The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-20
Keeping Healthy Good
Business For Everyone
DR.. Fishbein Gives Some Fundamental Rules Of
Vital Importance ~,

| should have an open window and be
without a fire.
6. Practice deep breathing-at least
once easy day make a routine of
eathing deeply outdoors for 100 in.
SEPARATIONS and exhalations.
| 4. Avoid overeating.
8. Natural foods, including cereals.
vegetables, fruits, nuts, meat milk,
eggs and water, should constitute the
essentials of diet. Sophisticated or
fancy foods do not yield the proper ele-
ments for satisfactory nutrition.
8. Eat slowly and with cheerfulness !;
chew sufficiently; be guided by your
needs as well as by your appetite !;
avoid food fads.
10. Regular action of the bowels is
necessary; il should be habit to at
tend to this want at the same time each
day.
II. Stand. sit and walk erect, but re-
lax frequently. Avoid drafts or cold
air currents against the back and keep
the feet warm. ....t
IL. Give particular attention to old
and sore threats as soon as they appear.
\ Is. Keep the teeth and gums healthy
by keeping them clean. Eat fruit at the
end of meals ; this has a cleansing and
corrective virtue. Brush the teeth well
on arising and before going, to beds See
the dentist at least once each year
Il. The secret of long life is mod
Grafton in all things. A balanced life
requires work. play, rest and sleep, but
all in moderation.
10, Keep calm.
Some Farts About Measles
During the World war Camp Pike,
filed mostly with boys from the country,
had 81 times as many cases of measles
as did Camp Upton, which received
drafted men from the city of New York.
There was reason. The city men had
all had measles or been immunized to
it through a conveying of those SUBJ
stances into their bodies from the moth
err which have the power to prevent the
development of the Infection The
country boys had not been subjected to
the close contacts of city life, had not
been previously infected. and came
down promptly with the disease when
exposed to it in the intimate life of the
camp.
Measles is a highly contagious dis
ease and is confined to childhood only
because most adults have already had
the disease. 1t is not usually fatal but
when patients are not given proper at
tention it may become a very serious
cond4ion. The chief danger from
measles is the pneumonia which fire.
quently follows it. The pneumonia. fol-
lowing measles seems to be more fatal
than that occurring under other con-
ditions. 80
DIR. Ludwig Hektoen, who has out
lined these facts about measles in a
specially prepared essay on the sub
ject, has called attention also to our
present knowledge of the cause of the
disease. We do not know the organ
ism as it has never been isolated, but
we do know that it is very small, easily
carried in fine spray from the mouth
or nose and probably from watery eyes,
so that person closely associated with
patient that is i'll with measles may
himself become infected if not immune
to the disease. The causative organism
is easily killed by sunlight and air.
Measles is not carried, as is scarlet
fever, on clothes. pencils. dishes, food
in milk. or in we'll persons threats.
Parents will naturally be interested
in advice that will tend to prevent the
disease in their children. Scientists
throughout the world have been work
ing at methods to confer on the child
! the same protection against measles