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October, 192", The Health Bulletin 31
FLYING SANATORIU3IS
The civil fliglit surgeon is the man
of tomorrow. Aviation medicine is a
specialty and only those with special
training are qualified to make special
examinations. With civilian transport
companies carrying both passengers
and freight ; with the air full of commuters,
the civilian physician will need
to know aviation medicine. There are
opportunities now for him.
There is no doubt that we shall all
want to fly. Ernest L. Smith, Emory B.
Bronte and Lieuts. Lester J. Maitland
and Albert F. Hegenberger tested the
radio beacon as a guide to a diminutive
goal in the sea to prove it. Lieut. Al
Williams is trying to show how fast
we can do it, and Lieut. James Doolittle,
by his amazing outside loop, has
shown how siwrtively we can fly.
The world is moving on at a great
rate toward our getting up over the
traffic-choked streets, where there is
more room. Our children are going to
consider travel by air as safe, perhaps
safer, than travel on foot. Moreover,
health airships and flying sanatoriums
are going to be afloat. One in need of
rest and change and ultra violet rays
will be able to get them in the air no
matter on what noisy and smoky part
of the globe he has his habitat.
Science 'News-Letter.
THE DENTIST'S BEST WORK
The cheapest, least painful and best
work a dentist does for you is preventing
big cavities, toothache and infection
by filling small cavities, frequently
those you do not know- are there.
But if you should have toothache do
not run the risk involved in long suffering
and abscess. Go at once to your
dentist. If extraction is necessary and
an anesthetic is used, there is no more
danger than at any other time. The
anesthetic does not harm the child of
a pregnant woman, but continual pain
and infection may.
Of course, the dentist should be informed
of the patient's condition, as he
will give shorter appointments, be
especially careful, and, in some cases,
may do temporary work which will not
take so long but will save the teeth
until
later.
Right food helps to protect teeth and
to build strong teeth for the baby. The
crowns of all the baby teeth are formed
before birth and the buds of the first
permanent ones are started. It is
especially necessary that the diet
should have plenty of minerals. The
baby needs lime for building bones as
well as teeth, and this may mean robbing
the mother's sj'stem. The diet
should supply enough minerals for both
child and mother.
Milk and milk products, fresh fruits,
green leafy vegetables and whole grain
foods contain these mineral elements
and vitamins so necessary to good teeth
and health.
WHEN IT'S FUN TO DRINK MLLK
If your child dislikes to drink milk,
try making a game of it. The child will
probably drink more milk, and, taken
under pleasant conditions, it is much
more apt to nourish him than when he
is forced to drink it. Do not give the
child a whole glass of milk at once.
Put a tiny glass by his plate and fill
it up, asking him to see if he can empty
it. Suggest also, that he see how many
sips he can get out of it, if he is old
enough to count. The other children
may be Included in the idea, making a
sort of contest to see how many little
glasses of milk each one can drink,
limiting the amount to that which they
can comfortably consume. With small
glasses they are not apt to drink too
much. If the child is old enough put a
small pitcher with the rest of the milk
beside his plate and let him pour it
out himself. When he is interested in
puring it you will be surprised how
much more readily he will drink his
regular quota of milk.—From "Children,
The Magazine for Parents."
KILLED HAWK WITH STONE
Mrs. Chapin T. Tyson, of Oakland
Township, is the champion thrower of
the county. When a hawk flew down
last week to help himself to her "biddies"
she flung a stone at him and hit
him, breaking his back. He is a dead
hawk, and now what have you to say
about a woman's not being able to hit
what she throws at The Chatham
Record.