Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 150, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1911 — SLEEPING ON BACK IS BAD [ARTICLE]

SLEEPING ON BACK IS BAD

It Makee Women Thin and Fiat Chested, Bays Dr. Moots of Toledo —Cause of Appendicitis. Cleveland.—Dr. C. W. Moots of Toledo proposed a ready and efficacious cure for angular, flat chested and sharp-faced women at the Ohio medical convention. “Women sleep too much upon their backs,” sajd he. “Family physicians should advise them to lie upon their sides, or better yet upon their stomachs. This would prevent internal disorders and the consequent necessity of a surgeon.” Dr. ( Rufus B. Hall of Cincinnati issued a call for more operations for appendicitis. , “The time for a surgeon to operate for appendicitis,” said Dr. Hall, “is the very identical moment that he lays his hands upon the case. More operations and quicker operations would mean leas fatalities.” He blamed colic when infants for appendicitis suffered by grownups.