Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1916-08-30
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!. DANGER SIGNALS OF i.
i. TUBERCULOSIS. i.

tnat nearly everybody has tubercu-
losis at some time or other during
his lifetime. Autopsies on people
| have shown that hardly single hu-
man being reaches mature life with
| out scar on his lungs or elsewhere
| showing where tuberculosis had at
tackled him, and he, by his normal
resistance and vitality, had warded
off the continuation of the attack.
because tuberculosis is so wide
spread, every man, woman and child
should give the most careful atten-
ton to those signs of the disease
which point out danger. The treach-
erous disease germs may enter the
body in early childhood and may NJ.
cause any serious trouble for ten or
fifteen years. Then, all OF a sudden,
when the body is weakened by over
work, worry, sickness, or bad living
and working conditions, these sleen-
ing germs wake up and become a2-
tive in the destruction of the lungs
or other organs. The working man
or woman. therefore, cannot be too
careful in the safeguarding of health
and in watching out for those symp-
toms which indicate that the disease
of tuberculosis is actually present.
What, then, are some OF the danger
signals and what should be done
about them?
|. First of all, there is a cough
that hangs on and will not clear up.
II 1t lasts for a month or longer. il
is red light, danger signal, which
you cannot afford to ignore 1t may
start with wet feet or some other
insignificant circumstance, but no
matter how the cough started, if it
does not go away, see your doctor at
once. Colds frequently weaken the
bodily tone and resistance, so that 1t
is easy for the lurking germs to get
a foothold.
2. Loss of weight, accompanied
by loss of appetite, and a certain
amount of stomach trouble" is an
other danger signal, which you must
not pass unheeded. Sometimes loss
OF weight may come from some other
cause than tuberculosis, but it pays
to be on your guard. You may not
have cough and you may expert
ence very little trouble except a sort
or chronic WEAKNESS. You ought to
know what your normal weight
should be. If you begin to lose five,
ten or more pounds without any ap-
parent reason, look for sound medi-
cal advice at once. Sometimes with
loss Of weight goes loss of anne
tite, and trouble with bowels and
stomach, even running to diarrhoea.
Whether you are losing much weight
or not. look out for this danger sig
nal. 1t is a warning that something
is wrong.
3. Then there is that run down,
all-thc-time-tired feeling Most peo-
pie have days when they feel unusu-
ally tired, for some reason or other.
Such an occasional period of "spring
fever or lazy liver" may not be at
all dangerous, but when every day
for two or three weeks you hate to
get up and dread to do anything but
lie around and be lazy, there is dan
ger ahead. This is natures warning
to YOU that some enemy inside your
body Is sapping your vitality. Don't
ignore the warning signal!
d. Any one Of the three symptoms
just mentioned may occur singly or
all Of them may come at one time
When, to any or all, there IS added a
fever in the late afternoon or during
the night. accompanied possibly by
sweats, beware Of this danger signal.
1T is bright red flag which nature
waves before you. cautioning you to
give immediate heed. Any ones tenn
perature may rise at times, some
peoples more easily than others But
when for a week every afternoon
about 4 or 5 o'clock you've felt few
erish, or when night after night you
wake up in a dripping sweat, you
may rest assured that there Is moth
Ing normal about that. Go to your
doctor at once and tell him about it.
You may have no cough and no
other sign Of disease, and this may
be the only warning you'll get. Give
heed to it at once.
5. If you have cough and in spit