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PAGE TWO WMtojf@rchias ® WRITTEN FOR AND REIEASED BV Marie Blizakd CENTRAL PRESS ASSOCIATION j|p ' / CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE A YEAR LATER Eleanor was b«red with discussing servants and dressmakers with Mrs. Mordecai. She was bored with the inanities of social life. In its higher ranks she had found the trappings—the foreign cars, the correct butlers, the out-of-season foods, the steam yachts and stables —pleasing, but the pursuits were no more eii£- ig ing to her than the bridge parties and Parent-Teachers meetings back in the Great Neck days. Sbr had learned to dance —she had earn again to keep up with the n.umba, and even adults were doing the Big Apple—and ride and pilot a surf-board. She managed her social pursuits without infer ring with the tremendous output of her work. But more and more she was find ing her greatest pleasure in perus ing garden books, in going to bed early with a book of history in her hands. Her home, her children and her work ran their courses on greased wheels. She had no problems. Per haps a problem was what she need ed. Her life was in a rut and she was bored. That was why, that spring day, she was unhappy and discontented and surprised by herself that she had gone to Grace Mordecai's party. That was the day that she met Dennis Pryor.. She had marked his head, label ing it “Liontine.” as he flashed past her car in his roadster. She had sought that kingly bead out in the crowded drawing 100 m and Grace had told her at once that she should know him. “This is Dennis Pryor, Eleanor. . . . Dennis, this is Eleanor Par rish, THE Eleanor Parrish, our fa mous novelist.” Grace had left them then and Dennis had taken her somewhere to get her a drink. She’d watched his broad shoulders moving easily through the crowded rooms. She’d read his profession in his bronzed cheeks, in his clear, blue eyes, un the slight touch of gray at h'is rugged temples. He was a mining engineer. He was a man given to judging distances—and people. He was the first man she had met who had demanded things of her. Demanded them at once. He had demanded to know intimate things about her. He had asked her, almost point Iron Lung Victim Begins Journey to Lourdes ‘ railroad InVf5 arr !^'m! 1 ’ 3 m echanical breather aboard liner Normandie following journey by special ‘ T ~° , ( a ' .^ e y° un £ paralysis victim sailed from New York for France and the Shrine of U>uidef tor spiritual strength, a lift, peace.”He has been in the “lung” since 1930 The Army and Navy Get Together Gobs from the Atlantic urmoiir/m . , . and Schouclter at West Pninf an ®“ ore( * ,n the Hudson River chat with Cadets Gilchrist (left, center) •tuff on the parade ground* u " er f, the sailors saw the future generals, in full dress uniform, strut their . snore than 1,000 sailors journeyed up the Hudson to Army’s headquarters to Ms the display of military precision. , ■ - blank, “How much are you mar ried ?” The very method of his asking had intrigued her, although she told herself it had annoyed her. Later that night she was to re , member how she had answered ! him, saying, “Very much. I’ve a sixteen-year-old daughter and a ten-year-old son.” “You still haven’t answered my question,” he had said quietly. “Haven’t I?” she answered, lin geringly, knowing he had no right to ask such a question, knowing she couldn’t evade him by pretending to misunderstand.” “You must have been very young,” he said. It was not a question. “I was only nineteen,” she told him, knowing that with the word ONLY she had implied that she had been too young, perhaps, to know her own mind. Someone had come between them then and they had not talked to gether again. He’d said: “I shall see you again.” She had smiled meaninglessly. Grace Mordecai came out with her when her car arrived. “How did you like him?” “Him?" Hcrnor’s voice was elaborately puzzled. “Don’t be silly, Eleanor. You know I mean Dennis Pryor.” “Oh, Mr. Pryor. He’s . . . he’s frightfully attractive, isn’t he?” Grace nodded. “The strong, si lent type.” “Strong,” Eleanor corrected, “not silent.” “Surely this isn’t a complaint? He seemed to be paying you com pliments.” “It is no compliment to an au thor to discover someone who hasn’t even heard of her.” “Why, Eleanor! You mustn’t let that prejudice you. Dennis has been off in the wilds of South America building dams.” “The biggest dams that were ever built I expect,” she said to her hostess. Grace’s face fell into lines of great disappointment. “Oh dear, I thought I was presenting a man that you would find really interest ing, and now, it seems that you don’t like him.” Eleanor kissed her lightly, being quite careful not to disturb her own lipstick. “It was a lovely party, Grace. Don’t trouble your head about people I don’t like. I’m not important enough.” Grace’s hand detained her. “May be you do like him. I was reading somewhere the other day that if strong types meet and clash, it is HENDERSON, (N. C.) DAILY DISPATCH MONDAY, MAY 193 V often a sign of a very powerful at traction.” Eleanor laughed lightly. “You’ve been reading the wrong kind of