Dr. Hip Pocrates
Fog horn cured by strange delight
Editor's note: The Nebraskan brings you
"Dr. Hip Pocrates," a medical advice col
umn that has gained national fame for its
offbeat questions and answers. We hope
University students will increase their fund
of knowledge through weekly readings of
Dr. Hip's wit and wisdom.
Dear Dr. Schoenfcld:
My husband has a snore that could
out-honk the loudest fog horn in San Fran
cisco Bay. But I could never resort to
the traditional pushing, hitting and shouting
"Wake up!"
So while awake one snore-filled night,
I proceeded to gently stroke the underside
of his scrotum. Suddenly the snoring stop
ped, he exhaled a sigh of contentment
and that was the last of the snoring. Since
then I have done it a number of times
and it almost always works.
We were wondering if you had any
Ideas about why it works."
ANSWER: A member of my research staff
informed me she deas with her problem
snorer by sighing loudly near his ear. His
snoring stops because he apparently in-
Letters
Editor: f
In answer to Richar
Recker's "View from the
Right" (Mon. October 5); I
would classify Mr. Recker's
attack on YAF chairman Can
non as one of personal
animosity which has been
allowed to negate any loyalty
he may have felt for the con
servative movement.
THE LEFT does not like
YAF on this campus because of
this large membership. I would
like to pose a question: Why
should the Left like or respect a
group of the right at all?
The sale of buttons is
recommended by national YAF
as a means of both distributing
them and of raising funds.
Buttons are only symbols but
judging by the number of YAF
buttons that we have sold and
have seen being worn on this
campus, . they are a viable
symbol. The Blue Button cam
paign is a good form of
recruitment of new members
who stand fairly against
violence and terrorism on col
lege campuses today.
THE LEADERSHIP of Mr.
Cannon i s unquestionably
formidable and relative to the
type of political action group
Young Americans for Freedom
Is. His strength and active ef
forts have caused second and
now third-string leadership to
evolve. Most groups of thla type
do not get beyond the forming
stages. The fact that Mr.
Recker criticizes Mr. Cannon
significantly displays Recker's
consideration of YAF as a
threat to his own conservative
ambitions, whatever they may
be.
Smce Richard Recker has
never been to a YAF meeting,
and knows fewer than ten per
cent of the membership, one
wonders how he has gained his
"insight"' into the workings of
the University chapter. I wish
him luck -in his position of
"token" conservative on a left-of-liberal
newspaper.
Neal K. Bac'unan
Secretary U of N
Yonng Americans for
Frti.'dom
corporates her sighs into his dreams and
changes his breathing pattern. Your method
Is probably effective for the same reason.
My apprentice told me she had tried
your technique successfully with her old
man (who happened to be in the room
during our conversation).. He was genuinely
nurprised and turned beet-red. "Yes," she
said to him, "I've tried it for the past
few weeks and it usually works."
Well, I'm sure many more people will
be tickled by your suggestion and those
who sleep more soundly as a result will
consider it a stroke of genius.
-
Dear Dr. Schoenfeld:
I learned through your column that
processed yogurt may sometimes cause
cataracts of the eyes. But my weakness
is yogurt. Could you recommend the brand
which would be least harmful?"
ANSWER: I reported a study from Science
which found that rats fed nothing but com
mercially prepared yogurt all developed
cataracts. Few humans, though, would
choose to eat an all-yogurt diet and no
case of cataracts in humans has ever been
traced to excessive yogurt consumption.
The yogurt study was discussed only
to emphasize that too much of anything
may be harmful (almost anything,
anyway). Immediately after writing that
zolumn I ate and thoroughly enjoyed a
generous serving of commercially prepared
yogurt.
Dear Dr. Hip:
I have heard various stories regarding
mescaline and peyote use, the most
prevalent being that it absorbs your bone
marrow.
Is this a fact or a fallacy?"
ANSWER: A fantasy. Any psychedelic may
precipitate a bad trip (such as imagining
your bone marrow is being absorbed) but
physical harm has not been reported from
these drugs.
Believing you have mescaline may
itself be a fantasy since recent analyses
of street drugs have shown the "mescaline"
is usually an entirely different drug
such as STP or LSD.
Dr. Schoenfeld welcomes your letters.
Write to him at 2010 7th Street, Berkeley,
Calif. 94710.
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