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Show TUBERCULOSIS CAMBECURED By II. Tt. SITAXDS, M. 1)., Jackson, Miss., Member Gorans Memorial Institute Fully eighty-live percent of patients pa-tients will recover from tuberculosis if the disease is discovered early uid Hip proper treatment followed. Over fifty per cent of even moderately moder-ately advanced cases may he permanently per-manently arrested. If you develop imdue fatipue, lack of energy, and nervousness, consult your physician. This may mean, ftmong other things, early tuherenht-sis. Insist on a careful j examination. Your physician's re- sponsihilty in deciding this, to you, all important question, is enormous. Give him your hearty co-operation. He will be an unbiased judge, weighing all evidence carefully and then rendering his decision. There is no royal road to health for the tuberculosis patient. Rest, fresh air, suitable food, and freedom free-dom from care and worry, the regime regi-me popularized in this country by Trudeau, will lead you out of the wilderness . of despair back to health . The fight must be passive, for this reason the more difficult. As yet there is no other safe route. Shun above everything advert ise.l cures. If you are found lo have tuberculosis, tubercu-losis, take your treatment in some institution or under some physician who is interested in tuberculosis and wants to trear it. A few months rest in bed in the open air at the start is worth more than a few years later. A tuberculosis sanitarium is desirable de-sirable but not essential. The encouragement en-couragement of seeing others recover recov-er is most helpful. The sight of a dying consumpf ivc will teach you not: to underestimate your foe. On an average a year or two must: be given up to either getting well or dying. The. process of getting well is much more inexpensive and pleasant than the other. "Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet I hey grind exceedingly small," also tuberculosis. Some money is neeessnry. Do not hesitate to accept financial aid from friends or faniily should' the occasion occa-sion arise. It is cheaper for them to furnish funds early for you to recover on, than late for you to die. on. After recovery you can repay. Human society cannot allow you to go off and die like an animal.-, some one must pay during ...some stage of the disease. .. , , A moderate amount of worry over blasted hopes and plans wil Uot kill you: if, so, none but idiots and imbeciles would ever recover from tuberculosis. A surprising number of our leading men and women wo-men have won this fight and later rendered great service, i |