Show health column by the county nurse As utah expects to open her first tuberculosis sanatorium on oil the first lay day of february it might be 1 interesting ater to learn leai 11 a little t about tills this disease tuberculosis s caused by living germs genus outside uie the body these germs do no harm luslie insi e the body where it is warm moist and dark the germs multiply and cause illness tuberculosis gernis germs cannot move about they must either be breath ea into the body or carried into it living tuberculosis germs way may be inhaled by a person who Is in direct intact with ule the tiny tany droplets from the uncovered cough or sneeze of a tuberculosis patient or who breathes dust mixed with tuberculosis bercu losis germs gems from dried sputum or other body discharges the germs may be carried into the mouth on things such as dishes and fingers which have been soiled with the discharges of a tuberculosis patient or in food which has haa been so infected milk from cows which have bovine cin can also give people the dis disease caso tuberculosis bercu losis germs cannot enter a babas body bufore birth when mien it Is 3 said tle the disease runs in the family it Is because the alv close cun contacts of home life have made it S A possible for one member of the family to pass tile the germs on to other members boys and girls in their tens and young adults aro are the chief victims of tuberculosis although we think of youth as aa the time wh when n the body is strongest it is in youth too that bodily energy is usually spent most freely adolescent boys and girls and young men and women who do not eat enough nourishing food who work and play too long and hard and who rest too little are apt to have bodies which are unready to deal successfully with the germs of tuberculosis rest host is the first and most important remedy in the treatment of tuberculosis this does docs not mean simply taking it easy but rest flat in ili bed under a doctors care if the mind is fretted with worry the ale body cannot rest next to rest of the body and rest of mind the most important measure in ili dealing with the disease is to build up the body with good food A good variety of nourishing food in amounts that the body can use stuffing Is not recommended there are no pills tonics or othor other medicines known which will cure tuberculosis |