laying the medical or surgical care, prompt use of which is 

 essential in such diseases as cancer and tuberculosis. The 

 well person has no need of drugs of any kind, and if one is 

 ill enough to need drugs, he is ill enough to benefit by medical 

 advice. 



HYGIENE OF ADULT LIFE 



Statistics show that at ages over 45 the death rate in the 

 United States is apparently increasing and _, _^ . 

 not decreasing, as is the case at earlier age p . 



periods. The increase is manifested almost _, -J fi 



wholly in the degenerative diseases of the 

 heart and blood vessels and kidneys, and in cancer. Most 

 of the degenerative diseases cannot be cured in the sense 

 that diseases of early life are cured. Old age prevails in 

 time. The important fact is that in too many cases old 

 age comes on prematurely and without the victim suspecting 

 its insidious onset. 



The premature onset of old age, when not due to specific 

 congenital defects, is usually the result of _ f 



unhygienic living and particularly excesses p 



of various kinds. Under the unnatural con- , . 



ditions of modern life too many of us suffer 

 from too little air, too little exercise, too much work and 

 too much food. 



The degenerative diseases of adult life are gradual in 



their onset and could generally be checked v t , 



if the enemy were detected in time. When 



disease of the heart or arteries or kidneys . .. 



, u c ,, .. animation to 



or any other organ first sets in, the ordinary _^ _ . 



mm ii* i i i .Detect Disease 



rules of personal hygiene must be supple- . T . 



mented by special rules of daily living 

 which take into account the particular defect. Even can- 

 cer, one of the most deadly of the diseases of adult life, can 

 be curod in a large proportion of cases by a surgical operation 



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