YOUR HEALTH: HERE'S HOW!
Stafford, Jane
YOUR HEALTH: Here's How! By JANE STAFFORD Jane Stafford CANCER is a sly and crafty foe. It usually announces itself fairly early, but by symptoms that may not seem at all alarming. It rarely...
...Alvarez advises...
...It rarely causes pain until it is far advanced...
...Eat ROCHESTER, Minn.—If your best friend lets you down, if you make a tragic mistake, or if you receive bad news from your own sector of the war front—better raid the ice box right away...
...Because cancer is such a sly enemy, developing with only slight warnings at first, it is important for you not to lose your head in panicky fear of it, but to keep your wits about you...
...Whether or not that individual dies of cancer is largely a matter of choice...
...The penicillin seems to have had the effect of keeping the germs of infection at bay while the new tissue growth had a chance to take place, rather than of suppressing them entirely...
...Accordingly, they gave heavy injections of the mold-drug to 17 very badly burned patients, at one or two-hour intervals for from one-half day to five days before the grafting operation...
...Another Victory For Penicillin CHICAGOj—Penicillin has scored yet another victory in the battle against death and disablement, this time as a powerful aid in getting large skin grafts to take hold on areas that have suffered deep and severe flesh burns...
...Eat every hour or every two hours, especially between midnight and 3 a. m., and you may avoid a flare-up, hemorrhage, or perforation, Dr...
...Herman E. Hill-eboe, chief of the U. S. Public Health Service Tuberculosis Division, states in summarizing a statistical study of 92 cities of 100,000 or larger for the period 1939-41...
...Of all persons who reach the age of 35, one out of 10 will eventually develop cancer," reads a warning from the American Society for the Control of Cancer...
...Science Service Reports When Emotionally Upset...
...Remember that early cancer is curable and that the smart person who suspects he might have cancer goes at once to a doctor...
...To overcome this enemy, you must be alert to the slight signs of something wrong that are the really early danger signals of cancer...
...Many thousands of people who are now alive and well five or more- years after treatment for cancer are living evidence that modern methods of treatment are highly effective when applied to early cancer...
...J. W. Hirsh-feld, Dr...
...On an average, about a quarter of a large grafted area fails to "take...
...The success is reported in the forthcoming issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association by a four-man research team consisting of Dr...
...Many such experiences will doubtless spring to the mind of every busy physician who reads these words, all illustrating what is well known today, namely that the patient with ulcer is most in danger of a flare-up or a catastrophe during the hours immediately following a distressing emotional storm...
...Tuberculosis Death Rates WASHINGTON—Startlingly great differences in tuberculosis death rates among American cities are challenging public health authorities, and steps are already being taken to find, and if possible eliminate, the causes of the bad records...
...The "take" score ranged from 90 per cent to 100 per cent of the total grafted areas, with the single exception of "an uncooperative alcohol addict," whose "take" was on-ly 80 per cent...
...M. A. Pilling, Dr...
...C. W. Buggs, and Dr...
...the hoarseness that lasts longer than two weeks ; unusual bleeding, repeated spells of indigestion or vague stomach distress...
...the lump in the breast and also the changed appearance of breast or nipple...
...Walter C. Alvarez, of the Mayo Clinic, here, writing in the cuurrent issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association...
...Differences range between the low score of 15.6 deaths per 100,000 population among white people in Grand Rapids, Mich., to a high of 275.5 per 100,000 among nonwhites in Newark, N. J., Dr...
...He finds out what is wrong and prepares to follow promptly his doctor's advice, whether it is to see a specialist, arrange for an operation, or have X-ray or radium treatment...
...One of the principal causes of failure in skin grafting operations has been the practically unavoidable infection of the tissues after the burned, dead flesh has sloughed off...
...Another man, when a violent strike in his factory distressed him terribly, had a big hemorrhage...
...This advice to eat in an emotional crisis is offered to all those who have had a stomach or duodenal ulcer by Dr...
...The four researchers, who had been using a sulfa-drug treatment with some success, decided to see if they could improve their score with penicillin...
...A woman who adored her peppery little daughter-in-law one day inadvertently offended her and brought down on her head a storm of abuse which nearly killed her...
...A woman who heard that her soldier husband had just been killed at the front promptly had a hemorrhage...
...Included in these are: the sore that is slow to heal...
...Alvarez says: "A man of 50 who had always been well discovered one day that the man who for twenty years had been his brother-in-law, his closest friend, and his business partner had been falsifying the books in order to steal from him...
...Next day a long-healed ulcer flared up and perforated...
...W. E. Abbott, of Wayne University College of Medicine and the Detroit Receiving Hospital...
...Bacteriological examination of material taken from sample areas showed the germs still present, but apparently unable to start any mischief...
...You can easily set an alarm clock to wake yourself at midnight, perhaps, and again at 2 a. m. Explaining the reasons for this advice, Dr...
...Cities as a whole compare unfavorably with smaller towns and rural areas, the study shows...
...The choice is pretty obvious, but a good many people do not know they can choose not to die of cancer...
...All that night he lay awake in great mental distress, and next day had a big gastric hemorrhage...
Vol. 8 • August 1944 • No. 34
