Show I n r 6 I 1 If Li 1 Fundamental F F H Principles P. P of H Health 41 V 4 4 4 By ALBERT ALBERTS So GRAY CRAY M. M MD M.D. D. D J t I.- I. I t. t Copyright 1914 l bj by A A. A S. S Gray NATURES NATURE'S ALARM BELL Dear Doctor Doctor I I am fifty eight years of age and I have always been healthy except that I 1 have had rheumatism in my legs for the tho past 16 15 years and It hurts me to bend head my right knee I Iam Iam Iam am the tha mother of three healthy sons eons and they have Inherited my rheumatism rheumatism so that they are frequently troubled troubled troubled led with muscular rheumatism What will cure rheumatism 7 It Is easy to picture the writer of such a letter as a plump placid kindly kindly kindly kind kind- ly faced motherly souL A good cook she ahe Is proud of the fact that she can prepare the same dishes on which her mother and her mothers mother's mother before before be be- before fore her successfully raised their tam fame But she has rheumatism and her sons have inherited rheumatism This is a fair sample of or a type of ot inquiry in inquiry frequently received from people who look upon rheumatism as a simpie simple simple sim sim- pie disorder which quite as a matter of ot course every everyone ono one is bound to have sooner or lat lafer r as a result of ot wet feet damp clothes or the weather or as the result of or Inheritance It is customary to apply the word werd rheumatism to almost every Imaginable Dable ache che or pain occurring In any part of ot the body From long abuse the word has lost Its significance and has bas come to sound harmless It does not convey any idea of or danger and most people are perfectly satisfied it if told that their various ailments aliments arise from rheumatism It Is a nice convenient convenient con cot word and it does not jar on their sensibilities Rheumatism is an acute inflammation inflammation tion of ot the tho membranes of various joints with the accumulation of fluid it is due to an infection of ot unknown origin and runs a course course of ot about six weeks Muscular on the other hand are either the result of strains as al we have already already already al al- ready noted or they are pains arisIng arising aris aria ing from organic diseases or they they are are caused sed by o one o. o or more moe of ot many any con- con practically au an all 01 ot teem connected con conS either directly or Indirectly with defective metabolism Here Is the basis of ot all our degenerative diseases diseases dis dis- dis- dis eases such as diabetes Brights Bright's disease disease dis die ease arteriosclerosis and apoplexy all of which are on the tho Increase in spite of Df the numerous cures and all of which are allied to anemia Whether anemia Is the cause or the result of most of these metabolic disturbances yet is-yet to be decided but certainly cir cir- evidence I points strongly in the former direction Why are these chronic pains so littie lit Ht- littie tie understood Because wo we do not want to know the truth if It It will Involve involve involve in In- volve a thorough overhauling and readjusting readjusting readjusting re re- re- re adjusting of diet and of our mode of life lUe With very few exceptions all of our troubles arise from the fact that we weare weare weare are unable easily to bring our mental pictures to coincide with the facts to harmonize the subjective with the objective ob ob- ob- ob Health is a normal condition and ill health Is a 1 departure from the normal hence there Is a strong persistent force continually working toward the normal and barring organic breakdowns breakdowns breakdowns break break- downs from Inherent weakness we weare weare weare are certain to relapse Into good health sooner or later If It we do not too persistently work against It Therefore Therefore Therefore There There- fore a raw potato In the tho pocket a nauseous draft or faith and a cheerful mind are aro certain to be equally effective effective tive or r ineffective lve the angle from which yo you view them If It you were to interview our friend of or the letter you would undoubtedly dl learn that during these 15 years she has taken many kinds of liquids pills lIls and powders used many liniments and ointments and has probably worn a afew afew afew few charms such as magnetic rings that turn either green or black black black-as as they absorb the poison polson Most 1 o of ot the sup supposed sup sue posed remedies remedes doubtless she has bas tried at the solicitation of well meanIng meaning meaning mean mean- ing friends each perhaps effected a acure acure a acure cure in indue due time But nut the tho trouble always returned and she still baa has it Of course she wants to be comfortable comfort able and to get well but she w wants to do it In her way ay To ask her to change her diet and modo mode of ot living or even materially to change her method of purchasing supplies Is asking ask ask- ing lag her to tear up seated deep-seated and thoroughly thor thoro thoroughly habits prejudices tradition and beliefs and to go to additional additional addi addi- trouble te rn ea-rn u what is II wro before serious organic place Obviously the first tint fir fn i. i of ot something being wrong Iii found in tho the blood str streams iDa c THE RIGHT START In United States bureau of ot lion bulletin No 24 page pase 14 appears appear the