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Show Weather, and Its Relation To Behavior By DR. JAMES W. BARTON (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) SO DEFINITE is the knowledge that wet weather weath-er or an impending storm aggravate the symptoms of rheumatism I that we fail to TODAY'S see the humor UCHITU in the story of ntHUB the salesman COLUMN who tried to I sell a customer a barometer. The salesman pointed out that the barometer would tell when the weather was going to change. To which the customer cus-tomer replied, "Why would I need a barometer? What do you think the good Lord gave us rheumatism for?" In wards of hospitals containing patients with rheumatism there are always more com- Pr"jl plaining when a I storm or unset- tied weather approaches. A Ix'KP"" ward that is quiet I V . one day may have two or three nurses I '4teJL j "on 016 jump" the r fi next, due entirely to " v 1 "le weather, k k i That the weather greatly affects nerv- Dr. Barton ous individuals and - those whose family history shows evidences of strange or unusual behavior has now been shown. At the last meeting of the Section on Nervous and Mental Diseases Dis-eases of the American Medical Association, As-sociation, Doctors William F. Petersen, Peter-sen, Chicago, and Hans H. Reese, Madison, Wis., stated that the psychotic psy-chotic (strange behavior) patient lives in an atmosphere and that atmosphere at-mosphere in this region of the world varies tremendously from day to day. While every healthy normal individual in-dividual is affected by weather changes, these nervous or psychotic individuals are more, affected, due to the fact that they have not the nervous "balance" of those who are normal. When Certain Types Are Affected. The individual of normal build-not build-not stocky nor slender is no-: much affected by the weather. Also, the stocky individual when he is young is not much affected. On the other hand, in the slender individual there are periods of elation and depression. depres-sion. When the blood becomes less alkaline al-kaline (nearer an acid condition) the thin nervous individual, with the blood and tissues less alkaline, becomes be-comes blue, depressed and irritable. ... Removing Warts On Soles of Feet WHEN we see an individual walking carefully, perhaps with one foot turned slightly outwards out-wards or inwards, or a slight limp is noticeable, it is due, in many cases, not to arthritis or to a fallen arch, but to one or more tiny warts buried deep in some callous. It is only when cutting down on the callous cal-lous that small reddish or brownish brown-ish black dots may be seen. These dots are really tiny blood vessels. For the past few years, radium and X-rays has been considered the best method of treatment. However, How-ever, Drs. J. H. Marks and C. C. Franseen, Boston, in New England Journal of Medicine, state that while this is the best method of removal, there are some cases in which the after effects of this treatment are more or less serious. In a series of 15 cases treated by X-rays, 10 showed a complete cure, one required re-quired removal of toe by surgery, one still had a remnant of the wart and three failed to obtain a cure but were later cured by electricity. Of six patients treated by X-rays after failure by use of radium, only two obtained satisfactory results, one had to have toe removed and , three required surgical treatment to obtain results. "If a single radiation treatment fails to cure the method should be discontinued," they report. Electro-dessication, Electro-dessication, when properly carried out, gives, excellent results. The absence of late after effects and the certainty of sure removal of the wart if done under a local anesthetic, anes-thetic, easily make up for the slight immediate discomfort. In all cases in which radium has failed, electro-dessication electro-dessication has succeeded in removing remov-ing the wart." The lesson, then, is that treatment by use of electricity under a local anesthetic is method of choice when radium and X-rays have failed. QUESTION BOX Q. What causes my nose to swell and get red? A. If your nose only swells, better bet-ter see a nose specialist. If nose and eyes swell, may be due to some food you are eating. Q. What is brewer's yeast? A. You can get brewer's yeast in its natural form or in tablets. It is not a trade name. Your druggist drug-gist can supply you with brewer's yeast tablets made by various drug companies. Q. Please suggest some method of easing the discomfort of Bright's disease. A. Patients with Bright's disease often live for many years if they caD get enough, rest so that the heart will not be overtaxed. Meat, eggs or fish are now allowed once a day to maintain strength. Bowels should be kept open, but not purged. Enemas could be used at times. Liver Liv-er helps keep blood rich in iron. Q. What causes epilepsy? A. Some cases of epilepsy are due to injury at birth or later. An X-ray of skull may help to find this. |