Show Brady Says f Thousands of ol Diabetics in U. U S. S J. J Dont Don't Know What Ails Them 1 sj BY William Brady MD M.D. According to Joslin and coors co co- arc in the United there lucre hors ors I people who t tes now 4 e e not diabetic 1 I p present resent but r ji dia- dia 11 develop clop NI tes sooner orter or oriter ter iter depending how holy ow t they h ey a e Dr Joslin 4 J fated t e d in the I tenth e edition f his famous I k 1940 that s. s did did not nol seem k probable that Dr Brady Bradye ie e e number of diabetics in m the Stat States s would reach 1000 by by 1950 Known diabetics ills no t t is no is-no no one can estimate how have diabetes ande and persons n ny e e unaware of what ails them for r example a survey suney of of oC a New England sub- sub ban town in 1946 disclosed that ere here were 40 cases of diabetes wn own there but the urine tests i or or sugar brought to light 30 30 sore re cases In a Minnesota town population nearly tests made made madeI I epic h had sugar or tests If-tests as the tle physicians of community e taught them andrare andre and hitherto unknown rare re re than 50 I Io es of diabetes were discos disco sred a d. d i I Some Understanding What at I dont don't know about dia- dia I tes and just between our- our ourI j I Ires ves a few feu other medical sub- sub subi i C fills many bookshelves lut ut t shucks I m sure my readis read- read readI I is rs that is the poor who I lip ip into this column frequently r r regularly and I understand I Il Ikach ch other My readers are arc well welle e that Im I'm no authority but I If f Mist st a frustrated one hors horse and and andt t practitioner practitioner-it practItIOner practItIOner-it it saddens Ice Fe e when I recall how I had to lirt with our beloved belo Topsy f the I beautiful sorrel and rubber- rubber tired low sill patent leather dash Whitfield Penn Yan buggy buggy buggy bug bug- gy because so many of my p patients pa patients pa- pa reasoned that d doc doctors o c t tor o r s make their money easily and could wait for their pay until the installments on the thc phonograph phonograph phonograph l graph piano etc etc were out of the w way ay The Thc loss of Topsy I I hurt more than you can possibly know Next to our children Topsy was no the the no theres there's no comparison between Topsy and Tony the Terror In fact Tony probably never ne saw a horse and buggy in real life Besides the children were pretty well grown n and off to college by the time Tony took over o Well ell over people in inthe inthe the thc United States have ha inherited I the tendency or potentiality to toi i develop diabetes Lest this statement statement state state- ment meat worry any anyone one too much i i let let me quote here a statement I that th t appe appears in the chapter on heredity in Joslin's book The liThe chances of a diabetic and true- true reproducing a diabetic diabetic diabetic dia dia- betic arc are nil consideration of out-breeding out carriers of dia dia- betes This can be done only if diabetics and their descendants consistently marry into betic families In the first generation generation gen gen- cration the offspring of a diabetic diabetic dia dia- betic and c are all carriers In the thc next provided a true true partner is sele selected selected se se- le ted the offspring stand one chance in two of being carriers in the next generation one in four the next one in eight etc until the carrier carrier- tendency is There ought to be a law Diabetes Diabetes Diabetes Dia Dia- betes should be a reportable importable disease dis dis- disI I ease everywhere ease everywhere as it is now now in Pennsylvania Dont Don't you think QUESTIONS A AND D ANSWERS Identify Yourself Letters or queries without signature signature signature sig sig- nature go directly into the chuck- chuck cr er I may be unsympathetic or downright rude at times but at any rate I am sincere about it The reader or correspondent w who ho asks or tells me anything must at least sign what he writes or or else Aluminum Cooking Conking Utensils I use aluminum cooking utensils sils A friend tells me many harmful qualities such as aluminum aluminum aluminum num poisoning Mrs T. T P P. P Answer Answer It It is unsurpassed by any other cooking ware so far farI faras I as health is concerned |