Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-07-25 | Page 1 | Disease Fashions Also Change; Gout, Chilblains Go into Limbo

DISEASE FASHIONS ALSO CHANGE GOUT CHILBLAINS GO INTO LIMBO WASHINGTON July 25 UP Fashions in diseases change just like fashions in hats only a little slower the public health service reported toda today Popular ailments of a few years ago are arc practically extinct Dr R. R C C. Williams assistant surgeon surgeon surgeon sur sur- geon general pointed out Take gout for tor example Back in the DOS DO'S gout was just as popular popular pop pop- ular os as as Mae West is toda today Poor old Uncle Jim whose life was bounded by pecks of oysters slabs of rare roast beef beet and numerous numerous nUmerous nu nu- nu bottles of or port wine spent many a bad da day with his feet dropped up on a He t r- r and fellow sufferers were the butt of many jests created by the of the day Nowa Nowadays ays gout is virtually nonexistent Changes in diet and 2nd more exercise have just about wip wiped d it out In the too loo young women suffered from a particular form of ot anemia which probably was responsible for the popular custom custom cus ens- tom torn of ot swooning and the wan moon dying expression so much In jn n favor Physicians believe steel and wh whalebone corsets caused it it Bone felons were a popular affliction affliction af are af- af when the country W was tS younger They were of the bone on fingers which had 1 been e n mashed or otherwise injured in in- They are rare today toda Another vanishing disease Is dyspepsia Some years cars ago practically practically ti ally everyone had a touch of the chilblains during the winter months Just wh why th this affliction has itched its way out of existence existence exist exist- ence once is unknown 4 Colic in adults too has passed into the limbo Instead there is appendicitis an and not a few other it which fill the void oid left by the ailments of the good o d old days das