Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-06-13
HOW TO BE HEALTHY
BY Allcn X. Krause, NJ. ID.
Johns Hopkins University
Medical School. ... .

Man is the only animal that
, habitually and unnecessarily uses
| his bodily functions to eXcess--in
over work, over-play. over-exersise,
| over-worry, in prolonged mental
and emotional stress, in unnatural
hours of activity without rest. And
being organized into communities
men herd together and thus estab-
| fish continual contact with one an :
other and become unduly expose
to one another's infections.
In most mems bodies are little
growths of tissue called tubercles
! in which lie concealed the germs of
tuberculosis. These tubercles form
spherical walls around the germs.
called tubercle bacilli, and thus i'm
prison the germs. AS long as the
wall is strong and unbrOken the
germs cannot spread; they cause no
Illness and are no more to be feared
than a common wart or a mole N
the skin.
If the tissues around the tuber-
cles function normally, these walls
tend to remain strong and so tight
that few or no bacilli can make
their way out of them and spread
throughout the body. But too
prolonged activity of the body as
whole, or of the part in which
may be the tubercles, will in gen.
eral bring about conditions that
favor the weakening of the tuber-
Gle wall and the emergence of ba-
cilli.
We heal tuberculosis by rest--of
knee, of the lungs, Of the whole
body. We become i'll with tuber-
culosis by reason Of overstrain.
other diseases, especially those that
cause determinations and congo
tons in the lungs, whip up the
physiological actities Of the body
and throw a strain upon the walls
of tubercles. So do certain bodily
activities, like repeated and long.
continued work without. sleep, preg-
nancy childbirth, dissipation, etc
The point where activity becomes
overstrain is an individual affair.
The miner, the broker, the farmer
the school teacher, might every one
of them become fatigued by the
others ordinary labor The
Phlegmatic and the irritable, the
beefy and the wiry, respond very
different to the same stimulus
whether this be play, labor, eX-
else or dissipation. Every mans
point of fatigue is his own, regis
tered in his own consciousness by
sensations that all have expert
enced. Every rational man knows
when he is tired or experience soon
teaches him what will make him
tired. And no rational man should
push himself beyond this point UNI
less he must.
To reduce exposure to all infec-
| tons to minimum and to balance
ones activities so there will always
be healthy surplus on the credit
side of rest, nay, more, a good re-
serve to draw upon in time of need
this is building up resistance. AT
thirty we build it a little different
lily tkan at twenty, at forty again
differently than at thirty there is
Va different proportion of details,
| yet principles and details remain
the same.
Food, clean air, adequate cloth
ing, decent hours of sleep, conserve
and promote health-the normal
body. But the normal machine was
built for one man power and a too
persistent effort to squeeze out
more will sooner or later mean an
overheated boiler and outworn
gears; rusted, roughened and thin
ned out metal, and then-the coll
rapse or the explosion. Then may
an Insignificant little tubercle be-
come ablaZe.