Show Y You au and Your Health MORRIS FISH FISHBEIN EIN Editor Jo Journal Journel 1 o the lh American Ey By Au Ass ct tion and nd nd of the ft y Health Hulth Il It Ills la Is common for an Individual suddenly to bend over double with witha a ft griping pain In Sn his hla midriff as assert assert as- as assert sert that It must be from something something something some thing he et and then shake his head and say that he suffers from ptomaine poisoning Actually most of the cases of ot called so-called ptomaine poisoning represent represent rep rep- represent resent Infection with germs principally prin prin- of ot the paratyphoid type These germs have be been n Isolated from crabmeat oysters Jc ice cream sausage corn beet beef hash and various various various va va- va- va rious other foods Contamination usually Is caused by the soiled fingers fingers fingers fin fin- gers of food handlers In typical cases the person concerned concerned concerned con con- is seized with pains about three hours after eating the contaminated contaminated con con- d food There are pains In the tho abdomen and limbs severe evere diarrhea and vomiting and sometimes sometimes some some- times high fever Collapse may follow The symptoms usually subside quickly If It the person Is put at once to rest reat and the digestive tract cleared of its contents Before modern scientific knowledge knowledge knowl know edge was gained of ot the tho way in which foods may produce poisonIng poisoning poisoning poison poison- ing epidemics of this typo were not really understood Nowadays when a great number of people suddenly show the symptoms that have been mentioned the tho epidemiologist epi epidemiologist epi- epi Is likely to find the germ responsible without much difficulty At a 1928 picnic in Boston nu people who had eaten chocolate- chocolate cream pie developed the symptoms symptoms toms tome all at once In one 1926 1928 epidemic epidemic epi epi- epi- epi demic In England 63 people de developed developed de de- the tho symptoms after eating eating catIng eat eat- Ing Ice cream which they purchased purchased purchased pur pur- chased at a certain stand It was found that the woman who dispensed dispensed dis die the tho Ice cream was a para para- B germ carrier and that she herself herselt had contaminated all the Ice cream In such cases remember that unless the stomach already has emptied Itself by natures nature's method the doctor can wash out the stomach with warm w water ter and can induce vomiting by any anyone one of a number of methods One of the simplest methods isto Is Isto isto to have the person drink two or three glasses of ot lukewarm water In which there are one or two tea tea- of salt Simply putting the finger down the throat will vill start the vomiting and the irritation in the stomach will keep it U up as long Jong as sary |