Show I t I rT I 0 t 1 I A 1 1 toT s t-r t t-r t 1 t V BASIC SIC IV IX TilE THE C riH OF UP OUR BODY COny I D By E It X lILI M SI D B a ali II I Member Gorges Gorgus Our body can properly bo be com com- compared compared pared with a steam engine Just Justas Justas as an engine is composed of con con- con con I l Integral ral parts our body is 13 i composed or of o numerous organs or o parts or 01 tissues which in their the orl orI function and action arc are depend ent upon each other There arc are marvelously ingenious l engines exponents of the highest skill and Inventive power of o hu- hu human human human man genius but they pale pai Into In- In Insignificance insignificance Insignificance significance when compared with Ith will the enormously complicated hu- hu human human hu man machine which functions S manifold and with reactions so del del- delIcate dot del delicate kate that It Is only In late hate years we e have been able to get gt some somo In- In Insight insight sight into and ani relative understand understand- this perfect the engine engine the hu- hu human hu man bod body No engine no matter how per per- per perfectly and stoutly built can bo be 0 ex- ex ex to run smoothly without dally daily care care and minute Inspection Th The feeding of ot the engine and reg- reg regulation regulation reg or of o the steam pressure Dec Dec- necessary essary for Its proper action must be bo just right and any or avoided Most Alost of or us aro are fortunate to be 10 c born with perfect or with nearly pel feet bodies Wo We 0 grow grol up under more or less leM i J roper care and direction direction tion ion we reach adult life lite every every- eer hi seems see to o be K going g J ing fine V h Our i V I b body iy eO engine engino Is i functioning ct rn proper proper- properly oe ly Iy and we have havo no 1 care for the fu- fu future future ture turc no thought or 01 fear ear that this th might IIII IT be run run- running run ning under friction some sonic parts par wearing out and that a pho might suddenly end enl it all At times tunes the engine seems to bo be tout out of tune tunc r o little with clog clogging a part Perhaps it Is too much steam pressure In the form fern or of o too rich or 01 too great amounts lor of food perhaps meat possibly lack of oC proper yen yen- perhaps tuning ot of speed ot of the tho engine or too long a run with with- without without wit out rest resl or sonic BOine foreign finding Its way Into the ho ha fine fino pats of Clr our body engine and disturbIng Its functions There we ire have the picture ot 01 sickness and disease If t f the tho of- of funding cause Is recognized and rO- rO removed r moved In tip thou then thon good and well of-I of se the tho ho kindly engine wilt will start ng agaIn ln and we e will VIII recover But It II proper pi care Is ts not exercised l l and we neglect to correct corret the disturb disturb disturb- disturbance ance we C will permanently damage the human engine Because new nc parts ts canno eanno be Inserted there will 11 always be bc a part ot or tho the engine tha that t cannot be expected e to do Lull full tu 11 work Now what Is the proper procedure procedure I- I ure to safeguard the life liCe and d dp do de p of our body engine I The answer i la Is At least leat lea t the same painstaking care given sinn to u a steam stear n engine At regular intervals Inter we should have o our oui body engine thoroughly thorough Inspected overhauled It Ir but at Ica least t registered as to weak spots and proper precautions taken to o support the weak parts ant ami an I relieve dIsturbance any ary threatening dIs- dIs r i The Tho younger we we- we weare are the lon longer er time between Inspections say a year ear or two The older wo we Ire are and also the lie upon occupation pation wo Wl have the more frequent the bet examinations should be At t first glance it might appear as it Ir we wo doctors In offering tills this suggestion were wore soliciting some some- thing something for our own gain but such a presumption pr Is far lar from actual facts mets By Dy preventing sickness nd ld disease conditions the number oC of eases cases wo we 0 might be called upon to attend Is so that these periodical examinations certainly arc are the most economical fern form of or health Insurance This Is the principle of pro pre pre preventive venti o medicine and In a not dis dis- dis tant taut distant future it will be the tho most ins ins- part art of all nil medical science |