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Show Upsetting the Correlation Professor Cannon, the Harvard physiologist, phy-siologist, has contributed much to our knowledge of the digestive process. Following in the footsteps of Pawlow, the Russian physiologist, Cannon demonstrated the intimate inter-action or correlation of the different stages of digestion. Taste of food, the mere odor or sight of savoryfood, excite secretion of digestive juice in the stomach. The acidity of the stomach stom-ach juice in turn excites the peristaltic or onward movements of the stomach which, in due time, pass the digesting food mass along into the next compartment com-partment of the alimentary canal, the duodenum. Here the acid mass stimulates stim-ulates the secretion of pancreatic juice, which is much morc important in digestion than gastric juice. The co-ordination between the successive suc-cessive processes of the wholc function func-tion of digestion, from the excitation of appetite by psychic impressions to the elimination of the residue from the body, is so delicately adjusted that anybody with a wholesome respect re-spect for nature must hesitate about breaking in on this perfect adjustment with a cathartic. Castor oil, fed to a noisy infant, enjoys the place of honor among the implements used to upset this fine arrangement. ar-rangement. When a helpless baby, at the mercy of some wiseacre, kicks up his feet and squirms and yells and worries, for the mere joy of living, and to develop good muscles, a dose of castor oil is poured into the works on general principles. The first dose is wonderfully effective. effec-tive. But tomorrow, when it again becomes be-comes more or less necessary for the baby to answer the call of nature, nature doesn't call. If there were no tomorrows in this castor oil business, dear, what a fine time the doctors would have! The first dose upsets correlation. After that, it is easy. All you have to do is feed the baby a cathartic, and Dr. Brady will answer all signed let writers arc never printed. Only inquiries column; hut all inquiries will be answet envelope is enclosed. Requests for diapnot oe considered. Address Dr. "William Brad: 4 a stronger one from week to week and month to month, to keep him working. Pretty soon you'll discover that he is in need of a bath inside. You'll start him taking internal baths. And once you get him started on that habit, it is good-bye happiness for all the household. If you feci the baby must be oiled, use some brand liquid petrolatum, which is a lubricant, harmless in any dose, without drug effect, QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Fermented Milk Kindly advise mc whetber the fermented milk called "zoolak" la benltuful and nour-iBhlnc. nour-iBhlnc. AIoo whether shredded wheat hns good food value. (A. J. S ) ANSWER. I am not familiar with the pnrtlcular fermented milk preparation you mention. Most soured milk preparations arc healthful and nourishing beverages. Shredded wheat has the same food value, ounce for ounce, as bread. Oleomargarine and the H. C. L. I wrote you last week but I suppose my letter was not answered becauHC I Hljmed only my Initials. In butterlne ns cood as butter for children? Where can 1 obtain the bran you recommend for constipation? Drutrclsta and grocers I have asked do not handle it. (MIsb J. M C.) ANSWER. No attention Is paid to unsigned un-signed letters By butterlne I suppose you mean some brand of oleomargarine. Oleomargarine Oleo-margarine la an wholcsomo and nourishing as butter lor children or adults. Any grocer gro-cer can Bupply bran In cartons It Is mar kctcd by many cereal manufacturers. The Doctor's Attitude What in your opinion should be the doctor's doc-tor's attitude In a case like this: A young mnn ostensibly laid up with "grlppo" In his room In a private family residence, In reality Is afflicted with a venereal disease. Is It perfectly ethical for the doctor to say nothing to Innocent members of tho family, fam-ily, or should he warn them of the danger of contagion? (P. F. A ) ANSWER. If the doctor falls to warn innocent persons of nny actual danger, ho Is derelict In duty and unworthy of confidence. con-fidence. He need only state that tho na-turo na-turo of the Illness Is Infectious. ters pertaining to health. The names of of pcncral interest arc answered in this red by mail if a stamped solf-addrcsscd Hs or treatment of individual cases cannot I, caro of thts newspaper. |