Body function normally

Health is the state in which the body functions normally. This condition finds the body free from disease, whith all organs and component parts of its structure performing their functions properly and in correct balance.

Health is a normal and relatively constant state in wild animals, this condition prevailing from their heeding of instinctive guidance, and from the free operation of nature's law of survival of the fittest which inexorably eliminate the weak.

Man's instintive apparatus has become dulled by the exercise of his reasoning powers and by habits of civilization which lead him to rely upon others for guidance. Health to him represnts a relative condition, in which he seldom enjoys a state of perfection. With the development of medicine and surgery the weak are preserved, resulting in inherited defects or weakness.

Hence a constantly increasing needs for:
(1) Development of scientific treatment of disorders
(2) Understnding by manhimself of the warnings and subsequent treatment of his ills.

The explanation and suggestion offered here are not intended as a substitute for the physician. On the contrary, the purpose is to offer aid and better understanding to the patients with a view to making the physician's task easier in the matter of simple ailments, thus conserving his time and efforts for the more serious cases that must be brought to his attention. fortunately for ailing mankind, doctors as a class subscribe wholeheartedly to the principle of preventive medicine, to which there is no better ally than the understanding of one's physical organization.

In the name of preventive medicine, then, the following recognized facts are presented. It is an impressive fact that the most ailments in person can be, in pert, prevented by properly regulating diet, by avoiding overindulgence in food and alcoholic beverages, by controlling the weight within normal lmits, by taking mild physical exercise and leading a normal mental existence, free from excessive nervous strain or emotional disturbances.

Our modern mode of living has much to do with involving us in what is known in medicine as a visious cycle. at the age of thirty or so, a young person becomes deeply engrossed in his career. Exersice is soon curtailed, but since the nervous system craves some form of amusement and diversion, the pleasur of the table and the soothing action of tobacco or the stimulating influence of alcoholic beverages are substituted.

In consequence, the weight increases, the appetite enlarges, and there is further disinclination to physical exercise, a deeper absorption in the business of and redier yielding to the temptation of food, tobacco,and wine; and so, endlessly, he whirls tighter with each revolution.

As a result, at the age of fifty or sixty, he is likely to find himself the possessor of a fortune, a large abdomen, a bad heart, and a pair of damage kidneys.