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Show "yank officer curmiseu Can Be Driven From This Country in Five Years. Says Edwards (By International News Service.) B ST i'. July 2 Major General 'Clarence R. Edwards, famous overseas (cofnmander of the 26th Yankee) Division, Di-vision, cured himself of tuberculosis. "It can be driven out of this country coun-try In five years and kept out for-fever," for-fever," he said. I know what I'm I talking abollt, for 1 bad the disease myself and was cured. "It wouldn't be a hard job, either, All that is needed in determination on (the patient's part. Nature does the I work If she gets the chance The nation, na-tion, each stale ami community and every Individual must see that she gets the chance. I Its the best of men ond women the hardest workers who fall easiest jprc to ibis disease. Slackers and .drones don't get it; they take too good care of themselves "Ninety-five per cent of everybody In the world h.is the germs In his or Iit system all the time They are in .little children. In growing youths, in the strongest and most athletic. I 'Each individual has a personal' I limit up to which It Is safe to use I physical and mental strength, the run flbwh condition which follows passing the limit gives the constantly lurking' germs the chance they're walling for. 'Overwork or overexertion Willi bring a man close to the limit. Bad air had eating too little sleep push him I further Into the danger zone Then maybe so slight thing as a cold (shoves him across tho line The natural nat-ural resistance his blood offers to disease germs is broken down The corpuscles are unable to kill off tho germs faxt enough and ihey get him. Cure lies in restoring the blood to good "ondltion. The only way to do this In the case of tuberculosis is to rest absolutelv. I mean by that a de-gree de-gree of doing nothing which Is almost! inconreivn bio to the naturally active person actually making not the slightest effort physically or mental!) becoming a Jellyfish as It were With patience determination and courage the cure Is certain." |