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2. Proper food : 



Eat three nourishing meals a day, 

 Drink pure milk between meals. 



3. Outdoor air: 



Sleep out of doors, 



Remain in the open air as much as possible. 



No medicine is necessary for the cure of tuberculosis. All adver- 

 tised " Cures " are frauds. 



There are many sanitariums where a consumptive can have 

 proper food and care at less expense than at home, and where there 

 is proper disinfection against the spread of the disease. The Board 

 of Health of any city will furnish accurate and detailed informa- 

 tion for the prevention and cure of this disease. 



QUESTIONS 



1. Why should all material which comes from the throat of a 

 diphtheria patient be destroyed? 



2. Why is anti-toxin used, since it does not kill the germs of 

 .diphtheria? 



3. What kills the diphtheria germs in the body? 



4. What causes colds, pneumonia, and grip? 



5. If germs cause this disease, why do people say they " catch 

 cold" by sitting in a draft? 



6. What care should be taken with food and drinking water in 

 order to prevent typhoid fever? 



7. What is the best treatment for typhoid fever? 



8. Why should flies be destroyed? 



9. Why does the presence of flies denote that there is dirt or 

 filth near by? 



10. What value have screens in preventing disease? 



11. Why should all table refuse be burned or treated with borax? 



12. What relation to the house-fly has a leak in the sewage system? 



13. What particular care should be taken with garbage recep- 

 tacles? 



14. Why should flies be kept out of a room where a person is ill 

 with a contagious disease? 



