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Show The No-Good Gentleman from Georgia, seventy-three seventy-three inches tall weighs 148 pounds. Ten years ago he moved south from Vermont, ana at that time he weighed '190 pounds. He is 37. He has the ''Florida complexion" cadaveric, muddy mud-dy skin, very white "whites" in his eyes. His clothes flap about his ungainly un-gainly frame. He appears listless and stupid. He is "no account," and his place in Georgia has gone to the bow bows because he is too blamed lazy to take care of it. ' Yet his pulse is rapid, and not a lazy man's pulse at all. The gentleman has tried everything-Tie everything-Tie could buy for weakness, languor, ,that tired feeling, neuralgia, general misery, rheumatism, liver complaint, stomach trouble, backache, kidney trouble, nervous dyspepsia, constipation, constipa-tion, catarrh, weak eyes and run down condition, all of which ailments he says he has had since he moved to examination with the man stripped, of course. Heart and lungs negative. Abdominal organs negative. Urinalysis negative. Is he a malingerer? maling-erer? No, the blood count shows only 3,000,000 red corpuscles per cubic millimeter, whereas there should be at least a million and a half more. "Ever have dew itch?" The patient seems not to understand. under-stand. "Ever had dew itch?" we repeat. re-peat. "Oh, you mean toe itch. Yes. Had it for quite a spell that was soon after I moved south." Dew itch, ground itch, toe itch different names for the stage of invasion in-vasion of hookworm infection. The larvae (developed from the eggs deposited de-posited on the ground in the intestinal evacuations of other victims of hookworm) hook-worm) pretty much everywhere in enmf nart.n nf trip nrnanitarv Konth. enter the skin, causing the itch, work into the blood and finally reach the small bowel. Microscopical examination of the stool discloses hookworm eggs, and after a dose of thymol the small, grayish, gray-ish, adult hookworms are found in the discharges, resembling ordinary thread or pin worms, but a little shorter (J-inch long) and with a distinct sharp bend at one end. The laziness in this case is parasitic. The patient will regain his lost weight and strength after the hookworms hook-worms have been completely eradicated. eradi-cated. His anemia will disappear. He will again assume an active life. But we must advise him to insist upon sanitary conditions in the community where he resides. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Dear, Dear, Just a Wart! ITavlncr n dlsflcurlnsr wart on my flnper I am wrltlnr you for advice. I have tried all sorts of remedies, lncludlnc doctor's proscriptions, some powerful acids, without with-out result, Aro somo wnrts Incurable? Would It bo danccrous to have It burned out? The -wart Is over the Joint of the flngor. (M. D. S.) ANSWER. Belne a crc.nt coward, I sup-pooo sup-pooo I am too timid to (akc needless chances, so, If I had a wart, I should have It cut out under a local anesthetic a simple, sim-ple, pleasant, trlfllnr little operation which any good doctor will do In his ofDco nt any time. Burning out warts or any other Krowtbfi Is nlwnyH dangerous because It la necessarily unclean and the chanco of septicemia sep-ticemia (blood polsonlne) is too jrreat. I think. Likeirloo it Is comparatively painful pain-ful and unsatisfactory. Is it Dangerous to Dive? I find great delight In Bwimmlns. Is too frequent Bwlmmlngr detrimental to health? Why? Moat bathers tahe high dives and swim under water. When I do so I suffer from an achlnc in the back o my head. What causes that? Should I refrain from dlTlnc? (O. C) ANSWER. No, a dally swim, or two a day, cannot injure your health. Swimming under water Is harmful if there happens to bo some recent or chronic nasal disease, for U la a fact that dlvinff Is likely to precipitate an Infection of ono of tho nasal accessory sinuses or of tho middle ear. Hlffh dlrlnr Is not exercise, but au unwarranted un-warranted exhibition. The Haunted House Would you advise mo to move Into a house where two persons have died of consumption con-sumption ono 16 years ago, tho other two years aco7 ANSWER. I should not hesitate to llvo In such a house myself, if it were given an ordinary house-cleaning. Dr. Brady will answer aU signed letters portatniifp to health. The names or icritcrs arc never printed. Only inquiries of acncral interest aro answered in this column; but all inquiries tcill be answered by mail if a stamped self-addrcssod i envolope is enclosed. Requests tor diagnosis or treatment of Individual cases cannot be considered. Address Dr. William Brady, care of this newspavor. |