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Show Doctor scorns pill panaceas for M an ounce of prevention If we have a headache, we pop an aspirin. Or maybe we go to a doctor who prescribes a special pain-killing remedy for us. According to Dr. Lee Waterbury, a chiropractic physician, a doctor should be asking questions. . poes the headache possibly, possib-ly, have a nutritional cause? Could the pelvis be out of alignment? What about the patient's relationship with his family at home? fWhaf does any of that have to do with a simple head-, ache? Plenty, said Dr. Waterbury, who recently be- , gan practicing in Salt Lake City; AH of these questions relate to the principles of holistic health a doctrine that stresses the prevention of disease not just the cure through study of the physical, physi-cal, emotional, and nutritional nutri-tional influences on the body. While the layman may write of holism, as a new health fad, and the medical establishment calls its principles prin-ciples unscientific, Waterbury Water-bury said it is broad-based philosophy. He stressed two principles: 1) Prevention of disease is up to the patient. He must study natural laws to. determine what his body can't tolerate and what it thrives on. 2) Holistic medicine medi-cine is open-minded about other treatments, and certainly cer-tainly doesn't exclude orthodox ortho-dox medical treatment. "I refer patients out a lot to regular M.D.'s" said Dr. Waterbury. Holistic doctors only object ob-ject to orthodox treatment, he said, when it treats the body like a machine with an isolated cog or nut that requires re-quires treatment. "It's allopathic, allo-pathic, meaning it's concerned con-cerned with treating the symptoms," he added. Health is not just the absence ab-sence of disease, but is predicated pre-dicated on degrees of "wellness." "well-ness." Dr. Lorenz K.Y. Ng of the National Institute of Drug Abuse defined four groups with differing states of "wellness:" 1) Those who are completely well; 2) People Peo-ple who aren't ill, but who don't have the proper know-lilpt'h0th, know-lilpt'h0th, Wfflg makes1 tHem good targets' for an illness; 3) 111 people with the right understanding of health who therefore stand a good chance of fighting the disease; and 4) The chronically chroni-cally ill those who are sick and have a poor sense of wellness. Preventive medicine is a field sometimes neglected by doctors. One health reporter quotes Dr. Thomas C. Flem Community Church "Although the original church was destroyed by the Great Fire of 1898, the spirit gt its congregation survived, . and a year and a half later, a new brick building was raised from the charred rubble. On Sunday, the Park City Community Church will hold -a centennial celebration, cele-bration, and pay tribute lo its sometimes rocky past. The' history of the Park City Community Church really is the story of two churches, and their eventual incorporation into one congregation. The Gothic-style Gothic-style brick building at 402 Park Avenue is the physical evidence of the arrival of the Congregationalists in the mining camp of Park City. In 1879, the Congregationalists Congregational-ists established a Sunday school; in the town of 300 residents, and incorporated into a church on March 21. 1881. The" land was secured by the First Congregational Church of Park City in July 1883, and three years later, a brick building was erected. Just ;over a dozen years later; the building was -destroyed along with over two hundred others when the historic fire swept down Main Street. " Three months alter the fire.' the minister and "trustees of the church announced an-nounced their intentions to "rebuild. By October, the plans for the new brick building were completed. .and construction began in June of the following year. Timbers arrived in July, and the new church was completed com-pleted by the fall. i While the Congregationalists Congregational-ists were growing stronger, so too were the Methodists. A wooden church was built a lIock' 'away irom the Tongregationalist building in 1884, and five years later boasted a Sunday school with 300 mom1"' -largest in the territory. But ing, who says, "With the exception of such rarities as the warding off of epidemics and the development of a . polio vaccine, preventive medicine has not been considered con-sidered an exciting branch of medicine." And yet observers ob-servers say prevention is far easier than cure for such diseases as arteriosclerosis, lung cancer, alcoholism, venereal disease, and emphysema. em-physema. Holism is closely related to Waterbury's philosophy as a chiropractic surgeon. "Chiropractic says that we help the body heal itself," he asserted. "We're a lot more conservative in our treatment treat-ment than orthodox medicine." medi-cine." The Datient has to be totally re-educated to forget pill panaceas and accept the responsibility of studying his body. "It's a hang-over from the Puritan days when it was a no-no to do that," said Waterbury. Does the holistic-chiropractic approach work? Waterbury said he used it to cure his acne problem. "I found out that in this instance in-stance that one of the things my body could not stand was milk," he said. His doctor thought he was screwy, but abstinence from dairy products has done the trick for him. "Even now, if I eat ice cream today, I'll wear it tomorrow." Another case involved a man with excessive flatulence. flatu-lence. "We put him on a seven-day diet survey, which means that he recorded everything that he was putting put-ting into that orifice," recalled re-called the doctor. "We found he was eating a loaf of bread a week and drinking five glasses of milk a day." The consistency of that diet indicated the cause of the man's problem. "It's common for people to have allergic reactions to bread, eggs, and milk," he said. Another clue to trouble is the build-up of mucus in the throat. "The body forms mucus when it resists what you're putting into it." These nutritional guidelines guide-lines aren't accepted by the medical establishment, said Waterbury. First of all, they haven't been proven by scientific method. "These rules are established by clinical evidence. We use what works," he said. Secondly, he noted, the establishment resists non-conformism. non-conformism. "Look at Linus Pauling, who advocates the uses of Vitamin-D," he said. "A Nobel Prize-winning . . t. ' Sv CL, ' I he Great Fire eon sumed lli.'ii church. Rebuilding on tin- sile hei;an iri'inedialelx . anil the new church was dedicated in Jaiiuarv of 1899 les.