Show QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Motorcycle Riding Not Harmful QUESTION Does QUESTION Does the continual air pressure against the face tace when riding thirty or forty miles mUes an hour on a motorcycle motorcycle mo mo- seriously affect the lungs or chest Does the cooling effect of fast tast riding lower the resistance e of the body to disease DoEs Docs the cooling off after exposure to the hot sun Injure health ANSWER No No to all three ques ques- Wear such clothing as you find most comfortable under the various conditions How to Prevent Nail QUESTION Please Please tell me how to keep my big toenails from turning under at the inside edges They curl under till they become very painful ANSWER Stop Stop wearing narrow pointed shoes Cut the nails naUs straight across never rounded Draw the skin away from edge by means of small strips of adhesive plaster spirally applied applied applied ap ap- ap- ap plied about toe Powder groove with witha a pinch of tannin or alum powder HIVES Please tell me what causes children to get hives Mv Div four children suffer suffer suffer suf suf- fer from hives every year ear I wrote and asked the school doctor what to do as as the children suffer so they cant can't attend school and the doctor wrote me a note and said there probably is too much acid In peaches and strawberries We didn't have havo any fruit of ot any kind this year except apples and very few of them M. M L. L R R. Not the acid in fruits but In certain cases the protein of strawberries or other fruit might possibly cause hives The acid of fruit circulates In the blood not as acid but as an alkaline salt fruit salt fruit acids render the blood and urine less acid or more alkaline A great many different things may produce hives In child or adult Notorious Notorious Notorious No No- causes area are shell fish cheese tomatoes the internal use of certain drugs contact with certain plants primrose ragweed and others and in insusceptible insusceptible insusceptible susceptible persons contact or exposure to the dandruff of cats dogs horses or other animals Hives must be looked upon as an Idiosyncrasy or sensitization of the individual to some particular protein substance Freedom from attacks de depends depends depends de- de upon detecting what the Individual ual has encountered what encountered what protein in particular particular and and then avoiding that particular protein be it a caterpillar I poison or a plain milk or egg poison Experiments now under way promise promise promise prom prom- I ise a definite means of determining in any case the causative factor by tests we feel assured Drinking Hot Water I am past 61 years of age never was sick a day in all my life never had a prescription filled exceptionally good habits go to bed early and sleep well About one month ago I commenced to drink more hot water one half gallon gallon gallon gal gal- lon or more per day cupful before re re- re tiring Since then I am increasing In flesh collars all to small face tace filling up round and plump I Question Am I doing the right thing will will the hot water have any bad ef effect effect et- et in the future G. G R. R I If you were so very well I dont don't see seewhy seewhy why you undertook to diminish your specific gravity and increase your I weight No I can assure you the hot water will not do any harm nor would cold water Lambert Treatment Received your letter in answer to my request In regard to the use of cants You Tou spoke o of ot the Lambert treat treat- ment I spoke to our family doctor and he knows nothing about the treatment but said if you gave me all the Instructions instructions instructions he would study it up and help me give it to my husband I 1 would prefer to give it to him at home if we can an get him to take it M M. K The Lambert treatment was deI described described de de- de- de scribed in detail In various medical I journals three or four years ago and If your doctor cares to familiarize himself himself him him- self seU with it he may easily obtain completo complete complete com com- pleto Information by referring to the Index Medicus or I will be glad to give him the references If given at home homo It Is absolutely necessary for tor you to place the patient under the care of a a. very competent nurse Nothing less than that will be worth while Cerebral Hemorrhage What Is the cause or various causes of a cerebral hemorrhage Especially Especial Especial- ly In a a. person having hardening of tho the arteries Does it always prove fatal My father died with it taken it-taken taken suddenly and and have noticed so many deaths due to It this winter winter some some mere even taken taken taken tak tak- en sick with it on the street Is it the bursting of an artery Is the blood pressure too high or below normal How How- does It differ from apoplexy It it possible that an emotional shock could affect a sick person who Is able to be up and around for tor several days after after at at the time of the shock J. J D. D 1 1 The cause of cerebral hemorrhage Is either an injury to the head or disease disease disease dis dis- ease of the arteries sclerosis arteries sclerosis or hardening of the arteries In the presence of badly diseased arteries and high blood pressure predisposing factors factors factors fac fac- tors of a stroke of paralysis a a cerebral cerebral cere cere- bral hemorrhage hemorrhage are are anger excitement excitement excitement excite excite- ment excessive physical or mental exel exertion exertion ex- ex el lion hearty eating alcohol 2 2 No About one case in four tour proves fatal tatal It almost always leaves a one sided paralysis and temporary or prolonged loss or disturbance of speech With caution and good management management management man man- the repetition of tho the stroke weeks or months later may be indefinitely postponed It Is the same as bursting of an artery arter Tho The blood pressure is too high Apoplexy Is another name for tho the condition Emotional shock can and does i seriously seriously se- se affect a sick person It may precipitate apoplexy in one with diseased diseased dis- dis eased arteries |