YOUR HEALTH: HERE'S HOW!
Stafford, Jane
YOUR HEALTH: Here's How! By JANE STAFFORD ABOUT 160,000 persons die of cancer each year in this country. Yet the cancer death rate could be reduced by one-third to one half if all that doctors now...
...Kler believes may be fully as important in the increased severity of colds, the majority of colds in women came at the menstrual period...
...Poison from this "putrid, foul lung" had apparently reached his brain, causing symptoms of mental disease which kept him in a mental hospital for nine months...
...New Use Of Penicillin In Fighting Lung Diseases COLD SPRING HARBOR, N. Y.—A new method of giving penicillin treatments which may be more effective in lung diseases such as pneumonia and bronchiectasis is being tried on patients at Huntington Memorial Hospital here...
...Smoking apparently had little effect on colds...
...Once sinus disease, always sinus disease" is branded as a "false notion" which it is hoped can be overcome...
...3. Any sore that does not heal, particularly about the tongue, mouth or lips...
...of cancer of the uterus, 80 per cent in the early stages, 10 per cent in the late stages...
...Another germ, against which penicillin is definitely effective, has been found as the cause in these conditions...
...The method consists in having the patient inhale a mist of very fine particles of penicillin...
...The smallest percentage of time-losing colds was found-among those who walk about at their jobs and the highest among those who mostly sit at their jobs...
...Tuberculosis might be treated by the same method, using a mist of promin or some other drug effective against tubercle bacilli instead of penicillin...
...In a study of colds among 5,500 employes of Johnson and Johnson in New Brunswick and Chicago from July, 1942, to February, 1944, Dr...
...Joseph H. Kler, of New Brunswick, N. J., to the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology meeting here...
...Yet the cancer death rate could be reduced by one-third to one half if all that doctors now know about cancer could be brought to bear on every cancer patient as soon as he was able to discover a change from normal in himself, the American Cancer Society states...
...The influence of vitamins on incidence and severity of colds Dr...
...The largest number of colds occurred in the 20-29 year age group and the lowest in the age group above 50 years...
...First patient treated was a discharged Marine who had a lung infection...
...They are not always due to staphylococcus...
...The method was developed by Dr...
...His mental condition cleared up...
...Almost half, 45 per cent, of those with colds did not smoke at all...
...7. Change in bowel habits...
...2. Any irregular bleeding or discharge from any of the body openings...
...Posture also had a marked influence on the severity of colds...
...Vernon Bryson, at the Long Island Biological Laboratory...
...Kler found "questionable...
...Five serious complications of sinusitis, almost always fatal when present altogether are: spreading osteomyelitis of the cranial bone, meningitis, brain abscess, abscess in the eye socket, and cavernous sinus thrombosis...
...Science Service Reports Temperature, Sex, Age Affect Colds CHICAGO—The layman's ideas that sudden drops in temperature are likely to bring on a cold and that drafts have something to do with catching cold got scientific confirmation in a report by Dr...
...There were many more time-losing colds among women throughout the year, and, what Dr...
...Penicillin in conjunction with suitable surgical procedures offers more hope...
...Sulfa drugs have proved disappointing, chiefly because the true identity .of the infecting germ was not suspected...
...6. Hoarseness...
...There were fewer colds in air-conditioned plants...
...The treatment for these complications is their prevention...
...4. Persistent indigestion, especially when accompanied by distaste for meat...
...Here are some other figures that show what can be done with the present knowledge of cancer: Cancer of the skin in the early stages can be cured in 95 per cent of the cases, but only in 30 per cent in the late stages...
...It is primarily surgical for chronic sinusitis...
...Kler found that every sudden drop in temperature was followed in a day or two by a rise in the number of colds...
...It did* not by itself cure him, probably because the infection had gone on too long...
...The operation consisted in removal of the lung...
...The percentage of time-losing colds, however, increased with age...
...Mayos Expose False Notions About Sinus ROCHESTER, Minn.—Good news for sinus sufferers appears in a report just issued by the Mayo clinic...
...Several patients with spreading osteomyelitis who would ordinarily have been expected to die have been cured by penicillin...
...Curability of cancer of the mouth is 80 per cent in the early stages, 20 per cent in the late stages...
...Any of the following danger signals that might mean cancer should make you see your doctor at once: 1. Any persistent lump or thickening, especially of the breast...
...Shipping departments, which are usually drafty places, he also found, had uniformly a high general incidence of colds and a high incidence of time-losing colds...
...There were consistently more colds among office employes than among factory employes...
...But it did clear up the infection to the point where an operation could safely be performed...
...Treatment is primarily medical for acute, subacute, and recurring acute sinusitis...
...Sex, age, and the working posture were also found to have a bearing on the number and severity of colds...
...The cures depend on early diagnosis by the doctor and prompt treatment by X-rays, radium or surgery or a combination of these, depending on the kind of cancer and its location on or in the body...
...of cancer of the breast, 75 per cent in the early stages, 20 per cent in the late stages...
...Since then the man has been getting well...
...Before treatment can be given or a diagnosis made by the doctor, however, the patient has to get himself or herself to the doctor...
...5. Sudden changes in the form or rate of growth of a mole or wart...
...The kind of treatment to be given and the question of whether an operation is necessary depends on whether the patient has fulminating sinusitis, acute sinusitis, a subacute or recurring acute -form of the disease, chronic sinusitis or a mixture of allergic and infectious sinusitis...
...of cancer of the rectum, 50 per cent in the early stages, no cures in the late stages...
...At this time the penicillin inhalation treatment was given...
Vol. 8 • November 1944 • No. 47
