THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN AND HERALD OF

REALMDECEMBER B. Ranganathan The Children's Birthright

HENRY TURNER BAILEY

ALL CHILDREN ought to be the flowers and butterflies and with Things that children can do in familiar with the open country. all wild things. the cities are not to be compared They should know the joy of play- They should feel the experience with such country activities. Out ing in healthful mud, of paddling and thrill of going barefoot, of of the country and its experience in clean water, of hearing the cocks being out in the rain without has come and always will come the call up the sun, and birds sing umbrellas and rubber coats, and most stimulating and healthful art praises to God for the new day. buckled overshoes; of riding a in the world. One cannot appre- banyan, of sliding down pine ciate and enjoy to the full, nature They should have the vision of boughs, of climbing tall trees, of books, histories, poems, pictures, or pure skies, enriched at dawn and diving head first into a transparent even musical compositions, who has sunset with unspeakable glory; of pool. not had in his youth the blessed dew-drenched mornings flashing They should have a chance to contact with that world upon the with priceless gems; of grain fields chase butterflies, to ride on a load face of which our cities appear as and woodlands yielding to the feet of hay, to camp out, to cook over stains that should be washed away. of the wind; of the vast night sky an open fire, to tramp through new I do not forget what cities have "all throbbing and panting with country and to sleep under an open done for us and must always do. stars." sky. They should have the fun of I do not forget that it is under They should feel the joy of seed driving a horse, sailing a boat, and the type of p, city that the glories time and harvest, of dazzling sum- of discovering that Nature will of the heavenly world are described mer moons, and of creaking, glit- honour the humblest seed they to us. But I like to remember that tering nights. They should live with plant. (Continued on p. 4.)

2 THE HERALD OF HEALTH, DECEMBER 1958 The Oriental Watchman and Herald of DECEMBER Minute 1958 ilteditatiam 49th Year of HEM Publication A Magazine for Home and Happiness Postal Address: Post Office Box 35, Poona 1, India FIRST PLACE

L. J. LARSON, Editor D. A. Delafield M.D., D.N.B. JOSEPH C. JOHANNES, OTTO B. HAUSER, M.D. ASSOCIATE EDITOR ASSOCIATE EDITOR LUE RIBBONS, loving cups, B trophies, and medals are CONTENTS only incidental to the title and the prestige of having won FEATURE ARTICLES Page first place. The thrill of conquest, Food Is Good for You 8 the warm glow of triumph over a William Harvey: Discoverer of Blood Circulation 10 field of experts, is the greatest Blood—The River of Our Life 11 satisfaction that can come to the Honey for Your Health 12 winner. This is true in sports, and The Neck-Ache 14 Nervous Stomach 16 it is also true in business and so- Eat to Live 18 cial life. Pace-making, leadership, Simple Exercises for Poliomyelitis 20 and prestige are counted as life's Milk Fever 22 greatest treasures. Men are willing to pay any price or make any ex- FOR CHILDREN ertion to achieve them. Present for the Prisoner 24 But we raise the question, Why should we regard wealth and pres- FOR STUDENTS tige as life's best things? To be Indian Coach Lauds U. S. Practice 6 sure, we must have our leaders in every field; and if we can lead FOR HOMEMAKERS the field, we should thank God The Children's Birthright 2 and take heart. But if we can't what then? Shall we conclude that FOR EVERYBODY life is not worth while because we Minute Meditations: First Place 3 can't have first place? I think not. Giving up Smoking 5 If everyone were a leader, where The Source of Peace 4 would be the followers? If we Safe Driving 7 were all wealthy, none of us would The Doctor Says 33 be satisfied until we had more than The Last Word 34 the next fellow. What particular advantage is there in being bigger OUR The Taj Mahal, Agra than the next man? Our chief concern should be: COVER Photo: L. J. Larson Are we doing the best we can with the talents we have? Have we set Published monthly by the Oriental Watchman West Bengal-36 Park Street, Calcutta 16; for Publishing House. Two years' subscription: India, Assam—Nongthymmai, Shillong; for East a goal for ourselves? Are we striv- Its 17.50; Pakistan, Rs. 17-8-0; Burma, Ks. 17.50; Pakistan-130/C Dhanmandi Road, Dacca, East ing each day to reach the goal? Ceylon, Rs. 17.50. Foreign Postage, Rs. 1.15 Pakistan; for Ceylon-15/2 Alfred House Gar- extra. dens, Colpetty, Colombo 3; for West Pakistan- Is the motive for reaching it good? Our representatives are authorized to receive 32 Mozang Road, Lahore; for Burma-68 U cash for your subscriptions and to give our Wisara Road, Rangoon. Will it benefit others as well as official receipt for the same. Change of Address— In requesting change of address, or referring to your subscription, kindly ourselves? These questions should Terms of Payment are cash in advance. Maga- return wrapper or quote reference numbers ap- zines are sent only for paid subscriptions. pearing thereon, and indicate your old as well be decided before we settle down Cheques and Remittances—Cheques for sub- as your new address. Duplicate copies cannot scriptions given to our travelling representatives be supplied without extra charge when intima- to the pursuit of some lofty place should be crossed and made in favour of the tion of change of address has not been given in in life which we are not equipped local branch office under whose jurisdiction they advance. are working. Non-Receipt and Loss of Copies—If your by nature or circumstances to Regional Offices—Subscriptions may be sent magazines fail to reach you, please inquire at to our nearest agency: for Madras, Kerala, your local post office. If you get no satisfaction occupy. and Mysore States-9 Cunningham Road, there, please inform us Bangalore; for Andhra—Bunder Road, Box 308, When making any complaint about the late We want to be sure that we Vijayawada; for Bombay State-16 Club receipt of this magazine, please send the wrap- Road, Bombay 8; for Uttar Pradesh, East per along with the complaint. This will enable belong at the top. It's dizzy up Punjab, Delhi and adjacent States-27 Bara- the post office to fix responsibility for delayed khamba Road, New Delhi; for Bihar, Orissa and delivery. high, you know, and we need the

THE HERALD OF HEALTH, DECEMBER 1958 3 courage of the steeple-jack if we are to maintain an elevated posi- tion for long. We also need ex- perience and know-how. There is urgent need for sacrifice and real leadership if we are to occupy the throne. Real leaders admit that THE SOURCE OF their job is a thankless one. They are not there because they enjoy the respect and admiration of the crowd. They are there because PEACE there's a task at hand and they are determined to do it. They also have an obligation to discharge. They feel that they have been put into a position of res- H. M. TIPPETT ponsibility for a definite purpose. They use their position not for selfish reasons but for the advance- ment of a project near to their IN APRIL, 1861, an inscription hills of Judea was not a burst of hearts. beginning "Glory to God in the pious sentiment from which to Long hours and self-denial highest" was being inscribed above make wall mottoes at Yuletide. It go hand in hand with honour, the pulpit of the South Congre- was the solemn pronouncement of prestige, and honestly-earned gational church, in Boston. Edward the One who is the author of peace wealth. Remember this when you Everett Hale, author of the pat- —that tranquillity of mind and seek great things for yourself and heart which buoys up the believing you will more than likely succeed. riotic classic The Man Without a Do not occupy the throne until Country, was its pastor. heart in every conflict and adverse you've paid the price of prepara- Sparks from the friction between situation. The peace of which the tion over years of discipline and the North and the South suddenly angels sang is much more profound hard work. Even then if you don't flamed into the tragic War Between than what is conceived by "the win first place, you have a good the States, and the young men of Christmas spirit." The joyous record. You've done the best you old South church began marching carols, the gaily wrapped gifts, are can. That's all that is expected of off to war and the women began only symbols of the good cheer and any man. making service kits and bandages. kindliness we fain would feel For years nobody had the heart to throughout the year. Yet, alas, it complete the unfinished inscription. is evanescent. CHILDREN'S BIRTHRIGHT The "good will" of God found Came the happy day when hosti- (Continued from p. 2.) highest expression in His free gift lities ceased. A painter was em- to the world of a Saviour, and it the city is fifteen hundred miles ployed to add the remaining words is only in acceptance of Christ's square, according to the measuring to the panel above the pulpit: perfect life for our imperfect life, of the angel, and that within its "And on earth peace, good will to- of His wisdom for our confusion, walls there is plenty of room for a ward men." Instead of roaring of His pattern of practice for our river of life as large as the Ganges cannon and martial drums, the example, that any of us can enter and for gardens the size of the song of the Bethlehem angels was into and demonstrate the meaning whole states on either side, where heard once more. For four years of "peace on earth." Moral con- the trees that yield their fruits every heartache and fear, grief and dis- duct, social ethics, conformity to month have room enough to be illusionment, had held sway over the civil code, spontaneous acts of full-grown. even the most sanguine of the war's charity—these are excellent, but One can get all the best a city supporters. Now the old certainties peace comes only to a heart at rest has to yield by visiting it, but one reappeared and asserted themselves. in the assurance of God's favour cannot reap all the harvests of the The eternal things that keep the through personal acceptance of His country except by living there in human spirit ever reaching up had perfect gift to men. Any substitute childhood. And I feel somehow that been only temporarily obscured. for that faith, including the pan- such a life in the country is the And it is ever so. aceas offered by a growing list of birthright of every child. There is Men and institutions and ideo- books promoting peace through truth in Cowper's statement that logies change. God never changes. self-hypnosis and what not, must (Continued on p. 27.) The Christmas anthem over the surely fail. 4 THE HERALD OF HEALTH, DECEMBER 1958 GIVING UP SMOK ING

