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Show Latent and Active Autointoxication H John Doc, poor fellow, suffers all sorts of ailments from his autointoxication, autointox-ication, whereas Richard Roc, the lucky dog, goes scot free. John has a ptoscd or sagging colon, a kink in his food tube, perhaps takes a light lunch of liver pills or liquid petrolatum petro-latum every night, yet never feels well and fit. Richard has a ptoscd or sagging sag-ging colon, a kink in his inner tube, and takes a handful of some philanthropist's philan-thropist's horse medicine every night and comes up smiling every day. Now why does John suffer from his autointoxication auto-intoxication while Richard escapes? Easy. John's nervous system is more sensitive. John leads a precarious, pre-carious, high strung existence, has lots of trouble. Of course he is nervous. ner-vous. Who wouldn't be, in John's place? Richard, the lucky dog, sidesteps side-steps all such emotional strains, wpr-! wpr-! ries about nothing, takes everything " in a happy-go-lucky way, and as likely as not defies fate by ignoring all the laws of hygiene which a man can ignore ig-nore without being indicted as a public pub-lic nuisance. Richard's heredity and early training train-ing endows him with some functionally function-ally competent ductless glands. The character of his existence, his mode of living conserves those ductless glands. Therefore, he can carry his load of poisons for years without turning a ' hair or making any complaint. He I has latent autointoxication. It tells on him gradually. His day is surely coming. John's life early uses up his pep, his vitality, his capital of nerve energy. en-ergy. Emotional strains, business anxieties, quarrels, political excitement, excite-ment, domestic contra-bliss, all the trials and tribulations of John's life arc a drain upon his reserve power, a strain upon his ductless glands. Therefore John is unable to carry i even a moderate load of poisons without with-out suffering consciously and obviously. obvious-ly. John's available supply of adrenin is limited. He can't burn up the poison so thoroughly as Richard, so he suffers. The difference between Richard and Tohn is an economical one. John is always aware that his account isH running low at the bank, and this'H makes him a little careful of his ex-;jH penditures. Richard goes ahead rcck-ijM lessly, spending right and left, andjH never knows just where he standsnH until he js suddenly notified that hisqH account is overdrawn. M If we examine Richard for life in-J M surancc he seldom submits to an ex- M amination on his own responsibility j we generally find that he is a trifle M too heavy, has a slightly elevated M bloody pressure, a rather hard and M prominent abdomen, a little indicanfH m the urine, and demonstrable short-H windedness on exertion. Tell-tale signals of the bankruptcy to come lM He eats like a horse, and except forH a little "gas on his stomach" now H and then, he admits nothing. But H just the same Richard is heading foijH a fall. When it comes it is a great H shock to his friends. He always hadjH such a hearty appetite you know, andjH looked so well! 'H QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS H Pink Eye H 1. What is pink eyo? 2. C. and cJH (Mrs. J. F. F.) flM ANSWER 1. Pink eye is cpIdcmldH .conjunctivitis, a contagious lnnammadoal of the eyes which occasionally spreads IH through the community like measles orJlH coryzR. 2. The cause Is a bacillus. ThcHB cure is Irrigation of the conjunctival saq lH Bcveral times a day with warm normal1 H salt solution (teanpoonftil of salt dissolved) JH In a pint of boiled water), followed by oJiH few drops of boric acid solution (teruB grains to the ounce of warm boiled wa-'H tor) or arpyrol solution 4 per cent. AbH night n little sterile vaseline may bolH smeared over edges of lids to prevenbjH Hti.-klnpr with secretion. The contaRlous-IH nesB of the discbarge must be borne io' mind. H It is an Old Fishwife Custom fl I have always been told that one should B not bathe when in tho period, as it irfH liable to causo a cold. Is this tme. tH Is it an old grandma idea? (Mrs. J. W. D.)H ANSWEU. It la an old fishwife custom.) H In fact, they used to consider hatblng s jH very dangerous thing to indulge In aC H any time. Just liko changing the clothes H or putting on fresh bed linen tho old IH fishwives always doubted the wisdom at .VH such new-fangled notions. A bath Is nl- IH ways safe, whether it is neceiaarjr or notr IH Dr. Brady will answer all sipned letters pertaining to hcaltlu The n.acs.,S H torltcis arc never printed. Only inquiries of general interest aro ajutccrec rt ih column; but all inquiries will bo answered by mall if a stamped folf-addrcsscu h .nuelope is enclosed. Requests for diagnosis or treatment of individual cases cannot ih be considered. Address Dr. William Brady, caro of this newspaper. H |