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Show What Can Be Done For Angina Pectoris? When, as youngsters, we were playing a game that required much or continuous running, we would get a pain in the chest that made us stop in our tracks. By resting or walking, the pain would gradually disappear and we were able to play just as hard as ever. We called this getting our "second wind." This pain that we had as youngsters young-sters is the same as grownups get when they exercise or eat too much. It is called angina pectoris and is due to the same cause not enough oxygen in the blood supplying the heart muscle. When we have a shock, other emotional emo-tional disturbance, or face a cold wind, it may upset the proper working work-ing together of the heart and lungs; the blood does not get a sufficient supply of oxygen and the viselike pain in the chest may occur. Nature, Na-ture, the friendly force behind mankind, man-kind, tries to help us when we are attacked by emotional disturbances or cold by stimulating the adrenal glands, situated one above each kidney, kid-ney, causing them to pour out an extra ex-tra supply of adrenalin into the blood. This adrenalin, while lessening lessen-ing the oxygen supply to the blood going to heart muscle, opens the blood vessels wider so that the heart muscle will get more blood and prevent pre-vent the pain. Can anything be done for these patients whose blood vessels are getting hard and who have the attacks at-tacks of angina pectoris? Dr. W. Raab, Burlington, Vt, in Annals of Internal Medicine, states that attempts to relieve the ss'mp-toms ss'mp-toms of angina pectoris by cutting down on the amount of adrenalin poured into the tissues, by means of X-ray treatments were successful in 76 of 100 patients. Sixty-two patients pa-tients were entirely free or almost entirely freed from complaints or at least considerably improved for an average of 13Hi months, 14 patients were moderately improved for an average of seven and a half months, and 24 received no help from X-ray treatments. QUESTION BOX Q. Could you suggest a cure for dandruff? A. I know of no cure. Soap and water help as much as most remedies. rem-edies. Q. Please tell me the cause and prevention of mouth ulcers. A. Mouth ulcers stomatitis In children may follow children's diseases dis-eases or a run-down condition. In adults mar be due to too hot or highly seasoned foods, bad teeth, stomach or Intestinal disturbances. |