N HOW to give up smoking there have been endless in- genious recommendations, none of which are specific, but many of which appear to have proved effective for their inventors. They range from hypnosis to bouts of oversmoking and abstinence; from the taking of iron pills to elaborate deceptions with false cigarettes; from the injection of nicotine to shunning one's heavy- smoking wife; from giving up in A NEW RECIPE FOR GINGER CREAM ICE order to be an example to someone else, to indulging in some substitute Blend the Custard Powder smoothly with 34 oz. Brown & Poison a little milk; boil the rest, stir in the activity such as chewing gum. Custard Powder, 8 oz. sugar, yolks, sugar, mixed Custard Powder, Probably the best way to give 1 teaspoon essence of ginger, preserved ginger (chopped small), ginger 1 pint fresh milk essence and 2 tablespoons of the ginger up smoking is simply to give it up Yolk of 2 eggs beaten, syrup. Stir over the fire until the mixture and announce the fact to friends. 4 oz. preserved ginger. thickens, take it off, stir a little longer and when cold freeze. This involves the individual's self- The milky way to health respect. If it can be done with a All children love creamy, delicious, health-giving custard. friend or as a member of a group, It's full of healthy milk. And remember Brown & Poison Custard Powder is a pure vegetable product. this will give support. If the smoker When you shop look for the other products in the can identify the stimuli which make Brown & Polson ranee—Raiele7, Patent Cornflour him want to smoke, such as meet- and Blancmange. ing new people, interviewing, work- Exciting new Recipe Book. ing, not working, social occasions, pm& Fill in this form. telephone calls, seeing others smoke, etc., he can choose a time to give it Please send me your free Recipe Book in English HindilTamil. 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Both processes are liable to cause uneasiness or anxiety for a time, but this should not last for Fear of cancer is not necessarily It requires will power to use will more than three weeks, after which an effective motive and may cause power, and until the desire to the constant or frequent desire for excessive anxiety in already anxious smoke has abated, others should smoking changes to a vague people. Praise from others for the give every support to the person nostalgia, and finally peters out. It achievement increases resolution who is trying to abstain.—Adapted is wise for smokers who have once and may make the self-denial seem from The Health Education given up never to smoke again. worth-while. Journal, London. THE HERALD OF HEALTH, DECEMBER 1958 5 tit sored by the U.S. Government un- der its leader exchange programme, is a lecturer of mathematics at the THE STUDENTS' GUIDE Military College, Dehra Dun. 4 While in America the teacher vis- 41P•41PNAPPVIPsdPVIPAPVP`41P411K4IPAIP•APVIPKAPPNAP.411P4IPAIPNIP•41P.dir',11PNIPAP ited schools, colleges and univer- sities in the states of Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Connec- INDIAN COACH LAUDS U.S. ticut, New York, Arizona, Cali- fornia, Colorado, Kansas, Illinois, Ohio, Louisiana, Alabama, and PRACTICE Texas. Among the leading U.S. coaches NEW DELHI—The United hand study of the U.S. system, is: in track and field, he met Brutus States catches its athletes young introduce coaching at the school Hamilton, University of California, and grooms them into topnotchers level and catch them young." Berkeley (who coached the first under the guidance of veteran Mr. Singh, whose trip was spon- American 4-minute-miler, Don coaches, according to Coach Kul- dip Singh, who recently returned from a 100-day tour of the United States. "India should emulate this practice," he said. In America every school has its own track and field, vast play- grounds and paid coaches. Such facilities provide ample scope to budding athletes to develop their potential. "That is why all the top athletes in America today are col- legians who were thoroughly trained in schools," declared Mr. Singh, senior honorary coach of the Amateur Athletic Federation of India (AAFI). While comparisons are odious, Coach Singh believes that one is called for in this case. "American parents," he said, "are more sports- minded and take a healthy interest in their children's body-building activities, whereas Indian parents look down upon sports as a waste of time." Such an attitude must change if India is to occupy a front seat in world sports, added the coach. "If India can throw up first-rate sportsmen from amongst its armed and police forces (where they get sound training and fa- cilities) there is no reason why we should not be able to compete with the world's best athletes if our schools begin to show a livelier in- terest in coaching." "My first recommendation," Vydyavrata said Coach Singh, "after this first- Health is Wealth. 6 THE HERALD OF HEALTH, DECEMBER 1958 Bowden) ; Larry Snyder of Ohio the driver's last collision, the more during the day, and there is greater State, who has coached top-rankers confident he gets of his own driv- danger of an accident on a rural like Jesse Owens and Glen Davis ing ability. He may take more road at night than on a city street. (400-meter hurdle champion) ; chances, and is more likely to get During 1954 there were 36,000 James Kelly, 1956 Olympic coach; bumped. deaths and more than a million and Payton Jordan, of Stanford On long trips it is best to take disabling injuries from automobile University, California. a break and change drivers every accidents. If the present trend con- From them Mr. Singh learned so often. Fatigue is strange, so tinues, it is estimated that one per- the modern techniques they employ don't trust yourself to be the judge. son out of every ten in the U.S. to coach athletes. "An unusual It may creep up on you without may be killed or injured in a motor thing I learnt there is the psycho- your being aware of it. A fatigued vehicle accident in a period of fif- logical aspect in athletics. For ex- driver drives less skilfully than he teen years. ample, they study the problems of realizes. athlete-pupils in offschool hours, Extreme fatigue may even cause their family and environs. "This is hallucinations, inducing drivers to HEART STOPPAGE IN an important factor because then swerve off the road to avoid an ob- SURGERY you can gauge an athlete's record ject that isn't there. Fatigue may in a scientific manner." cause poor timing, and the driver If your heart happened to stop Another aspect which has an may make the right response at the during surgery today you would important bearing on the future of wrong time. have a much better chance to re- sports is the diet. In the United Drinking of course is definitely a cover than you would have had States they are very particular hazard, so never take "one for the five years ago, say Drs. Bernard about the athlete's diet. American road." Even low levels of alcohol D. Briggs, David B. Sheldon, and athletes drink a lot of milk ( "I in the blood cause an increase of Henry K. Beecher of the anes- used to •drink two seers daily") and accidents. High alcohol level pre- thesia department of the Massachu- eat lots of eggs and other ptotein- disposes to an accident, makes it setts General Hospital, Boston. rich foods. almost probable. This improvement is largely due "My second recommendation is: To keep alert while driving, cir- to new emergency techniques in Improve the diet of your athletes culate the air in your car. Stuffi- preventing cardiac arrest, the ma- —give them more milk and pro- ness adds to fatigue, and small jor single cause of operating-room teins," Mr. Singh said. amounts of carbon monoxide va- death. A recent survey of the food ha- pour from the engine may affect Cardiac arrest has increased, but bits of American athletes has estab- your driving efficiency. so has its quick diagnosis and treat- lished that by scientific diet and Speed is intoxicating, for on ment, so that your chances are steady elimination of infectious dis- good highways, especially express- much improved over yester-year. eases the present generation of ways, drivers lose their orientation We have more cases, say the Americans has gained three t3 four speed and approach objects at dan- doctors, because we are operating inches in height and 20 to 30 gerous velocities. on more aged and very ill pa- pounds in weight. This, Coach Some of the factors that predis- tients. Singh felt, accounted for the rich pose to dangerous situations while T h e treatment consists of supply of athletes poured into a driving are the following: promptly opening the chest wall major national industry—the pro- 1. Following too closely while and massaging the heart by hand, duction of champions. approaching to pass. artificial respiration with oxygen, 2. Dozing at the wheel. and the use of medicines. 3. Vehicle running off the road. The incidence of cardiac arrest SAFE DRIVING 4. Intersection errors. in patients with poor physical con- 5. Errors in passing. dition was thirty times greater than ELF-CONFIDENCE m a y 6. Driving in wrong traffic lane. in patients in good condition, the strangely predispose to an ac- 7. Leaving and entering road- doctors report in the Journal of the S cident, says Dr. Ross A. Mc- way. American Medical Association. Farland of Harvard School of Pub- 8. Pedestrian errors. Heart disease, present in 60 of the lic Health, Boston. If you are plan- Driving is more hazardous at patients whose hearts stopped, was ning a week-end trip, better take night, according to the National five times greater in the cardiac ar- note. He states that statistics show Safety Council. Three times as rest group than in the general sur- that the longer it has been since many accidents occur at night as gical population of the hospital. THE HERALD OF HEALTH, DECEMBER 1958 7 animal foodstuffs, vegetables and fruits) rich in vitamins, trace-ele- FOOD IS GOOD ments orproteins, plus enough cal- orie-foods (cereals, potatoes, etc.). It is not so much a question of quantity, but of proportions. Sher- man, in his nutrition researches, FOR YOU showed by tests on scores of gen- erations of rats that one part of milk-powder plus two parts of whole wheat made the animals more healthy than a diet of one But Only If It Is The Right Food ! part of milk-powder plus five parts of whole wheat. The rats which ate the first diet, PROF. B. C. P. JANssN with a larger proportion of milk- powder, did not live longer but they kept their "prime of life" much longer—they matured earlier Director of the Netherlands Insti- and their signs of old age came tute of Nutrition (Eykman Insti- later. tute). Another researcher, Corry Mann, and several other scientists as well, found this to be true for man also. N PAST centuries people had The assessment of nutritive value In an English boarding school, not the choice of foods which was not so simple as the earlier re- I where the diet of the children at we have, generally speaking, to- searchers had thought and, to drive that time was regarded as very day: they ate what they could get. home the point, Eykman—one of good, Corry Mann added to the In those days the average life span the first scientists who had shown diet of a certain number of the of a man was only twenty-five or how necessary these trace elements children a pint of milk per day. thirty years—as it remains today were to nutrition—entitled one of The children who took the milk in some countries. his lectures "Simplicity is no mark became taller and weighed more About the beginning of the last of Truth." than the others. But more than century analyses of food and de- The lack of vitamins and trace that, they became more alert, had termination of the way in which elements had already been respon- better muscular tone and skin con- it is utilized in the human body, sible for the death of millions of dition and had a greater buoyancy began to be carried out in a num- people through such illnesses as of spirit and keenness for work and ber of chemical, physiological and beriberi, scurvy, pellagra—now play. veterinary laboratories. known as the deficiency diseases. As a result of all this work most The amounts of these newly-dis- Better nutrition does not neces- scientists came to the conclusion covered substances required by a sarily mean having more food. that what was important in assess- human being are very small—for The most impressive indication ing the nutritive worth of food was many of them a few milligrams of this truth was obtained in Great the total calorie (energy-produc- daily, for some only one milligram Britain during the second World ing) value, proteins being kept at or a fraction of a milligram. In- War as a result of the food ration- a minimum. deed for the recently-discovered ing system. At the end of the last century vitamin, B12 ( cobalamin ) , only Before the war broke out Sir and in the early years of this, fur- one-thousandth part of a milligram John (now Lord) Boyd Orr had ther research brought to light the in the day's diet is necessary. shown, through experiments on fact that, besides the calorie-pro- So it was that the earlier dic- rats, that the nutritive value of the ducing elements and the body- tum: for human nutrition you average English diet, according to building proteins, food contains need only make sure of enough modern standards, was not suffi- small, but highly necessary, calories, plus a certain amount of cient. amounts of other substances—the protein, became changed to: make During the war the government vitamins and the so-called "trace sure you have enough "protective" took the advice of nutritionists like elements." foods (milk, cheese, eggs, meat and Boyd Orr and Jack Drummond S THE HERALD OF HEALTH, DECEMBER 1958 and saw to it, by means of the ra- tioning system, that the most nu- tritious foods were reserved for the most vulnerable groups of the population—the pregnant and nursing mothers and the children. It is most probably as a result of these measures that the health of the population actually im- proved during the war period de- spite the fact that they were living under unfavourable circumstances non-existent in peace time. There was, for example, the crowding in air-raid shelters, the lack of heating in winter, the shortage of clothing, of soap, of living space and the shortage of doctors, nurses, hospital and sana- toria accommodation. The teaching of Boyd Orr and Drummond can be said to have revolutionized the attitude of ad- ministrators and the people towards the question of nutrition by intro- ducing the idea that people should be fed according to their needs and not according to their means. The following conclusions, taken from an official report on the heights and weights of school pupils in the County of London in 1949, illustrate the results of accepting this view as a matter of govern- ment policy: Between 1938 and 1949 the average height of London school N. Ramakrishna children increased by about 2 cm. Mangoes are rich in vitamin A. ( 3/4 in.) and the average weight increased by about 0.8 kg. (13/4 ment in the worst areas where war has not yet been settled definitely. lb.). conditions produced greatest re- The science of gerontology—the Despite these substantial tardation, and where it was known study of the problems of aging— changes, the pre-war relationship that progress would be most diffi- may well reveal new ways in which between weight and height was cult to achieve. the nutritionist can be of use to the maintained; the children of today These, then, are some of the community. For, just as the study are not merely heavier or merely fruits of the science of nutrition— of pxdiatrics has shown us that the taller than their parents were, but a science which is still developing nutrition needs of young children are members of a generation alto- and expanding in the service of are different from those of adults, gether of greater physique. By pre- humanity. so the gerontologists may show that war scales of growth, post-war chil- Its attention is now being in- the requirements in old age are dren appear three months older creasingly directed to new prob- different from those of people in than their true ages. lems of modern civilization—the their middle years. Though the greatest improve- so-called "degenerative diseases" The science of nutrition, young ment has been in those districts (such as the vascular and heart as it is, has already contributed which were above average in 1938, diseases) which arc associated with much to the health of the world's there has been a definite improve- nutrition although precisely how people : its prime is yet to come.

THE HERALD OF HEALTH, DECEMBER 1958 9 WILLIAM HARVEY: DISCOVERER OF BLOOD CIRCULATION

JOHN THWAITES

Assistant Editor of "The British Medical Journal," London

N JUNE 3 this year, medi- name has lived in history. To most cal men the world over people he is, perhaps, best known O honoured the memory of as the man who discovered the cir- the great physician William Har- culation of the blood. But by the vey, the 300th anniversary of medical profession he is honoured whose death fell on that day. as one of the great pioneers of Harvey was born in Folkestone, modern medicine, and the one who Kent, in 1578, and was destined for was among the first to shine a a distinguished career. After at- light into the dark corners of ig- tending King's School, Canter- norance and show where the truth bury, he went to Cambridge Uni- lay. versity. From there he proceeded To appreciate fully the signifi- for his medical training to the Uni- cance of Harvey's greatness one versity of Padua, Italy, then the must see it against the background world's most important centre of of the age in which he lived. In- medical learning. Here, in 1602, credible though it may seem, 17th after four years' study, he gradu- century medical knowledge had ated as doctor of medicine with scarcely advanced at all from honours. where it stood 14 centuries before. Returning to his native land, It was based largely on the Harvey began his practice in Lon- teachings of Galen, the Grxco- don. Within a few years he was. Roman physician who died in the elected a Fellow of the Royal Col- year 200 A.D. Superstition was the lege of Physicians and gained a source of guidance in the treat- place on the staff of St. Barth- ment of most cases and in others it olomew's Hospital, London. Har- amounted to little less than witch- vey's eminence as a doctor became craft. Quackery ran riot. manifest for all to see when King Many of the most renowned James I ( 1603-1625 ) appointed practitioners still regarded the stars him his medical adviser. Royal as having a powerful influence on Diagram of the circulatory system' patronage continued under Char- health and disease, and patients were commonly dosed with decoc- 1. Systemic capillaries 9. Stomach les I (1625-1649), and Harvey's 2. Systemic veins 10. Intestinal capillaries connexion with the Court termi- tions of earthworms and similar 3. Pulmonary capillariesll. Kidneys Pulmonary arteries 12. Pulmonary veins nated only when the Civil War loathsome mixtures. 5. Right ventricle 13. Left ventricle (heart) (heart) brought his master's occupancy of As for the blood, it was supposed 6. Hepatic vein 14. Systemic arteries the throne to an untimely end. that it flowed back and forth 7. Hepatic capillaries 15. Systemic B. Portal vein capillaries It is not as the fashionable phy- through the veins like a tide and sician, however, that Harvey's (Continued on p. 31.)

10 THE HERALD OF HEALTH, DECEMBER 1958 Blood The River of Our Life

SAHIB SINGH AHIJ JA

LOOD IS indispensable to going the process of purification in and the little bodies the well-known our very existence and as the lungs and kidneys. Besides these red and white corpuscles of blood. B such it has been called the blood-channels there are the lym- On an average, a cubic millimetre river of life. It is the blood that phatics whose main function is to contains 6,000 to 8,000 white cor- carries nourishment to all the tis- drain away the waste materials puscles and about 5,000,000 red sues and organs of the body. It is from the tissues. corpuscles, or roughly, in a normal the blood that carries the life-giving The blood is not wholly liquid body there is one white blood cor- oxygen from the lungs to the tis- as it appears. It contains little puscle for 500 to 600 red ones. The sues and removes the poisonous bodies floating in a liquid; the carbon dioxide and other wastes liquid portion being called plasma (Continued on p. 31.) from the tissues to the excretory organs for their final expulsion from the body. There is a constant circulation of blood in the body and this is made possible by the existence of a circulatory apparatus consisting of the heart, and three pipe-like channels, called arteries, capillaries, and veins. The implication of the mechanism of keeping the blood in constant motion, is obvious. It en- ables the tissues to obtain a con- stant supply of fresh blood for their sustained nourishment and acti- vities, which they would lack if the blood were stagnant. The heart is the central pump which drives the blood through the arteries to the capillaries, which permeate every nook and corner of the body, and their fine walls permit the nutrients in solution in the blood to bathe the body cells, thus energizing them and removing wastes which enter the blood and are carried by the veins to the heart, to be re- distributed as before after under- X-rays assist in the study of the heart.

THE HERALD OF HEALTH, DECEMBER 1958 11 Honey for Your ealth

J. DEWITT Fox, M.D.

'VE JUST enjoyed a taste treat, It is only 79.5 per cent carbohy- been used in infant formulas satis- and gained some interesting in- drate, whereas white sugar is 99.5 factorily in place of sugar, and it I formation I'd like to pass on to per cent carbohydrate and has no produces excellent gains in weight, y ou. vitamin or mineral value. Sugar is growth, and hxmoglobin levels. Since Biblical times honey has more fattening, since it has about Some people unable to tolerate been respected. The children of 60 calories to the tablespoon. candy or cane sugar can enjoy Israel during their long wilderness Aside from the caloric, vitamin, honey, for it is assimilated by the wanderings looked forward to the and mineral differences between most delicate stomach. It is a mild day when they could enter the sugar and honey, there is a diff- laxative, and will help the lean to land of milk and honey. Milk and erence in flavour. Honey may be put on weight. It is an ideal food honey are high-quality foods, both considered a delicious and pure for the invalid or the hospitalized being easily digested. They serve sweet. Like other natural products, patient, for it will give quick en- it offers as many delicate flavours ergy, is easily digested, helps put to feed us from babyhood to old as odours of the flowers from which weight back on the body. Honey age. the bees gathered it. Honey gath- will not make you fat if you eat Milk provides a top-quality pro- ered from clover, basswood, milk- it wisely. tein for building living cells, mus- weed, raspberry, buckwheat, and Honey is satisfying. It tempts cle, and blood and for repairing orange blossom will have its own you to moderation rather than to broken-down tissues. Milk contains distinctive flavour and aroma, simi- excess. You can eat great amounts calcium, phosphorus, and other lar to the blossoms from which the of candy and sugar sweets and minerals, plus vitamin A if it is bees took the nectar. still have a prodding hunger for whole milk. These constituents are Only bees are capable of making something. Because white sugar vital for building strong bones and honey and honeycomb. Man has contains no vitamins or minerals, is teeth and keeping our nerves and never been able to manufacture a slowly digested and absorbed, you brains in good working order. single section of dripping honey- can cat an excess of sugar before Honey supplies an easily ab- comb. For twenty-five years there your blood sugar rises to turn off sorbed sugar that gives quick en- has been a standing offer of $1,000 your appetite. Not so with honey. ergy. It has the added advantage for proof of the manufacture of It is quickly absorbed, quickly satis- of containing traces of iron, cop- comb honey. To date: no takers. fying, giving a quick energy lift. per, and tiny amounts of vitamin Honey is easy on the stomachs of You are wise if you are reluc- C, B2, and nicotinic acid. It has al- babies and elderly persons, because tant to let your children eat ordi- most 45 calories to the tablespoon. the bees predigest it. Honey has nary sweets, but you can let them

12 THE HERALD or HEALTH. DrerklOrr I 938 have honey more freely. It does honeybee whenever you enjoy a Some fine day why don't you not make pimples and dull com- juicy orange or a rosy red apple. get out and enjoy the life of the plexions as chocolates and heavy ‘Ve have all read advertisements bees? No thought for the morrow ! fatty foods do. A child's craving of sweets kitchens that arc kept No worry over clothes or food! for sweets is normal. Try to satisfy spotlessly clean. The honeybee The bees have faith that God will it from nature's own sweet shop— keeps his factory spotlessly clean supply the blossoms if they only the beehive. Could anything come and well aired all during the time work to get the nectar. As you from a cleaner, purer source? he is making the honey. Some of listen to the myriad wings fanning Interestingly enough, honey will the worker bees are appointed to perfume into the air and filling the grow sugary in time when exposed whir their wings at the entrance sunshine with the music of their to a temperature below 70 degrees. of the hive to fan the air. As well work, think what a wonderful This is one of the best proofs of as bringing fresh air into the hive, world it is we live in and what a its quality and purity. Sugary or this fanning of the air keeps the gift God has given us in the honey- candied honey retains full food honey at the right temperature. bee. Then go home and make your- value. Some people prefer honey Other worker bees carry refuse self a honey sandwich and pour when it has reached this candied from the hive. Should a bee die a glass of milk. You'll be enjoying state. To restore honey to the liquid while inside the hive, two or three the land of milk and honey in state, simply heat it, but do not ex- workers push, pull, and roll him which you live, and helping your- ceed 150° F. for overheating spoils until he is outside the hive. self to better health. the colour and flavour. The wax of the honeycomb melts at 140° F. Because of its predigested form and the presence of formic acid, honey keeps indefinitely without growing bacteria or spoiling. (Some people do not tolerate formic acid well, so must be more moderate in the use of honey than other peo- ple.) Nature protects the bees' food, so when you store honey, never put it in the cellar or refri- gerator. Keep it in a fairly warm, dry place. This is not true of other sweets such as jellies and jams, which mold in short order when left open. A word of highest praise to our friends the bees. They may sting us if we interfere with their work, but they are an awe-inspiring ex- ample to us of industry and in- genuity. The honeycomb is formed into six-sided cells from the wax that the worker bee produces with its body. In some of these cells the queen bee lays her eggs, and in others the workers deposit honey. Each cell is sealed securely and aseptically with wax by the worker bee. More important than collecting honey for the sweet tooth of man is the job the little bee does in pol- linating flowers and the blossoms of our fruit trees. Even if you don't P. V. Subramanian cat honey, you owe a debt to the Honey is good to the last little drop. THE PIEBALD OF HEALTH, DECEMBER 1958 13

