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Show That Body of Yours By JAMES W. BARTON, M. D. j Natural Defenses of the Body ALTHOUGH man has a wonderful brain, there are a number of things done by the body to protect him that are not directed by man's will. Something irritates the nose and a ! sneeze removes It. Something irritates irri-tates the throat or bronchial tubes and a cough sends it up and out of the body. , Some food or other substance, placed in the mouth, Is irritant (acid) or i likely to interfere with free move- i ments of the parts and immediately there is a great flow of saliva or the mouth digestive Juice. This dilutes the substance so as to be less Irritant, Irri-tant, or if it disturbs movements It Is washed away. ( If an offending substance gets down i into the stomach, It is usually quickly i thrown upward and outward by the i walls of the stomach. i Similarly with the eye. Although it is set in a bony socket, and has a i quick acting curtain (the eyelid) to ( shield It from harm, little substances do get into the eye. When this hap- , pens the tears flow abundantly to wash the substance out. ( However, as Dr. Walter B. Cannon, ! Harvard, points out, there are other i processes going on in the body which, while they do not act as quickly as i sneezing, coughing, vomiting, and the flow of tears, are protecting you all the time from various troubles. , Something rough rubs or presses the skin and a callous is formed which serves both as a cushion and as a shield. If the skin is broken, little blood vessels appear in the clot which tills the gap, and the surrounding skin ( reaches out and fills the gap, with only a whitish scar remaining. In a person living at or about sea level the number of red corpuscles is i about 5,000,000 to the cubic mill- ! meter, whereas if they go to live in i high mountains, 14,000 feet, the nura- i ber slowly Increases to 7,000,000, thus providing more oxygen which Is now needed. i If the need continues, the blood I forming organs in the marrow of the ; long bones become more active and the blood is thus enriched until the in- i dividual comes down to the lower al- t titude again. p Then there are the white corpuscles ' of the blood which attack and kill harmful organisms that enter the ! body. f The above are just a few of the nat- i oral defenses of the body. i Surely we are fearfully and won- i derfully made. ; ... E Lesssening the Distress in f Hay Fever " YOU are a hay fever victim. You have tried the pollen ex- r tracts and find yourself one of the number not helped by them. You have heard about the air chambers cham-bers or air rooms where victims may spend a number of hours a day free from the irritation of the pollen that 1 Is in the air, but there is none of these a chambers in your vicinity Qr you are w unable to afford the time and money F even If there were. P What can you do to lessen the irrita- tlon from hay fever? K There is no question but that some of the preparations sold by your drug- fa gist will give you some relief. Most M of them contain adrenalin, and some have some pain killing preparations mixed with the adrenalin. 'f Is there anything else you can do to U help carry you through this trying time 1 until the frost brings relief? (i Hay fever sufferers have found that If they keep themselves In good eon-dition eon-dition physically, paying strict attention atten-tion to their diet and to intestinal 'Hi movement, they get a great measure ( of relief from the hay fever symptoms. j , . Diet is most important. It has been u( found that an acid diet aggravates the rji symptoms in a great many cases, so je that while acid foods must be eaten :o they should be eaten in smaller quan-tities quan-tities during the hay fever season. This means that cereals, meat, eggs, 5e fish, coffee and tea must be cut down ; tie butter and sugar kept at their usual amounts; and vegetables, fruits and milk Increased. The bowels must be kept active by , the use of fruits and rough or coarse 'Jl vegetables. In some cases very small doses of epsom salts a half tea- & spoonful every morning has been ,L'Ji found helpful, j No one ever dies of hay fever but ' it is a very miserable ailment during the weeks it exists, and until a cure v1' is found for each case, following the above suggestions may be of some help. (Copyriitht.) WNU Service. vs |