The Health bulletin [serial] - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• getTHE HEALTH BULLETIN. 217the care and feeding of babies send apostcard to the Board and the desiredliterature will go forward.LET PATENT MEDICINESALONE1. There may be any one of a hundredthings the matter with you. Youcan't tell which trouble you have.try a negro conjure doctor than take aconcoction of drugs prepared by a manwho probably has no medical training,has never seen you, knows nothingof your case, and whose mixturehas ninety-nine chances of missingyou to one of hitting. The negro conjuredoctor will at least do you noharm; the patent medicine almost certainlywill. Progressive Farmer,2. There are a hundred different concoctionsadvertised. You can't tellwhich one you need. This again isguess work—mere guess work whenlife and health are in the balance.3. In either case, if you guess wrong,positive injury is done; for any medicinestrong enough to do good workwhen needed will do harm when notneeded.4. A remedy useful in one stage of adisease may be positively injurious atsome other stage of that disease. Withthe patent medicine there is no discrimination.5. Because you get well after using acertain preparation is no reason youwell because of it. When you aresick there are fifty chances to one thatyou will get well anyhow, and if youtake a patent medicine, the chancesare that you recover in spite of takingit, and not because of taking it.6. The recuperative powers in thebody—the natural tendency to throwoff disease, readjust our physical machinery,and get things back in goodUNCLE WALT ON THE EARLYFLYThe early fly's the one to swat. Itcomes before the weather's hot, andsits around and files its legs, and laysat least ten million eggs, and everyegg will bring a fly to drive us crazyby and by. Oh, every fly that skipsour swatters will have five million sonsand daughters, and countless first andsecond cousins, and aunts and uncles,scores of dozens, and fifty-seven billionnieces; so knock the blamed thingall to pieces. And every niece and everyaunt—unless we swat them sothey can't—will lay enough dcdgastedeggs to fill up ten five-gallon kegs,and all these eggs, ere summer hies,will bring forth twenty trillion flies.And thus it goes, an endless chain, soall our swatting is in vain unless we dothat swatting soon, in Maytime and inearly June. So, men and brothers, letus rise, gird up our loins and swat theflies! And sisters, leave your cozybowers where you have wasted goldenhours; with ardor in your souls andeyes, roll up your sleeves and swat theflies! Walt Mason..order—these are your greatest helpsin getting well again, and a drugwhich is not needed by your systemhinders and checks these recuperativepowers—and if you use patent medicine,there are a hundred chances toone that you will get a drug that 's notneeded for your particular malady andyour particular stage of that malady.7. Right living will make it unnecessaryto drug yourself except at veryrare intervals, but if you do get sickenough to really need treatment, betterAn average of six months' treatmentwill cure four-fifths of the early casesof tuberculosis. That costs only $180at the State Sanatorium for the Treatmentof Tuberculosis. Statistics showthat the value of the average personcured of tuberculosis is $7,000. Apretty good investment, is it not?