Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-11-14
SCIENCE AND HEALTH.

Bodily health Is essential TO human
happiness, How to secure II Is one OF
the most important considerations.
Physical conditions are closely allied
to mental conditions. The people OF
the present century are. in one respect,
the product Of past generations. They
are greatly affected by hsredity. Their
environments, however. have much to
do with the Development or the repres-
sion of tendencies which they have in
herited. Some diseases are transmitted
from parents to children, others from
remote progenitors and do not crop out
until the third, or fourth, or still later
generation. Mental characteristics
may be often traced in a similar way.
The march of Intelligence and the
progress OF science, have brought 10
light means by which the effects OF
past evils upon the living OF today may
be greatly counteracted II not extir-
pated. The promises in holy writ of
the restoration OF patriarchal longevity,
bid fair TO be realized at no very dis
tant date. Then man may live ITO
the age Of tree" and "a child shall die
q hundred years old The change Will
doubtless be brought about through
knowledge OF the laws of life and
health, and their practice regulating
human conduct To know what is
right Is one thing, to do II is another.
One Of the means by which the pow
er Of disease win be checked and the
days of our years be heightened will
certainly be the destruction OF germs
whose mission appears TO be to destroy,
and the cultivation Of those that build
up and impart vlgor TO the human
body. Scientific Investigations and ex-
periments are doing much, in bringing
y light these hidden agencies that are
inlperceptiblc to ordinary vision. Some
mistakes are occasionally made, but
these soon disappear In the brighter
light of intelligent experience. Pre-
yentives Of those disorders which
spread misery and death are even
more valuable than the remedies which
are discovered and applied to the suf-
fering.
Chemistry has demonstrated many
Important truths which are and will be
embodied in medical education. The
physicians Of the Twentieth Century,
are, as a rule, ready and anxious TO
adopt that which the advanced chemist
has demonstrated. The two professions
proceed hand In hand. The revelations
OF the microscope are added to the re-
searches Of the other professions. and
the bacterlologlst figures In the robes
Of the physician. The real NJ. d. takes
into his study and practice each Of
these branches OF learning and ex-
pefience, and is thus equipped for the
warfare against disease and death.
Applying these reflections to the
oomrcn affairs Of today. with our linn.
itef1 knowledge, the effects Of past er.
ror' and inhrmities, and the encroaeh.
menS Of epidemic and other diseases
we should all be ready and willing 10
profit by that which Is known ana 20
act upon the suggestions and regs,,
lions that have been prov.d
efhcaclous, either In curing q,
preventing the spread Of con.
,ssion' and promoting the general
health which Is essential TO nsrsor.i
and public welfare. Both from selosh
and al'ruistlc motives this appears inn
perative. In these matters our o,r.
good is involved In the good Of o,bsrs
just now, the disorders known as ~.
phoid fever, scarlet fever and a,rs
iberia are making rayages in manv
parts Of the country including ~,
state and this city. L has been pretty
uoTeughly determined that typhoid Il
emery caused by impure water T,l,
nty be drawn either from wen, ,p,o
."'en organic matter unfavorable "a
hsai'h has been drained. or from
streams that have been betouled BY de.