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jown YOVR GOOD HEALTH: DISTRESS OF ANGINA PECTORIS RELIEVED BY RELAXATION by CLAUD NORTH CHRISM AN, M. D. GIVING THE CAUSE and cure for angina pectoris is a problem with several factors. From the patient's point of view, angina is a pain caused by a muscular spasm of the chest muscles in the region of the left breast. It is a peculiar pain.

It may be of any degree, from a mild discomfort to an intense, smothering agony which causes the patient to gasp and remain perfectly quiet, fearing to move or breathe. With a typical moderate attack the pain suddenly DR. CIIRISMAN strikes the upper part of the chest on the right and radiates toward the collarbone, up the side of the neck and to the left shoulder and down the left arm, often to the finger tips. It usually lasts only a very short time and leaves the arm and fingers with a numb and tingling feeling. It occurs at all ages, is much more common in men than in women.

It seldom occurs before the age of thirty or forty and increases in frequency as the age increases. The distress usually appears after excitement or exercise. The patient stands or sits rigid, refusing to move or do anything. The face shows great anxiety and there is evident fear of impending death. VESSELS BECOME HARD Angina is due to disease of the coronary arteries.

These arteries supply arterial blood to the heart muscles. The vessels become hardened and inelastic, resulting in a depleted blood supply, and consequently a lack of sufficient oxygen to the heart tissues. The disease is quite common and seems to be increasing, especially among business and professional men. The attacks may occur repeatedly, for a short time, and then subside. The patient is always certain he is going to die but usually he does not.

Repeated attacks mean that the circulation is seriously impaired and death may occur. Hardening of the coronary arteries is the cause of the trouble, taut just why there is such intense pain has not been satisfactorily explained. If only one artery or one branch is affected, the remainder of the heart muscle may receive enough of blood and the damage may not be great. But when a large vessel is affected and the blood supply to a large area of the heart muscle is restricted the heart will be unable to function and death results a few days later. Patients suffering from this condition should be very careful to avoid exertion or excitement.

The narrowed, inelastic vessel can suddenly become obstructed by an embolism or talod clot from some other part of the body, cutting off all or a large part of the blood supply to the part affected. This condition will prove fatal unless quickly relieved REST IS NECESSARY Drug's to relax the muscles of the vessel walls are indicated. Persons who suffer frequent attacks should always carry tablets of nitro-glycerine containing of a grain. They can be taken at any time and as frequently as necessary. Rest is absolutely imperative after severe attacks.

It restores the function of the heart muscle and relieves the pain. After a prolonged period of bed rest, great care should be taken not to exercise enough to produce any strain on the heart. Heavy persons should reduce and care must be taken to prevent indigestion. Morphine to overcome pain and promote rest may be necessary and the usual remedies used to regulate the heart action may be employed. Recently, the removal of a section of the sympathetic nerves which control the heart has been advocated.

Injections of alcohol into the nerve as it emerges from the spine have been successful when performed by an expert. DR. CHRISM AN it glad to answer inquiries from readers tch-o send self-addressed, stamped envelopes with their questions: Address letters to Dr. Chrisman, TOWN, P. O.

Box 721, Rochester, N. MODERN WOMEN: JANE HERBERT COWARD: YOUR CHILD Grimacing is Means of Expression "GO WASH YOUR hands, Eleanor. It's almost dinner time," mother called to her daughter. But the little girl did not answer. Reluctantly she put away her doll; as she turned toward the bathroom, she made a face.

Mother saw it, and believing that the child meant to be disrespectful, she called her back. "Eleanor," she began, "did you make a face at me?" The child puckered her brows. "You must not make faces at your mother. It isn't nice," she heard mother say. Involuntarily, now, she started wrinkling her nose and working her mouth.

"Eleanor!" her mother admonished, "I said, stop making faces." "I'm not making faces," the little girl protested feebly. Exasperated, mother gave her a shove toward the bathroom and said, "Don't argue. Now go wash your hands." Grimacing is a common habit among little children. At first they always do it automatically. Eleanor, for example, could not help making- a face when told to go wash her hands.

At the moment she preferred playing 1 with her doll. But having been trained to obedience, she felt compelled to do as she was told. Her face showed she did not like what she had to do. It was not meant for mother at all. A wise parent would have ignored it.

