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Show Liver and Gall Bladder By DR. JAMES W. BARTON e Bell Syndicate. WNU Service. I BELIEVE that most physicians, phy-sicians, including myself, when there are abdominal and stomach symptoms that are not acute and there are not definite symptoms of ulcer, ul-cer, cancer or appendicitis, are likely to blame a sluggish slug-gish liver and gall bladder. As two of every three individuals ol middle age really have some liver liv-er and gall bladder l disturbance anyway " inflammation o r ' gall stones the phy- sician is likely to be ;sws- --i right two out of three times. The w , symptoms are dis-- dis-- . ; : comfort, nausea, gas pressure, clay-col-m"Jir7 1 ored stools. W' I I If the adult is in 5ssw4.aiJ goo(j health exer- Dr. Barton cises to squeeze the liver, such as long deep breaths or bending exercises, keeping the knees straight, are used. About the only medicine given may be small doses of Epsom salts daily for one week in each month. Diet the Chief Thing. The principal part of the treatment treat-ment is by diet and so every book on diet now has a diet for liver and gall bladder disturbances. Thus "Practical Dietetics," Dr. Sanford Blum, gives the following suggestions: sugges-tions: May take: Vegetables, especially green ones; limited quantity of boiled, mashed or baked potatoes; farinaceous foods rice, farina, barley, bar-ley, arrowroot, cornstarch, oatmeal, cooked breakfast foods; water, mineral min-eral water, tea, milk, buttermilk; fresh meat or white fish or game or poultry once a day; eggs in moderation; mod-eration; cottage cheese; limited amount of butter; toast, bread, zwieback; plain cake and puddings; fresh fruit apples, grapes, pears, peaches, figs, oranges, grapefruit, pineapple juice; salads of fresh green vegetables, raw or cooked. Should avoid: Salt, canned, preserved pre-served and spiced meats and fish; herring, salmon, sardines in oil, mackerel; stews, goose, domestic duck, oysters and shellfish; old cheese, American cheese, Swiss cheese, cream cheese, except cottage cot-tage cheese; dry beans, corn, sprouts cold slaw, cabbage, cauliflower, cauli-flower, sauerkraut, onions, garlic; rich soups; berries, preserves; gravies; gra-vies; nuts, sweets, pies; pastry, fats and oils; alcoholics. - Infection and Insanity. Some years ago I wrote of a New Jersey state hospital in which the "cure" of a young woman occurred within two months after some infected in-fected teeth were removed. She had been an inmate of the institution institu-tion for over two years. This so impressed the superintendent that Immediately dentists, nose, throat, eye and other specialists were called in to clear up or remove any infection in teeth, tonsils, sinuses or elsewhere, with the result that about 40 per cent of the inmates were able to return home. Today practically every mental institution has a dentist giving his entire time to the patients, and other oth-er specialists gynecologists, dermatologists, derm-atologists, general surgeons hold clinics at regular intervals. Thus many of those whose mental symptoms symp-toms depend mostly upon some or ganic trouble in the body are enabled en-abled to become normal again. Now there are many of us who do not do such foolish or unusual things that we are considered "mental," "men-tal," yet we come so near this at times that our friends and we, ourselves, our-selves, begin to wonder if we are just quite sane. We may undergo a severe shock or other emotional upsetment and our reactions to this loss of ambition, ambi-tion, laziness, change In behavior is blamed on the shock or emotional emo-tional disturbance. In a great many cases the emotional disturbance causes the above symptoms because all the other body processes have been "hurt" for the time being. However, when the average sane man or woman, whether or not he or she has undergone a shock or emotional disturbance, begins to act "differently," then a thorough search for infection by physician and dentist should be made. |