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Show TREATING OLD AGE IT HAS long been recognized that babies require different treatment from adults. The young, tender, developing de-veloping body of the infant is subject sub-ject to different diseases and needs different treatment from that of the mature, completely developed body of the adult. This has come to be so generally gen-erally recognized that the care and treatment of the Infant Is now a distinct dis-tinct speciality In medicine. In the same way we are coming to realize that the diseases and treat-Bent treat-Bent of the very old demand just as distinct treatment as that of the very Jung. Some of the organs and functions func-tions of the old have begun to slow up and degenerate. They need special treatment, Just as does the body of we infant. In a recent Issue of the Medical Review Re-view of Reviews Dr. M. W. Thewllg " New Tork makes some valuable suggestions about the treatment of the sed. Diseases of old age, he says, retire re-tire Just as much special attention as leases of childhood. The first necessity in treating old People Is a hopeful attitude. ' Old per-ns per-ns are especially subject to sugges-lon sugges-lon if an old man is once taken ill, apt to become despondent and Relieve that there Is no help for For this reason, It Is never wise to an old person to remain In bed s T6r than 18 absoltely neees-JJ- The longer he stays the more "minced he is that he cannot get up. tnl. 0ld as ln the ad,llt. ma"y h iare causecl fcy focal infec-w. infec-w. They are of even greater importance im-portance In the old because aged per-tfj per-tfj ,lfe more susceptlble to poisons lne more vigorous adults. These tth V' lnfectin may He In the bli tonslls- the Prostate, the PeZTT ",e glU bladtier- Because a cent.? M 13 no reason whv the ed fr iDfectIon should not e bunt-e" bunt-e" and removed. fror!S'de ,the Possibility of poisoning also . , '"fectins, old persons are CSally,"abletoPolsonlnS from nthnrti "-minera! oil and other owel, T ? Wel1 as rrigation, the ""Nations, k6Pt 'rge frm any ttC" I fbii ""' M persons should be ' thin, y and occ"pled, interested la "hat L SWe themselves. ' The Idea m old should ..rest ,s 1(lm, t)1t outside m W'Se' Actlve 'nterost in many , !l"3 a(,ded years to te biKi ? pprson'8 "fe. Generally US,cst ve the longest. |