Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1919-12-11
Why is A
Headache?
Various Causes For This
Common AffIiCtiOn
Anemid or BIOOdIeSSneSS a
Very Common Cause
PeptO-Mangan OVerCOmeS
Anemia and Tends to
Prevent Headache

| headache 1t is usually due to some
transient or passing cause, such as
Indigestion. eye-staain, over
tiredness, etc, When, however,
one suffers from frequent periodic
headaches there is always rome
special reason for it. Among the
most common of such reasons is
Anemia or Bloodlessness. This
condition is especially frequent
among girls and young women
and those whose occupations or
habits of life keep them too much
indoors. The one important
necessity in such cases is to build
up the quantity and quality OF the
weak and watery blood. GUIDE S
Pepto- Mangan is exceptionally
valuable for this purpose. 1t in
creases the number and improves
the quality of the red blood cells,
those vital little bodies which
carry nutrition to ali parts of the
body. 1t improves the appetite,
impartS color to the face, and re-
stores health and strength to the
body generally, After a short
course of Pepto- Mangan the head
aches decrease in frequency and
severity, and finally disappear, if
they are due to Anemia. Pepto-
Mangan may be had either in
liquid or tablet form. as preferred.
When buying Pcpto- Mangan be
sure the name Guides" is on the
package. Withoug Guides" it
is not Pepto Mangan.
have one the death rate l.o4.4. tie
Great White Plague" will drop fifty
per cent more, according to ]. p.
Hranz, executive secretary of the Tep-
nessee Anti-Tuberculosis AssociatioS.
Fresh. clean air and sunlight are the
two things most necessary to health
and while windows have allowed sun
light to enter our homes, still our
rugs and carpest are the haven for mil
lions of germs which are always ready
to infect us, Mr.. Kranz said at a re-
cent health conference in Nashville.
Until that vacuum cleaner is per.
tected, and even after 1t Is in use, the
Tennessee Anti-Tuberculosis Associa.
ton must continue it's statewide cam.
paign against disease" said Mr.. Kranz.
THE state association does not con
fine its fight to tuberculosis; it be- |
lieves that the extremely high death
rate Tennessee has from this scourge I
Is due to a low public vitality which
has been reduced by unhealthy living
conditions and other diseases. So far
our fight is to improve community
health, and when we attain our OBJ.
iective we viii have not only wiped
out tuberculosis, but we also will have
abolished other diseases and ills
ITO maintain our staff of public
health experts we have been selling
hese little Penny Red Cross Christ.
mas Seals throughout Tennessee for
he past ten years. The pennies that
ZONE in to US at Christmas lie have
ided us to establish Saritariums, Pre-.
-ontoriums Fresh Air Camps and
)pen Air Schools throughout the state,
During the past year our workers
ave been IN every county and we
ound so much sickness that we have
dopted for our state slogan, "A Pub
ic Health Nurse in Every County" t
,ur association works hand In hand i
18th the county boards of health, and
18th the state boards of Health, Edu.
alton and Charities. Our work has
cen Endorsed by Governor Roberts
'ho has volunteered to act as state
hartman for our campaign to sell seals
lis year.
Last year more than $500 Tennes
cans died from tuberculosis And
lis disease is durable, preventable and
We have discovered thai
very person who dies from consump
on leaves eight persons infected witt
lis plague. So there are more thar 7,
1000 tubercular people in Tennessee =
day 1t is our duty to seek out these
sople and to cure them and to pre-
mt them from injecting others. The
oney we collect in the counties wiz !
} expended in the counties in hea' G
ork. We hope that the Seal Sale = v
'ar will result in a public hea!tf
lrse In every county of this state" a