Washington County News | 1926-06-10 | Page 8 | Man Ever Waging Fight on Disease

Man Ever Waging Fight on Disease Happy legends to the contrary, there seems no reason to believe that the world ever has known a golden age of health. Geologists find diseased bones which are thought to show that even great prehistoric lb'.anls, and :if;er them the early manuuiils. suffered suf-fered from tumors whi'-h. according lo tiie advertisers, will chtiai the teeth of four out of live of us. Man lr;. 1, ably falls heir to troubles which other llcsh siiTored before li'.m. Il'y hortfng in crwds, by '-ivlng ;r his dower rights of scn'.h.lit and si. ace. he even has :uli"'i in 'cny f those t ronr!.'.s has ' ' ' 1 new- ways of wracking body and mind. For a time the balance of life and death 'promised doom to cities: they survived sur-vived only because life was produced abundantly and cheaply without th 'r walls, and the best and most adventurous adven-turous were fed into them. The slow process of observation and control which has marie it safer now to live in a big city than In a village (and often safer to live in a city than In 'lie onto country itself). Is the science of pul)! it- health. Survey Graphic.