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August. 1927 The Health Bulletin 13 reference !)ook or lecture on medicine or surgery he forgot all about mealtime. When he did eat the coffee had to be black and very hot and he wanted an abundance of sweets especially what he called *'plain cake." He had the pill and tablet habit down to a scientifically irreducible minimum. He bought his pills and tablets by the pound. He did not use tobacco and never took a drink of intoxicating wine or liquor in his life. He was simply deficient in the positive health building practices regarded so essential now by everyone. We often think of that village graveyard in the hills of Virginia where the turf has long since fallen in, and where the blossoming wistaria sheds its fragrance ; and wonder how much the world has lost through the premature death of so many of its men of genius, deaths for the most part nearly always due to the violation of all ordinary laws of good health. FOOD FOR GERMS The fear of famine and the quest for food is an age-old instinct, present in the mind of man and in the lower animals, at all times. But how many of us have ever stopped to think that the microscopical forms of life do much of their damage to mankind in order to provide food on which to live. A writer in the Connecticut Health Bill-letin makes the following interesting comment in an article on "Gunning for Bacteria'': *'Germs, or microbes, or bacteria, are found in the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat, and upon everything we touch. The varieties that cause disease are able to grow inside our bodies and, in order that they may get food on which to live, they destroy our tissues and organs producing poisons and toxins that cause human disease and death." One of the appalling facts of nature is the universal habit of a large portion of the animal kingdom, including man, of destroying other forms of animal life for food. The story has been frequently told of a medical research worker, who in the course of a scientific lecture was heckled by a group of people who were fighting the use of animals such as rabbits, rats, dogs, and so on in research work, on the ground that vivisection is cruel. They could not bear the idea of a rabbit losing its life in a painless manner, even to provide the necessary material to save a baby's life. This particular lecturer knew that these people who were disturbing his lecture were owners of large orchards and truck farms. He knew that they scrupulously practiced spraying their fruit trees and potatoes, etc., with poison solutions in order to kill the animal life that was damaging their fruit and truck. So the lecturer let them put out their usual palaver about the sufferings of the poor little mice and rabbits in the laboratory. The usual ignorant, inconsistent tirade of the anti-vivisectionist. The speaker then turned to the rest of the audience and called attention to the spraying operations of their heckler friends, with the mild suggestion that a potato bug had as complex organism and valued its life fully as much as a laboratory mouse could its own. Church was then out. Moral: Formulate it yourself. IvEEP YOUR MACHINERY FIT Under the above heading a manufacturer of breakfast foods sends out the following little poem, written by John Kendrick Bangs: You know the model of your car, You know just what its powers are. You treat it with a deal of care, Nor tax it more than it will bear. But as for self—that's different; Your mechanism may be bent, Your carburetor gone to grass. Your engine just a rusty mass. Your wheels may wobble and your cogs Be handed over to the dogs. And you skip and skid and slide Without a thought of things inside. What fools, indeed, we mortals are To lavish care upon a car. With ne'er a bit of time to see About our own machinery!
