Mcallen Daily Press

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

J. F. B.: "Has treating hernia by injections met with fair success? Do small white spots which appear under the finger-nails have a medical significance?"

Answer: Hernia is treated by injection with success in selected cases. Small white spots under the nails are said to be due to accumulations of air and have no medical significance, either good or bad.

T. S.: "Will you please tell me what causes red spots in the throat and red puffed-up taste buds way back on the tongue?"

Answer: Sore tongue is found in anemia, pellagra and many nutritional diseases, or may simply be due to bad teeth.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Dr. Clendening cannot diagnose appendicitis or give personal replies to individual letters, but he will be glad to give his readers the benefit of his wide experience in general health matters. Each pamphlet contains 32 pages of valuable health information. For any one pamphlet send 10 cents in coin, and a self-addressed envelope stamped with a three-cent stamp to Logan Clendenning, M. D., care of The Press. The pamphlets are: "Three Weeks' Diet," "Indigestion and Constipation," "Reducing and Gaining," "Infant Feeding," "Ulcers of the Stomach," and "Diabetes."