Show rt Health L. L ul i It Pe rf MD M.D. l I ANSWERS TO CORRESPOND K DENTS SMALLPOX IMMUNITY Mr lir H. H One H.-One One attack o ot of smallpox R usually renders a person Immune s it Is never experienced fa gain again We bell believe eve a a. successful vaccina- vaccina t on will protect for at least five t years If It you were exposed exposed ex- ex posed to smallpox however It would be better to be vaccinated ag again ln even though the to five sevE year seven year n-year period had not elapsed slack Black smallpox is a So severe type foil o 0 smallpox with It hemorrhages Inthe Inthe in inthe the sores The case of ordinary si smallpox would protect you from this as well as from the other type Yes vaccination or having the thed d disease sease is the only known method In vaccination you have one scar with a slight inconvenience inc In- In convenience c for tor a few da days dads s and in smallpox itself you may mav have thousands thousands thou- thou sands of scars and a disease I was last summer Bummer 1 Ill I'll tell you about it later COME ONI SHE DID DID DID- lyOU yOU CAN TOO Dear Doctor I first heard of your Key to the Calories' Calories about six m months ago I was In a store buy- buy ng a dress pattern and was complaIning com- com that th they y never have any nl nice e patterns for stout folks folls I wore 50 because I weighed when a little woman across the way from me piped up You dont don't hive have ve to be stout if you you dont don't want t 1 I 1 answered back Is zat so S she told me she had lost thirty- thirty eight pounds In six months and hadn't starved either Oh tell me meho ho how I 1 begged Then she told me book on reducing 1 I 1 got it and started right In good earnest I had been having so much tr trouble uble with my knees that I 1 ed to start some baking treatments at the same time thinking the sw sweats ats would help the knees and also the reducing Before they would give me the bakes I had to have my heart examined by the doctor He found my heart so choked with fat at that he was almost afraid to let me take the bakes He said not to take them unless the doctor at the hospital hospi hospI- tal watched me and only for ten or fifteen minutes at the most I I started In and took two bakes a week As I knew it would take tale at least six months to Ret get et anywhere I bought me a daybook and kept records records records rec rec- of ot myself I 1 said Id I'd been the elephant at the circus for years but I wasn't going to be the freak with my face looking looking- like a balloon with the wind let out If It a a. few tew facial facial facial fa fa- fa- fa cial treatments would help and I Iwas Iwas Iwas was fortunate enough to get into a a. beauty parlor where the young lady became very verv much interested in me All An my friends say that my face doesn't show that I lost four fifty poun pounds s In six months I I have laughed to my friends you have hav to laugh when you are fat for everyone laughs at you and you might as well laugh too tool and said I was going to lecture and get back some of my money Ive I've spent on baths and tubs lubs and facials After carrying this burden of fat for over fifteen years I feel teel like dancing and shouting from the housetops COME ON I 1 DID YOU CAN TOO TOO Mrs B. B You have a lot to be thankful for forto forto forto to that little tittle woman who started you haven't you You didn't say whether the baking treatments and the reducing helped your knees but I Z believe they must have We have so many letters from those who have had joint trouble and have been benefited by reducing and the bakes certainly should have helped considerably You were wise to take the facial I treatments Those of ot you who want our In Instructions instructions In- In i on reducing may may have them hem in a condensed form by sendIng sending send- send I Ing ng a self addressed stamped en envelope envelope envelope en- en and ten cents In stamps with our your request Mr hit P. P Please P.-Please Please see a physician I Ican Ican Ican can only answer questions of ot general general general gen gen- eral interest in the column and ItIs Itis it its Is s Impossible for tor me to answer per per- If you had a a self self- addressed stamped envelope we could have sent you a prepared I article that would have covered one of ot your questions Do see a competent competent competent compe compe- tent physician You need a thorough thorough thorough thor thor- ough physical examination and treatment Tomorrow Tomorrow Answers Answers to Mothers Copyright 1925 b by byr bythe the George Matthew Adams Service |