The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-06-23
HOME HEALIH CLUB
(Edited by Dr. David H. Reeder, Chi
 

(Edited by Dr. David H. Reeder, Chi
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 Twenty-Five years on one job and the results: When the Home Health club started it's work of reform in methods of living there were all kinds of knockers ready with a hammer and they surely did use them. It is truly said, however, that nothing succeeds like success and that the work have been doing has borne abundant fruit is attested by such articles as the fol- lowing which is taken from the little magazine published by the Children's National Tuberculosis society under the name of Our Tubercular Chill dren-"
 ''The practice of medicine is under going at the present time almost a revolution, caused largely by wider experience and closer observation. Far less dependence is placed today upon medicines than upon hygienic meas ures and proper diet. The best phy- sicians everywhere are realizing that pound of cure. Instead of treating diseases, they are bending their ef- forts to prevent them.
 ''The old notion that children must have measles, whooping cough, even dfphtheria and other diseases has been
 
 to modern science. We know now that a person should not be sick at all, and we know that if we would live right, eat right, work under heaTthfuI condi- l tions and sleep in pure air, there is absolutely no reason, barring acci- fdents, why we should not be well and happy every day of our lives.
 This is the gospel of health today ] a gospel that will take time to spread, but when once known will add i'm mensely to the happiness of the na- ton. At the rate this new health movement is spreading the time is fast approaching when people who do not have an intelligent idea of their l body functions will be considered very illiterate.''
 Another article in the same issue asks: Will Medical Science Do It? l That medical science has exercised a most profound influence on nearly all 1 questions affecting the welfare of in- ] dividuals and the nation 1nustj be ob- vious to every student of events In peace and in war; whether we wish l to dig Panama canal; rid the coun- try of hookworrn and malaria; keep armies from dying of the levers; rem edy the many occupational diseases; handle the alcohol question iptelh- Egently; decrease infant mortality: pre- vent the immense losses from animal, grain, tree and plant diseases-in all | the work.
 Will medical science help to settle the question of individual wealth? The writer thinks it will-in fact, has started already and the reason why l the wealthy will give up hoarding i'm menes fortunes will be less a moral tban a selfish one.
 [ Stronger than any other desire in 1 the human breast is the desire to live. Life is appreciated even more by the rich because, as a general rule, they l are more educated and have more to I live for. But medical science comes l along and says in a most coId-blooded and positive manner: If you want to reach old age you must discard You must discard high living and all forms l of dissipation you must walk, not ride | and get rid of worry; in short, lead | the simple life and live like the poor The Joker is the injunction against I worry, and what greater worry Is there than how to hold onto lot of 1 money? Only fone-to get enough. | When men of wealth realize-and maiy are commencing to-that excess money is not only of no value, but an actual hindrance to life, they will treat it the same as surplus fat Med Heal science has been largely instru- mental in showing that fdleness be- gets dissipa ton, immortality, disease, Ivice, crime and degeneracy, By doing | this it has given labor the place of lhonor so that it has become Etthe thing to do something. ,T l Will not the proposition of longer life, better health, with greater en- joyment of living and increased de- lvelopment of mindy heart and body, look good to the man who simply ae- Icunnu1ates?
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