The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1915-05-20
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You MUST LOOK OUT FOR YOUR
OWN HEALTH
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OWN HEALTH
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Of contracting any Of these air-born
diseases. But remember you can not
have healthy mucus without healthy
blood. for the mucus is made from
the blood.
Again. practically all the food that
we eat after il has been digested,
has to pass through the liver before
il reaches the blood. The liver de-
stroys. changes or retains the poi
sons that il contains. and il il were
not for that many Of us would have
been dead long ago. For as long as
the liver is able 10 do its work prop
erly, il is almost impossible for a
man 10 destroy himself by what he
eats: but when this important or
gan becomes SO overwhelmed that
il begins 10 surrender then there is
plenty Of trouble for the man, for
now the poison passes through I'M
disturbed into the blood stream.
And the particular symptoms that
the man will then begin TO suffer
from depend upon the weakest spot
in his system. II may be an all
gone feeling. or sick headache.
or a neuritis. sciatica, rheumatic
pains or nervous prostration, or even
mental breakdown.
Fortunately even the blood itself
has an enormous capacity for swal-
lowing poisons, and especially 10
capture germs.
Professor Metchnikoff, Of the Pas
teur Institute. has particularly en-
riched our knowledge on this inter-
esting question. We have four or
five times as many red blood cells
as white. but these white blood cells
are the standing army Of the inter
ior. II is their business 10 capture
and destroy disease germs.
When seen under the miseroscope
they resemble little drops OF jelly.
They have neither hands, feet,
mouth. nor brains, but they can do
wonderful things. Suppose some
pus germs penetrate the skin. In
few moments the white blood cells
begin TO put themselves through the
blood vessel wall. Just like a drop
OF sweat coming out through the
skin. How they get through nobody
knows. for they leave no hole be-
hind. Then they begin 10 work their
way up next TO the germ. How they
know where the germs are no living
man can tell. Roger. the great
French scientist. says guided by an
unknown intelligence" they proceed
10 do this. Directly they fold them
selves over the germ. and the next
thing the germ is within the white
blood cell and shortly afterwards il
is digested, just as we digest the po-
tatoes We ate for dinner.
The fool saith in his heart There
is no God" But who can look down
in a microscope and see just what !
am describing and not believe that
il is the same great God that keeps
the stars in their places that directs
these white blood cells 30 destroy
the germ so as to preserve the life
~ the manS
Disease and lntemperanee
Two rabbits were inoculated with
pneumonia germs. Then one Of them
was given alcohol. shortly after
wards this rabbit died. The other
rabbi, recovered. II was found that
its white blood cells had eaten up
the pneumonia germs, while Il was
found that the white blood cells in
the dead rabbit that had had alcohol
had rcfrained from eating up the
germs. The same alcohol that made
,he rabbit drunk had undoubtedly
made the white blood cells 81 drunk
they could not smell the germs.
one can not help wonder how
many people in the old days died Of
pneumonia simply because they
we've saturated by alcohol with the
mistaken notion that #, would help