YOUR HEALTH' HERE'S HOW!
Stafford, Jane
YOUR HEALTH: Here's How! By JANE STAFFORD MANY of you who had colds during this Fall season have been wondering how you could escape having more of them during the Winter. If you asked your...
...By scaling is meant removal of the tartar from the teeth and from the gums...
...Whooping Cough Vaccination CHICAGO—Vaccinating babies and small children against whooping cough will probably become alfciore popular procedure now that three kinds of whooping cough vaccines, the Sauer, the Kendrick and Eldering, and the Harrison and Bell, have been officially approved by the American Medical Association...
...As much of this should be removed at the first sitting as is possible in view of the sore mouth...
...Next most important cause was sandfly fever, which the doctors call an Egyptian condition corresponding closely to influenza...
...Sidney Rothbard, and Dr...
...When the working week was suddenly increased from 56 to 80 and one-half hours, there was a considerable psychological incentive to work long and hard because of the war situation at the time...
...Hope For Penicillin Cure Of Rheumatic Fever Fails CHICAGO—Hope that penicillin might prove effective as a remedy for the acute stage of rheumatic fever gets a severe setback from two reports to appear in the forthcoming issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association here...
...The part fatigue can play in lowering resistance is freshly emphasized in a report by two English army officers, Lieut...
...The important thing, Dr...
...The principal cause of a wastage of 8,770 man-days was the common cold...
...Singleton, Jr., of the U. S. National Institute of Health, reported at the meeting here of the American Public Health Association...
...This method with the use of a mild medicament such as the dye, viogen, was used in treating hundreds of officers and men in the U. S. Coast Guard and the U. S. Maritime Service at the dental clinic of the U. S. Public Health Service Hospital at Sheepshead Bay, N. Y. Recoveries came after an average of 3.2 sittings, compared to 4.3 and 5.2 sittings when other methods of treatment with more potent chemicals such as silver nitrate and chromic acid were used...
...I. Harvey Flack, to the British Medical Journal...
...The doctors also point out that when the men went back to shorter hours and were allowed leave, a maximum output of tanks was achieved...
...For just over four weeks, the work was done and there was no significant increase in sickness...
...Invaliding skin diseases and minor and major injuries also steadily increased during the period of prolonged fatigue...
...Then the sickness and disability rates began to rise...
...Even more discouraging is the report of six Army officers working under the Army Air Forces Rheumatic Fever Control Program...
...Dean stressed, is the immediate scaling and the cooperation of the patient in keeping his teeth-clean, brushing them several times a day if the soreness of the gums permits...
...Their report covers industrial health problems among soldiers and natives working in repair shops and factories around Cairo and Alexandria during 1941...
...Trench Mouth Treatment NEW YORK—Recovery from trench mouth can be speeded by immediate scaling and efforts by dentist and patient to get the mouth into a sanitary condition as early as possible, Dr...
...Significant protection" in the way of either escaping the disease altogether or having a less severe attack is conferred by modern vaccines...
...They conclude that healthy young men who are well fed, well housed, and well cared for can work effectively for long periods without showing signs of strain or ill-health provided their hours of work do not exceed 60 a week...
...In one huge tank workshop near Alexandria, the men had to work for 18 consecutive weeks without any leave or any days off...
...Comdr...
...A. Michael Critchley and Capt...
...H. Trendly Dean and Dr...
...They tried penicillin in 38 cases of rheumatic fever at Army Air Force installations and found that it not only failed to help the patients but in some cases made the course of the sickness worse...
...From the U. S. Navy Research Unit at the Hospital of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in New York, Lieut...
...Homer F. Swift report: "Penicillin in doses ranging from 1,975,000 to 3,-470,000 Oxford units given over a two-week period to eight young adults with acute rheumatic fever apparently failed to alter the course of their disease...
...If you asked your doctor, he probably told you, among other things, to guard against fatigue which might lower your resistance to the cold virus and other disease germs...
...Robert F. Watson, Dr...
...D. E...
...The actual hours of work ranged from 72 to 84 hours a week...
Vol. 8 • October 1944 • No. 42