books. ... I really must go, Grace. I’ve promised Phil that I would be home to dinner. There are some people coming in.” “Look here, Eleanor, we’ve a date for Friday a week for dinner at your house? Will you keep the party small ? I want to talk to Phil and if you have some devastating man for me, I’ll forget all about the business I want Phil to advise me about.” “I will. There’ll just be the three of us," slje promised. “You know Dennis is staying here? He was a cousin of Paul’s.” Eleanor got in her car. “Friday week,” she said as they drove away. They passed Dennis Pryor’s car in the drive. Eleanor felt a re currence of her surge of annoy ance. He had had no business talk ing to her as he had, as if she were a school girl who had published one story and was all puffed up about it. Her annoyance grew and was di rected at herself. She had had no business acting like a silly school girl anxious to impress him. He was a man, but he was a spoiled one, like a little boy hero of a school. If she saw him again— But, of course, she would not see him again, unless it was to give herself a chance to be herself, rather than the person she had been. If he was to see her in her own home, with her husband and her children, and with people who really knew who she was . . . Grace had said she didn’t want any others around, that Dennis was staying at her house. Yes, Eleanor owed it to Phillip as well as to herself to do what she was going to do. She rang up Grace a few days later, saying: “Darling, I’m terribly sorry, but I’ve learned that the Maltbys are coming to dinner on Friday night. Shall I ask a man for you?” She’d waited, a trifle breathless ly for Grace’s reply. “Would you mind awfully if 1 brought Dennis?” “Dennis?” Eleanor replied, her voice up. “Yes. Dennis Pryor. lou re member him. He’s my guest and I thought ...” “Anyone you like, dear,” Eleanor said. “I’ll expect you two at seven-thirty.” (To Be Continued) MEDICAL SCRAPBOOK By LOGAN CLENDENING, M. D. WE ARE supposed to write a column which contains 600 words daily. Some days we would like to write a thousand words —or rather, we pick a subject that can be cov ered only in a thousand words (we never want to write a thousand words)—and some days we think of a subject which peters out in about 100 words. So we are going to assemble some of the short ones, and ask your indulgence if they do not seem to have much continuity. Concerning the often-urged plan to have a “general going over” once a year just to see if anything is the matter, we like the remark about the family doctor: “With a few questions, a snappy physical exam ination, he recognizes measles or erysipelas or acute heart failure. Fish Swallowing Brand-New Mania By LOGAN CLENDENING, M. D. “GOLDFISH derby!" “Clark University leads” “Undergraduate of that liberal institution of learning eats 89 live goldfish.” “Harvard University lags its representative eats only 24.” “Angle worm diet!” “Sophomore at Oregon State Col lege swallowed 139 live angle worms! He downed two handfuls of fat, well-washed, writhing, garden variety worms in two gulps, and collected a $5.00 wager.” “New Yorker eats magazine cov ers!” I suppose by the time this article reaches the eyes of my readers the goldfish-eating craze will have be come a thing of the past. But at the moment everyone is asking your be wildered correspondent just what it Dr. Clendening will answer questions of general interest only, and then only through his column, v means. Well, I acknowledge I am bewildered, but out of the welter of questions I venture the following answers. Will Do No Harm In the first place, I think we can dismiss the chance that these ex periences will do the protagonists any harm. Goldfish are nutritious enough and will probably be di gested in toto. That they have a good many worms, and eaten raw these worms will infect the eaters' intestines is undoubtedly true, but that also can be taken care of. The same goes for earth worms. (Maga zine covers seem to me a particu larly non-nutritious diet.) Man ate his food raw long before he ate it cooked. He probably dis covered the advantages of cooked food v_ accidentally (vide, Charles Lamb’s Dissertation on Roast Pig). But what about the state of mind that brings such a situation about? Os course, individual instances of strange desires in food, on special occasions, are familiar. Expectant mothers are supposed to like to eat dirt or other outr6 articles, though I must say I never saw one that Physicians Again Favor Hypnotism Clendening Declares It Offers Good Approach to the Treatment of Nervous Ailments ' By LOGAN CLENDENING, M. D. WE HAVE spoken of the power of suggestion in medical treatment and in the ways of symptoms, arid of health. The most powerful agent in creating suggestion is undoubt edly hypnotism. I note by articles in the medical press that hypnotism is coming back into favor among conservative physicians as a method of treat ment for nervous ills. For many years it has had a general air of charlatanism about it, and for that reason a really valuable means of treatment has fallen into disuse. Intelligence Needed Psychoanalysis, the psychothera