Show I Some People Immune To Infection One of the strange occurrences in medicine is to see an individual with witha a number of decayed teeth and also with infection at the roots of ot his teeth yet he is free from rheumatism rheumatism rheumatism or arthritis while another in In- individual IndivIdual individual crippled with rheumatism becomes becom s free of pain and stiffness by the removal of a a. a single tooth with just one of its roots infected The explanation is that the individual al with the decayed teeth and in in- infected infected roots is either cither immune or proof against arthritis his arthritis his tissues just refuse se to become infected infected or or orthe the organisms despite their num num- number number ber bet are not very virulent Should this individual with the in in- infected infected infected teeth or tonsils or sinuses have a severe cold an attack of in in- influenza influenza or any other infection that requires some of the body's fighting forces to overcome it then with much of his power of resistance be be- being being being ing used to fight this cold he may maybe maybe maybe be stricken with rheumatism from the infected teeth tonsils or sinuses May Enter mood Blood Stream Professor Myer Soils Cohen Phil Philadelphia adelphia in Medical World says Focal infection where the infection infection tion starts at one focus or point and causes trouble throughout the body may exist for several or many years in a latent quiet or harmless form Although this infection has caused causel trouble at its starting point teeth tonsils sinuses by overcoming the body's tissues at this point the gen gen- general general general eral resistance of the body is still maintained so that the organisms escaping from this one starting place teeth place teeth tonsils sinuses sinuses Into into the blood are destroyed before they can do any harm Eventually how how- however however ever particularly after an acute ill ill- illness illness illness ness or some special strain the pa pa- patients patient's patients patient's patients patient's tient's general resistance fails The organisms then not only infect the nearby tissues but they hey and the poisons they manufacture may be carried by a part of the blood system system tem tern to still other sues Now when these organisms and their poison products enter the blood stream they may survive long enough to reach distant tissues and organs heart knee Joint gall gallbladder gallbladder gallbladder bladder whose local resistance happens to be lowered from any cause The organisms multiply at this point and create toxins poi poi- poisons poisons sons which damage the tissues It Is in this manner that most of ot the chronic diseases develop S 'S j Bell DeU Syndicate Service 11 I y i I i- i |