Show HEAL HEALTH TIff C COLUMN 0 L by the COUNTY NURSE since buce tills this Is the season of thanks gling lit us jig give thanks for those health heroes who have made lucli eli marked contributions to our present health status those who have helped to take us away from the age when disease and its cure was shrouded in a nud ad brought us into the age ft go of eli enlightenment light emment and scientific investigation a nd treatment of disease our thanks goes out to tile the following IA vIng louls louis pasteur Ia who advanced the germ garm theory of disease which was to revolutionize the practice of medicine and ana surgery also for his work on anthrax cholera land hydrophobia r dro phobia Loewen me W eli hock flock aho abose se invention of tile the microscope made poss possible ible lwis loll 1011 Past eurs work on the g germ erm ti theory nl 0 of ill disease sease robert ia koo ar for its his discovery of tile lie cause of tuberculosis edward Trude ati for his work on oil the treatment of tuberculosis edward jenner jeaner tor for the smallpox vaccination walter reed and his workers coworkers co for or their discovery of yellow w aeter fever florence nightingale the of modern nursing to many others too numerous to mention who have aided added their bit to our present lay knowledge of health A new york newspaper per in 1929 1022 reminded the people that pasteur and oils his fo lowers have probably by now added an ail average of twenty years or so to the lives of hundreds of millions of people let us jig give proof of our oppre elation of their contributions by taking advantage of the many opportunities port unities les offered to improve and provet protect our most Talu valuable able asset JI ith |