Salt Lake Telegram | 1925-09-25 | Page 19 | Diet and Health

r Diet let an and Health HealthY ea t Y A ANSWERS TO MOTHERS MOTHERS' God could not be everywhere therefore He made Jew mothers mothers Jew Jewish ish proverb WARNING Do not leave any form of ot medicatIon medication medication medica medica- tion around where children can get It In Inthe the statistical bulletin of o oot one of ot the large insurance companies s there Is report of s seventy venty dea deaths hs among its Insured children from poisons eat eaten n. n Strychnine compounds accounted for twenty four deaths and from the information available regarding these deaths It appears that topics tonics and cathartics containing strychnine strychnine nine were th the most Important t sources of ot the poisoning Exterminators Exterminators Exterminators containing arsenic keros kerosene ne and gasoline lysol cresol carbolic acid furniture and brass polish and potassium silver cyanide were m men mentioned men men- n- n as things causing deaths s Such articles articles' as the latter should be labeled POISON and they should also have hare a a. tiny bell ben tied around them or adhesive plaster strapped on their covers in such a aw away away w way way y as to io be able to differentiate them th-em by br t the the e fee feeling ng so that adults who are careless enough to take medicines in the dark would would be bew w warned No matter what precautions are taken with labeling no such things should be kept within the reach teach of children A committee of the American Medical association Is working ac actively actively ac- ac to procure the enactment of ot laws requiring proper labeling of Jt packages containing caustic lye and and other corrosive substances Through their efforts laws have been enacted enact enacted enact enact- ed In several states I In one of the medical exhibits at atI the recent A. A M M. A A. A convention one ne neot 1 I of ot the most pathetic things I saw I Iwas I was the photograph of f some i hll- I dren interestedly watching watching- themselves themselves themselves them- them j I selves elves being fed through funnels tunnels attached attached attached at- at to tubes passed through gh their abdominal walls The scar tissue which resulted from the burns of ot lye solution swallowed had obstructed their so that food tood could not be gIven n naturally I Abdominal operations had to be performed so liquid lId food could be pour poured d into the stomach otherwIse otherwise otherwise other other- I wise they would have starved to death In the medical movies movI-es several several several sev sev- eral children were shown having Instruments passed down into their In the treatment oe stretching the scars PUT PUr POISONS OUT OF REACH OF YOUR CHILDREN UTERINE EXTRA-UTERINE PREGNANCY Mrs Irs B B. or uterine extra-uterine pregnancy occurs occurs when the ovum develops outside the uterus womb Babies have developed to full term In the abdomen Of course these have to be delivered by an operation operation opera opera- tion known as Cesarean section or opening the abdomen so-called so because be because because be- be cause Caesar Is supposed to have been delivered In this manner The ovum Is normally fertilized in the fallopian tube After Alter fertilization fertilization fertl- fertl n It passes Into the uterus which already has begun to prepare for It H. and completes its development development development develop develop- ment there uterine Extra-uterine pregnancy is a se serIous serious serious se- se rious condition usually leading to toan toan toan an operation There are usually abnormal signs Igns whIch the physician will recognize This condition Is comparatively rare so dont don't worry about it This pregnancy occurs occurs occurs' because of ot some obstruction inflammatory Inflammatory mator matory or otherwise so that the I fertilized ovum cannot reach the I uterus We have a list of ct modern books bookson on pre- pre and post-natal post care Send for tor this list enclosing a self sell addressed addressed ad ad- dressed stamped envelope Tomorrow Tomorrow Answers Answers to Correspond j Cop Copyright 1925 1325 by b- the George e Matthew Adams S Service