peutic method most often discussed today, is by no means applicable to all patients. . The patient must be fairly* intelligent to be psychoana lyzed, and sufficiently educated to understand the method and purpose Dr. Clendening will answer questions of general interest only, and then only through his column. of analysis. He must want to get well (this sounds like a contra diction, but the fact is that most neurotic patients do not want to get well). In any case psychoanalysis is expensive in time, energy and money, for an analysis takes at least a year. And, even so, it is not always successful. The object is to allow the patient to analyze his owh emotional life in order to under stand what are his unconscious im pulses. After this unconscious ma terial has bubbled over, the physi cian leads his patient into a reinte gration of his personality. But not all analyses end in this theoretically ideal manner, because the patient’s unhappy personality may be too solidly founded to allow transfor mation. Good Approach Hypnotism offers a good ap proach to many neuroses because it allows the physician to affect the subconscious. This is accomplished without the patient building up con He agrees with Mackenzie that when one wishes a flat tire fixed, one resents the advice of the garage man that a thorough overhauling of the car is necessary.” Another point. We have heard recently of a surgeon who said that if he charged only a thousand dol lars for an operation, he would lose money. This was in association Dr. Clendening will answer questions of general interest only, and then only through his column. with a case in which he sewed up the cut in a child’s face and charged the parents $5,000. Just along that line, it is not entirely surprising that some of the most famous pi rates in history were doctors, not- didn't want to stick to roast beef arid ice cream. But these, as I say, are individual idiosyncrasies, practised under un usual stress. What about every body going at it? Well, smallpox is not the only thing that is conta gious. Hysteria is contagious, too. There was the dancing mania of the Middle Ages. In the spring in some little Italian village there might be heard, far off in the hills, a faint, wild pagan music. Men and women would come to the doors and begin to sway to the rhythm. And soon a tattered little band of musicians, one playing on the flute, one on the pipes and one on the viol, would ap pear, sounding the notes of the tarantella, the pipes of Pan. And the people of the village would come out into the streets and begin to sway and then to tread a reckless measure, whirling on and on, they knew not where. It would go on for days and nights, until finally they would fall exhausted in the fields, to awake days later and return so berly to their tasks. And the musi cians would pass to another town, and the sound of their pipes would waft from afar. Well, the dancing mania has passed and the goldfish mania has passed, but the mania for the perse cution of minorities has not passed. It may seem a long jump from gold fish eating to going to war, but it is not a long jump in the human mind. And war hysteria is more conta gious than any other kind and slightly more dangerous. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Mrs. B. C.: “Is there any way of making acidophulus milk at home?” Answer: Cultures of acidophulus can be purchased at the drug store and added to unfermented milk. EDITOR’S NOTE: Dr. Clendening has seven pamphlets which can be obtained by readers. Each pamphlet sells for 10 cents. For any one pamphlet desired, send 10 cents in coin, and a self-addressed envelops stamped with a three-cent stamp, to Dr. Logan Clendening. in care of this paper. The pamphlets are: “Three Weeks’ Reduc ing Diet’’, “Indigestion and Constipation”, “Reducing and Gaining”, “Infant Feed ing”, “Instructions for the Treatment of Diabetes”, “Feminine Hygiene” and “Tb* Care of the Hair and Skin.” scious defense reactions or aware ness of what is happening. There are a number of miscon ceptions about hypnotism that should be corrected. The hypnotist does not need to be a strong* per sonality, or one with strong will as opposed to the weak will of the sub ject. In fact, will has nothing to do with the induction of hypnosis. The mechanism of normal sleep and of hypnotism are the same— both are states of dissociation. Neither the will nor the memorj are lost during hypnosia. However deep the hypnosis, the subject will remember everything that happens if he is told to do so. No Strange Power , The hypnotist does not possess any strange power over the subject who has once been hypnotized, but it is possible to reinduce hypnosis with a very insignificant signal. This may be a stare, a click of the fingers, a written word or a word spoken in a whisper. But the signal must be agreed on beforehand. Even a telephone call or a signal over the radio will do. Hypnotism simply makes the sub ject more suggestible. With* the proper technique and a conscien tious physician there is no telling what symptoms can be removed by hypnosis.