11••••••••••••••••••••••••• OMPLAINTS of neck pain during the traction, the ligaments During acute infectious disease, are common. It is sometimes will be stretched even more, and such as influenza, the muscles of the C rather simple to find the the muscles better relaxed. body frequently become acutely cause. In some cases the cause must Usually after ten or fifteen such painful and tender. The muscles of be looked for in some other part of treatments the patient becomes the neck are no exception. Rather, the body, and may be difficult to quite well and remains so for six they often hurt more than others do locate. There are many causes for to eight months. After such a length and often are the first ones in- neck pain. We will consider them of time the symptoms usually begin volved. Such a condition lasts only according to the structures involved, to return unless traction and range- a short time—a day or two or three such as the bones and the muscles. of-motion exercises have been con- —and when the disease subsides, THE BONES. One of the most tinued. When pain, headache, and the muscle soreness disappears. common causes of neck pain is stiffness start to reappear, early re- Usually relief can be obtained osteoarthritis of the spine. It is sumption of the treatment usually through treatment by hot moist usually found in people after the gives speedy relief. packs. age of forty. The symptoms consist of pain and tenderness in the neck, with grating and stiffness when the head is turned to the sides. Most people suffering from this condition find it quite difficult to turn the head far enough to be able to look back when driving a car. With many of them there is headache in ec the back part of the head, and most of them complain of pain in the neck. The stiffness and the pain cause them voluntarily to limit the movements of the head. As a result, there will be an adaptive shorten- RAGNAR STADIN7 M 11 ing of the spastic muscles of the neck and a tightening of the spine ligaments. This adjustment causes more pain, and the head is moved even less. Thus a vicious cycle is set up. To treat such a patient success- fully the physician will have to break the vicious cycle. He does so When the arthritis is rather Many persons are sufferers from by giving heat and massage to the marked, there may be nerve-root muscular rheumatism. The neck neck to relax the muscle spasm and irritation from pressure, producing and shoulder muscles are frequently to relieve the pain. Short-wave dia- neck pain that often is referred involved. This disease almost al- thermy is thought to be the best into the shoulders and down the ways causes stiffness and a marked form of heat, but an infra-red lamp arms. Even muscle weakness, wast- deep pain in the neck. It is difficult or hot fomentations are also bene- ing, and paralysis may result. The to turn the head without increasing ficial. If the muscles and ligaments treatment just described is helpful the pain. Often there is headache are stretched manually by a physi- in relieving these conditions. in the back of the head. Many times cian or a therapist or by mechanical THE MUSCLES. When it comes the stiffness is increased when the means such as Sayre traction, the to the soft tissues of the head and head is held still for a long period spasm will be further overcome. If neck, there are, again, several of time, as during sleep. Exposure the head is turned from side to side causes of pain. to draught, cold winds, or cold in

14 THE HERALD OP HEALTH. DECEMBER 1958 •• • • • • • • • • • • • + • • • • general will make this condition must be treated in a hospital. Most dual symptoms for months after much worse. Sometimes it is asso- of these injuries do not produce the accident. ciated with rheumatoid arthritis in- serious results, but cause many One of the most common causes volving the spine. headaches, painful spasms in the of neck pain is nervous tension. The rather specific treatment neck muscles, nervousness, and The pressure of daily activities, consists of the application of hot many other symptoms, related to especially on people who do mental blankets, deep fibrositic massage, the nervous system. We shall deal work and sit bent over a desk, pre- and stretching of the neck muscles only with the muscle spasm. disposes to spasm of the neck muscles. Other people who have a by active movements of the head When X-rays are taken, spasm tendency to overtaut nerves are also and by the use of such mechanical is frequently seen. The normal neck subject to this type of pain. On means as Sayre traction. has a curvature with the concavity examination the muscles are often Muscular rheumatism is likely to toward the back. When a person found to be like tight ropes. This recur whenever the patient is ex- has had a whiplash injury, often muscle spasm may extend all the posed to cold or at weather this curvature is obliterated and the way from the shoulders to the base changes. It is increased by emo- spine is perfectly straight. In some of the skull, where the muscles are tional tension. Repeated periods of instances it has even a paradoxical inserted. Often even the scalp be- treatment are necessary, but if they curve, which means that instead of comes tight and tender. are continued the patient can re- a concavity toward the back there main fairly comfortable. is a convexity. Persons suffering in these ways Faulty posture during working fall into a group said to suffer from hours, especially for people who The muscles and ligaments that neuromuscular hypertension. They have been over-stretched are ex- should have rest and relaxation. quisitely tender. They are very They should learn to face trouble painful for a time after the accident Sometimes the cause of neck in a calm and practical way so and almost always there is head- that they will not use up nervous pain may be quite a surprise to the ache at the back of the head. The energy worrying about it. patient. intensity of these symptoms varies They should consider that if no- with the violence of the accident. thing can be done about it, do it. ••/..01.1.1M/6/6/1/./104.0.04/..WW/mveve/o/o/...... /./ One thing always noticeable is that They should not take frequent doses the patient's symptoms are much have to remain in a fixed position of phenobarbital and other drugs more marked than the injuries the for long periods of time, often leads for relaxation and pain relief. In- physician can discover. to muscle spasm with pain in the stead, they should have their mental neck. Correct posture habits for re- Usually there is no quick relief outlook changed. They would do laxation should be learned, and for of symptoms in whiplash neck. well to consult a clinical psycholog- relief of pain and muscle spasm Early treatment consisting of heat, ist, a psychiatrist, or a minister. the patient should be treated with relaxing massage, and protection of Several simple remedies can be heat, massage, traction, and ex- the neck by a supporting collar used by these people: ercises. seem to shorten the time it takes 1. Learning voluntary relaxation As the speed of automobiles in- for recovery. The muscles have been is one method that will help. They creases, more and more accidents overstretched, so that traction, often should think consciously about de- take place. When a car hits an asked for, is not always indicated. finite muscles and try to relax them. object in front of it or when it is If it is given, it is always very gentle. If they do not know how to do this, hit from the rear unexpectedly and Moist heat is more relaxing than they can contract these muscles and with force, the condition called other forms of heat. It can be given then consciously relax them. Thus whiplash injury is frequently sus- by the application of hot towels or they will get the feeling of how it tained by the driver. The head is hot fomentations at home. As the should be done and can train them- violently snapped backward and acuteness of the pain subsides. selves to achieve complete relaxa- forward. vertebrae may break or deeper massage, more traction, and tion. When they have learned to intervertebral disks may rupture. gentle exercise are given. A person relax all the muscles in the body, Whiplash is a serious condition and with this condition often has resi- a*(Continued • on* p.44 28.) * * * ** • 4% • • * * THE HERALD OF HEALTH, DECEMBER 1958 15 NERVOUS STOMACH

HAROLD J. HOXIE, M.D.

Here's how your doctor can help you to understand your own reac- tions to life

4 T MAKES me sick." "I and stored in that great reservoir colon may also be disturbed with can't stomach that." "I'm of memory called the subconscious resulting middle and lower abdo- 4 I all upset." "It turns my mind. These experiences were vital minal symptoms. stomach." "It gripes me." Such to us at the time, and they were Loss of appetite and nausea, the frequently heard expressions in- frequently repeated. By association more common of the nervous com- dicate the intimate relation they have become the most im- plaints referred to the stomach, are between emotions and the function portant factors in determining our related to underfunction of the of the digestive organs. sense of security and in fixing the stomach. They occur in association The stomach has been called the relationship of digestive function to with depression, sadness, self- sounding-board of the emotions. later conflicts with others. reproach, and fatigue. The person Everyday experience illustrates this. If in infancy we did not have with these feelings is likely to be When he is making important deci- enough cuddling, protection, and quiet in both speech and body sions or suffering financial reverses, love along with physical susten- movements. His whole behaviour the overworked businessman after ance, our stomach reacted with is rejection of the situation with- eating may have heartburn, upper pain, loss of appetite, vomiting. In out actively fighting back. He is abdominal discomfort, and even adult life our stomach is likely to passive and indecisive. pain. Before an examination the act the same way when ill will or Heartburn, pain in the pit of the student may lose his appetite, be- physical harm threaten us. stomach, that vague distress called come nauseated, or have diarrhoea. Our mind should direct our body butterflies in the stomach, mild dis- Even the child who is having to meet these dangers and leave the tress after eating, and belching are trouble with the other children at stomach to its work of digestion. But symptoms of overfunction in the school may have a vomiting spell our mind does not always have the stomach. This condition is often some morning before school time. personality technique to take care related to the anxiety that results The reason for digestive dis- of formidable tasks. Anxiety and when a person tries to repress his orders in emotional upsets—such as insecurity increase, and the stomach hostile, self-assertive impulses. He excitement, fear, anger, and irri- tries to vomit out the intolerable is likely to be restless and tense. His tability—becomes clearer when we situation that cannot be overcome stomach distress, akin to hunger, remember that our memories and any other way. Thus our emotional implies a need to be fed and habits began in earliest childhood. weakness and longing for love is sustained for the trials ahead. Eat- When we were hungry we ex- hidden behind an apparently phy- ing aggravates rather than relieves pressed our dissatisfaction by anger sical illness. the symptoms. and crying. We became calm, re- Emotional reactions to situations Real-life situations and our re- laxed, and satisfied when our arc accompanied by flushing and actions to them are never simple. hunger was relieved by eating. We congestion of the stomach lining While we have the symptoms des- were dependent on our mothers or and spasm or increased peristaltic cribed above, often at the same other persons for satisfaction of our movement of its muscle wall, some- time we make desperate attempts hunger needs. times in reversed direction. These to gain security by self-assertiveness The way our demands for food changes in the stomach and the and efforts to be cared for, to win were met and the associated ex- nearby esophagus cause the upper approval, and to he loved and periences, whether pleasant or un- abdominal symptoms of nervous helned. pleasant, were carried to the brain indigestion. The function of the Sometimes our aggressiveness 16 THE HERALD OF HEALTH, DECEMRFR 1958 4:V.V1.1.';:,...r• • others. The device worked in child- hood, and as long as it works he is likely to continue. If this method fails to get him desired attention, he may give it up or become more frustrated, bitter, or despondent. Another type of childhood ex- perience that disposes to digestive pain and illness occurs when the child sees the solicitude of the rest of the family for another member who is severely or chronically ill with a stomach complaint. In this case the child—in envy of brother, sister, father, or mother—may day- dream of suffering in a similar way to obtain affection such as that showered on the sick one. When faced with frustration as an adult, he may develop abdominal symp- toms that persist for long periods. We can see how some of these causes of nervous indigestion appl to other people. But when we deve- lop heartburn, feeling of fullness, pain in the stomach, belching, low, of appetite, and difficulty in swal- lowing, we are not likely to blame our adjustment to our life situation. We usually blame the symptoms on something we ate, because the symptoms are often worse after P. Gurumurthy Even children may suffer from nervous stomach. eating; or, if they persist, we begin to fear serious disease such as can- prevails, and sometimes our de- satisfaction from abdominal pain? cer. pendency prevails, but there is The answer lies in the experiences It is true that stomach symptoms always conflict. The feelings, or and thought processes in children are made worse by unhealthy eat- emotions, resulting from the con- that give emotional significance to ing habits. Overeating, unwise flict include fear, jealousy, envy, the pain they feel and to the re- selection of food, and fast eating sorrow, driving ambition, self-cen- actions to pain that they see in with incomplete chewing aggravate teredness, frustration, disgust, rage, others. The child soon learns that and seem to cause indigestion. Gas resentment, and hatred. his cries of pain bring some show of 2nd bloating are made worse by The conflict and the associated tenderness from his mother or air swallowed with hastily eaten physical symptoms abate when our others around him. His cries may food, sipped liquids, frothy foods feeling of security is bolstered by a save him from more blows if beat- such as malts or lowgrade ice change in our situation or our at- ings are a form of punishment in cream, or prolonged gum chewing. titude toward it. his family. But all bad eating habits are fre- We are often confronted with a In some families the punishment quently the result of emotional conflict between selfish tendencies of a child may arouse so much guilt conflicts. and cultural and ethical standards. in the parent that shortly afterward The stomach and nearby organs When a person cannot settle these the parent will lavish affection on that are disturbed in their functions conflicts realistically, he will fall the child. These may be the only when they are unpleasant emotions back on whatever form of childish, occasions when the child gets the ^re also affected by organic disease. or infantile, behaviour gave him love he desires. When frustrated There may be mechanical obstruc- satisfaction in the past. later in life, by overcomplaint of tion by tumours or scars, or there Why should anyone get any pain one may obtain attention from (Continued on p. 29.) THE APR Ali, OP HEALTH, DEcEmnrk 19SR 17 EDYTH Y. COTTRELL

Simple food well balanced and well prepared is good health insurance.

