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Show Dr. Lawrence Lamb ious Puzzle Reader Seeks Info on ‘Dropsy’ By Lawrence E. Lamb, M.D. DEAR DR. LAMB I read a good many history books and I often hear of mative 62 Space agency (abbr P 17 Rodent 18 Burn ye ones ched 64 Wager Sain eo ene England ORGEaEY 24 Thus (Lat) pown 25 Insect 29 Nostrils 33 Indefinite in order 1 Horse directives 2 Young lady 34 Surface (Fr., abbr.) coating the ailment called 9 Fite (prefix) e 10 Tandem 11 Pokerkitty 23 Nervous 47 Mauve 19 Soap foam 2! Scrutinize 49 Nubble spasms 50 Bounder 25 Had knowledge 51 Departure 26 Lawyer (abbr) 52 Poet Ogden 36 Bare 4 28 Leader (It) 41 Ge an 42 Contemporary 6 Kelp 7 Oversights garden 32 Dispatched painter 44 Famous 8 Radio technique wh 30 Hayseed 31 Biblical 35 Flowers 38 Prow 54 Nautical term 55 Scarce 56 Mesdames (abbr.) 59 Negative aneier 2 ADER goiter is simp h aptly describes its general dis tribution various foods. You hardi. and not get it. It is essential in the coenzymes used in basic cell ment of the throid gland an be caused by an iodinedeficiency but it can also be caused by other factors. Your nephew may not have an metabolism but you undoubtedly have already knew. Could you please explain num) it is sometimescalled an inward enough I regard some of the promotion of Substances such as pantothenic acid as a cure-all for ailments as akin to selling nothing today? the throat area above the bone forms of quackery tually killed them. 40 Passes away 43 Capital of Montena 45 Most modern 3 Moning song 27 You(archaic) 37 Summers(Fr) 5 Fes 39 Sail fast command “dropsy” greatly incapacitated people and even. DEAR RE ly anenki My medical dic tionary says dropsy is iodine deficiency Whenthegoiter is trapped behind the “an accumula tion of fluid in the body," which I upper part of the breast bone (stern: to me what causedthis commoncondi- goiter. Because of the boneit cannot snakeoil at an oid fashionedtravelling medicine show oneof our earlier tion in the past and of which we hear expand freely as it would if it we can lead to pressure on unde: structures is lying fected by disease but thebasicpro ~ provides increased hormonal stimula tion to the thyroidgland stimulating its Ses remain the same. Dropsy was used growth This is a direct response in to mean accumulationof fluid. Today somecases to thefact the thyroid gland we commonlyrefer to it as @iemaor, is not producing enough thyroid hor: depending upon the location of the mone. In those cases in particular, giv fluid, as anasarcaandascites. It’s fluid ing thyroid hormone which AS long as it doesn't grow fast enough eye and obstruct vision it will not do any’ harm. vitamins do not aid is that it prevents the patient from seeking and getting early help for important medical ail- problem Yourdoctor probably doesn’t want to ments. Better stick with your doctor andyour alopurinol which does havean premenstrual edema in many women self-addressed envelope for it will stop this can send 50cents with a long, stamped failure or in the milder form as There was nosatisfactory treatment for manypatients with ‘‘dropsy”’ from serious diseases. Then digitalis wasdiscovered byDr. William Withering. Today we use this Medicine and chemically synthesized preparationswith the same action. It is useful in correcting or relieving the fluid accumulated fromheartfailure — butnot useful in correcting fluid reten tion from other causes As a history buff you may be interested to know that an old lady — referred to as a witch —haddiscovered that a tea brewed from foxglove would cure some cases of ‘‘dropsy."’ Her discovery was, in turn, discovered by Withering andhencedigitalis and its family of medicines biood vessels in it The real danger in using vitaminsin stimulation andusually stop the growth The accumullation of fluid can be of thegoiter. It often decreases in size from heart failure, kidney failure, liver under such treatment regardless of whether it is in the ab- your nephewis getting that isn’t possible. It may have a milky appearance and may have prominent a host of conditions which additional important action in treating gout Pantothenic acid has nothing to do with gout. | amsending you the Health Letter number2-3, Gout, Uric Acid, so you can better understand your problem. Others who want this issue domen, the feet, the lungs or wherever en It is really a folded over portionof the thin membraneover the surface of the eye wecall the conjunctiva. It looks like something that should bewiped out of the eye but, of course to cover a majorpartofthe pupil of the DEAR READER Terminology Thegoiter usually forms because the changes and so does our understanding pituitary gland under the brain of howthe body worksand howit DEAR READER— No, a pterygium is not eee andit will not become Thyroid hormone does not cause arthritis. When an iodine deficiency is not the problem, taking it wil! not help. Too much thyroid hormonecan cause DEAR DR. LAMB— Myhusband has It is often a cosmetic have it removed surgically unless necessarybecause it often recurs. They tend to recur regardless of the type of surgeryif the patient lives in tropical areas andarelesslikely to return if a person lives in a more temperate climate. Since you live in the central midwestthat is in his favorif it should becomenecessary to removeit. Pterygiums are mostlikely to occur in people exposed to chronicirritation of the conjunctiva from sun and wind. Repeated surgery may cause scarring irritationin his right eye and the doctor of the surface of the eye and interfere said he had a pterygium. He said this withvision which is another reason for irregularities of the heart For information on Heart Irregularities, Skipd Beats, Tachycardia, send 50 cents for The Health Letter number 6-12 was a Small growth which might slowly get larger and there was nothing to do not hastily doing surgery unless there eventually damage his eyesight? Station, New York, N.Y. 10019. is a good indication forit. Dr. Lamb answers representative but use some kind of eye-wash for relief. Shouldn't it be removed? I am letters of general interest in his concerned that it might be malignant column. Write to him in care of this or become so. Would this condition newspaper, P.O. Box 1551, Radio City DEAR DR. LAMB — Somefriends of mine have recommended pantothenic acid for gout and bursitis. Whatis your opinion on this? | am already taking alopurinol. Should they be mixed? DEAR READER To use an old phrase, “with friends like that who needs enemies?’ Pantothenic acid has DEAR DR. LAMB — Mynephew, no valueat all in treating gout, bursitis age 19, has an ingrowing goiter He or arthritis. There have been lot of takes medication — thyroxine. I un- talse and exaggerated claimsrecently derstand the prolongeduse ofthis drug in quasi-health publications but none of will cause chronic arthritis. 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