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Show POINTS ON KEEPING WELL DR. FREDERICK R. GREEN Editor of "HEALTH" (. 1925. Western Newspaper Union.) THE DANGERS OF MILK ft T ILK is a product of tiie animal body and, like all such products, is affected by the diseases from which the animal suffers. Man in different lands and times has used the milk of many animals for food, principally cows, goats, asses, mares, camels, and buffaloes. In this country, cow's milk Is universally and almost exclusively usetf. Cow's milk may be contaminated In two ways: by some disease of the animal itself making the milk dangerous danger-ous when the animal produces it, or by being polluted in some way in transit, trans-it, from the time it is milked until It Is consumed. Itaw milk, drunk Just as It comes from tbo cow, may cause tuberculosis, Malta fever, foot-and-mouth disease, milk sickness and several other rather rare diseases. Milk which is pure and harmless when milked, mny become polluted with typhoid germs by dirty pails, dirty stables, dirty hands of milkers or handlers, or dirty bottles. Milk may also carry germs of diphtheria, diph-theria, scarlet fever and septic sore throat. Whether the germs of these diseases come from the cow or from the human handlers Is , uncertain. There Is a cow disease, caused like scarlet fever, by a streptococcus, which may cause a similar disease in man. Whether cows ever have diphtheria, and, If they do, whether the diphtheria germs can get into the milk direct from the cow, is an unsettled question. But it doesn't really matter whether the germs In milk which cause disease come direct from the cow or from outside out-side the cow. Contaminated milk If drunk raw may cause any of these serious diseases. If all milk could be given by perfectly per-fectly healthy cows and could be transported and sold in perfectly clean buckets, cans or bottles and handled only by perfectly clean people in perfectly per-fectly clean surroundings, then raw milk would be a perfectly clean food. But It isn't, and until all the people in the country are perfectly healthy, it's rather too much to expect all the cows to be. Tuberculosis is about as common in cows as it is among human hu-man beings. But if pure milk is Impossible, safe milk is very easy to have. It Is only necessary to bent milk to 14S degrees for 30 minutes, to kill all the disease germs and make the milk perfectly safe. This can be done in a rice boiler or any kind of a double boiler. It doesn't harm the milk or make it any less good to drink. It simply turns live germs to dead germs. Which would you rather do, put the milk on the fire for 30 minutes or put the child to bed for 30 days? WHAT A NURSE NEEDS X7HAT should be the qualifications of a good nurse? I don't mean a trained nurse. The authorities of the training school can take care of that. But for the home nurse, for caring for the sick child, what sort of a person per-son should be selected? The first necessity is that the nurse herself should have good health. Unless Un-less a woman Is strong and well, she cannot stand either the physical or tle mental strain of caring for another in sickness. For a weak, sickly person per-son to undertake the responsibility of caring for an invalid only means that in a short time there will be tvj sick persons In the family Instead of one. Too often mothers who are barely able to care for themselves Insist on nursing nurs-ing their sick children, with the result that the child does not get satisfactory care-and the mother is soon completely worn out. Many frail but conscientious conscien-tious daughters dale their complete Invalidism from the time they attempted at-tempted to care for their mothers in time of sickness. So whatever your .relation to or Interest in the invalid Is, unless you are strong and well and aide to stand the strain of caring for an invalid through weeks of illness, get some one else. A strong and healthy stranger is a better nurse fur an invalid than a weak and sickly relative. The second necessary qualification for a nurse is common sense. The sickroom is no place for wnliinnnt. A clear mind, irood judgment and self-control self-control are al! needed there, Common sense is valuable in all of life's activities, activ-ities, but nowhere more than in the sickroom. The nurse must be able not only to follow the doctor's directions direc-tions accurately and effect ively, but also to act in an emergency in his absence and to do what tiie doctor would want her to do If he were present. The third requirement fir (he nurse is rcsoun-ei'u'ni'S-s. the ability to lake what she hns in lhe ws.y of equipment and make lhe best ue of it possible, few homes are prepared for sickness. When it comes, the household is generally gen-erally demoralized. Perhaps it is lhe niolror herself who is ill. The nurse murt lake tiiir.-'s as she finds theni, sc-urp order aad qaiet In the house ami see thai her patiint L-ets the necessary nec-essary care a::d ail-niion with the least p wi, disturbance fur the .-est of the l.imily. These IhiiiL-s are not easy to do, especially in time of sickness, but Ilw way ir: w bi.-h they are done marks lhe 'rue nurse. |