Show Daily Health I Service By Dy DR MORRIS DR MORRIS FISHBEIN The number of or notions that people have about health are arc probably greater great great- er tr and more peculiar than ideas in any other field How many times have you heard the statement made that tha washing inside and out Is the best thing for the human human hu hu- man body Actually the human body Is a self regulating mechanism and if one takes six to eight glasses of ot water dally his Intestines ge get about all aU the washing they need under ordinary circumstances cir cir- cir cir- O Of course If It y you u are sick with some type of ot Infection of ot the lower bowel you ou may require special types of ol washIngs washings wash wash- ings but those will have to b be picked out by your doctor and perhaps given to you by a competent attendant Another notion that has frequently prevailed is the idea that deep breath ing exercises early in the morning preferably taken without any clothes Ion on in front of ot an open window i is a certain method of good health While it may entertain the neighbors neighbors neigh neigh- bors there is no evidence that it really really real real- ly Iy does bring about any remarkable Improvement in health I s I It has been pointed out Instead that long continued forced deep breathing washes out the carbon dioxide from the thc blood and in that way may be harmful Breathing also Is b an automatic mechanism and any time we Interfere with it we are likely to be disturbing the actions of a r well regulated ma chine Then there is the notion that a pain in the back means a n disease of the kidney A lot of time old-time patent medicine midi medi cine cane advertising that used to be prevalent prevalent preva lent In fn our youth is responsible for maintenance of ot this idea Actually pain plIn in the back Is only I rarely associated with a disease of ol the kidney Disturbances of ot these vital organs are arc more moxe likely to manifest t themselves by swellings in various portions of the body and by changes change in inthe the excretions which can be found with laboratory examination Finally there Is s that old bu bugaboo autointoxication presumably the ap ap of a coated tongue Head Hend Headache ache or a feeling of ot dullness Is accordIng accord accord- Ing to usual belief always due to the presence in the bowels of ot a great deal of putrefying and decaying food ma ma- teriah Actually however the presence of such decaying material is a rather rare occurrence Most scientific physicians have discarded the word autointoxication In health practice there Is nothing so important as exact knowledge Notions and superstitions lead to fears fear which may be more serious than the many minor disturbances of 01 the human human hu man body |