT? of blood pressure produced by stimulation subsides. If you seller from METATARSAL CALLOUSES, CORNS or WEAK-ARCH of the vasomotor center are of relatively There are certain telltale symptoms FOOT PAINS, DR. 'BARRON'S NEW short duration. This is because there is a which herald a warning of the possibility FOOT CUSHIONS may give you relief. They are light, SPONGY VENTILATED, delicate moderator system consisting of of permanent high blood pressure. These and cushion your ARCHES and FEET from HEEL to TOES. Can be worn in all nerve endings in the lining of certain blood symptoms are not the direct result of the shoes. Help absorb the shocks of standing high blood pressure, but rather of the emo- or walking. Only $1.98 A PAIR. 30-DAY TRIAL. Purchase price refunded if you • • • • • • • • • ••• • • • • • • • • • •••• • tional uneasiness and tension which is the ale not relieved. Ask your physician to advise you about the foot aids you may need. Dr. Barron's Foot exciting agent in producing the high blood Cushions are obtainable from the ORTHO, INC., Happiness is as a butterfly, which pressure. These symptoms include mild 2700 Broadway, Dept. 196-F New York 25, STATE when pursued, is always beyond our headache, dizziness, fatigability, irritabil- SHOE SIZE AND IF MAN OR WOMAN. grasp, but which, if you will sit down ity, weakness, palpitation, and rapid heart. quietly, may alight upon you.— Any or all of these indicate a basic insta- Hawthorne. bility of the autonomic nervous system by alcohol should be definitely abandoned, which a prolonged emotional state could • • • 4,-0 0-0 0“0"O”O-0-0-.. and general health should be promoted in break down the normal balances and per- every way. mit chronic hypertension to follow. vessels, which nerve endings signal back In view of the fact that the accepted ex- Fortunately, the condition of essential planation of hypertension centers around to the vasomotor center whenever blood hypertension does not occur suddenly in pressures become excessive. Using a figure the relations between the emotions and the full-blown form. In the early stages of the body mechanisms and controls, the pro- of speech, we conclude that the signals disease the blood pressure is elevated only coming from this moderator mechanism gram of treatment must be focused on the in response to definite physical and emo- patient and on his way of life rather than serve to remind the vasomotor center that tional insults. At this stage the hyperten- the blood pressure is elevated and that it on his high blood pressure as such. It is sion may be helped by a change in the unfortunate for the patient to think of him- should be lowered to normal levels again patient's way of living. If the patient does as soon as the immediate need has passed. self as a case. He should rather consider not take the hint offered by the early symp- himself as an individual who is striving to Thus when the individual has actually toms and does not alter his ways, the found his seat in the bus, the vasomotor learn a better adjustment to life and its occasions on which his blood pressure is problems. He should put away his personal center ceases its stimulation of the muscles increased will become more frequent and in the blood vessel walls, allowing the pride and develop a willingness to discuss the duration of these periods will be longer. the causes for his anxiety and insecurity blood vessels to relax and the blood pres- Eventually the blood pressure will not re- sure to fall back to its usual normal level. with the thought that the physician may be turn to normal, its only fluctuations being able to suggest means by which he can In case the stimulation of the vasomotor when intense situations increase the blood reconcile the factors that have aggravated center persists over a long period of time, pressure even above its sustained high level. and maintained his emotional tensions. causing the blood pressure to remain high By this time changes will have taken place The person with high blood pressure for this same prolonged period, the deli- within the blood vessels and even within should understand that the mere fact that cate nerve endings of the moderator system certain organs of the body to the extent his blood pressure is above the normal level become fatigued so that the vasomotor cen- that the condition becomes irreversible, and does not mean that he is to be promptly ter is no longer reminded that it is time for simple alterations of the way of life will stricken down by permanent invalidism. the blood pressure to be lowered to normal not bring the blood pressure back to a He should realize that even in the normal levels. So, in the case of a marathon runner, normal level. course of events he will live for several the blood pressure may remain high for The logical treatment of high blood pres- years after the high blood pressure becomes some time after the race has been com- sure is directed toward removing those established. Furthermore, with due atten- pleted. Also, in the case of a persistent emo- factors which have served directly or in- tional state there is a tendency for the directly as exciting causes. The first step (Turn to page 34) blood pressure to remain at abnormally is to find and correct all physical conditions high levels. which may have undermined the individ- It takes more than a few months of con- ual's general health. This includes even The preservation of health is a duty. tinuous emotional tension to produce those habits of life that have served to make Few seem conscious that there is such a permanent damage to the moderator the individual hyper-reactive to his sur- thing as physical morality.