P. Gurumurthy

BUNDANT health—a zest Improved nutrition means placed in our hands an increased for living, a firm, elastic step, improved health, improved mental- ability to deal with the values which A keenness of intellect—is your ity, lengthened years of use- are above price; for health, hap- rightful heritage. You must not be fulness! The person who said, piness, and efficiency, and for the satisfied with less. It has been de- "You cannot eat your cake and enhanced duration and dignity of monstrated experimentally that im- have it too," was all wrong in this human life." proved diet gives improved mental instance. You can have the pleasure We must make the highest use development, alertness, general pro- of eating good food, and at the of this increased ability and gress in studies, and the rate of same time have the increased plea- place it in the hands of the home- learning specific things in children; sure, the pure joy, that comes maker that she may restore her improvement in performance and through tiptop health. The food family to its rightful heritage, "the efficiency in adults. There is evid- may be different from the diet you values which are above price." ence that the life cycle becomes are accustomed to, but you will find "The findings of scientific research" longer when life has been lived on it delicious and satisfying. —the vast fund of experimental a higher level throughout—that the Dr. Henry C. Sherman, the knowledge—represent the lifework prime of life may be lengthened as eminent nutritionist, said, "The of many of the world's most able much as ten years. findings of scientific research have scientists. No value can be placed

18 THE HERALD OF HEALTH, DECEMBER 195 • 00 on their magnificent work. To do work with a will. Do not undertake Sandwiches, a problem in many honour to these men, that their long too much at a time. homes, are in reality most interest- years of painstaking efforts shall not Bread-stuffs may be interesting ing. There is no other single food be in vain, the fullest application and delicious, and may be greatly that provides so many ways of slip- must be made of these findings. The improved in protein, minerals, and ping in an extra quantity of resultant improvement of the nutri- vitamins for only a fraction of a mineral-, vitamin-, or protein-rich tional quality of the foods we eat, cent more per loaf. The protein of food. through the application of this supplemented bread has been in- Cereals with a flavour that only knowledge, will go far toward im- creased up to fourfold in growth- freshly ground grains can have, proving our health and happiness. promoting value over unsupple- may supply a good portion of the Prof. Clive M. McCay of Cornell mented bread. Freshly ground daily requirements of high-quality University has urged the improve- entire-grain flours should be used protein, minerals, and vitamins for ment of the quality of all breads, whenever possible. (Continued on p. 28.) bakery goods, and breakfast cereals through the application of the knowledge of supplementary values Portion Used Portion Discarded for cereal proteins. With gratitude to Dr. McCay for splendid leader- Oranges ship, let us go forward with the Juice (contains 1/4 to 1/3 of the Peeling (contains 2/3 to 3/4 of the nutritional improvement of all vitamin C of the orange) vitamin C of the orange) foods as our objective. We may do Lettuce this through the use of materials Bleached leaves (may contain only Green outer leaves (may contain 30 having supplementary value for 1/30 as much vitamin A as the times as much vitamin A as the the vegetable proteins and by green outer leaves) hearts) means of the other findings of nutritional research that will enable Rice us to add to their mineral and Washed rice 45 to 75% of thiamine and 21% vitamin value. of riboflavin and niacin discarded Every food should be of the in two cups of rinsing water. highest nutritional quality that is White rice Loss in milling: possible to obtain at a reasonable thiamine 76% cost, and at the same time it should riboflavin 56% be delicious. The fact that our well- niacin 63% being, health, and happiness are at Loss due to careless handling of erals and vitamins may be missed stake furnishes a challenge that calls food may be much greater than you by the time the food reaches the for immediate intelligent action. think. Much of the valuable min- table. For example: You may have to change some Conditions Effect on Vitamin Content habits of cooking, and eating. You Milk (%2 pint) may have to eliminate from your Exposed one hour on cool, rainy Loss of 1/10 riboflavin diet some of your de-vitalized (and day de-vitalizing) favourites. You may Exposed one hour on bright warm Loss of more than I/2 riboflavin have to learn to like some foods day that are new to you. Careful con- sideration of the subject reveals Brcadstuffs many ways in which improvement Made with soda Loss of I/4 or more thiamine and of the diet may be effected. Select has harmful effect on other of the the one that is simplest, and go to B vitamins

THE HERALD OF HEALTH, DECEMBER 1958 19 SIMPLE EXERCISES FOR POLIOMYELITIS

MARY CATHERINE NOBLE, R.N., R.P.T.

Physical Therapy Department, Washington Sanitarium, Washing- ton, D.C.

EXT month we will talk PROCEDURE motion. Take the arm back with about packs for polio, and fingers pointing up, into much the N we will say that although 1. The patient is lying in bed same position used to give a hand packs are an important part of the clothed in pyjamas. signal for turning when driving a treatment they are not the whole 2. Begin at one end of the arm car. Bring it down with fingers treatment. Your part in helping or leg you plan to exercise. By be- pointing down, in the same manner your loved one to recover may also ing thus systematic and doing each the other way (the illustration will include something called range of part in the same way, you will not help you to understand how this is motion. Be sure to check with your leave out any of the movements. done). physician about such movements 9. Take the arm out away from before you include them in the ARM MOVEMENTS the body and up toward the head, treatment. the elbow supported, the arm Muscles that are painful and not 3. Gently bend and straighten the straight. used tend to shorten, or contract. fingers and thumb six to ten times. 10. Begin the next motion with Gentle movement of a paralyzed 4. Bend and straighten the wrist, the arm at the side. Take it straight part after the packs helps prevent taking it back as far as it will go up until it lies by the ear of the shortening and aids in restoring each time. patient. Return to the starting posi- muscle function. 5. Move the wrist from side to tion. Remember that you do each Range of motion is simply a side, from thumb side to the little motion six to ten times. medical term meaning to move a finger side and back again. 11. Take the arm, still supported joint through its normal range of 6. Rest the entire arm on the bed at the elbow, across the body and motion, such as bending the elbows at the patient's side and grasp the hack to the side again. or the knee. This must be done hand gently as for shaking hands. ever so gently because sick muscles Turn the hand palm downward LEG MOVEMENTS : often have no way to protect them- and then upward, repeating six to selves from injury or stretching. ten times. This exercises important 12. Gently bend and straighten Normal muscles have a degree of elbow muscles. the toes. vigour and tension that acts as a 7. Bend the elbow and straighten 13. Move the foot upward and protecting force, but in weakened it. downward at the ankle. muscles this muscle tone is lessened. 8. The shoulder is next, and it 14. Move the foot in a circle, It is a good thing to check your own is a very interesting and complex using only ankle motion. arm or leg and see just what mo- joint. One movement most often 15. Bend the knee and straighten tions are possible and what are not overlooked is rotation. It is most it. before you try moving one that is easily and correctly done by taking 16. Bend the hip and straighten affected by disease. You may be the arm out away from the body it. surprised to learn what motions are until it is up level with the shoulder, 17. With the leg straight, knee not possible. the upper arm lying on the bed, the supported by your hand, bring the During the treatment do each elbov bent, and the forearm held leg away from foe body and return motion six to ten times . by the person Ovinz the range of to starting position.

20 THE HERALD OF HEALTH, DFCF.MrIER 1958 18. As with the shoulder, the 2. Support cach limb under the rotation movements arc the most joint. Do not take hold of the pain- Important difficult. If you think of bending ful muscles. the hip and knee, with the patient 3. Be sure the motion you arc Advance still lying on his back, and bringing attempting is a normal one. Try the foot across the body as if the it out on yourself first if you have patient were putting on a sock, it any doubt. in will be more clear. Take the foot 4. Remember that these muscles out away from the body, knee and may have lost some of their normal Fight Against thigh still bent (see illustration). vigour and tension and their ability to protect themselves. Do not strain PRECAUTIONS or overstretch them. Trachoma 5. Follow your doctor's instruc- 1. Remember not to tire the tion about movements. patient. If he develops fatigue, 6. Movement is no massage. It U. K. Scientists Cultivate New learn a lesson for the next treat- is simply putting the body through Virus ment. During the treatment take the movements it woud normally frequent rest periods. take.

An important advance in re- search into the means of conquer- ing the dreaded scourge of trach- oma—an inflammatory eye dis- ease which is the greatest single cause of blindness is announced by the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine, London. Dr. Leslie Collier, chief virologist at the Institute, who two years ago began investigations aimed at cul- tivating the elusive trachoma virus in the laboratory, has now reported success. A volunteer has been suc- cessfully infected with a virus culti- vated by Dr. Collier and a col- league. This proves that their virus causes the clinical disease. About 400,000,000 people in the world are estimated to be in- fected with trachoma. Although the disease is very rare in Britain, it affects between 80 and 100 per cent of some communities in North Africa, is rife in the Far East, and extremely common in many vil- lages of West and East Africa. The British scientists will be able to find out what antibiotics are most effective in checking the growth of the virus, now that it can be grown at will in the labora- tory test tube. Best prospect of all is that it may at last be possible to Produce an effective vaccine which

B. Bhansali could eradicate the scourge of Today's happy children may be tomorrow's polio victims. trachoma from the world.—B.I.S.

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EW afflictions are so destructive he autopsied during an outbreak of other hand, the bacilli are unpre- to man and beast as brucel- the disease on the island of Malta. dictably responsive to many of the F losis (sometimes called un- The bacterium is known as Bru- newer remedies. dulant fever, milk fever, Malta cella melitensis. However, the cli- Most cases of brucellosis occur fever, Mediterranean fever), the nical picture was well known even in the Mediterranean region, where baffling disease about which so in the time of Hippocrates, who man, horses, swine, goats and some- much is known, and unknown. In wrote of an affliction that could be times cattle are afflicted with the 1955 in the United States alone al- only brucellosis. Farmers who raise disease in its most severe form most $90 million was lost in veal animals have a reason to dread (Brucella melitensis). In the calves and dairy products because Bang's disease, so named because United States, Brucella abortus of brucellosis. In humans the scope the late B. L. F. Bang demon- accounts for three fourths of all of the disease is wide, producing strated that epidemic abortion cases, and strikes particularly at fevers of unknown origin, neu- (miscarriage) in cattle is due to a cattle, swine, and horses. It is less roses, and suppurative arthritis bacillus. Some years later, Alice C. virulent than its European mate, (pus-laden inflammatory joint con- Evans linked up the organisms of possibly because milk-borne bacilli ditions), and other conditions of Bruce and Bang. She suggested are probably destroyed by human poor health. that the disease in humans might gastric juice. Hence when man is Brucellosis, with its fever of un- well come from drinking milk of affected the disease is an occupa- known origin, may show none of infected animals. tional one that involves those ex-

Milk fever, brucellosis, undulant fever—whatever the name—can give you a bad time.

the ordinary signs of fever arising Years of study and research have posed to infected animals such as from infection: elevation of sedi- proved that there are three species stockyard employees, veterinarians, mentation rate, increase in white of Brucella, what animals serve as meat packers, butchers, and farm- blood cells, and general symptoms. reservoirs, and what sorts of dis- ers. Most of these people are men Many an attack of brucellosis has ease are caused in man. between the ages of twenty and been dismissed as 'flu or virus It is remarkable that science has fifty-five. pneumonia, and in the chronic made what progress it has when In hog-raising centres, a third stage it may defy all scientific prob- we consider the diversity of the bacillus, Brucella suis, strikes at ing. In its most virulent form disease's manifestations. The ba- swine, horses, and cattle, but r.c- brucellosis may attack the liver, to cilli are widely distributed among counts for a good percentage of hu- cause hepatitis; the heart, to cause domestic animals in practically all man brucellosis. It is not rare for subacute bacterial endocarditis— parts of the world—cattle, pigs, laboratory workers to become in- such as is seen in acute rheumatic sheep, llamas, and others. They are fected when working with the viru- fever with cardiac complications-- communicable to man by direct lent Brucella. These technicians and may even prove fatal. contact. The germs can remain contract the ailment through skin Brucellosis is also known as alive in the blood-making system abrasions or mucous membrane of Malta fever, because Sir David of man for indefinite periods of eyes, nose, and throat. What has Bruce first identified the specific time. They can produce unpredict- yet to be explained is the miracle virus in the spleens of five patients able disease at any time. On the of the relative immunity of chil- OCXXXXXXXXXXXXX) 22 THE HERALD OF HEALTH, DECEMRER 1958 00000000000000000000 dren to brucellosis. Brucella suis commonly produces whose influence it was formed. In In man the symptoms of brucel- inflammation of joints with . pus, the latter we recognize what we losis vary. After initial infection the and often invades the spinal col- refer to as antitoxins. incubation period ranges from a umn, to cause a bone inflammation Dr. W. W. Spink and a group of few days to many months; onset known as osteomyelitis. The brucel- scientists found a surface antigen may be sudden or gradual. The losis of hogs also attacks joint sacs in Brucella that when injected into disease may be so mild that the (called bura.e), the gallbladder, patients who have had brucellosis patient does not realize he is sick coverings of the brain, the liver, the gives rise to typical acute symptoms or so severe that it rapidly termi- eyes, and even male genitalia. of the disease. The severity of this nates fatally (1 to 3 per cent of Brucellosis, however, is not like reaction is in proportion to skin cases). other pus-creating infections. The sensitivity. Together with other la- Symptoms include perspiration, lengthy time period between ani- boratory findings, this fact points temperature rise, extreme weak- mal and man, not dissimilar to strongly to the idea of an allergy ness, generalized aches and pains, tuberculosis, convinces many re- and abnormal sensitivity. This evi- emotional depression, nervousness, searchers that the severe symptoms dence has led to an agglutination headache and pains involving the in humans are the result of a sensi- test for Brucella that provides a nape of the neck, the joints, the tization, or allergy, to bacterial fairly good presumptive diagnosis. back, or the abdomen. In addition products rather than a bodily re- However, we know that any there may be nausea, vomiting, sponse to the germs themselves. person may have a positive skin

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constipation, diarrhoea, optical dis- The allergic condition would ac- test (as in the case of tuberculin turbance, and cough. count for the early stage of the when used for tuberculosis testing), If these symptoms are not disease, when there are no obvious and so the diagnosis of Brucella by enough to confuse the diagnosti- symptoms. This has led to skin this method is anything but infalli- cian, there is the opposite compli- testing such as in tuberculosis (ag- ble. The one most nearly depend- cation of no "signs or symptoms" glutination test). To understand able diagnosis is made by bacterial other than fever. However, 50 per this test we must first understand culture, with the use of blood or cent of Brucella victims present en- the idea of antibody and antigen. body fluids, or if these fail, cul- largement of spleen and lymph An antibody is one of the specific ture of bone marrow or tissue taken nodes, and some patients enlarge- bodies produced by the cells of a from a swollen lymph node or from ment of the liver. person in reaction against an anti- the liver. In Europe, Malta fever is not gen. An antigen is a substance that Although the course of brucel- difficult to diagnose, for it takes a causes the formation of antibodies. losis is variable, it may become severe form. The Mediterranean A group of antibodies also make chronic, particularly after severe variety apparently involves nerves, up a substance in a person's or an infection, and continue for years. for there are complications of neu- animal's blood and body juices ren- This is especially the case where ritis, meningitis, sciaticalike pain, dered immune by inoculation and joints, liver, or the central nervous paralysis of cranial nerves, and exerting a specific antagonistic in- system is involved. Even after even stroke. fluence on the substance under (Continued on p. 29.) 00000000000000000000 rHE HERALD OF HEALTH, DECEMBER 1958 23 ••+++++++++++++++++++++++++,•• would. You shall see your daddy. What's his name?" "His name is Jim Taylor and STORY TIME my name is Nellie." "Jim Taylor!" the jailor gasped. •:.+++++++++++++++++#+++++++4:. "Why, he's the worst Then he stopped himself. He must not criticize the man to his little daugh- ter. It was obvious she loved him, and he, the jailor, would be kind PRESENT FOR THE PRISONER to him for her sake. He took Nellie's cold hand in his and turned back toward the prison ELVA GARDNER gates. He was thinking of his own child, comfortable and safe at home. He seated the girl in his warm office and sent a guard to IM TAYLOR was without "Yes, I am. Who arc you? And bring prisoner No. 74839 from his doubt one of the most desper- why are you not at home at this cell. J ate and vicious characters that time of the morning?" As soon as the prisoner entered ever came into the Michigan pris- "Please, sir, I have no home. the jailor's office and saw his on. And from the time he arrived Mother died about two weeks ago." daughter there, his face clouded he seemed determined to give the The jailor noticed that the coatless with anger. Savagely he shouted, prison authorities all the trouble he child was shaking with the cold. "What are you doing here, Nellie? could. "Mother told me just before she What do you want? Go back to Then came Christmas. The died that Daddy was in prison and your mother!" jailor wanted to be home with his she thought he would like to see his "Please, Daddy"—Nellie sobbed little daughter on Christmas Eve, little girl. Please, sir, may I see my the words—"Mother's dead. She for he had several gifts for her, but daddy? It's Christmas and I want told me to take care of Jimmy be- duty compelled him to stay at the to give him a present." cause you loved him so, and she prison all night. Early in the morn- "You'll have to wait till visitors' told me to tell you that she loved ing, however, while it was still dark, day," the jailor answered. "That's you, too. But, Daddy, Jimmy died he left the prison for his home. It the rule." And he turned toward too." Here Nellie's sobs choked the was bitterly cold, and the jailor home again. But he had gone only words she wanted to say. Prisoner buttoned his overcoat to protect a few steps when he felt a pull on No. 74839 stood with bowed head. himself from the biting wind. his coat and that pleading, thin Finally, Nellie finished. Hurrying homeward, he thought little voice begged, "Please, don't "Today is Christmas, Daddy. I he saw somebody slipping along in go, sir." brought you a present from the shadow of the prison wall. He Once more the jailor stopped Jimmy." stopped and watched closely, till and looked at the child. The first Nellie unrolled the small pack- he saw it was a little girl, wretch- rays of Christmas morning were age she held in her hand until she edly clothed in a thin dress and no showing through the grey sky. He came to a piece of tissue paper coat, her feet covered only by gazed into the pinched face and from which she took out a blond worn-out shoes. In her hand she saw two eyes filled with tears. The curl and put it in her daddy's held a small parcel. little chin quivered. hand. "I cut it from Jimmy's head, The jailor wondered who the "Sir, if your little girl was me, Daddy, just before they buried child was and why she was out so and your little girl's mother had him." early. But he was weary, and hur- died, and her daddy was in prison Prisoner No. 74839 and the ried on toward his home. and she had no place to go and jailor were both crying now. The Then he became aware of the no one to love, don't you think she prisoner stooped down and picked fact that he was being followed. would like to see her daddy on up Nel'ie in his arms, pressed her He turned around and saw the Christmas morning?" close to his heart while his great little girl close behind him. The jailor felt a lump in his body shook with sobs. "What do you want?" he asked. throat and his own eyes filled with The jailor softly stepped out the "Are you the jailor of the prison, tears. door and left the two alone for an sir?" a thin voice asked. "Yes, my little girl, I think she hour of Christmas. 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turned, Nellie was sitting on her a man. Please, sir, cover her with daddy's lap. The jailor extended this jacket." his hand for her to come with him, "No, Jim, you keep your coat," You can't afford to for it was time she must go. the jailor said. "I'll take Nellie Quickly the prisoner took off his home with me, and my wife will miss one copy of prison jacket and held it out to find some clothes for her." the jailor. Nellie stayed in the jailor's home "Please, sir," he said, "don't let for several years. After a few years this magazine in Nellie go out on a day like this of proving his reformation, Jim with only that thin dress. Let me Taylor was pardoned and released. give her my jacket. I'll work early Nellie and her father were able to 1959! and late, I'll do anything. I'll be live together again. THE HERALD OF HEALTH, DECEMBER 1958 25 THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN and HERALD of HEALTH INDEX FOR 1958

