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With education must go both information and moral culture. 
The old chivalry of man toward women, the old modesty of 
women toward men, and all the moral urgency of ethics and 
religion are needed to save us from the blighting and almost 
universal venereal disease peril. ‘ 
S1x. Inspiration. 
This last because many people ill with many of the long- 
drawn-out communicable diseases fail of cure and remain 
sources of infection as men fail everywhere from lack of per- 
sistence. 
There is enormous and everbrightening hope for the tuber- 
culous who have the moral courage to persist in the regime 
which we now may establish in almost every household. 
_ Quackery fattens on the ignorance and especially the im- 
patience of its victims. Trying this and trying that breaks 
the golden chain which every way bind the tuberculous pa- 
tient around the throne of God. 
Many are cured of tuberculosis; and all who are cured have 
no miracle wrought and find no portable and salable “cure,” 
but do find cure in an intelligent regime patiently and per- 
sistently followed. 
