The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-04-17
WOMAA'S CLUB COLUMN
LET PATENT MEDICINES ALONE
tMrs. w. T. Gary. Editor.)

L. There may be any one of a hun
dred things the matter with you. You
can't tell which trouble you have.
2. There are hundred different
connections advertised. You cam
tell which one you need. This again
is guess work-mere guess work
when life and health are in the bal
ance.
3. In either case, if you guess
wrong, positive injury is done; for
any medicine strong enough to dc
good work when needed will do harm
when not needed
4. A remedy useful in one stage of
a disease may be positively injurious
at some other stage of that disease.
With the patent medicine there is no
discrimination
.. Because you get well after u.s.
ing certain preparation is no reason
you get we'll because of it. When
you are sick there are fifty chances to
one that you will get well anyhow,
and if you take a patent medicine,
the chances are that you recover in
spite of taking it, and not because of
taking it.
g.. The recuperative powers in the
body---the natural tendency to throw
off disease, readjust our physical ma.
chinery, and get things back in good
order-these are your greatest helps
in getting well again, and a drug
which is not needed by your system
binders and checks these recupera-
tive powers-and if you use patent
medicine, there are a hundred chanc-
es to one that you will get a drug
that's not needed for your particular
malady and your particular stage of
that malady.
Z. Right living will make it unne-
cessary to drug yourself except at
very rare intervals. but if you do get
sick enough to really need treatment,
better try a negro conjure doctor than
take a concoction of drugs prepared
by a man who probably has had no
medical training, never has seen you,
knows nothing of your case, and
whose mixture has ninety-nine chanc-
es of missing you to one of hitting
The negro conjure doctor will at least
d. I,n fnin
almost certainly will.-Progressive
Farmer.
Health
Health is a state of physical, men.
tai and moral equilibrium, normal
functioning of body, mind and soul
1t is the state when work is pleas
ure. when the world looks good and
beautiful, and the battle of life seems
worth while. Health is the antithe-
sis of disease, degeneration and
crime.
The laws of health are as inexora-
BILE as the law of gravitation, a sex
acting as eternal justice, as relentless
as fate, and their violation is the be
ginning and cause of all disease, sui
fering and sin.
Health is the most desired of earth
ly blessings. When finally lost it can
not be purchased by uncounted mil
lions, restored by the alienist, or re
turned by the pulpit.
Health is that state of happiness
faith and love whose prototype was
the first man-Adam; whose ideal is
the Christ.-S. J. Crumbine, NJ. d.
Topeka, Kan.
You cannot consistently pray, "Thy
kingdom come on earth" with a fly
breeding place in your back yard. ,
1t is folly to follow the fashions OIL
the almanac as an index when tt
change from light to heavy clothing
Public health is purchasable. With
in natural limitations, community
can determine its own death rate.
Sudden changes in the weather
should be met by sudden changes il
clothing. a
1t costs less per year to raise ;
: baby than to bury it.
Better be a fresh air crank than {
canned air corpse.