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Month Page Month Page Old Miracle Medicine Water, Ernestine Morris Schindler, Afternoon Nap, An J. DeWitt Fox, M.D. .... March 14 The R.N. Aug. 22 Aging, Not Ailing Harry Moyle 1. ippett, M.A. March 16 One Step at a Time .... J. DeWitt Fox, M.D. .... Aug. 7 Air-borne Asthma (Part 1) .... Harry S. Bernton, M.D..... Feb. 8 Our Adolescents Gloria Whorton, R.N. .... Mar. 18 Air-borne Asthma (Part 2) .... Harry S. Bernton, M.D. March 20 Our Best from Our Worst ... Harry Moyle Tippett, M.A. Aug. 25 Anemia Owen S. Parret, M.D. .... Jan. 22 Our Busy Bones J. D. Ratcliff June 10 Anti-Arthritis Programme .... June 5 Pain in the Neck Harold J. Hoxie, M.D. .... Jan.. 12 As Old As Your Arteries .... Carrol Stanley Small, M.D. Aug. 20 Parents Are Teachers, Too ... Martha Shull Nov. 18 Atomic Energy and Medicine Lee E. Farr, M.D. Nov. 2 Pilonidal Cysts Robert L. Marsh, M.D. .... May 6 Backache Carl E. Badgley, M.D. .... Nov. 11 Pinkeye Robert J. Schillinger, M.D. Feb. 15 Balanced Diet, A Owen S. Parrett, M.D. .... May 18 Prevent Asthma Attacks Before the Baby Comes .... Addison E. Prince, M.D..... Oct. 22 (Part 1) Harry S. Bernton, M.D..... June 22 Best Prescription, The .... Brown Sampsell April 9 Prevent Asthma Attacks Blood, The River of Our (Part 2) Harry S. Bernton, M.D. .... July 16 Life Sahib Singh Ahuja, B.Sc..... Dec. 11 Problems of Parenthood E. Harold Shryock, M.D..... April 22 Cancer and Polyps of the Robert N. Brown, M.D., Prophecy Fulfilled, A Nov. 27 Colon F.A.C.S. Sept. 12 Public Health in India _ U.S.I.S. Oct. 16 Children and the Nation D. P. Karmarkar June 16 Savage Fire Harold N. Mozar, M.D. .... April 16 Children Are Safer and Science Seeks a Reason Leonard Rule, ••-• Jan. 10 Healthier U.S.I.S. Sept. 17 Simple Exercises for Polio- Mary Catherine Noble, Children's Birthright, The Henry Turner Bailey .... Dec. 2 myelitis R.N., R.P.T. •-• Dec. 20 Cobalt 60—Poor Man's Smoke Signals • • Feb. 14 Radium Sahib Singh Ahuja, B.Sc..... April 13 Smoke Signals Oct. 11 Cold Hands and Feet Owen S. Pariett, M.D. .... Sept. 18 Spare Parts for the Human Cold Mitten Friction Treat- CatherineNoble, oble, Body Dermot Canning •--- Sept. 20 ment, The R.N., R.P.T. Sept. 16 Success Through Smiling .... Gloria Whorton, R.N. May 32 Colour in the Sick-Room Elizabeth Gilzean May 9 Summer Earache H. James Hara, M.D. ---• April 20 Congestive Heart Failure Lyle G. Shepard, M.D. Sept. 8 Sun's Energy Heats House .... U.S.I.S. ---• Oct. 2 Contrast Bath, The Mary Catherine Noble, Ten Years of Health Progress W.H.O. June 21 R.N. Aug. 8 That Fluttering Heart .._ Harold J. Hoxie, M.D. ...• April 10 Dandruff Paul D. Foster, M.D. .... Aug. 12 This Is Your Problem .._ J. P. Gupta -• June 18 Diphtheria Kathryn L. Hagen, M.D. Oct. 18 Tooth for Every Child, A .... Albert C. Koppel, D.D.S. Sept. 11 Dizziness Harold J. Hoxie, M.D. __ Nov. 12 Trachoma in India Dr. Pandit Mardi 23 Does Your Child Stutter? W. Fletcher Tarr, Ph.D..... May 20 Tranquillizers (Part 1) .... Owen S. Parrett, M.D. ... Oct. 12 Eat More Tomatoes . . Sahib Singh Ahuja, B.Sc..... Nov. 14 Tranquillizers (Part 2) .... Owen S. Parrett, M.D. ... Nov. 16 Eat to Live Edyth Y. Cottrell Dec. 18 Tuberculosis in India Dr. P. V. Benjamin Feb. 20 Egg and You, The Sahib Singh Ahuja, B.Sc..... May 22 Visiting Nurses Serve Many Employment of the Handi- Health Needs U.S.I.S. 2 capped U.S.I.S. Oct. 36 Wanted—A Baby Elisabeth Larsson, M.D. .... ktay 16 Essential Hypertension Owen S. Parrett, M.D. .... Feb. 11 War on Malaria U.S.I.S. March 22 Facts About Fainting Harold J. Hoxie, M.D. .... July 14 Water, The Old Miracle Ernestine Morris Schindler, Facts of Life, The James L. Hymes, Jr. .... arch 6 Medicine R.N. Aug. 22 Faith for Frustration H. M. S. Richards .... June 8 What About Fluoridated Fibrositis Edward R. Bloomquist, Water? May 7 M.D. Aug. 10 What Has Your School Done? U.S.I.S. Feb. 2 Fish Poisoning Bruce W. Halstead, M.D. What Shall We Eat? Sahib Singh Ahuja, B.Sc..... Sept. 14 and Mary H. McLaughlin 18 William Harvey John Thsyaites Dec. 10 Food for Growing Children Dr. C. Gopalan Uarchr" 12 World's Strictest Banker, The James F. Bent May 14 Food Is Good for You .... Prof. B. C. P. Jansen .... Dec. 8 You and Tuberculosis .... U.S.I.S. June 2 Foot Infections Paul D. Foster, M.D. .... Oct. 14 You Can Beat the Blues . DeWitt Fox, M.D. .... Oct. 9 Fruit Owen S. Parrett, M.D. .... July 5 You Have a Fascinating Skin . DeWitt Fox, M.D. .... Julyly 12 Gallstones Robert Lee Marsh, M.D..... Jan. 16 Your Child's Feeding Problem ackson A. Saxon, M.D. .... an. 14 Hemorrhoids B. Richard Jackson, M.D. Feb. 12 Your New Baby Needs .... leulah France, R.N. ... Feb.e 18 Health Problems of City Children UNICEF—WHO Sept. 25 Editor Says Help Your Baby Sleep .... Lewis J. Burch M.D. and Isabella C. Miller Aug. 14 Conquer Fear and Frustration July 4 Helping to Defeat the 'Flu .... Leonard Rule Oct. 8 Don't Squint Feb. 4 Hernia Harry C. Prout, M.D. June 14 Have a Drink? Aug. 4 Home Homicide Robert L. Paddock, M.D. Au. 16 How to Kill Your Husband Sept. 4 Honey for Your Health .... .1. DeWitt Fox, M.D. .... Dec. 12 How to Stop Smoking . Nov. 4 Housewife's Danger Age .... T. DeWitt Fox, M.D. .... April 18 Scientific Survey on Cancer How Do You Breathe? .... Ruth K. Kent May 2 and Heart Disease . Oct. 4 How Funerals Save Lives ... J. DeWitt Fox, M.D. Oct. 9 Source of Peace, The Dec. 4 How Is Your Mental Health? Harry E. Andren, M.D. .... Oct. 10 Stretch Your Legs June 4 How to Overcome Those Aching Feet March 4 Constipation Henry W. Vollmer, M.D. April 14 Train the Children May 4 How to Use Soybeans Jeanette B. McCay, Ph.D. July 22 Why the Bengalis "All" How's Your Health? Trevor Knight Jan. 9 Wear Glasses Jan. 4 Impetigo Paul D. Foster, M.D. .... Nov. 20 World Health Day April 4 Indian Surgeon Saves a Boy's Life U.S.I.S. July 36 Gardening for Health It's Fun to be Sixty Owen S. Parrett, M.D. Oct. 20 Joy of Forgetting,The Miriam Brown Wood July 11 "Let Us Go Forth into the Liquor Traffic and Fields" -. Jan. 31 Prohibition (Part 1) E. G. White Feb. 22 Musicians of the Garden Liquor Traffic and (Part I) .. April 31 Prohibition (Part 2) E. G. White March 9 Musicians of the Garden Madras Clinic Restores Varkey Cherian (Part 2) May 31 Mentally-ill Jan. 2 Toads Man Against Mosquito K. K. Duggal Sept. 22 . . Feb. 31 Massage Ragnar Stadin, M.D. .... July 8 Mental Health Harry Moyle Tippett, M.D. Nov. 29 Minute Meditations Milk as Food (Part 1) Sahib Singh Ahuja, B.Sc..... Feb. 16 Milk as Food (Part 2) Sahib Singh Ahuja, B.Sc..... March 5 Best Compensation, The ju 3 Milk Fever James A. Brussel, M.D. ... Dec. 22 Diamond Dust Auenngc.e. 3 Nasal Drip H. 0. Swartout, M.D., Excess Baggage 3 Dr. P.H. .... Aug. 18 First Place t 3 Neck-ache, The Ragnar Stadin, M.D. Dec. 14 He Who Suffers Conquers April 3 Nervous Stomach Harold J. Hoxie, M.D. .... Dec. 16 Laughter Is Good Medicine . March 3 Never Share Your Medicine Grace Paul, M.T. (ASCP) April 12 Playing With Fire Sept. 3 New Light on Diabetes ...- William W. H. Pote, Jr., Practice of Contentment, The Oct. 3 M.D. .... May 10 Stop Being Afraid July 3 1957 Influenza Epidemic, The W.H.O. March 10 Time Out to Think May 3 No More Goitre J. DeWitt Fox, M.D. .... July 6 Upward Look, The Nov. 3 Nursing the Sick Child Gloria Whorton, R.N. Nov. 22 What's Growing in Your Oil for Cooking Lucille J. Gotham. B.S. July 18 Garden Feb. 3 26 THE HERALD OF HEALTH, DECEMBER 1958