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Fixed Title * | NCHH-04: The Health Bulletin [1914-1973] |
Document Title | The Health Bulletin [1914-1973] |
Subject Topical | Public health -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical Other | Public Health -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Contributor | North Carolina. State Board of Health. |
Publisher | Raleigh, North Carolina State Board of Health. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1927 |
Identifier | NCHH-04-042 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Language | English |
Rights | This item is part of the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Some materials in the Collection are protected by U.S. copyright law. This item is presented by the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research and educational purposes. It may not be republished or distributed without permission of the Health Sciences Library. |
Digital Collection | North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection |
Sponsor | The North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection is an open access publishing initiative of the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Financial support for the initiative was provided in part by a multi-year NC ECHO (Exploring Cultural Heritage Online) digitization grant, awarded by the State Library of North Carolina, and funded through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). |
Volume Number | 42 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
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Catalog Record link | http://search.lib.unc.edu/search?R=UNCb1296443 |
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Fixed Title * | Page 13 |
Document Title | The Health Bulletin [1914-1973] |
Subject Topical | Public health -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical Other | Public Health -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Contributor | North Carolina. State Board of Health. |
Publisher | Raleigh, North Carolina State Board of Health. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1927 |
Identifier | NCHH-04-042-0211 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Page Type | all; report/review |
Language | English |
Rights | This item is part of the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Some materials in the Collection are protected by U.S. copyright law. This item is presented by the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research and educational purposes. It may not be republished or distributed without permission of the Health Sciences Library. |
Filename | healthbulletinse42nort_0211.jp2 |
Digital Collection | North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection |
Sponsor | The North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection is an open access publishing initiative of the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Financial support for the initiative was provided in part by a multi-year NC ECHO (Exploring Cultural Heritage Online) digitization grant, awarded by the State Library of North Carolina, and funded through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). |
Volume Number | 42 |
Issue Number | 7 |
Page Number | 13 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
Full Text | August. 1927 The Health Bulletin 13 reference !)ook or lecture on medicine or surgery he forgot all about mealtime. When he did eat the coffee had to be black and very hot and he wanted an abundance of sweets especially what he called *'plain cake." He had the pill and tablet habit down to a scientifically irreducible minimum. He bought his pills and tablets by the pound. He did not use tobacco and never took a drink of intoxicating wine or liquor in his life. He was simply deficient in the positive health building practices regarded so essential now by everyone. We often think of that village graveyard in the hills of Virginia where the turf has long since fallen in, and where the blossoming wistaria sheds its fragrance ; and wonder how much the world has lost through the premature death of so many of its men of genius, deaths for the most part nearly always due to the violation of all ordinary laws of good health. FOOD FOR GERMS The fear of famine and the quest for food is an age-old instinct, present in the mind of man and in the lower animals, at all times. But how many of us have ever stopped to think that the microscopical forms of life do much of their damage to mankind in order to provide food on which to live. A writer in the Connecticut Health Bill-letin makes the following interesting comment in an article on "Gunning for Bacteria'': *'Germs, or microbes, or bacteria, are found in the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat, and upon everything we touch. The varieties that cause disease are able to grow inside our bodies and, in order that they may get food on which to live, they destroy our tissues and organs producing poisons and toxins that cause human disease and death." One of the appalling facts of nature is the universal habit of a large portion of the animal kingdom, including man, of destroying other forms of animal life for food. The story has been frequently told of a medical research worker, who in the course of a scientific lecture was heckled by a group of people who were fighting the use of animals such as rabbits, rats, dogs, and so on in research work, on the ground that vivisection is cruel. They could not bear the idea of a rabbit losing its life in a painless manner, even to provide the necessary material to save a baby's life. This particular lecturer knew that these people who were disturbing his lecture were owners of large orchards and truck farms. He knew that they scrupulously practiced spraying their fruit trees and potatoes, etc., with poison solutions in order to kill the animal life that was damaging their fruit and truck. So the lecturer let them put out their usual palaver about the sufferings of the poor little mice and rabbits in the laboratory. The usual ignorant, inconsistent tirade of the anti-vivisectionist. The speaker then turned to the rest of the audience and called attention to the spraying operations of their heckler friends, with the mild suggestion that a potato bug had as complex organism and valued its life fully as much as a laboratory mouse could its own. Church was then out. Moral: Formulate it yourself. IvEEP YOUR MACHINERY FIT Under the above heading a manufacturer of breakfast foods sends out the following little poem, written by John Kendrick Bangs: You know the model of your car, You know just what its powers are. You treat it with a deal of care, Nor tax it more than it will bear. But as for self—that's different; Your mechanism may be bent, Your carburetor gone to grass. Your engine just a rusty mass. Your wheels may wobble and your cogs Be handed over to the dogs. And you skip and skid and slide Without a thought of things inside. What fools, indeed, we mortals are To lavish care upon a car. With ne'er a bit of time to see About our own machinery! |
Digital Format | JPEG 2000 |
Print / Download PDF Version | http://archives.hsl.unc.edu/nchh/nchh-04/nchh-04-042.pdf |
Document Sort | all; group-b; nchh-04 |
Volume Link | http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/search/collection/nchh/field/identi/searchterm/NCHH-04-042 |
Title Link | http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/search/collection/nchh/field/documa/searchterm/NCHH-04 |
Catalog Record link | http://search.lib.unc.edu/search?R=UNCb1296443 |
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