The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-04
HOME HEALTH CLUB.
(Edited by pr. David H. Reeder, La
 Porte, Indiana)

CEdited by pr. David H. Reeder, La
 Porte, Indiana-) Bronchitis and cause of the flu: I told you in my last paper on the practical home treatment for bron- chitis, that I would discuss the trouble further but I am almost sorry that I made the promise.
 In a vast majority of the cases 1t is a thankless task to try to teach the why and wherefore of sickness, especially if after many years of ob- servation you find that the accepted theories that were taught you as a student and which appeared so logi- cal and were to you the law and the gospel and then you find as I say. that you can no longer believe the old drug theory and practice is right or at all logical.
 In actual practice of the drug sys- tenn, bronchitis very frequently de- Velopes into bronchial pneumonia. The evidence exhibited in the hos pitals of the cantonments last win ter is conclusive proof that the drug system of treatment is 0 rank and cruel failure.
 The simple home treatment des- cribed in my article last week will, where combined with the external ap- plicauon of the Grandmothers Herb Ointment, save ninety-f1ve per cent of the cases, not any will develop into pneumonia.
 Now I am going to tell you my opinion of the cause of the world wide epidemic influenza which is fol lowed so quickly by bronchitis and pneumonia and which has caused more deaths than have been caused by guns, bombs, torpedoes, accidents or gas during the terrible war.
 The Bible tells us that 'In the be- ginning was the word" There can be no word without thought Thoughts are things They create, they des troy, without thought there is noth ing. There must be a mind and thought to start anything.
 If gun be fired in the midst of desert with no ear to hear, there would be no noise. The violent vi bration of the air would be there but no nerves to carry the vibration to a brain and as sound is only vi bration striking the tympanium of the ear, there is no noise unless it strikes.
 Certain conditions have existed throughout the world for the past four years which have developed anger, hate, fear and destruction. The bite of a. very angry man Is ire Quently more deadly than that of rattIesnake. Anger poisons the body of the angry person. Hate and anger poisons the angry hater and reacts upon It's object. Anger and hate combined with fear Is prob ably the most destructive condition that can afflict the human being and creates within the body the most deadly toxins.
 The atmospheric conditions at cer- tain times of the year are conductive to troubles of the respiratory organs especially the bronchi and the lungs Germs have nothing to do with the so-cal1ed flu. It is not a disease of germs but of atmospheric conditions and mental conditions. believe that can say without the least fear of successful contradic- ton, that for every death actually caused by the flu, there has been nine deaths caused by fear of it. Tho poison of fear coupled with the poison of anger, hate and grief has been the poison that the successful doctors have treated through uncon- scious suggestive therapeutics.
 Those of you that readily recall tho first great epidemic of influenza that swept over the world, origin hting in the anarchfstic centers of Russia will also recall that the highest death rate was among those of the aged and 1nfirm. There was no anger, hate or fear among the young and the strong-they were not injured. In the present epidemic the aged were occupied in works of love- The young and the strong were filled with anger, hate and fear
 The atmospheric condition of the entire world was affected by the poisonous gases used during the war and created a condition peculi- arly destructive to the bodies of those that were filled with the pois- on generated in their own bodies. Worry is form of fear. Worry kills many. Worried to death is a com mon expression. Why? Because worry is fear, fear is a poison and poison kills
 am frequently asked why the overworked physician does not sufz fer with the flu. You can answer that yourself. He is so busy that he simply cannot worry about any case. His mind is so filled with the professional side of his work that E. has no time for fear for hii2, self no time for grief. His heart is so full of sympathy that there is no room for anger and hate. The instant his head touches the pillow he rests in dreamless sleep from physical and mental tiredness.
 The person whose time Is fully taken up with service for others and who refuses to harbor hate, anger, fear or worry, will not have the flu. And, just as after bone for the doctors to Enaw and fight over, I will throw fin for good measure tho fact that I have not in the past fourteen years of close observation, found q single case of la grippe or influenza in a person that has had their ap- pendiN vermiformis removed.
 Club Notes.
 Dear Doctor: My stomach is very irregular and often pains me. Bow els are hard and ] have to take a nF al