Show H io Health alth and Ine Infection It isn't a case of one person meeting with ill luck wh when n J illness s comes while whilo his neighbor seems to be enjoying ing mere good fortune It E is more o often ten a case of carelessness on the part of the sick one and pr preparedness on the part of the well one The rain descends on the j just jt st and the unjust and disease germs light on the good as well as the die bad in human race The person who J aids nature and follows the health rules of reas reason rea- rea s son n has impregnable fortifications against which the attacks of dis- dis sc sease se germs are futile The person who has been careless of his strength who has refused re 10 re- re fused to br breathe athe sufficient fresh air who has neglected to take enough nough exercise who has overeaten and not been wise in his selection turn tron- of foods who has not been alert in detecting signs of weakness and nd correcting them naturally is an easy prey to the germ army When one learns that during the first four forty-four days of recruiting recruiting recruiting re re- re- re after the Villa raid men applied for enlistment and m marc more r than were turned down because of poor physical condition condition con con- he can realize the importance of health preparedness The TIlo person person who takes perfect care of his body will not need to dread disease epidemics By infection is meant the entrance trance into the body of living agents capable of multiplying and causing disease I The symptoms of such infectious diseases are arc devel developed ped by the to toxins or or poisons produced by the invading If th these se are strong enough to overcome the resistance which the the normal normal body attempts at at- tempts to raise severe illness or even death results But the tho toxin in any case caso cannot multiply itself and the disease cannot be communicated atc from pcS pc'S person to o pe person o without JJ hc living g agell agent which nac tures that toxin In these da days s a specific infective cause has been found for each of a large number of diseases We Ve speak of pathogenic organisms micro or microbes or disease producing organisms which can be seen only by the aid of the micros micro- micro sope s ope There are other pathogenic germs which the the microscope hasas has hasas as yet been unable to reveal These are are termed ultramicroscopic Many Many infectious infectious germs may be found upon the tho skin and membrane and produce no disease in the individual In this way the germs of diphtheria pneumonia influenza and various other pathogenic patho patho- genie genio organisms micro may be found on the surface of the body They produce disease only under favorable Conditions when the bars of local or general resistance are let letdown down |