—Herbert mechanism. But in a case in which emo- roundings. The use of tobacco, coffee, and Spencer. JUNE, 7 9 4 9 In replying to advertisements, please mention LIFE AND HEALTH PA G E 3 3 nEw MAIN) SAIiITARIUnI Provides for the Health Seeker— • Quiet surroundings that invite relaxa- tion. Throughout the United States, and in many • Scientific facilities for the diagnosis other countries, is found a distinctive chain of and treatment of disease. medical institutions known as Sanitariums. To the • A supervised program of simple living many thousands who have been guests of these unique health institutions, the name Sanitarium and approved treatment, featuring diet, describes not merely a hospital, though the best physical therapy, rest, directed exercise, of medical care is given: nor does it describe fresh air, sunshine, and proved medica- simply a rest home, though many come primarily ments. for rest. Rather, it denotes a unique combination • Surgical facilities. * 14400t4 of both. The word Sanitarium also carries with it Write for FREE Folder "A". the idea of health education and disease preven- tion, for those who come to these health centers Overlooking Beautiful Spot Pond, the HOSPITAL and SAHITARIUM Sanitarium Is Eight Miles From Boston receive instruction in the principles of healthful living. "There's Health in the Hills In addition to the Sanitariums whose announce- of East Tennessee" ments appear in this issue, the following belong to this distinctive chain of health institutions. when you need a quiet place to regain nervous energy, here where Nature Boulder-Colorado Sanitarium, Boulder, Colorado conspires in beautiful surroundings Florida Sanitarium, Orlando, Florida Forsyth Memorial Sanitarium, 805 N. Gadsden St., to help bring it about. Tallahassee. Florida This modern Hospital offers the finest Fuller Memorial Sanitarium, South Attleboro, Mass. in medical and surgical care plus the Georgia Sanitarium, Route 4, Box 240, Atlanta, Ga. new Sanitarium section with its unique Glendale Sanitarium, Glendale, California features. Hinsdale Sanitarium, Hinsdale, Illinois Loma Linda Sanitarium, Loma Linda, California Special emphasis is placed on phys- Mountain Sanitarium, Fletcher, North Carolina ical therapy, such as hydrotherapy Mt. Vernon Hospital-Sanitarium, Mt. 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Emotions and High Blood Pressure MADISON SANITARIUM and HOS'ITAL (Continued from page 33) MADISON COLLEGE, TENN/asIE Ui 411I1 II * tion to those alterations of his way of life, '"IllPfrinelf-i' r Ill III III III it may be possible to prolong his life span i 411 II Surgery- P I' even throughout the usual range. This Maternity latter possibility depends, however, upon Wing II his willingness to reorganize his manner of living to such an extent that he lays II ;11 ST. HELENA SANITARIUM aside his excessive concentration on busi- ness; that he takes sufficient time for re- ..... Among the beautiful mountains clad in ever- the year round, that the place awaiting laxation and play; that he develops a will- Beautifully located on a 900-acre estate near greens Nashville: l 6 5. bed capacity; X-Ray and you at the St. Helena Sanitarium. A fully qualified ingness to follow regular hours, arranging Clinical Laboratories, Hydrotherapy and medical surgical institution, which places emphasis Electrotherapy: Surgical, Obstetrical, Medical. on nutrition, and physical medicine in helping sufficient time for sleep; and that he avoid dully accredited by the National and State you get well. organizations. Approved for residencies and the perpetual hurry and drive which our for nu rues' training. SANITARIUM, NAPA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA present-day civilization demands. He should accept the counsel that the three A BLUE CROSS PARTICIPATING HOSPITAL R's of his present situation are Relaxation, Reassurance, and Readjustment. Finally, the person with high blood pres- Fresh Stone-ground Red Turkey Wheat Flour or Corn sure, or even the one with a tendency in Meal—yellow—nothing taken out. 5 lbs. 75 cents; 10 lbs. $1.35. Larger lots cheaper. Send postage. this direction, should realize that it may The New Grater pulverizes' carrots—make a glass of be difficult for him, of his own volition and juice in two minutes by pressing. Also, salad attach- effort, to develop and enjoy that genuine ments—slicer, shredder, chopper. Electric Juicers—$8.95. WRITE TO R. J. GROSE, sense of security which will relieve him of BOX 699, LODI, CALIFORNIA. Beautifully Located in a Suburb the tensions and anxieties that have pro- of our Nation's Capital voked and aggravated the instability of his THIS modern general hospital maintains therapeutic standards aimed nervous system. This security can be real- at bringing new strength and vigor to ized, however, by those who place their full • IT is estimated that four and a half body, mind, and spirit of each medical, faith and confidence in the Great Physician million children in our American schools surgical, and obstetrical case admitted. to the extent that they trust Him to guide require eye care. Many small children lose them through the uncertainties of life and their sight every year because their parents EUGENE LELAND MEMORIAL HOSPITAL to fulfill the promise that "all things work do not realize the dangers of giving them Riverdale, Maryland together for good to them that love God." sharp-pointed toys.

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