Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1905-04-06
BE YOUR OWN DOCTOR
Regulate Habits by Chart, Ad
vises Boston Physician.
PILLS AND POWDER WILL THEN Go

DIR. X. Z. Cabot. Who Is CoIIectin
! Statistics of Habits of American-
dfyIdunI Vary-Layman 10 PreveA,
Disease by Working Out His Own
Method OF Keeping Well.
Away with doctors. Just look at Ia
chart and keep well. The chart'll say
how TO live so that pills and powders
never Will be needed again. And doc
tor himself is boosting this plan, say is
the Chicago Record Herald.
He is DR. Richard c. Cabot of Bos-
ton. He is compiling statistics on tie
habits of $1,000 healthy Americans.
and when lac finishes he will make up
chart that will teach every one to be
his own physician-ln the matter or
hygiene. ut least Dr. Cabot announced
his plans before the Chicago Medical
society the other night and asked the
help of local physicians in gathering
his statistics.
The reading Of this paper, the sub
ject of which was The individual
Factor In Hygiene" was the occasion
for vehement protest against certain
| fads FROM which. IL was charged.
Americans are getting their ideas of
hygiene.
Il agree with DR. Cabot" said a ply
cfsiurn t-hn ssInnfnd ont hi. syaptfp,af,-.
and then hurried away without giving
his name. There is too much quackery
being disseminated over the country.
Some men would make us believe that
it is good for US 10 ill our stomachs
| full of hay and pretend TO tell what is
and what is not good for people merely
TO make millionaires out of the pro-
motors of the stun Quacks prepare a
lot of medicines and advise the people
how to treat diseases and how to regu-
late their habits irrespective of the
physical conditions of those who read
their screeds. This system OF fake hy-
giene is getting TO be so widespread
that it constitutes positive menace to
the country"
The speech was received with loud
applause. The position taken by Dr.
Cabot was that the habits OF person
must be regulated by the needs Of the |
individual and that there was no set Of |
rules of hygiene that will apply to sll. |
Men must choose what is good for |
them by instinct and experiment" be
said. There must be hygiene for the |
Caucasian. the Mongolian and the Ma |
lay. There must be hygiene for San
Franciscans and for New Workers. The |
text books OF hygiene smack ludicrous-
ly of the towns that produce them. We
recognize what the school boards do
nnt-tl.t y2lpg CHILDREN need = laTea~l
amount of running about, climbing.
yelling and other exercises for the
larger groups OF muscles rather Ian
the focused activities that 'wag the
tongue and wag the pen,' as STANLEY
Hall says.
The time is coming when the lay
man must prevent disease by working
out for himself his own method of
keeping well. While Il majority OF per-
sons eat three meals day. there is a
percentage OF them that does without
breakfast. Others ALLURE lunch, while
some do without the evening meal.
In each case the habit must conform
to the needs OF the person. Coffee may
injure some people and do others good,
and ii is wrong 10 lay down a general
rule that coffee IL Injurious TO every
one. Ii Will soon come TO be more or ,
less presumptuous for us to prescribe !
the way in which the educated layman
is TO live I
When l have compiled the statistics
Of the actual habits Of $4,000 healthy $
American people, 10 which work | in I
tend 10 give my life. expect TO make /
. chart that will aid people materially d
N settling on their habits. 1t will I
show what has been found TO be good a
or the banker and the farmer, the
.arpenter and the person who takes Il
title exercise and does little work" @