She would have been satisfied that the child obeyed and would not have held it against her that Continued on Page 14 WHERE (AN AVERAGE HOUSEWIFE FIND TIME FOR LEISURE? by MARIAN MAYS MARTIN I AM ALWAYS AMUSED by the thing's that scientists discover. The latest "discovery," by no less a person than Dr. Edward L. Thorndike, psychologist at Teacher's College, Columbia University, is that those who argue that man needs more leisure time to devote to improving himself and the human race, are on the wrong track. His conclusions are based on a study of leisure time by six expert psychologists.

The facts and statistics revealed by the study show that men already devote more than half of their leisure time to self- entertainment. In Dr. Thorndike's opinion, any increase in the amount of time would probably be devoted to amusement rather than the pursuit of truth and wisdom. What of that? The noted psychologist believes that time spent for self-entertainment is time wasted. I'm not so sure that fun and self-improvement are miles apart.

Some people need to be taught how to use their leisure time, but I doubt if this applies to very many, particularly if they are of the younger generation. SPORTS ARE HEALTHFUL The study lists as entertainment, "games and sports, social gatherings and conversation, radio, theater, movies and talkies, reading, music, auto- mobiling and gardening." Any man or woman who can fit three or more of these activities into the day's program in addition to the hours spent at work, travel, eating, and bound to improve himself, mentally and morally, too, but we won't go into that! "Games and sports" certainly contribute to man's physical I believe that this is one way to improve the human race. More than that, physical activities relieve the tension that results from eight or nine hours concentration on the job. The value of "conversation and social gatherings" may be less tangible, but few will deny that they exist. They certainly help men to understand each other.

They stimulate great PROFILES for TODAY: Maria Rasputin MARIA RASPUTIN, daughter of the famous Russian monk who had great power over the late Czar of Russia, says that her favorite town is Peru, Indiana. Unfortunately she can't settle down and live there just yet, because she has to earn a living by training wild horses for Barnum and Bailey's circus, Madame Rasputin likes Peru, because she was bitten by a bear there last year while training a wild animal act No more wild animals for Maria Rasputin. While recovering in the hospital in Peru, people in the town were so nice to her that she longs to go back, she says. The "Mad Monk's" daughter is 31, vivacious, with blue-gray eyes and regular teeth. She is a likeable and charming person and on her recent trip to this country was the favorite traveller on the boat.

She is going to train a troupe of "high school" horses for the circus, by TALBOT LAKE She prefers training animals, even wild ones, to men. All the things they say about her father are lies, she says. She wrote a book about him French which she claims is the true story of his life. She fled from Russia with the fugitive Whites when she was 13, Later, in Paris, she married Boris Solivieff, now dead. Like most Russians, Madame Rasputin is an excellent linguist and speaks a fluent En- glish.although claims that her French is better writers, philosophers, historians and creators of art and.

music. Besides finding out what people do for "self-entertainment," a survey taken among men and women working in the factory, sales department and offices of a large company showed that men spend five hours a week on persona) care while women spend eight. Both men and women average eight hours of sleep every night, but men take ten hours each week for routine eating, while MRS. MARTIN men spend only because they are dieting'. SURVEY HOUSEWIVES Why doesn't someone make a survey on how housewives spend their leisure time? Such a survey should bring out some more interesting facts for Dr.

Thorndike and his fellow psychologists to play with. Here is a real problem. Not only will psychologists need to teach a woman how to spend her leisure time, but they will have to tell her exactly how and where she can find those forty hours a week that professional people have for dissipation, enlighte or amusement. If the average woman can manage to get five hours a week for a fingenvave, a movie and her bridge club she is lucky. But housework has become such a habit with many women that even if forty hours a week for leisure were miraculously provided, you woulil probably find them cleaning out bureau drawers, rearranging books in bookcases or mending.

They'd feel positively wicked if they wasted three consecutive hours listening to an opera, reading, driving an automobile or going to see a movie. The average housewife is xo accustomed to the idea of working constantly at her endless tasks and responsibilities she can take but few hours for herself without suffering of conscience. Yes, here's a great field for some psychologist with humanitarian impulses!.