YOUR HEALTH: HERE'S HOW!

...By JANE STAFFORD FEW young parents today realize what a deadly disease diphtheria can be so it may be hard for them to understand why the doctor tells them to bring the new baby around before he is a year old to have "shots" to protect him against this disease...

...You will find the afternoon shopping easier and pleasanter after a stop for rest and refueling...

...2. The diphtheria germ while growing in the membrane produces a powerful poison or toxin which gets into the blood and is carried all over the body...

...Tumor cells, however, were killed and normal cells unharmed, Mrs...

...Try to do your shopping when stores, elevators, cars, or buses are least crowded...

...Finally, remember that emotional stress and strain take their toll of health, so keep calm even if you cannot find just the things you had set your heart on...

...Subsequent tests by Mrs...

...Clue To Weapon Against Cancer...

...George O. Gey, of the Johns Hopkins Hospital and Medical School, showed that penicillin is not the anti-cancer weapon...

...Cornman worked before induction into the Army, and by Dr...

...Highly purified preparations of penicillin, including those now being prepared for treatment of patients with germ diseases, have no damaging effect on either cancerous or non-cancerous cells, these scientists found...

...In that way, you reduce the chances of picking up germs of colds or other illnesses prevalent at this season...

...Eating enough of the right foods, getting enough sleep and avoiding over-fatigue, dressing sensibly, and following the rules of traffic safety are health protecting measures that should not be forgotten even in the midst of the pre-Christmas rush...

...This risk can be avoided by...

...Even mother's mother may not know much about diphtheria, but the young mother's grandmother could tell her how many babies and young children were killed by this disease before medical scientists found a way to control its onslaught...

...PHILADELPHIA—A clue to what may and scientists hope will become a weapon against cancer has been turned up in studies of penicillin...

...Cornman, found that a preparation-of penicillin killed mouse and rat bone cancer sells growing in culture' tubes outside the body...

...Take time for lunch, no matter how much you may have to do...

...Besides this protective toxoid, there is a test, called the Schick test, which tells whether the child has had enough toxoid to have resistance to diphtheria germs: * * * Put Health On Christmas List Put health first on your Christmas shopping list, is advice from the Indiana State Medical Association...

...Non-cancerous cells were unharmed...

...Margaret Reed Lewis, of the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology here, in the current issue of Science...

...When it forms over the larynx or voice box it produces croup and may shut off the patient's breath...

...Ivor Cornman, now Cpl...

...Then if he should come in contact with a person who is carrying diphtheria germs in his nose and throat, the baby will be able to resist any germs that get to him from the germ carrier...

...An almost sure cure for diphtheria exists in the antitoxin which counteracts the effect of the diphtheria germ's poison...

...Last March Dr...

...It affects the heart and nerves and is the chief catfse of death from diphtheria...

...The latest of these studies are reported by Dr...

...Christmas won't be a merry one for you if you or some member of your family is in bed, especially if the sickness or accidental injury is one that could have been avoided...

...For your shopping expeditions, wear comfortable shoes and a coat that is light enough to carry over your arm in the stores...

...Penicillin itself, effective remedy for many germ-caused diseases, is not the anti-cancer weapon, but certain impurities that accidentally got into one lot of penicillin may be...

...having the baby given diphtheria toxoid...

...The tiny, rod-shaped diphtheria bacillus or germ has two disease-producing peculiarities: 1. The inflammation it causes in mucous membranes such as line the nose and throat produces a meshwork of fibrinous threads that look like a dirty white or grayish membrane...

...Lewis now reports, when treated with certain dosages of a yellow sodium salt of penicillin...

...This membrane cannot be scraped off without causing bleeding...

...Lewis, with whom Cpl...

...This is a sort of detoxified diphtheria poison which will not cause diphtheria but will cause the baby's body to develop diphtheria-fighting antibodies...

...However, it must be given early in the disease and since the early symptoms of sore throat and fever may not seem serious, a doctor may not be called in time to save the child victim of diphtheria...