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Show Treatment for Acne By DR. JAMES W. BARTON C Bell Syndicate. WNTJ Service. ALTHOUGH a definite or-ganism or-ganism has been found in smears taken from the 'pus in pimples (acne), this ailment is not usually transferred trans-ferred from one patient to another. As acne comes on at puberty, thir-Iteen thir-Iteen to sixteen years of age, most physicians now I agree that the symptoms symp-toms are due to some gland change which affects the oil in the little oil glands ol the skin; it becomes thick and hard and so cannot escape readily to the surface of the skin through the little lit-tle hole. As the oil gradually accumulates accumu-lates in the gland Dr. Barton and cannot escape, the gland enlarges, en-larges, the oil, now a hard mass, becomes infected. Some pimples contain just the hard oil while others oth-ers contain pus. Pimples disfigure the skin and cause so much embarrassment that the individual is apt to develop an inferiority complex which interferes with business and social progress. The Modern Treatment. Formerly treatment was by salves and lotions, cutting down on certain foods, and keeping the intestine in-testine active. Today the internal treatment is by some gland extract usually pituitary extract and the external treatment is by X-ray. In fact. X-ray treatment is considered the best single treatment What is known as the viosterol treatment discovered by two members mem-bers of the staff of the University of Chicago as used on themselves and later on a number of students has given excellent results in many cases. Ten drops of viosterol were taken daily in a half glassful of water, gradually increasing the dose until at the end of two weeks 20 drops were being taken daily. Twenty Twen-ty drops were taken daily for two more weeks. The treatment was repeated re-peated after an interval of 10 days. Then followed the gland treat-, treat-, ment anterior pituitary injected j twice weekly for two months. As to Left-Handedness I can remember sitting in class In ! my early school days and seeing a teacher come unexpectedly upon a youngster writing with his left hand. The youngster received a sharp blow with a ruler, pointer, or other object. In addition the teacher took pains to tell the youngster young-ster and the class in general that left handedness was a physical defect de-fect just as was spinal curvature, round shoulders, knock knees and fiat feet. In fact there might be something wrong with the brain itself. it-self. From time to time during the past 15 or 20 years, research workers work-ers have shown that left-handed youngsters are at least as bright as other children, and have no more defects epilepsy, bed-wetting than normal children. Some months ago Dr. Joseph J. Michaels (Boston Psychopathic hospital) hos-pital) and Dr. Sylvia E. Goodman (State Psychopathic hospital, Ann Arbor, Mich.) in the Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry, recorded a study of 468 children of whom about 11 per cent were left handed. Their figures show that among these left-handed children there I were no more cases of bed-wetting, I temper tantrums, sleep disturbances, disturb-ances, dreaming and failures in school than among those whp were right handed. There was, however, a slight association of stammering, thumb-sucking and nail biting with the ones who were left handed. The results of these investigations would show that while left-handed children are as bright as those who write with the right hand, they are, to a slight degree, more nervous because stammering, thumb-sucking and nail biting are definitely "nervous" "nerv-ous" symptoms. |