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(c) Taking certain germs in through the mouth in eating or 

 drinking. Dysentery, cholera, typhoid fever, diarrhea, and in- 

 testinal worms may be caught in this manner. 



(d) Having ceitain germs injected into the body by the bites 

 of insects, sucli as mosquitoes, fleas, and bedbugs. Malaria, 

 yellow fever, deng-ue fever, and bubonic plague may be caught 

 in this way. 



(c) Inheriting the germ from one's parents. 



Persons may have these germs sometimes without apparently 

 being sick with any disease. Such persons and persons who are 

 sick with the diseases are a great source of danger to others 

 about them. Germs which multiply in such persons are found 

 in their urine and excretions from the bowels ; in discharges 

 from ulcers and abscesses ; in the spit or particles coughed or 

 sneezed into the air ; in the perspiration or scales from the 

 skin ; and in the blood sucked up by biting insects. 



Those who have taken care of their health and who have not 

 become weakened by bad habits, exposure, and fatigue are not 

 only less liable to catch disease, but are more apt to recover 

 when taken sick. 



Knowing all these things, the soldier can understand the rea- 

 sons for the following rules and how important it is that they 

 should be carried out by each and every person: 



Stay away from persons having "catching" diseases. 



If you have any disease, don't try to cure it yourself, but go 

 to the surgeon. Insist that other soldiers do likewise. 



Typhoid fever is one of the most /langerous and common 

 camp diseases. IModern medicine has, however, discovered an 

 effective preventative for this disease in the typhoid prophy- 

 lactic, which renders the person immune from typhoid fever. 

 The treatment consists in injecting into the arm a preventative 

 serum. The injection is given three times at 10-day intervals. 



Association with lewd women is dangerous. It may result 

 in disabling you for life. It is the cause of a disease (syphilis) 

 which may be transmitted by a parent to his children. Soldiers 

 with venereal diseases should not use basins or toilet articles 

 used by others, as the germs of these diseases if gotten into the 

 eye very often cause blindness. Likewise, if they use the same 

 drinking cup used by others they may give others the disease. 