Month Page Page SEPTEMBER: Overweight Youth, Underweight & Eyes Sensitive Story Time to Light, Stammering, Burning in Left Side of Abdomen, In- Aruna's Birthday Gift July 24 ability to Concentrate, Nose Bleeding, Poor Health, 33 Auntie's Mysterious Parcel .... Edgar A. Warren ct. 24 OCTOBER: Pranayam, Urticaria, Menopause, Metabolism, Super- Brave Bhanu Miss J. N. Cooper .— Nov. 24 fluous Hair, Smallpox Scars. 33 Caught, but Not Guilty David Goodlett — Mar. 24 NOVEMBER: Tinnitis, Prostate Trouble, Writer's Cramp, Para- Elephant's Memory, An _ .... April 24 lysis or Stroke, Typhoid, Pimples, Height. 33 Ganesh's Gunpowder Plot DECEMBER: Cerebral Haemorrhage, Neurological Disorder, Weight (Part 1) Ivy S. Doherty — Aug. 24 Increase, Hair Oil, Amoebic Dysentery, Elephantiasis or Filaria, Gancsh's Gunpowder Plot Perspiring. 33 (Part 2) Ivy S. Doherty -- Sept. 24 Little Miss Know-All 24 Homemakers' Helps Little Too Smart, A (Part 1) Tom Tucker May 24 Tom Tucker .... une 24 Little Too Smart, A (Part 2) JANUARY: Faultfinding; Recipes: Apple Snow Custard, Custard, Mallie C. Lacy Jan. 24 Roy's Friend (Part 2) Custard Bread Pudding, Lemon Cake-top Pudding, Cream Puffs, .... Miss J. N. Cooper ov. 24 Shivaji and His Dog Cream Filling, Banana Cream Meringue. Present for the Prisoner Elva Gardiner -.. Dec. 24 26 Miss J. N. Cooper __ Mar. 24 FEBRUARY: Being Thoughtful of Others; Recipes: Dhal Cakes, Tricks Galore Savoury Tomatoes, Eggs Creole, Rice and Cashew Nut Cutlets, Potatoes with Onions, Tomato Omelet, Puffy Rice Omelet, Students' Guide Potato Omelet. 26 MARCH: Pets; Recipes: Rice Water, Cabbage and Orange Salad, 6 Aim High Cauliflower Salad, Vegetable Sandwiches. __ April 6 26 Don't Drown APRIL: Planning Your Work; Recipes: Onion Soup, Poached Eggs Hints from a Railway on Greens, Cottage Cheese Salad, Baked Onions, Stuffed Cap- President ._ Nov. 6 sicum, Macaroni with Tomatoes, Baked Beans, Potato Dumplings. 26 How's Your Memory? ..- Sept. 6 MAY: Will They Pass?; Recipes: Salad Dinner, Potato Salad, Grape- Indian Coach Lauds U.S. fruit Salad, Orange and Nut Salad, Orange-Cabbage Salad, Practice —. Dec. 6 Trials of a Teen-Ager Aug. Celery and Pea Salad, Carrot Salad, Mixed Vegetable Salad. 26 JUNE: Encourage the Child; Recipes: Fruit Bars, Apricot Bars, Voices of the Deep Oct. 6 Who Wants to Memorize? ._ .... lune 6 Stuffed Tomatoes, Cauliflower and Bean Salad, Nutmeat, Car- Your Brain Needs Breakfast eb. 6 rot Cutlets. 26 JULY: Are You a Homemaker? (Part 1) 26 AUGUST: Are You a Homemaker? (Part 2) 26 Chart SEPTEMBER: Fruits; Recipes: Fruit Cup, Fruit Soup, Grape-Fruit Preventive Inoculations .... -_ Jan. 11 and Pineapple Salad, Russian Salad, Russian Dressing, Leinonaise, Lemon Pie Filling, Cheesecake, Refrigerator Ice Cream, Car- rot Roast. 26 Miscellaneous OCTOBER: Your Child and Safety. 26 American Red Cross Donates Salk Vaccine Sept. 2 NOVEMBER: Love Your Children; Recipes: Vegetable Cutlets, Antibiotics .... ... ..- Apr. 29 Friday Meat Loaf, Lentil (Brown Dhal) Patties, Savoury Lima Antibiotic Better than Penicillin .... Oct. 29 (Broad) Beans. 26 Blood Test for Sanity? .... ..- Mar. 7 Dizzy Dentistry ---- ---- June 29 The Last Word Father's Part -- July 32 Mar. 27 From the First Puff .... .... --- JANUARY: Virus Transformed, Quicker Blood Tests, "Wonder .... .. June 20 Good Resolution for Boys, A Drug" Fights Plant Diseases, Chemical Purifies Auto Exhaust Grants and Training of Nurse-Midwives ::.. Oct. 25 .... Dec. 7 Gas, Time-Saving X-Ray Machine, Baby's Crying Makes Crib Heart Stoppage in Surgery .... Rock Atom May Heat Homes of Future, "Painting" Strength- Dec. 36 Head Cameras for Flight Performance .... ens Blood Vessels. .... Nov. 28 34 How to Enjoy Bifocals .... FEBRUARY: Detecting Cancer, New Device Helps Deaf, Study of Important Advance in Fight Against Trachoma Dec. 21 Sept. 36 Blood Circulation, Enzyme Dissolves Blood Clots Drug Aids Indian Surgeon in U.S. Saves Boy's Life.... Advanced Cancer Patients, Training School for Lady Health Lemons for Lilt .... .... [an. 30 oept. 30 Visitors, Aid to Displaced T. B. Patients from West Pakistan. 34 Lift of Laughter, The .... .... .... MARCH: Tobacco Smoking and Betel Chewing as Causes of Cancer, .... Mar. 27 Married Boredom .... ---- U.K. Gift to Madanapalle T. B. Sanatorium, More Effective Thy- Medicated Salt . . . Malaria Control .... Sept. 21 .... Sept. 24 roid Drug, Spectacles Provoke Strange Notions, Paraplegia Microphone Inside Heart Research Advance, Employment Opportunities for Handicapped .... Oct. 7 New Medical College in Delhi :::: Persons. .... Nov. 28 34 New Sulfa .... -- APRIL: Nylon Artery Replacements, Double Pins for Broken Shins, New Tomato Powder .... -... J_une 13 Dec. 36 A Virus against Cancer, Blind Person Sees Light through New New Yorkers Honour Nautilus .._ Radar Set, New British Leprosy Drug Has "Considerable Poten- .... .... -• July 21 Prescriptions tial," Antibiotic for Tropical Diseases. 34 Safe Driving .... .--- Dec. 7 May 36 MAY: Machine Examines Possible Cancer Tissue, U. S. Scientist Space Jewellery Develops Artificial Muscle, BCG—a Leprosy Aid?, Blood Tests Steer with a Window, A... Nov. 21 May 36 for Arthritis, Bread Mould Destroys Blood Clots. 34 Tape Recorder for Explorer JUNE: Giraffe's Blood System Studied, "Ouch Meter" Tests Re- .... •••• Nov. 32 Tooth Decay action to Pain, Antibiotics in Dentistry, Diet Cancer Preven- Twinkling Artificial Eyes Mar. 7 • Aug. 5 tion, New Heart Diagnostic Aid Discovered. 34 Ultra Sonic Vibrations .... JULY: Eye Serves as Resuscitation Guide, Bachelors Short-lived, .... • .• Jan. 29 Unhappiness Can Kill Divorced Women Suffer Arthritis, Personality Is Index to Ill- .... .... Aug. 5 Why Have a Cold? ness. World's Most Powerful Microscope Sept. 36 34 AUGUST: A Good Cry, Glaucoma and Coffee and Cola Drinks, .... Nov. 31 Your Pearls -..- From Man into Woman, Heat-Stroke, Phobias Make Bachelors, Page Multiple-purpose Vaccine Being Developed, Progress in Cancer Research, Improved Surgery for Epilepsy, New Use for Old The Doctor Says Chemical, Relief for Skin Disorders. 34 JANUARY: Flatulence, Allergic Rhinitis, Spinach, Nasal Allergy, SEPTEMBER: Human Bones Replaced by Animal Bones, Tooth Pimples, Removal of Hair. 33 Defects and Brain Disorders, X-Rays on Operation Table, De- FEBRUARY: Micromazia, Diabetes, Painful Heels, Height Increase, vice Aids Heart Surgery, Two New Viruses Identified, New High Blood Pressure. 33 Chemical Dissolves Blood Clots, Mouthwash Cuts Tooth De- MARCH: Diabetes, Nervous Heart, Neuro Dermatitis, Nephritis. 33 cay, Water for Injured Eyes, Synthetic Penicillin, "Heart APRIL: Sore Mouth, Eczema, Polio, Overweight, Acne, Tattoo Pump" Aids Surgeons, Most Potent Hormone Drug Developed. 34 Marks, Headaches. 33 OCTOBER: Grafting of Blood Vessels Saves Patients from Amputa- MAY: Vasectomy, Falling Hair, Brain Tumour, Bleeding Piles, tion, Brain 191/4 Minutes Without Oxygen, Safe Means for Pro- Leucorrhea, Inhalent, Autotherapy, Ophthalmia Neonaturum. 33 ducing Plasma, Painless Dental Injections, Mehrauli T. B. JUNE: Underweight, Prenatal Care, Semen Formation, Sciatica, Hospital. 34 Heart Trouble, Greying Hair, Balancing on Head. 33 NOVEMBER: Ultra-Sound Technique for Eye Diseases, Control of JULY: Muscle on the Chest, Abdominal Exercise. Bad Breath, Diabetes with New Oral Medication, Does Excessive Use of Atrophine, Falling Hair, Boils on the Neck, Low Blood Pressure. 33 Tobacco Cause Cancer? New Substance Rids Body of Strontium. 34 AUGUST: Grey Hair, Bitter Taste in Mouth, Tonic Wanted, Im- DECEMBER: New Heart Operation, Increasing Importance of properly Set Arm, Polio, Superfluous Hair on Lady's Face, Dia- Preventive Medicine, Helning Dwarfed Children Grow, U. S. betes, Hydrocele, Alternating Hot and Cold Baths. 33 Surgeon Develops Spray Treatment for Burn Patients. 34

CHILDREN'S BIRTHRIGHT for him—unobstructed by brick Living in the country in child- (Continued from p. 4.) walls, unspoiled by filth and un- hood "the Voice of the Lord God, "God made the country and man dimmed by smoke. And one of walking in the garden in the cool made the town." these days, somehow, all children of the day" is more likely to be I believe that every child of God born into the world will be given heard : and, being heard by all, has the right to see the country— a chance to enjoy to the full their that Voice might be answered more the house his heavenly Father made inspiring patrimony. universally with warmer love.

THE HERALD OF HEALTH, DECEMBER 1958 27 EAT TO LIVE (Sec table on p. 19) neck so that it gives only a comfort- able heat is easy to apply and pro- (Continued from p. 19.) Wild greens are valued by the duces good relaxation. primitive people and are an im- There are other conditions that only a fraction of a cent per serv- portant source of food. They still may be causes of neck pain. ing. may be had for the picking. The High blood pressure and other Proteins of high quality may be appetite, the zest, the good fellow- forms of vascular disturbance cause inexpensive and interesting, and ship, acquired by a family outing congestive pain in the neck, the so- may provide an opportunity for a in search of these treasures will called indurative headache. Gentle real saving in the budget. In event add a rare quality to the meal that relaxing massage to the neck of scarcity, high price, allergy, or money cannot buy. In addition they muscles and stroking of the neck to restriction of animal proteins, a provide a valuable source of min- move the blood away from the head dependable source of growth- erals and vitamins at a time when are helpful. Specific treatment of promoting protein may be assured. other sources may be limited and the causes is of primary importance. Soups that are high in nutritional prices high. Carbuncles of the neck, nasal value may serve as the main dish Adopt this slogan for all foods : sinusitis, adenoid, wryneck (spas- for luncheon or supper, and pro- The highest nutritional value pos- modic torticollis), pelvic diseases in vide a simple solution to the age-old sible—at reasonable cost. Provide women, chronic kidney inflamma- quest for something different. the best possible foods nutritionally tion (nephritis), uremia, and eye- Vegetables have much to do with in variety. Handle them carefully. strain are often found to cause the health of the family, and more Follow a simple pattern in selecting severe pain at the back of the head especially if all members co-operate the foods for the day, then with a and in the neck. These conditions in helping to raise them. A family few good recipes based on experi- should never be treated at home garden can be fun, and provide an mental knowledge, proceed with but should be cared for by medical abundance of health-giving exer- assurance. Make the food as deli- specialists. cise as well as health-filled foods. cious and attractive as possible, If you have a persistently pain- Vegetables when garden fresh are and enjoy the thrill of satisfaction ful neck or any condition you do always at their best, and there is that comes with the knowledge that not understand, see your physician, evidence that by the use of im- an important work has been well by all means. It is my experience proved strains, methods of garden- done. that it is worth while to attempt ing, and materials, higher nutri- to use the natural methods as home tional value may be secured. treatments that I have suggested Many vegetables high in mineral NECK-ACHE because they are economical, give and vitamin content are practically prolonged relief and sometimes (Continued from p. 15.) unknown in most Indian homes. If permanent cure, and many times you have no room for a garden, reduce the need for pain-relieving the headaches and pains that go your flower border can be made drugs and sedatives. with this condition will be helped. lovelier by including rows of curly 2. A neutral bath at bedtime will kale and parsley. often produce refreshing sleep. Desserts that are simple may be 3. Moist heat in the form of hot AVOID CHEAP SUN-GLASSES health promoting and save time for towels or hot fomentations to the relaxation and companionship. neck and upper part of the back Cheap sunglasses of the bazar Fruits freshly picked provide a real are also relaxing. The effect of this variety almost always have imper- treat for dessert or breakfast, which treatment can be enhanced by put- fections that tire the eyes when ex- with variation may be repeated ting cold compresses on the head, acting seeing tasks are performed, with interest, and are truly health extending the fomentations from according to the Better Vision In- promoting. Prepared by freezing or the neck down the whole length of stitute. One of the lenses is often canning, fruits may still be a valu- the spine, and giving fomentations more deeply tinted than its mate, able addition to the diet, and, as in to the feet at the same time. Such and a mere 3 per cent variation in the case of frozen strawberries or a treatment should be finished with tint can make the wearer mentally orange juice, may provide a valu- a neutral spray. Relaxing massage, suppress one eye. able source of vitamin C. followed by a rest period, is usually It pays to wear only high-quality Retrieved Foods. It is surprising very helpful when given directly sunglasses for protection against that the garbage can is often the after the spray. out-door daytime glare—with your receptacle for the most valuable 4. Heat from an infrared lamp prescription if you are an eyeglass part of our foods. For example: placed two or three feet from the wearer. 28 THE HERALD OF HEALTH, DECEMBER 1958 NERVOUS STOMACH a minority. Most of the chronically involved victims continue to be (Continued from p. 17.) The PublishersPublishers of this Magazine weak, constantly tired, neurotic, Insure Their Motor Cars and melancholic, jittery, and impotent, may be pain from ulcer. The Property with stomach may be upset by allergy complaining of vague pains and to certain foods, or reflexly by dis- aches for many years after initial ease in such other parts of the ab- The National infection. Sometimes, where defi- domen as the liver, gall bladder, nite history of an acute attack is pancreas, appendix, colon, and lacking, diagnosticians are not even the kidneys. Other general EMPLOYERS' certain whether the patient is disease conditions such as fever, actually suffering from brucellosis heart trouble, lung disease, brain or a psychoneurosis! disease, and metabolic disturbance, Mutual General For many years the standard such as uncontrolled diabetes, can guide in treatment has been cheer- affect the stomach directly or by fulness and optimism. This attitude way of emotional reaction to the Association is becoming more and more justi- illness. fiable, thanks to antibiotics. Cur- If you have persistent stomach rently popular because of their complaints you should consult your Insurance gratifying results are terramycin family physician. By a careful his- and tetracycline (tetracyn). It goes tory, physical examination, and without saying that further investi- laboratory and X-ray tests, he will Limited gation is required because of usually be able to tell you the cause Brucella's tendency to chronicity of your trouble. If he tells you that Head Office for the East: before these antibiotic agents can your indigestion is caused by emo- 32 Nicol Road, Ballard Estate, be granted the final stamp of con- tional conflict, don't get angry or Bombay 1. fidence. anxious. He can help you under- Telephone: 26-2823 The solemn truth so far as the stand and overcome your problem (2 lines) 26-2824 wiping out of brucellosis is con- cerned involves economic heart- if you are able to face the real Telegrams: "EMPLOMUTUA" issue. Having the examination and ache for farmers. Eradication im- Chief Office for Northern India: relying on the doctor's judgment plies slaughtering, costly diagnostic 4 Peareylal Buildings, Queens- will give you a feeling of being testing, and vaccination of young Way, New Delhi. animals, a programme that calls backed up and will mitigate your Telephone: 47625 feeling of being alone, trapped, and for governmental subsidies. It is in frustrated. GO0400-000-0-0-0-0 operation in many nations. In the Do not expect to be cured by United States public health agen- diet, antispasmodic or sedative shall be filled" (Matthew 5 : 6) . If cies and veterinarians have made medication, or vitamins. These we surrender ourselves to Him and great progress in controlling brucel- agents have their place in relieving accept His way of life, we will gra- losis, as evidenced by the decline secondary manifestations, but they dually develop confidence, humi- in the number of cases reported, do not affect the basic cause of your lity, tolerance, self-respect, pati- particularly during the recent past. difficulty. ence, thankfulness, peace of mind, We can look forward to the time Your doctor will advise you and joy of living. These are better when brucellosis will suffer the about sensible eating habits and aids to good digestion than all the fate of typhoid fever—become avoiding spice, coffee, alcohol, and rituals of diet and medication ever nothing more threatening than a tobacco. He will help you see the devised. memory retained by the old-timers. importance of satisfying and re- warding work, relaxing recrea- tional activity and rest, pleasant re- MILK FEVER lations with others, and spiritual (Continued from p. 23.) sources of strength. Season's greetings from the The source of our spiritual as chronic affliction, with the blood well as our physical sustenance is stream never free of the organism Editorial Staff. our Lord. He pronounced a bless- during the time, patients have re- ing on those who "hunger and covered after three to five years of thirst after righteousness: for they suffering. Unfortunately they are THE HERALD OF HEALTH, DECEMBER 1958 29 DILIP takes a dip!