^,lt must not be suggested that an arm or a 2eg which is really organically paralyzed can regain movement, but long-standing func tional paralysis which has resisted all other forms of treatment riiay recover immediately under hypno sis. A case of amnesia may be awakened into reality. An insom niac may begin to sleep like a baby. Even organic pain may be miti gated. EDITOR’S NOTE: Dr. Clendening has seven pamphlets which can be obtained by readers. Each pamphlet sell? for 10 cents. For any».one paitiphlet desired, send 10 cents in coin, and a self-addressed envelope stamped with a three-cent stamp, to Dr Logan Clendening, in care of this paper The pamphlets are: “Three Weeks’ Reduc ing Diet”, ”Jndigestion and Constipation” "Reducing and Gaining”, “Infant Feed ing”, “Instructions for the Treatment of Diabetes”, “Feminine Hygiene” and “Th» Gar* of the Hair and Skin.’’ ably Captain Blood. On every pi rate ship, according to Dr. Phillip Gosse’s learned treatise, “History of Piracy,” there was a surgeon who had a regular share in the loot. None of them ever showed any in terest in the peaceful practice of his profession, but preferred the prospect of adventure and of - the speedy acquisition of wealth under the “Jolly Roger.” Panama has the shortest and yet most comprehensive Health Act in the world. It reads: “Anything which is or may be dangerous to human life or health shall be abolished.” Tact is a valuable asset in life and particularly in a physician. It consists, as Dr. Da Costa, of Phila delphia, said, in telling a squint It’s NotTrue—Tapeworm Doesn’t Create Appetite By LOGAN CLENDENING, M. D. In 1775, just before he so unjustly and unfortunately lost his head, Louis XVI paid a certain Madame Noupper $3,500 for a noted remedy for tapeworm. Madame had inher ited the remedy from her husband. Let it be said for the memory of His Majesty that Louis did this in order to present his subjects with the formula of the secret remedy. The ingredients and the direc tions for use were published under the auspices of the king. I suppose everybody has at one time or another been frightened by the appearance of a tapeworm or portions of a tapeworm in the de- Dr. Clendening will answer questions of general interest only, and then only through his column. jecta. If not in your own exalted person, you must have been con sulted on the subject by the fellow who works at the desk next to you, by the cook or by the hired man. Three Types Common Three tapeworms commonly affect man. The name tapeworm has no scientific significance, but is derived from the tape-like appearance of the worm. The three distinct worms are the fishworm, the beefworm and the porkworm, the descriptive name in dicating the animal from which the ova are transmitted to man. The fish tapeworm, when im planted in the human intestine, dis charges a continuous stream of eggs, which may pass into fresh water to be swallowed by crawfish and snails and other small animal victims of pike, salmon, trout and bass. From the fish intestine they make their way to the muscles, and thence back into the intestinal tract of a man. The beef tapeworm enters the human body in the envelope of the flesh of cattle. Man consumes under cooked, or raw, beef containing the dormant larva. It is estimated by re liable authorities that unless the hamburger steak concessions at the New York and San Francisco fairs are carefully supervised, five million Influence of Mind On Body Disorders Question of Whether Mental and Nervous Impulses Can Produce Disease Is Discussed By LOGAN CLENDENING, M. D. THE ARTICLE today might al most be called “Science and Health —a Vindication While all physicians know that mental or emotional factors can make people feel ill, few of them are willing to admit that mental or ner vous impulses can produce organic disease, such as ulcer of the stomach, goiter, arthritis or hemorrhages. Yet, there are some very queer and definite things that point that way. A truck driver who shifted Dr. Clendening will answer quest/ons of general interest only, and then only through his column. gears with his right hand and braked with his left foot, had a paralysis from a hemorrhage in the brain which affected the muscles perform ing those actions and those alone. Cerebral hemorrhages usually do not do things that selectively. Could it be that this man’s long habitua tion in one set of movements created nerve pathways that directed this accident when it came? Produces Hormones Experiments by the Russian physiologist, Rosekor, have shown that stimulation of the cortex of the brain produces certain chemical sub stances hormones —in the body, and that these are capable of pro ducing the same effects as the stim ulation of the brain itself. The in jection of blood and spinal fluid, for instance, obtained after such stim- 1 ulation, will affect the pancreas in : such away as to produce temporary 1 diabetes. A chemical called acetylcholine is 1 apparently produced in the body as J a result of fright. If this is injected * into monkeys, it will cause the mus cles of the face and the eyes, includ ing the pupils of the eyes, to assume the reactions characteristic of fright. And this even after the nerves going to the