Show Daily Health Service By DR MORRIS FISHBEIN People who enjoy ill health are unfortunate un un- fortunate for themselves and for lor those about bout them Even the physician would like ike to avoid them has been called the most foolish and at the same time the saddest of all diseases No one is perfectly perfect Y healthy Even those hose persons whose pictures you see seen In n the physical culture magazines swellIng welling the muscles and defying the lightning have aches and pains The vast rast majority of ot people however have lave thresholds of ot irritation that irritation that is iso isto to o say the minor things things- do not dis dis- them They pay no attention to o themselves as long as as s they can do their heir daily work and be unaware of ot theIr heir bodies during times of both work and recreation There is no fear ISO so o dismaying as ashe the he fear of ot disease So long as we weare weare weare are unaware of ot pains we are bigger than han they are Eventually however when a pain breaks Into the thc consciousness conscious conscIous- ness we become subject to the pain The hypochondriac is aware of ot his body ody at a threshold much lower than that hat of the average man One of the greatest assets in overcoming overcoming over over- coming fear of any kind is knowledge Thus we have the old saying that familiarity breeds contempt The man who knows disease Is not afraid of it iL To the hypochondriac every cough means a warning of ot consumption To the he Informed individual a a. cough is merely a symptom of a tremendous number of ot conditions only a few o of which are serious This does not mean however that tha you you should disregard any kind o of symptom We know today that symptoms o of various kinds are the means by which nature warns you that something is wrong with your body machine Again the reaction of ot the norma normal individual to any k kind nd of ot symptom i if he Is intelligent is not a reaction of alarm but merely a signal fo for lor investigation The intelligent and courageous man who hears a noise in his house during the he night knows that in the vast majority ma ma- of cases it is merely the effects of ot the wind of ot climatic changes o or of ot some ordinary manifestation He Hc therefore coolly investigates before calling the police The alarmist of Individual Individual In In- takes every sound for an invasion in in- of ot burglars or the beginning of an explosion and constantly subjects sub- sub his nervous nervous' system to a seri series of unhealthful shocks It is in difficult to educate the hypochondriac hypo hypo- against his condition but bu only by knowledge is it possible to relieve him Under a new labor code business concerns in Mexico are compelled to employ 90 per cent native help and andIn andin in n some cat categories gorJes the quota is even higher |