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Show God's Outdoors Is He Not? By far the most deadly of all diseases, the most costly in the economical eco-nomical sense, and the most frequently frequent-ly disabling in numbers, are the respiratory respir-atory infections tuberculosis, pneumonia, pneu-monia, influenza, diphtheria, and the various infections of bronchi, tonsils and nasal lining all of which have been at one time or another called "colds" and attributed to weather and exposure. Ignorance is a sin. Not necessarily the victim's sin, but a sin, sort of original sin, in this matter of the catarrhal infections. Ignorance is a sin for which we pay in suffering right here in this world. Parents who care nothing and know nothing of sanitation and hygiene hy-giene arcalways most careful to deny the boon of outdoor life to the unfortunate un-fortunate children under their control. So steeped are they in the delusion, that neither common sense, every day observation nor science can eradicate it from their minds. It grows so monotonous, the "taking "tak-ing cold" delusion. Patients who are fairly intelligent draw upon it to explain ex-plain all sorts of ills, from fevers to blood poisoning, and in this they are supported by the hard-working newspaper news-paper correspondents who accept seriously se-riously a bulletin issued by 'some humorist hu-morist attending the famous invalid, which declares that he has merely "contracted a cold" in other words, it is none of the public's business what ails the man, but we've got to get rid of these reporters somehow. liariy in tne war some 01 inc superannuated super-annuated medical authorities expressed express-ed grave fears about pneumonia and rheumatism among the soldiers in the wet, cold trenches. In every belligerent belliger-ent country the actual observation was that the soldiers remained exceptionally excep-tionally free from such diseases, less Dr. Brady icf77 answer all slpnctT Jet writers arc never printed. Only inquiries column; but all inquiries toill be answci envelope is enclosed. Requests tor diagnot be considered. Address Dr. "William Brad) susceptible to them than people living at home. God's outdoors, after all, is He not? QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS How a Specialist Raises Cain. I am 47, a mother of. three Knmn children. chil-dren. My blood pressure Is 11)0. I have some kind of kidney trouble, they tell mo. SllRht traces of albumin appear once In a while In the urinalysis. I am Tery anxloua nbout my hlch blood prefisuro. Thero 1b a beating and a noise In my bend, as If I had taken a lot of quinine My family physician does not belleTe In blood pres- , sure, but eTery specialist I bavo consulted tells me It Is dangerously high, and it frightens me almost to death. Is It not possible to reduce this enormously blgh pressure somehow? (Mrs. C. It.) ANSWER. Follovr your family doctor's directions. One hundred and ninety Isn't high at all. I know many a middle aged person wltb a prcssuro of 210 or 220 who mnnages to keep srolng and get considerable consider-able Joy out of life. I don't bellevo In blood prcRsnro cither. A doctor can take any healthy Individual who Is Impressionable, Impression-able, like a woman, and, by talking for a few minutes about tho seriousness of blood pressure, etc., raise tho pressure from twenty to thirty millimeters nbovc normal. Take a nlco long walk every day, but give the specialist's vicinity a wide berth. The Formula for Cold Cream. In a reply to a correspondent you recommended rec-ommended the U. S. P. cold cream. Can you give the formula? (E. L. D ) ANSWER. The formula is given In the United States Pharmacopoeia (which is the legal standard for all United States pharmacists) phar-macists) aa follows: Spermaceti ...125 grams (not grs.) White wax -. . . .120 grams Expressed oil of almond.. C00 c c Stronger roso water 190 c. c. Sodium borate in fine powder.. 6 grama Reduce tho first two ingredients to fine shavings and melt at moderate heat. Add the almond oil and pour the mixture into n warmed, shallow Wedpewood mortar; carefully add, without stirring, tbo rose water, in which the sodium borate has been previously dissolved, then stir rapidly and continuously until the mixture becomes uniformly 80ft and creamy. ters pertaining to health, The names of of pcncral interest are answered Jn this red by mail if a stamped self-addressed lis or treatment of individual cases carmot j, care of this newspaper. |