Show Science Backs Microbes Into Corner and Beats Him Psychologist Asserts A century ago your life expect expect- expectancy expectancy expectancy ancy at birth was about forty years Now it has jumped to more than sixty and is still going up Why Preventive medicine is largely the answer according to a state state- statement statement statement ment by G. G H. H H Estabrooks professor sor of psychology at Colgate university uni uni- university university writes a correspondent in inthe inthe inthe the Los Angeles Times In preventive preventive tive medicine science either pre pre- prevents prevents vents the microbe from making con con- contact contact contact tact with you or if he then does we study his own life lile cycle and spoil his game by ditching him at some vital part of his own career Esta- Esta Estabrook Estabrook Estabrook brook asserts For example he may be one of at the kind that have to spend a part of their lives In an an- another another another other animal and the rest in you An example of this is the malaria germ which cannot reach you ex ex- except except ex- ex except through a mosquito or the germ of bubonic plague that rides on a flea that rides on a Q rat Here the stratagem of preventive medi medicine medicine cine is to exterminate the mos mos- mosquito mosquito quito and the rat rather than t. t aD to shoot directly at the germ When these methods fail we still L- L have our bodily natural immunity to fall back on for the body already knows how to deal at once with a large part of the germs that hop aboard it without any outside help It If not our bodies then can often build up in time an artificial immunity immunity immunity by manufacturing an anti toxin or poison anti to neutralize the poison polson secreted by the invading germs Finally if our bodies are too weak to do this doctors inject anti antitoxins |