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DALDA brand VANASPATI more than a cooking medium-a food DL. 457-X54 HINDUSTAN LEVER LIMITED,ZOMBAY WILLIAM HARVEY which his colleagues were prepared forced to capitulate. As an exposi- to defend to the last man. In 1628, tion of the art of experimental sci- (Continued from p. 10.) 12 years later, he published An entific investigation the treatise• Anatomical Treatise on the Move- (also preserved in the British Mu- that arteries played only a minor ment of the Heart and Blood in seum) was not only the first of its part. The heart, if it had any func- Animals. kind, but it also set the pattern for tion at all, was thought to act as a This put forward an unanswer- all who followed after—from Jen- kind of heating apparatus for the able case and swept aside the cob- ner, the discoverer of vaccination blood. Galen had stated these be- webs that had so long cluttered the against smallpox, to Fleming, the liefs and generations of physicians medical brain. The opposition was discoverer of penicillin. had handed them on. No one ques- tioned them. Had Harvey been a lesser man, no doubt, he would have been con- BLOOD tent to swim with the current of prevailing opinion and accept the (Continued from p. 11.) mumbo jumbo of dogma which passed at the time for science. But he did not do so. It was the sign blood is slightly alkaline in charac- ries oxygen to the tissues through of his greatness that he had the ter. the arteries, while it carries back courage to take his own line and We find that when there is bleed- carbon dioxide through the veins, seek the truth where it was to be ing (either internal or external) the arterial blood is bright red in found. In doing so he used the as a result of the rupture of any colour while the veinous blood is method of observation and experi- artery, a clot is soon formed, pre- dark red. It is by the test of colour ment in research which we accept venting further haemorrhage. This that we can often roughly ascertain today as the only true basis of all clotting property of the blood is whether any blood shed is the effect scientific investigation. This is the due to the existence of a proteinous of a wound in an artery or in a significance of Harvey's contribu- substance called fibrinogen in the vein. tion to medicine. plasma. As soon as the blood comes The red corpuscles are manufac- out of the blood-vessel, a new sub- tured in the bone-marrow. They So far as posterity is concerned, stance called fibrin is formed out of are destroyed in the spleen after an the most momentous event in Har- fibrinogen and it is this fibrin that average life of 3 to 4 weeks. The vey's career was his appointment causes the coagulation. But for the white corpuscles are the sentries of in 1616 to an important lectureship coagulating property of the blood the system, guarding it against the at Britain's College of Physicians. even a slight wound would be attacks of bacteria, and refusing to It was this, perhaps, more than enough to drain out all the blood give any quarter to them without a anything else that turned his mind of the body. In the process of co- regular fight. towards research. The subject on agulation, the plasma breaks into When the white corpuscles die which he lectured was anatomy. fibrin and a fluid called serum. in fighting they form what is called Fortunately, the notes which he Thus blood minus its corpuscles is pus. They have the power to mi- made for his first course of lectures plasma and plasma minus its fib- grate from place to place outside are preserved in the British Mu- rinogen is serum. of the blood vessels and through seum. Although his writing, like Blood forms about 12% of the the tissues. They are very well or- that of most doctors, is difficult to weight of the body. The red cor- ganised—these white cell soldiers read, we find that at that time puscles contain a substance called of repair—and they work with de- Harvey already held the revolu- hxmoglobin, which consists chiefly spatch and intelligence as if by tionary opinion that the blood cir- of a nitrogenous body and a colour- command of a master hand. Any culated in the body. "The move- ing matter together with a small foreigner which may try to gain ment of the blood," he wrote, "is quantity of iron. This haemoglobin entrance, or which actually gets constantly in a circle, and is has a great attraction for oxygen inside, causes these little cells to brought about by the beat of the and is therefore known as the oxy- migrate quickly to that area. This heart." gen carrier of the body. It looks army has sentries stationed at many But, like the true scientist and bright-red in combination with oxy- suitable points to guard against the seeker after truth that he was, Har- gen, and (-lark in colour when it is invasion of foreigners on their vey waited until his evidence was deprived of oxygen or saturated soil. Our wandering cells—the complete before he stormed the with the carbon dioxide produced white cells of our blood—protect us centuries-old citadel of orthodoxy by waste tissues. As the blood car- from invading germs and they arc

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32 THE HERALD OF HEALTH, DECEMBER 1958 important part in curing this condi- CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE: THE tion. You should go on a very smooth, Ques.—One night last year, I was sud- non-irritating diet, starting first with denly stricken with paralysis. I was DOCTOR milk, pureed foods being added gra- helped to my bed and rested till morn- dually. Avoid all irritating and gas ing, when the doctor diagnosed my forming foods such as coarse vege- condition. I have taken many treat- SAYS tables, consisting of cauliflower, cab- ments with the result that my condi- bage, beans and so forth. You also ought to have frequent tion has improved somewhat and my 1. This question and answer service is free health seems sound, but my left hand only to regular subscribers. stool examinations to determine and foot have lost their sensation. I 2. No attempt will be made to treat disease whether you have any recurrence of nor to take the place of a regular physician amceba. If you do, you may try cannot move about unaided. Circula- in caring for individual cases. tion is not active in the affected parts. Aralis, two tablets three times a day 3. All questions must be addressed to The Ans.—Paralysis following cerebral Doctor Says. Correspondence personally with for one week. I would also suggest that hxmorrhage leaves a certain amount the doctor is not available through this service. you take Gelusil or Aludrox tablets of weakness of the limbs involved 4. Questions to which personal answers are one—four times a day. This will re- desired must be accompanied by ADDRESSED depending upon the severity of the AND STAMPED ENVELOPES. Answers cannot lieve irritation of the stomach. be expected under ONE MONTH. stroke. If it is not very severe, there is 9 complete recovery in time. The best 5. Questions sent in on Post Cards will not receive attention. thing you can do is to have a general ELEPHANTIASIS OR FILARIA: 6. Make questions short and to the point. daily massage of the parts affected. If Type them or write them very clearly. Ques.—My brother, 20 years of age, you can, have a competent physical has been suffering from elephantiasis 7. Questions and answers will be published therapist to give you the treatment a only if they are of such a nature as to be of or filaria for the last four years. He general interest and without objection, but no few times and then someone in the names will be published. Address "The Doctor has swelling from the disease in his family medically inclined can give it Says," Oriental Watchman and Herald of left leg from the foot to the knee. The Health, P. O. Box 35, Poona 1, India. to you at home; if you can do this, swelling increases when he walks for you will notice gradual improvement. long distances or while he keeps legs In the meantime, your blood pressure down for some time at a stretch. If naturally he would tend to be small. should be checked very closely to be he takes a rest for four days without In any case, a good wholesome diet sure that there is no repetition of the exertion, the swelling will completely composed of an abundance of fruits stroke. disappear. I would be obliged and and vegetables, high calorie foods such thankful if a suitable medicine is pre- as rice, potatoes and macaroni would scribed to cure the disease completely. NEUROLOGICAL DISORDER: help to increase your weight. If you Ans.—Filaria is quite common in Ques.—A friend of mine 28 years of are deficient in vitamins, a good this country. Precautions should be age has been losing strength from the vitamin B complex might increase taken in preventing the disease. One knees downward for the last six your appetite. However, overweight is should use a mosquito net while sleep- months. His legs have become very more to be feared than slight under- ing as the disease is caused by mos- thin. While walking his steps are not weight. quito bites. In order to determine if straight. The local doctor has given 9 him some tablets and injections, also the patient has filaria or not, he should massage, but there is no sign of cure. HAIR OIL: Ques.—I am 21 years have a blood test done for this pur- Sometimes he falls down while he is of age and my hair is beginning to pose at 12 midnight, as that is the trying to walk. come out. I was using pure coconut time when the organisms are most Ans.—Your friend may be suffering oil so far. Since changing to another active in the blood circulation. from some neurological disease and college, I am not getting coconut oil, One of the commonest medicines will need the help of a competent and so I wonder if that is the cause of used in curing the disease is Hetrazan. physician. However, in the meantime, my hair falling out. Also Polyvalent Antimony injections he should have blood tests such as Ans.—Excess use of oils is not bene- are given for this purpose. Kahn and a complete blood count to ficial. I would suggest that you wash determine if there is any particular your hair at least once a week and cause for this trouble. Treatment massage your scalp very vigorously PERSPIRING: Ques.—For the last would naturally depend upon the for ten minutes every day. You may two or three years I have perspired cause. also use some spirited hair-tonic if it profusely from the palms of my hands 9 is available there. after taking either hot or cold drinks. 9 Usually in the summer season I per- WEIGHT INCREASE: Ques.—I spire profusely whenever I drink even am thirty years old and married. I AMEBIC DYSENTERY: Ques.— a glassful of water. What is this due have no disease. My weight remains I have been suffering from chronic to and is there a remedy for it? between 110 and 116 lbs. and has not amcebic dysentery for many years. I Ans.—Perspiring after a drink of varied during the last eight years, even have also recently developed stomach even cold water is a natural body re- though I have endeavoured by exer- acidity. Please advise me as to what I action. Outside of general hygiene and cise and in other ways to increase my should do. I am about 40 years of age daily bathing, no particular treatment weight. and medium built. There is no medical is necessary in your case. Ans.—The weight of an individual help available near my home. depends upon many factors. One of Ans.—Chronic amcebiasis often them is height. Heredity must also be causes colitis, which if not taken care Printed and published by L. C. Shepard at and for the Oriental Watchman Publishing taken into consideration. If a person of becomes chronic. No doubt you House, Salisbury Park, Poona 1. 3514-58. comes from a family of small people have this trouble. Diet plays a very

THE WEALS OF HEALTH, DECEMBER 1953 33 THE LAST WORD

New Heart Operation awarded WHO fellowships to take Hospital and Harvard University advance courses in public health at Medical School. Dr. M. S. Mazel, chief surgeon at Harvard, USA, and have just The hormone is derived from the Edgewater Hospital, Chicago, returned. pituitary glands of deceased persons Illinois, reported to the American The five teachers, from various and is purified into gray powder. Academy of General Practice, a Indian States, include Dr. R. It also serves to hasten the burn- relatively safe, simple operation Sharma (Rajasthan), Dr. D. K. ing of fat in the body, according that offers new hope to many. heart- Ramadwar (Bombay), Dr. Henry to Dr. Henneman, who believes it disease patients. The operation Moses (Madras) and Dr. M. L. might be able to combat excess fat takes only 30 minutes, and the Chugh (Punjab) who took a two- and atherosclerosis, a fatty ob- patient may get up the next day. year course, and Dr. S. K. struction of the arteries which causes heart attacks. Describing the operation, Dr. Upadhyaya (West Bengal), who Mazel said that the pericardium, a took a one-year course. In addition —U.S.I.S. sac-like covering that surrounds to their studies at the Harvard the heart, is opened and any fluid School of Public Health they were U. S. Surgeon Develops removed. The sac is then partially taken on observation visits to UK Spray Treatment for Burn filled with a very fine silicon and Yugoslavia. Patients powder, which is spread with Under the same programme Dr. B. N. Lingaraju (Mysore) com- AN AMERICAN surgeon has de- special instruments and atomizers pleted his training last year and veloped a shower-spray treatment between the heart and the two more teachers, Dr. Lakshmi that will speed relief and healing pericardium. Kant (Bihar) and Dr. M. C. Mittal of patients who have suffered ex- The operation causes a severe (Madhya Pradesh) are studying tensive or severe burns. inflammatory reaction, but it is not currently at Harvard on WHO Dr. Gerald Klein made the re- infectious. This reaction increases fellowships. port at a meeting recently of the the number of blood vessels near More fellowships of this type are Washington Hospital Centre's the heart, pericardium and sur- planned to be given during 1958, medical and surgical staffs. Dr. rounding organs. These added blood 1959 and 1960. Klein, who developed the new vessels bring a new supply of blood The teaching of preventive medi- device, is a surgical resident at the to the heart. Dr. Mazel added that cine has been receiving increasing Hospital Centre. coronary heart disease is caused by importance in medical education In the treatment, the specially a narrowing, or constriction, of the but owing to an almost total lack bedded patient is showered inter- blood vessels that supply the heart. of suitably trained teachers the mittently with a mixture of water The operation, he said, must be present scheme was devised by at body temperature and a mildly done early—before the coronary WHO in consultation with the antiseptic hospital standby solu- patient's heart is damaged beyond Government of India to build up a tion, Phisohex. repair. Dr. Mazel pointed out that cadre of such teachers. The patient is kept in an atmos- the patient who has recovered from phere of almost 100 per cent relative one coronary attack is likely to humidity to soften the scabs and Helping Dwarfed Children suffer another within five years. scarring processes of burns. This Grow makes it easier to remove dead Dr. Mazel said that the new tissues and reduces the risk of in- operation usually makes it possible A HORMONE taken from the fection sometimes caused by open- for the patient to return to work, brains of deceased persons is en- air treatment. take his place in society, and abling some dwarfed children to Klein also told the meeting of enjoy a normal life without con- grow, U.S. medical authorities re- three cases where the new spray stant fear of impending death as port. A 13-year-old girl whose method had been used on patients the result of a sudden coronary height was only that of a six-year- with serious second and third de- attack. old girl gained nearly an inch after gree burns. All have recovered a six week period of taking only successfully. Increasing Importance of a ten-thousandth of an ounce (only Preventive Medicine .0028 gramme) of the develop- mental formalin each day. Her Five medical colleges in India growth had ceased when a tumour shortly will be able to strengthen damaged the pituitary gland in the their departments of preventive and brain which generates maturing May 1959 bring you the social medicine as the result of a hormones. Government of India programme T .r youngsters of the which is being actively supported ; 1;'arly afflicted, are best of HEALTH. by the World Health Organization • * --rn treatment, ac- The departments will be rein- Philip H. Henne- forced by teachers who were an of t.ie Massachusetts General • • • • • • • • • • • OOOOOOOOOOOOO

