The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-15
HOME HEALTH CLUB


 l= BOOSTERS When one has 0 hob by and keeps preaching. talking and pract1cing along that line for twenty years or more there are bound to be many others who believe in that hob by. For over twenty years the Home Health Club has been preaching and teaching hyeiene and the evils of ill., advised doping with drugs. especially such dangerous drugs as opiates. mar cotios, poisonss coal tar preparations, whiskey and alcohol It is only with in the last few years that the entire medical profession has become arous- 5ed to the importance of such teach ling and has really began to teach to the laity the various practical meth fods Of self proctection against sdis- ease.
 It Is only through the newspapers and magazines and largely by lay writ CTS that the people have been warned a.gainst the dangerous and deadly drugs that T. have named. Let me repeat some of the things I have so often told you.
 E No drug, no doctor, ever cured amy disease. If the doctor cannot cor rectly diagnose 8 case he has no right to prescribe drug for it. If the doc tor knows the cause of 3 sickness or disease, he may prescribe remedy lthat will remove the cause. Nature then does the curing.
 Here is a splendid little boost along the line Of the Home Health Club work It is by pr. Paul Burmaster in the little magazine. Our Tubercular Children Of which he is editor.
 s-The time and the manner iIa which different drugs came to be used for certain ills is to a large extent Inys- tery. No doubt man in, his more Prinn- ative stage chewed everything with 1n reach. just as a child does today. and observed certain results While these results would at the present time be considered standing en very weak foundation yet most so called standard remedies were established in | this manner. It must be remembered that in the days of the medicine man W hich all nations had at one time or i another scientific Investigation was extremely primitive.
 There Is today an ever increasing number Of physicians who believe that the main benefit of many drugs l1s purely suggestive. Dr. Woods Hut i crimson, the noted writer on medical l EsubJects, says that no drug can work that miracle. All that medicine can { do,s he says. is to call a halt and give nature a chance to rally her forces While many excellent physicians do the fact nevertheless remains that I n0wadays hygienic measures are more depended upon in the cure of disease than drugs.
 A knowledge of hygiene is not the private property of the medical pro- fesaons and is not claimed as such 1 The real physician of today does his best work in spreading this know Hedge and by doing so not only cures disease but prevents it
 Health education is the greatest boon given to the present generation iby the medical profession and it's ,ef- 1 feet upon national life can only be fairly appreciated when it's ramifica- tions upon national life are closely studied z
 CLUE NOTES
 Dear Doctor: Will you please tell me what to do for constipation NJ am Bothered with it a great deal aand my bowels would not move for week if did not take something to move them. I have inflammation of the appendix at the present time. Is there "a cure for it without operation