Show health column by the county nurse it 11 was only a scratch the epitaph for or many a man or child who thought the size nize of the wound was true measure of its si you will at least look twice at you lour next scratch after you have hau read this significant art ait kle icle by lola lois miller in the files file of thousands of physicians and hospital clinics iles overwhelming wh elming evidence that the infection f ec of af minor miller wounds Is one of the heart and unnecessary aa ry of human ills his easy to prevent Infect infection Aou la Is difficult often impossible to cure in many cases cabes it ea causes uses dismemberment death disability worry and heavy expense usual usually ly because of a mishap that seemed too unimportant to bother a bout about at the tune time it occurred A young married man father of two children scratched his hand while repairing a screen door and thought nothing of it but twelve incurs later his bis hand was painfully swollen and the doctor was called in with fearful speed the inflammation in spread and the next day the died of streptococcus acus infection fec tion A woman pricked her thumb while working 1 in her he flower garden the injury was so trifling that for or some hours she was unaware anything atad had happened then she W was as alarmed by the throbbing pain and a high temperature A 1 bactor administered antitoxin and gushed r her to the hospital which she left after weeks of battle for her life minus one hand the cause M ga gangrene pimples and black blackheads beads are so ao that they are not often treated with due regard to their seriousness A pimple or a boll on the upper tipper lip or on the nose la Is always a matter of great danger for infection can enter the vlen vien in this region and pass directly into the blood stream at the ba base of the brain meningitis Alenin gitis may result most treacherous of all is IB the puncture the little wound that closes as won soon as it la Is made such injuries Ili inflicted dUcted by rusty nails 1 ice c p picks 1 c k toy pistols elsi objects in col 0 contact t a c t with Y I 1 ill annn old and mortar may give the deadly berill elii of lockjaw or tetanus tetanus the airless hiding place it requires respect and in tile the skin and close the door to bacterial in faction as won soon as possible be care ful ul of your selection tiou of disinfectant no matter how clea clean u wv we keep ourselves swarms of ft bac bacca tinia tire re a alwais present on oil our skin As many as nill lons to the square inch so long iwig as they remain on the MI fate face they are harmless the human skin wages constant chemical war fare aie against casting off or destroying the germs as their mir clr lols loda multiply but once the addys maginot line the skin Is broken w whether hether by a gaping wound I 1 or a tiny silly scratch atch the bacteria can enter the body incubate multiply and destroy of course there tire are many persons who can truthfully truth fally boast that they have haie rein removed oved huge splinters and dug lee ice picks into themselves without either precaution or s sub ab sequent quent infection these lucky people have gambled on the miraculous itra culous chemistry of the human body and won the part of wisdom however Is to believe in sueh such miracles in and then th ell play safe |