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Month Page Page SEPTEMBER: Overweight Youth, Underweight & Eyes Sensitive Story Time to Light, Stammering, Burning in Left Side of Abdomen, In- Aruna's Birthday Gift July 24 ability to Concentrate, Nose Bleeding, Poor Health. 33 Auntie's Mysterious Parcel Edgar A. 'Warren Oct. 24 OCTOBER: Pranayam, Urticaria, Menopause, Metabolism, Super- Brave Blianu Miss J. N. Cooper Nov. 24 fluous Hair, Smallpox Scars. 33 Caught, but Not Guilty .... David Goodlett Mar. 24 NOVEMBER: Tinnitis, Prostate Trouble, Writer's Cramp, Para- Elephant's Memory, An April 24 lysis or Stroke, Typhoid, Pimples, Height. 33 Ganesh's Gunpowder Plot DECEMBER: Cerebral Haemorrhage, Neurological Disorder, Weight (Part I) Ivy S. Doherty Aug. 24 Increase, Hair Oil, Ammbic Dysentery, Elephantiasis or Filaria, Ganesh's Gunpowder Plot Perspiring. 33 (Part 2) Ivy S. Doherty Sept. 24 Little Miss Know-All ._ Feb. 24 Homemakers' Helps Little Too Smart, A (Part 1) Tom Tucker May 24 Little Too Smart, A (Part 2) Tom Tucker une 24 JANUARY: Faultfinding; Recipes: Apple Snow Custard, Custard, Roy's Friend (Part 2) Mallie C. Lacy an. 24 Miss Custard Bread Pudding, Lemon Cake-top Pudding, Cream Puffs, Shivaji and His Dog J. N. Cooper ov. 24 Present for the Prisoner Elva Gardiner Dec. 24 Cream Filling, Banana Cream Meringue. 26 Miss J. N. Cooper Mar. 24 FEBRUARY: Being Thoughtful of Others; Recipes: Dhal Cakes, Tricks Galore Savoury Tomatoes, Eggs Creole, Rice and Cashew Nut Cutlets, Potatoes with Onions, Tomato Omelet, Puffy Rice Omelet, Students' Guide Potato Omelet. 26 6 MARCH: Pets; Recipes: Rice Water, Cabbage and Orange Salad, Aim High .... Jan. Cauliflower Salad, Vegetable Sandwiches. 26 Don't Drown -- April 6 APRIL: Planning Your Work; Recipes: Onion Soup, Poached Eggs Hints from a Railway President Nov. 6 on Greens, Cottage Cheese Salad, Baked Onions, Stuffed Cap- How's Your Memory? ..- Sept. 6 sicum, Macaroni with Tomatoes, Baked Beans, Potato Dumplings. 26 Indian Coach Lauds U.S. MAY: Will They Pass?; Recipes: Salad Dinner, Potato Salad, Grape- Practice — Dec. 6 fruit Salad, Orange and Nut Salad, Orange-Cabbage Salad, Trials of a Teen-Ager _ .— Aug. 6 Celery and Pea Salad, Carrot Salad, Mixed Vegetable Salad. 26 Voices of the Deep Oct. 6 JUNE: Encourage the Child; Recipes: Fruit Bars, Apricot Bars, Who Wants to Memorize? .._ 6 Stuffed Tomatoes, Cauliflower and Bean Salad, Nutmeat, Car- Your Brain Needs Breakfast Pne 6 rot Cutlets. 26 JULY: Are You a Homemaker? (Part 1) 26 AUGUST: Are You a Homemaker? (Part 2) 26 Chart SEPTEMBER: Fruits; Recipes: Fruit Cup, Fruit Soup, Grape-Fruit Preventive Inoculations -- Jan. 11 and Pineapple Salad, Russian Salad, Russian Dressing, Lemonaise, Lemon Pie Filling, Cheesecake, Refrigerator Ice Cream, Car- rot Roast. 26 Miscellaneous OCTOBER: Your Child and Safety. 26 American Red Cross Donates Salk Vaccine Sept. 2 NOVEMBER: Love Your Children; Recipes: Vegetable Cutlets, Antibiotics ... ---- Apr. 29 Friday Meat Loaf, Lentil (Brown Dhal) Patties, Savoury Lima Antibiotic Better than Penicillin .... Oct. 29 (Broad) Beans. 26 Blood Test for Sanity? .... ..- Mar. 7 Dizzy Dentistry .... .... June 29 The Last Word Father's Part July 32 From the First Puff .... .... .... Mar. 27 lune JANUARY: Virus Transformed, Quicker Blood Tests, "Wonder Good Resolution for Boys A .... 20 Drug" Fights Plant Diseases, Chemical Purifies Auto Exhaust Grants and Training of Nurse-Midwives .... Oct. 25 .... Dec. 7 Gas Time-Saving X-Ray Machine, Baby's Crying Makes Crib Heart Stoppage in Surgery .... Rock, Atom May Heat Homes of Future, "Painting" Strength- Head Cameras for Flight Performance .... Dec. 36 Nov. 28 ens Blood Vessels. 34 How to Enjoy Bifocals .... .... .... FEBRUARY: Detecting Cancer, New Device Helps Deaf, Study of Important Advance in Fight Against Trachoma Dec. 21 Sept. 36 Blood Circulation, Enzyme Dissolves Blood Clots Drug Aids Indian Surgeon in U.S. Saves Boy's Life.... Advanced Cancer Patients, Training School for Lady Health Lemons for Lilt .... .... ian. 30 oept. 30 Visitors, Aid to Displaced T. B. Patients from West Pakistan. 34 Lift of Laughter, The .... .... .... MARCH: Tobacco Smoking and Betel Chewing as Causes of Cancer, Married Boredom .... .... - Mar. 27 Sept. 21 U.K. Gift to Madanapalle T. B. Sanatorium, More Effective Thy- Medicated Salt . . . Malaria Control .... roid Drug, Spectacles Provoke Strange Notions, Paraplegia Microphone Inside Heart .... Sept. 24 .... Oct. 7 Research Advance, Employment Opportunities for Handicapped New Medical College in Delhi :.:: Persons. 34 New Sulfa .... .... -- Nov. 28 June 13 APRIL: Nylon Artery Replacements, Double Pins for Broken Shins, New Tomato Powder .... -... A Virus against Cancer, Blind Person Sees Light through New New Yorkers Honour Nautilus .... Dec. 36 July 21 Radar Set, New British Leprosy Drug Has "Considerable Poten- Prescriptions .... tial," Antibiotic for Tropical Diseases. 34 Safe Driving ---- Dec. May 36 MAY: Machine Examines Possible Cancer Tissue, U. S. Scientist Space Jewellery .... Develops Artificial Muscle, BCG—a Leprosy Aid?, Blood Tests Steer with a Window, A Nov. 21 May 36 for Arthritis, Bread Mould Destroys Blood Clots. 34 Tape Recorder for Explorer JUNE: Giraffe's Blood System Studied, "Ouch Meter" Tests Re- Tooth Decay .... Nov. 32 Twinkling Artificial Eyes Mar. 7 action to Pain, Antibiotics in Dentistry, Diet Cancer Preven- Ultra Sonic Vibrations .... Aug. 5 tion, New Heart Diagnostic Aid Discovered. 34 Unhappiness Can Kill .... Jan. 29 JULY: Eye Serves as Resuscitation Guide, Bachelors Short-lived, Why Have a Cold? .... Aug. 5 Divorced Women Suffer Arthritis, Personality Is Index to Ill- World's Most Powerful Microscope Sept. 36 Jnest. 34 Nov. 31 AUGUST: A Good Cry, Glaucoma and Coffee and Cola Drinks, Your Pearls .... .... From Man into Woman, Heat-Stroke, Phobias Make Bachelors, Page Multiple-purpose Vaccine Being Developed, Progress in Cancer Research, Improved Surgery for Epilepsy, New Use for Old The Doctor Says Chemical, Relief for Skin Disorders. 34 JANUARY: Flatulence, Allergic Rhinitis, Spinach, Nasal Allergy, SEPTEMBER: Human Bones Replaced by Animal Bones, Tooth Pimples, Removal of Hair. 33 Defects and Brain Disorders, X-Rays on Operation Table, De- FEBRUARY: Micromazia, Diabetes, Painful Heels, Height Increase, vice Aids Heart Surgery, 'Two New Viruses Identified, New High Blood Pressure. 33 Chemical Dissolves Blood Clots, Mouthwash Cuts Tooth De- MARCH: Diabetes, Nervous Heart, Neuro Dermatitis, Nephritis. 33 cay, Water for Injured Eyes, Synthetic Penicillin, "Heart APRIL: Sore Mouth, Eczema, Polio, Overweight, Acne, Tattoo Pump" Aids Surgeons. Most Potent Hormone Drug Developed. 34 Marks, Headaches. 33 OCTOBER: Grafting of Blood Vessels Saves Patients from Amputa- MAY: Vasectomy, Falling Hair, Brain Tumour, Bleeding Piles, tion, Brain 191/2 Minutes Without Oxygen, Safe Means for Pro- Leucorrhea, Inhalent, Autotherapy, Ophthalmia Neonaturum. 33 during Plasma, Painless Dental Injections, Mehrauli T. B. JUNE: Underweight, Prenatal Care, Semen Formation, Sciatica, Hospital. 34 Heart Trouble, Greying Hair, Balancing on Head. 33 NOVEMBER: Ultra-Sound Technique for Eye Diseases, Control of JULY: Muscle on the Chest, Abdominal Exercise. Bad Breath, Diabetes with New Oral Medication, Does Excessive Use of Atrophine, Falling Hair, Boils on the Neck, Low Blood Pressure. 33 Tobacco Cause Cancer? New Substance Rids Body of Strontium. 34 AUGUST: Grey Hair, Bitter Taste in Mouth, Tonic Wanted, Im- DECEMBER: New Heart Operation, Increasing Importance of properly Set Arm, Polio. Superfluous Hair on Lady's Face, Dia- Preventive Medicine, Helning Dwarfed Children Grow, U. S. betes, Hydrocele, Alternating Hot and Cold Baths. 33 Surgeon Develops Spray Treatment for Burn Patients. 34

CHILDREN'S BIRTHRIGHT for him—unobstructed by brick Living in the country in child- (Continued from p. 4.) walls, unspoiled by filth and un- hood "the Voice of the Lord God, "God made the country and man dimmed by smoke. And one of walking in the garden in the cool made the town." these days, somehow, all children of the day" is more likely to be I believe that every child of God born into the world will be given heard : and, being heard by all, has the right to see the country— a chance to enjoy to the full their that Voice might be answered more the house his heavenly Father made inspiring patrimony. universally with warmer love.

THE HERALD OF HEALTH, DECEMBER 1958 27 EAT TO LIVE ( See table on p. 19) neck so that it gives only a comfort- able heat is easy to apply and pro- (Continued from p. 19.) Wild greens are valued by the duces good relaxation. primitive people and are an im- There are other conditions that only a fraction of a cent per serv- portant source of food. They still may be causes of neck pain. ing. may be had for the picking. The High blood pressure and other Proteins of high quality may be appetite, the zest, the good fellow- forms of vascular disturbance cause inexpensive and interesting, and ship, acquired by a family outing congestive pain in the neck, the so- may provide an opportunity for a in search of these treasures will called indurative headache. Gentle real saving in the budget. In event add a rare quality to the meal that relaxing massage to the neck of scarcity, high price, allergy, or money cannot buy. In addition they muscles and stroking of the neck to restriction of animal proteins, a provide a valuable source of min- move the blood away from the head dependable source of growth- erals and vitamins at a time when are helpful. Specific treatment of promoting protein may be assured. other sources may be limited and the causes is of primary importance. Soups that are high in nutritional prices high. Carbuncles of the neck, nasal value may serve as the main dish Adopt this slogan for all foods : sinusitis, adenoid, wryneck (spas- for luncheon or supper, and pro- The highest nutritional value pos- modic torticollis), pelvic diseases in vide a simple solution to the age-old sible—at reasonable cost. Provide women, chronic kidney inflamma- quest for something different. the best possible foods nutritionally tion (nephritis), uremia, and eye- Vegetables have much to do with in variety. Handle them carefully. strain are often found to cause the health of the family, and more Follow a simple pattern in selecting severe pain at the back of the head especially if all members co-operate the foods for the day, then with a and in the neck. These conditions in helping to raise them. A family few good recipes based on experi- should never be treated at home garden can be fun, and provide an mental knowledge, proceed with but should be cared for by medical abundance of health-giving exer- assurance. Make the food as deli- specialists. cise as well as health-filled foods. cious and attractive as possible, If you have a persistently pain- Vegetables when garden fresh are and enjoy the thrill of satisfaction ful neck or any condition you do always at their best, and there is that comes with the knowledge that not understand, see your physician, evidence that by the use of im- an important work has been well by all means. It is my experience proved strains, methods of garden- done. that it is worth while to attempt ing, and materials, higher nutri- to use the natural methods as home tional value may be secured. treatments that I have suggested Many vegetables high in mineral NECK-ACHE because they are economical, give and vitamin content are practically prolonged relief and sometimes (Continued from p. 15.) unknown in most Indian homes. If permanent cure, and many times you have no room for a garden, reduce the need for pain-relieving the headaches and pains that go your flower border can be made drugs and sedatives. with this condition will be helped. lovelier by including rows of curly 2. A neutral bath at bedtime will kale and parsley. often produce refreshing sleep. Desserts that are simple may be 3. Moist heat in the form of hot AVOID CHEAP SUN-GLASSES health promoting and save time for towels or hot fomentations to the relaxation and companionship. neck and upper part of the back Cheap sunglasses of the bazar Fruits freshly picked provide a real are also relaxing. The effect of this variety almost always have imper- treat for dessert or breakfast, which treatment can be enhanced by put- fections that tire the eyes when ex- with variation may be repeated ting cold compresses on the head, acting seeing tasks are performed, with interest, and are truly health extending the fomentations from according to the Better Vision In- promoting. Prepared by freezing or the neck down the whole length of stitute. One of the lenses is often canning, fruits may still be a valu- the spine, and giving fomentations more deeply tinted than its mate, able addition to the diet, and, as in to the feet at the same time. Such and a mere 3 per cent variation in the case of frozen strawberries or a treatment should be finished with tint can make the wearer mentally orange juice, may provide a valu- a neutral spray. Relaxing massage, suppress one eye. able source of vitamin C. followed by a rest period, is usually It pays to wear only high-quality Retrieved Foods. It is surprising very helpful when given directly sunglasses for protection against that the garbage can is often the after the spray. out-door daytime glare—with your receptacle for the most valuable 4. Heat from an infrared lamp prescription if you are an eyeglass part of our foods. For example: placed two or three feet from the wearer. 28 THE HERALD OF HEALTH, DECEMBER 1958 NERVOUS STOMACH a minority. Most of the chronically involved victims continue to be (Continued from p. 17.) The Publishers of this Magazine weak, constantly tired, neurotic, Insure Their Motor Cars and melancholic, jittery, and impotent, may be pain from ulcer. The Property with stomach may be upset by allergy complaining of vague pains and to certain foods, or reflexly by dis- aches for many years after initial ease in such other parts of the ab- The National infection. Sometimes, where defi- domen as the liver, gall bladder, nite history of an acute attack is pancreas, appendix, colon, and lacking, diagnosticians are not even the kidneys. Other general EMPLOYERS' certain whether the patient is disease conditions such as fever, actually suffering from brucellosis heart trouble, lung disease, brain or a psychoneurosis! disease, and metabolic disturbance, Mutual General For many years the standard such as uncontrolled diabetes, can guide in treatment has been cheer- affect the stomach directly or by fulness and optimism. This attitude way of emotional reaction to the Association is becoming more and more justi- illness. fiable, thanks to antibiotics. Cur- If you have persistent stomach rently popular because of their complaints you should consult your Insurance gratifying results are terramycin family physician. By a careful his- and tetracycline (tetracyn). It goes tory, physical examination, and without saying that further investi- laboratory and X-ray tests, he will Limited gation is required because of usually be able to tell you the cause Brucella's tendency to chronicity of your trouble. If he tells you that Head Office for the East: before these antibiotic agents can your indigestion is caused by emo- 32 Nicol Road, Ballard Estate, be granted the final stamp of con- tional conflict, don't get angry or Bombay 1. fidence. anxious. He can help you under- Telephone: 26-2823 The solemn truth so far as the stand and overcome your problem (2 lines) 26-2824 wiping out of brucellosis is con- cerned involves economic heart- if you are able to face the real Telegrams: "EMPLOMUTUA" issue. Having the examination and ache for farmers. Eradication im- Chief Office for Northern India: plies slaughtering, costly diagnostic relying on the doctor's judgment 4 Peareylal Buildings, Queens- will give you a feeling of being testing, and vaccination of young Way, New Delhi. animals, a programme that calls backed up and will mitigate your Telephone: 47625 feeling of being alone, trapped, and for governmental subsidies. It is in frustrated. 00-0-00-0-00.0-0-0-0 operation in many nations. In the Do not expect to be cured by United States public health agen- diet, antispasmodic or sedative shall be filled" (Matthew 5 : 6). If cies and veterinarians have made medication, or vitamins. These we surrender ourselves to Him and great progress in controlling brucel- agents have their place in relieving accept His way of life, we will gra- losis, as evidenced by the decline secondary manifestations, but they dually develop confidence, humi- in the number of cases reported, do not affect the basic cause of your lity, tolerance, self-respect, pati- particularly during the recent past. difficulty. ence, thankfulness, peace of mind, We can look forward to the time Your doctor will advise you and joy of living. These are better when brucellosis will suffer the about sensible eating habits and aids to good digestion than all the fate of typhoid fever—become avoiding spice, coffee, alcohol, and rituals of diet and medication ever nothing more threatening than a tobacco. He will help you see the devised. memory retained by the old-timers. importance of satisfying and re- warding work, relaxing recrea- tional activity and rest, pleasant re- MILK FEVER lations with others, and spiritual (Continued from p. 23.) sources of strength. Season's greetings from the The source of our spiritual as chronic affliction, with the blood well as our physical sustenance is stream never free of the organism Editorial Stag. our Lord. He pronounced a bless- during the time, patients have re- ing on those who "hunger and covered after three to five years of thirst after righteousness: for they suffering. Unfortunately they are

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