muscles have been cut. A doctor of Toronto has shown that a number of organic diseases, including experimental heart dia CONTENTS: that "general over hauling"; famous pirate doctors; world’s shortest health act, etc! eyed man that he has a fine, firm chin. Mark Twain said that he had achieved the age of 70 by adhering strictly to a schedule in life that would be fatal to anybody else. He made it a rule to go to bed only when*he couldn’t find anybody to sit up with, and he never got up until he had to. He stuck to food that didn’t agree with him until one or the other won out, and he made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time. EDITOR’S NOTE: Dr. Clendening hsa seven pamphlets which can be obtained by readers. Each pamphlet sells for 10 cents. For any one pamphlet desired, send 10 cents in coin, and a self-addressed envelope stamped with a three-cent stamp, to Dr. Logan Clendening, in care of this paperl The pamphlets are: "Three Weeks’ Reduel ing Diet”, “Indigestion and Constipation", “Reducing and Gaining”, “Infant Feed ing”, “Instructions for the Treatment of Diabetes”, “Feminine Hygiene" and "The 1 Care of the Hair and Skin.” cases of beef tapeworm infestation will develop next year. Almost No Symptoms That picture, however, sounds somewhat blacker than the actual harm amounts to, because tapeworm causes almost no symptoms what ever. The old idea that the harbor ing of a tapeworm creates an awful appetite is unfortunately not true. I know a lot of men who would try to acquire a tapeworm were that true. Besides, a tapeworm gives a per son a kind of dignity. He can say “We” like editorial writers and Damon Runyan and important peo ple like that. The pork tapeworm i 3 the third member of our tapeworm enemies. The treatment of all three vari eties is the same. The age-old rem edy is aspidium, or male fern. The powder of male fern can be taken by mouth in the dose of two—four grams. Points in Treatment Two points in treatment, how ever, must be remembered. First, male fern like all vermifuge rem edies has possibilities of poisoning. If it will kill the worm it may kill the victim. For that reason it is far better to take such drugs under the direction of a physician. Second, the preparation for a worm expelling remedy is of great importance. The intestine must be cleansed so that the medicine can have its full effect on the worm. The tapeworm buries its head in the folds of the intestinal tract and a preliminary dose of salts must be used to expose it. After the worm has been completely expelled, an other cathartic should be taken in order to clear the system of the vermifuge. EDITOR’S NOTE: Dr. Clendening has seven pamphlets which can be obtained by readers. Each pamphlet sells for 10 cents. For any one pamphlet desired, send 10 cents in coin, and a self-addressed envelope stamped with a three-cent stamp, to Dr. Logan Clendening, in care of this paper. The pamphlets are: “Three Weeks’ Reduc ing Diet’ , “Indigestion and Constipation", "Reducing and Gaining”, “Infant Feed ing”, “Instructions for the Treatment of Diabetes”, "Feminine Hygiene” and "The Care of the Hair and Skin." . ease, can be cured by this same acetylcholine. • i What They Imply? What can these experiments im- H ply other than that an emotional or 5 mental state may produce chemical ' changes in the blood, which can pro , duce organic changes? It is even postulated that certain hormones are associated with tumor growths. The opposite viewpoint, of course, has equal validity, and, in fact, prob ably more, and is the one held by most hard-headed physicians the view that organic diseases produce toxins or reactions of some kind that influence the nervous system, the mind and emotions. And many physicians go even far ther and maintain that chemical or reflex causes can account for all such nervous conditions as hysteria and nervous breakdown, even insan ity. To this I cannot subscribe, be cause I believe that those conditions are due to the attempted reaction of the individual to the stresses and emotions of daily life and responsi bility. Obvious Lesson But one lesson is obvious. The modern treatment of disease must attack from the chemical, organic and also the psychological approach. If a man has high blood pressure and is also worrying himself to death about his business affairs, you cannot treat one phase of his trou bles without the other. You can treat some goiters successfully by surgery, some by iodine and some by psychology. So who would deny they should be treated by all three? The lesson in personal hygiene that these observations suggest is to attempt a vigorous control of your emotions. EDITOR’S NOTE: Seven pamphlets by • Dr, Clendening: can now be obtained by sending 10 cents in coin, for each, and a self-addressed envelope stamped with a three-cent stamp, to Dr. Logan Clenden ing, in care of this paper. The pamphlets are: “Three Weeks’ Reducing Diet”, "In digestion and Constipation", "Reducing and Gaining’’, “Infant Feeding”, "In structions for the Treatment of Diabetes", "Feminine Hygiene’’ and “The Care of tin Hair and Skin’*.
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