Show I Delaying Operations With it i Diet yet Medicine A patient consults his physician and is told that the symptoms arc are due to gall bladder trouble To Tomake Tomake Tomake make sure of the diagnosis a gall gallbladder gallbladder gallbladder bladder dye test with rays X-rays is made and the patient is advised to have the gall bladder removed Nat Nat- Naturally Naturally Naturally the patient wishes to avoid operation and asks whether treat treat- treatment treatment ment by medicine and diet would not give relief and perhaps tide him over so as to avoid operation The physician may perhaps be willing to try treatment for a while as he remembers that most gall bladder operations give satisfactory results but there are arc some which do not He therefore lays ays out a diet which involves eat eat- eating eating eating ing small meals four or five times a aday aday aday day and cutting down on certain foods which irritate liver and gall bladder What happens in these cases In some cases the small meals the cutting down on fat foods the daily walk and perhaps fome come medi medi- medical medical medical cal treatment such as bile salts give considerable relief In others despite faithful following of the phy phy- physicians physician's physicians physician's physicians physician's instructions and in a great many because they do not faithfully follow instructions the symptoms are arc not relieved Some of ot these pa pa- patients patients patients keep consulting their physicians physicians clans until he finally has to tell them that operation is necessary to give relief Unfortunately by this time the condition of the patient is such that operation may not give very satis satis- satisfactory satisfactory satisfactory factory results and the physician and sometimes the patient blames himself for delaying operation opera tion Dr Walter Alvarez Mayo clinic a few years ago pointed out that after suffering for Cor years with a pep pep- peptic peptic peptic tic ulcer the patient when he un undergoes un- un undergoes operation expects the oper oper- operation operation operation not only to give him an ab ab- absolutely absolutely ab- ab absolutely new stomach but to clear up anything and everything else that ails alls him Similarly with the gall bladder patient By the time the operation is performed neither he nor the gall gallbladder gallbladder gallbladder bladder and other organs are In hi as asgood asgood asgood good condition as they were some months or years previously QUESTION BOX Q What What Is the value of Thiamin hydro chloride A. A Thiamin A.-Thiamin Thiamin hydro chloride is simply another name for Cor B l. Its Us growth relieves relie neuritis prevents deficiency disease such as pellagra pella a. a Q Would Would it be possible for to cause dandruff a A. A. A a yeast cast form of or parasite parasite may may be cause of or I and also dandruff Your physician can refer reCer you to a skin specialist f I |