- than seven months after the lire Fiikimci; plagued tin Chureli '! I. '!,!i-:' i!li lei" i !,...( . :i , . t. Ouin ciiuikuc.. ju iniiie Jrrv i-rrirki Vri t I-! I t' rT!l,l scientist, but he can't get his views in the American Medical Medi-cal Journal. The orthodoxy says, 'Give the right antibiotics anti-biotics at the right time'." The orthodox treatment, he recalled, failed to help a woman with digestive problems. prob-lems. Doctors diagnosed the problem as a colon ailment and performed two operations opera-tions to remove part of the organ. When the problem persisted, Waterbury said, they claimed the ailment was psychosomatic. And then they said the problem was ovarian cysts, and suggested sug-gested another operation. Waterbury looked at the woman, and found the trouble lay with a digestive passage called the ileoceacl valve. "It was in spasm," he Said. "To stop that, we told the woman to massage it gently what we call soft-tissue soft-tissue manipulation." "One of her other doctors said, 'There's no such valve.' And I said, 'Look it up in your Gray's Anatomy.'" While Waterbury dislikes harping on medical criticism, criti-cism, he said that too often doctors are prescribing to cure symptoms. They're concerned with making the pain go away. "But life is painful; it's a bitch," he insists, and the pain often is a warning of deeper problems. prob-lems. "The body has a tendency to develop a symptom pattern," pat-tern," he explained. "There's a pain in the foot, and the doctor treats that. So the pain moves to the knee, and they drain off some water. Later, the patient develops a back problem..." Waterbury is a Connecticut Connecti-cut native who studied biology bi-ology and zoology as an undergraduate at Brigham Young University. He studied four years at the Western States Chiropractic College in Portland, Oregon, the second oldest college of its kind in the country. He graduated with a doctorate of chiropractic degree, on Sept. 19 of last year. Soon after, he established a prac- bury will give him a series of tice with another doctor inbrthopodic lests. aneurcT " Sail Lake amnty?M7 EWMflgicf lj? ?xa mi'nM' a and 3900 South Waterbury said strict licensing li-censing in Utah and other states keeps the quacks out of chiropractic. "I had to study eight hours a day for three months to prepare for my license examination," he recalled. There are many different kinds of chiropractors, he said, just as there are a variety of orthodox physi- celebrates iheir sliiiigth. they joined memberships in 1919 in the i 'ongregalional Church, and changed the name lo the Park City Community Church, inviting many i-'ii'iiiiiiiiit idiis to attend. Tod.iy. the church still fives the community with Ai-ekU Sundav services, and .,. : 1 1 1 : i i ri'i-eniij . housed the i'.i.k 'i!y I'.resehool. Its ar- ciniei Kn'c iiiii significance mi .jujiinmm Minimi, n 1' J J ', ' '! 1 11 -' " - f,, V i ' r, ' . - r cians. "There is still a school of chiropractic that believes everything is related to the spine. They started 10 to 25 years ago, before the schools were upgraded to study subjects sub-jects like the effects of nutrition." nutri-tion." Waterbury said he has never discouraged a patient's pa-tient's investigation into other new medical techniques. tech-niques. Reflexology, for instance, in-stance, supposes a connection connec-tion between widely separated sep-arated areas of the body. "A spot on the hand becomes sensitive when a particular organ is sore," he explained. Applied kinesiology suggests there is a reflexive relation between muscles and organs. or-gans. But the exotic techniques are only as good as the doctor who uses them, he said. "An acupuncture specialist may use the needles to simply relieve pain. Or he could use them in a holistic manner." When a patient comes in for a consultation, Water- urinalysis, and even an analysis of hair (called atomic spectroscopy) that helps the doctor determine how the body is absorbing food. At the same time, the doctor is learning about the patient's nutrition history and his mental attitude the way he looks at himself, other people and his goals in life. This last element is centennial J- rr to the community made it eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places this year. On Sunday, the centennial Celebration will begin with a 10 a.m. service, followed by a brunch and an historic program. During the program, the church will be presented with a plaque Irom the National Register of Historic Places. often the most important for patients. "I have people who come in just to talk," he said. The holistic physician sounds like a general practitioner, practi-tioner, combined with a dietician diet-ician and psychiatrist a Renaissance is going on," said Waterbury. Doctors are becoming more concerned n ski sftie to remember begin April 3' Qt-Jflfl " l,1JI '-11" """" "! 1 W 1 CM MY MIL 1ST with the social setting, he said. They are developing a rapport and understanding with patients, like the physicians physi-cians of a century ago. Waterbury quotes a thought from Francis Bacon to sum of the Holistic movement: move-ment: "We command nature only by obeying her." The Newspaper Thursday, EXPERIENCE UNIQUE DINING Join us in our patio gretnhouse for breakfast or lunch featuring our famous breakfast specials including the "miners dawn" and Park City's best selection of soups, sandwiches & omelettes, as well as our excellent salad bar. 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