Show H HO RE REI IOU I R D Y DR JAMES W. W BARTON 1111 I About O Q TOU are arc not hearing or reading I 1 as much now about the use of ot for reducing weight The fact that about one in every seven using it develops a n skin rash and cases of ot cataract collapse and even death have resulted has naturally made somewhat somewhat somewhat some some- what afraid of this drug It Is Js perhaps fortunate generally speaking lg that many r F-r are arc afraid to use user r because be p- p cause its use by anybody and everybody everybody everybody every every- body without a 3 physicians physician's phy phy- SS supervision A is is dangerous 1 However Dr V. W. t t- t w r-w G. G Campbell clue chief of f the federal food oo b l and imd drug administration administration adminis adminis- o j Washing- Washing Dr Barton ton points out I that now forms the basis of a half balf doz dozen ri or or more va patent tent medicines on on th the market The indiscriminate use of or these preparations will most likely be followed by b poisoning Fortunately one of the physicians who has done most of the research work on dini Dr M M. L L. L Tainter Tainter Los Angeles outlines in iii inthe inthe the J Journal of the American Medical Medi l cal Association a form of treatment for Lor those poisoned by this d. d drugAs drug ug As there is Js no special drug drug that that thai overcomes v the treatment treat treat- treat treat- ment is directed tow toward rd getting getting the Ule out drug drug out of th the body When the pa patient par tient i is first seen the stomach stomach sho should ld be w washed shed out with l large rge v volumes volumes' ll of water wate containing baking soda spda ab about ut a to th the quart Of f water A large amount of f water vater may be left in the stomach they the place place- Of f the w water ter lost by by profuse profuse pro pro- fuse sweating If It pure oxygen is is' av available the patient sho should breathe it in through a mask To reduce fever the victim should be p placed aced in a bath tub containing ing ice lee water w ter o or In an i ice pack pack The point then i is ii that by washing out out the Uie stomach and putting the vic victim tim im in i 1 a bath b th tub of ice water water water-a a treatment nt th that t can be given at t home the home the he lives of or these victims may be Jc saved in many c cases ses Poisoning Cases Casc's Rare However poisoning occurs only at rare rare intervals and usually from tsIng us ts using s ing doses doses doses' that are too large Dr T Tainter and his associates Drs AB AB A. A B B. Stockton n nand and W W. C. C Cutting who have studied this drug for over five years report as follows on its its value for th the treatment of f over overweight One hundred and seventy selected overweight patients 20 20 males males- and females Were given sodium di by mouth for an nn average average aver aver- age of 88 days ea each h being given ani nl average daily aily dose of a 5 grains The average ver ge increase in metabolic rate rate t tc at at which the body processes proc processes esses work was about 11 per cent for each 1 1 11 gr grams ins ins' daily dose The average loss loss' of body weight was 17 pounds for each pa patient with an average loss of about 1 pounds weekly v ekly Their Their food intake was not reduced but they were not to ca eat cat t more mor food than had been their their- cus cus- tom torn Now why were these physicians able to get such excellent results from rom dl It was because the drug was free from impurities and the thc patients were under supervision super super- vision at all times These research physicians from rC results ll s obtained feel justified in giving ing irig t to almost all over over- w weights as it will promptly and and- certainly cert increase the rate at which the body processes work greatly in Increase rease the heat and thus reduce weight t in a manner and to rin an extent cx ex tent ten not approached by any drug previously tried It has the disadvantage vanta vantage i. i however of f producing undesirable un on- 1 desirable reactions in some some patients I which cannot be known ber beforehand r hand II and which occasionally are arc alarming alarm alarm- ing lag S S Dizziness Dizziness- When an attack of dizziness occurs occurs oc oc- curs there is often the feeling on the llie part o of the patient that there rc Is something wrong with his his heart As a matter of fact act most cases of dizziness come from a disturbance nce in the ear or in the liver Generally Generally Gener Gener- ally but not always when the objects objects ob ob- ob about the the- patient seem to be going around and around or the patient seems to be going around and around the trouble is in in the ear car ar whereas when things ap p appear appear pear to be going up and down or orthe orthe orthe the patient feels that he Is going up up and down m the thc liver Is at t fault Wh When n the ear is at fault that is the part of the ear that balances the body it Is very often due to some trouble In the nose and the sinuses adjoining the nose Acute or ox chronic catarrh o or infection of the sinuses immediately behind the nose are the commonest causes of this dizziness which Is usually accompanied accompanied ac ae ac- ac companied by nausea or a link tinki ling noise In the car Treatment during attacks consists of any quieting quiet ns medicine such as phenobarbital While this is a most h helpful drug druSe there ther is the the chance that the patients may acquire the barbital habit The attacks of ot dizziness due to to the liver are prevented or controlled by cutting down on rich starch or orta ta fat t foods Bell Service |