following Thero There are In the schools of the tho United States today ap approximately art proximately pupils sivo observations of child health fo toa foi 20 years yar and careful study of ot taU stath tics and estimation of all conditions lead to tho following conclusions From to 16 15 to 2 per pet percent percent cent of these thes pup pupils lis have heart disease Over 50 W O Oper per cent and in some aoma schools as aa high as 90 per cent have defective teeth which are potentially if It not actually detrimental to health A out About 75 per er cent of the school children chit chil dren of this country need attention today today today to to- day for physical defects which are ara partially or completely remediable I This report seems to indicate a con coni in this country but little If it superior to that shown to exist In England England Eng Eng- land and the character of the troubles points to a like Uke cause namely cause namely tissue building material entailing entailing entail entail- ing starvation and anemia Every hum human hurthi n individual begins life as a single cell of about one hundred am and twentieth inch In diameter and and from that beginning I Ithe la th lathe the brief period of at 40 we weeks weaks u it at thins an average weight of seven pounds and normally i la laborn born with a smooth pink skin and la is otherwise perfectly developed i There Is no direct mixture of th blood of ot the mother and that of th the tha developing embryo All the processes processes processes' contributing to Its growth and mam- mam Including those of tion and excretion take place through Intermediate structures This is a an ars extremely wise provision pro of or nature whereby much of ot an injurious character character character char char- acter in the blood of the mother ia is barred from reaching the embryonic tissues Undoubtedly the cells which form Corm the organs of nutrition for the tha embryo have haTe a capacity for selecting the elements required for the purpose of nutrition not Influenced by the ex exi of commer commerce Were It not for this Intermediary process the embryo rarely would escape es o escape cape being poisoned or otherwise injured Injured injured In in- by all the varied unhealthy products and substances which the tha Ignorance of some mothers allows tobe to tobe tobe be present in their blood du during this Important period Even with this thia means of protection the maternal blood may be so utterly deficient In la nutritive qualities that the fluids which reach the embryonic cells may maybe be bo very e much Imp Impaired lr d In q quality All the tissues Including the bones are dependent during the IntrauterIne life me on the supply of ot nutrient material derived from the maternal blood Ours Ourt tissues require fats tats carbohydrates carbohydrates carbohydrates carbo carbo- hydrates salts water and oxygen from the Inspired air If It the blood oG the mother Is deficient Ia la these elements elements ele elo ments meats the the growth and development 0 of the embryonic bones will be 00 retarded retarded retarded re re- re- re and the imperfections thus begun beg begun be be- g gun will be continued in infants whose blood Is is is' not bt r restored stored to a normal nor normal mal mat state after birth j Individuals insufficiently nourished before birth enter the world handicapped handicapped handi handi- handicapped capped by blood deficient in nutritive and oxygen carrying power and unless un unless less this is early corrected there I 1 as a result arrested rested development The effect of a a. faulty diet in the causation of or disease Is is by experiment experiments ment ments on animals Puppies fed o oraw on raw flesh exclusively for six months montha become rickety and pigeons and chickens fed on starch develop poly- poly neuritis Therefore a diet of starch or patent process flour and a small amount of ot milk Is not to be recommended recommended recommended mended for even the child of strong robust parents and should be religIously religiously religiously shunned by those of low vi vi An Infant cannot thrive on library paste I Life blood and food are so Intimately intimately inti Inti- blended that tha It is s Impossible bI to consider one without 1110 otner and blood being the connecting bond between life lite and food it is of the Utmost utmost utmost ut ut- most importance that it be maintained at Its highest point of efficiency which is of ot course the normal We know comparatively little about the process of digestion or of ot the finer structure and composition of ot the red blood corpuscle and of ot the blood bloodstream bloodstream bloodstream stream In general genera But there Is ono one fact conclusively proved and found to tobe tobe tobe be constant and universal namely that good health and hemoglobin content are synonymous If I your our hemoglobin c content ranges ranges- between 90 and you are rated normal nor nor normal mal mat approximately If I below 90 you are anemic and the gravity of the condition can be very ver accurately measured by the amount of ot hemoglobin bin content distributed among the number of corpuscles present It is desirable to keep this fact well wellIn wel In mind It I is the poorly fed Ill 1 clad cad and poorly educated child of ot today of tomorrow to to- that Is to become the parent paret morrow morrow- |