East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-04-29

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/ become concerned, But they as not
| give much thought to the rules and
I regulations OF living which would
make sending for the doctor needless
for a great many years. Something
OF the value OF this standard OF health
was impressed upon a humber OF em-
ployes OF members OF the Chicago AS
sooiation OF Commerce at a recent
MONDAY meeting by DR.. Henry Fa-
yiA. The speaker said:
Any one Of you has hundred
friends in society that you are NOV
ing along with side by side. doing
your work, associat.ng back and forth
and SO far as YOU know they are all Of
them we'll Along somewhere between
20 and so some Of those hundred will
drop out There will be others drop
out between so and 40 and between
20 and so and between so and SO, and
by the time you have got along to 90
years Of age you will find that the men
who are left In that original group OF
loo who are men of strength and ca
pable are very few. Now what is the
reaSonG
They are gone from acute infecti-
Gus diseases, we will say, like pneu-
monia, to which they were not resist
ant Now who knows what makes
resistance TO pneumonia and whatS
makes nonresistance Nobody. Don't
take anybody's word for that. No
body knows, 1t is a specific question
of a kind that nobody can answer.
But they drop out from pneumonia
or some other form OF acute diseases.
Along from 40 to SO and 55 YOU
will find that very large quantities Of
men are falling by the way by reason
of tn ngs that are more easily under
stood-after it is too late. That is to
say there are men who will develop
along at that agt heart disease and
kidney disease and liver disease and
blood vessel disease and things of that
kind.
'We find that we have in that time
of life what are called degenerative
d ,seaSes. diseases in which the vital
organs have degenerated and gone to
pieces one way or the other from
causes which won't stop TO analyze
exactly now. The point I want to
make about those is this: By the time
those degenerations have been so es-
tablished that anybody knows they are
there and they can be diagnosticated
by physicians and given a name and
treated as a disease, by that time the
Jig is up. 1t is too late to do anything
about it much.
"Oh, you can patch it along. you
can temporize, you can adjust, you can
do all sorts of limitation things, but
it is too late to do much about that
class Of diseases and that is the class
Of diseases with which we as physi-
c ans are dealing all of the time and
in increasing numbers along in those
two decades Of life.
The question of maintaining health
is very largely question of what YOU
don't do. not a question of what you
do. 1t is purely a question of self
discipline. Purely a quest on, first. Of
seeing what to do, and then having
the sand to do it. Well, the question
is, Is it worth while? Is it worth
while? Am 7 enough happier, If I am
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walk to be circumspect in my habits
and consequently balance my health,
as we say? Am I enough happier or
enough more effective to make ii
worth while to be bothering about
what I do or what I shan't do? Now
that is q perfectly open question. II
I am not enough happier day by day
as | go through it I don't know that
the living longer is worth while.
Now, if it is true that not only
your chance Of living longer is better
with good habits but your chance OF
being happier every day in the process
is better. then it becomes something
worth while, but, after all, what do
we want of health What is the object
Of being well? The object Of being
well is to have the health to do some
thing with. 1t is for the purpose Of
having supply Of effectiveness of
some kind that you can use, and IL
necessary on occasion that you can
abuse with impunity for the sake Of
definite result
so | say that merely to be well and
merely to consult your health, merely
to carry yourself along for the sake
Of being comfortable day by day, isn't
worth while unless it is something
related to that which you are trying
to accomplish, and that is where 1t
touches your business. That is where
the thing begins to hitch up with this
proposition Of business assets.
IF it is something that you want to
use in the development of your career
whatever it may be. that is distinctly
related to the possibilities of such de-
yelopment and you call it health, well
1 then it is just as we'll worth your
consideration as though it were bonds
or capital or boTowing power or al
invention or any other thing that is
fundamentally related to what you are
driving at.
'.The mental development. the men,
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