Show Daily Health Service j DIZZINESS IS N NATURES NATURE'S TU ES E'S DANGER SIGN 4 By DR MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Med ical Association and of Hygeia the Health Magazine Whenever a person previously in in good health suddenly becomes dizzy giddy jiddy or lightheaded light he has developed developed devel devel- a symptom that demands serious consideration tion We walk erect and undisturbed through what is known as the sense of equilibrium This sense is made up of ot a number of or senses coming from var various ous p places in the human body In the internal car there are arc the semicircular canals small rings of oC i fluid with wilh solid substances sub sub- bone jone containing I stances lances in the fluid luid these rings being in n different planes or levels From these hese rings sensations pass to the brain indicating whether or not nol we wc weare weare are standing erect lying flat or fallin falling downward whether hether we are moving forward orward or backward As an example of the way in which they hey work all of or us have on occasion felt the sensation that we are still going forward when riding on a n train Iram that hat has stopped slopped This is due to lo the brief time lime required re reo required for the fluid in the semicircular lar ar canals to lo readjust itself to lo the new situation Anything that interferes with the mechanism of or the semicircular canals canals canals ca ca- nals will produce attacks of dizziness Sometimes these attacks take lake the form orm of oC making the person feel that everything else is moving while he is standing still sun sometimes he feels himself moving when he is noLIf not noL If the body tends lends to lo accumulate acid a sense of dizziness is a prominent prominent nent symptom Since the eye ee helps the Internal car ear and the muscle sense to judge position po po- in space any disorder affecting the he ab ability l ty of ot the eye to coordinate with wilh these other senses will result inthis inthis in this symptom If It the sensation of dizziness is transitory transitory tran tran- and if H it yields promptly to proper roper hygiene such as ns suitable attention at at- to lo the diet digestion the acion action action ac- ac tion ion of the kidneys and correction of disorders of vision the person need not feel disturbed However repeated repeat repeat- ed dizziness which may be the result of an insufficient blood supply to lo the heart o of a tumor growing in connection tion ion with wilh the semicircular canals or of some disturbance in the brain demands demands de de- de mands careful scientific stud study A Apell Aspell Aspell spell pell of oC dizziness 1 like kc a cough Is a danger langer sign unless sign unless heeded disaster may ensue |