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Show (Keleased by Western Newspaper Union.) NEURITIS Dr. John M. McKinney, New York, In Hygeia, stated that the simple breaking of a bone may cause neuritis neu-ritis inflammation of a nerve if a n nerve is injured or if the nerve is caught up in the bone scar when the bone begins be-gins to heal. "There is no type of infection which has not given rise to, or been associated associ-ated with, a neuritis, either as a direct result, re-sult, or through some Dr. Barton I have spoken before be-fore of my own attacks at-tacks of neuritis, due to infection of teeth, or tonsils and injury. The removal of the infected teeth and tonsils and the bracing of the joint between hip bone and back bone relieved the attacks. Research workers find that about three in four cases are due to infection infec-tion and one in four to injury. The injury may not be a direct blow or sprain but "tumors" cancer and other growths when they press against a nerve can cause neuritis. All kinds of poisons but particularly lead, arsenic and alcohol can cause neuritis. Disturbances of the working processes proc-esses of the body so that foods are not handled properly, such as is found in diabetes and anemia thin blood often cause neuritis. A deficient diet, that is, one lacking lack-ing in the needed vitamins, is an important cause of neuritis. The vitamin necessary to prevent or relieve re-lieve neuritis is vitamin B-l. "There is one cause of neuritis or neuritis-like pain that is more frequently fre-quently encountered than any of the other Causes and it is also most frequently fre-quently overlooked. I refer to worry, fear, unhappiness and emotional distress." dis-tress." How do these emotional disturbances disturb-ances cause neuritis? Dr. McKinney states that there are two ways. First, under the stress of unhappiness or worry the muscles of the neck, shoulders and back are unconsciously unconscious-ly held tense and rigid. Muscles kept rigid under emotional strain become tender, sore and inflamed. These sore tense muscles, either by direct pressure on a near-by nerve, or by interfering with the blood supply sup-ply to the nerve, will set up a neu-Y; neu-Y; ritis. |