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Quit Your Worrying!

Chapter 9 HEALTH WORRIES

Word Count: 1296    |    Released on: 30/11/2017

he germ theory, seeking to obtain legislation to vaccinate them, examine their children nude in school, take out their tonsils, appendices, and other internal organs, inje

e minds of the ignorant, the vicious and the diseased; of the patent-medicine manufacturers, who spend millions of dollars annually in scaring people into the use of their nostrums-none of which are worth the cost of the paper with which they are wrapped up-is there any wonder that people, who

ther authority says, "Bosh!" to this and asks you to look at the dog who bolts his meat and is still healthy, vigorous and strong. The raw food advocate assures you that the only good food is uncooked, and that you take out this, that, and the other by cooking,

everyday normal. They have persistently taught those who rely upon them that the only safe and wise procedure is to rush immediately to a physician upon the first sign of anything even slightly out of the ordinary. Then, with wise looks, mysterious words, strange symbols, and loathsome decoctions, they have sent their victims home to ima

ache or a pain, they rush to the doctor or the drug-store for a prescription, a dose, a powder, a potion, or a pill. The te

est degree, this perpetual worry about trivial symptoms of health. Every truthful physician will frankly tell you-if you ask him-that worrying is often the worst part of the tr

t unnecessarily calls up to the mind pictures of a large variety of p

the Great Cable Incline of the Mount Lowe Railway, have exclaimed: "What would become of us if this cable were to break?" and they were apparently people of reason and intelligence. The fact is, the cable is so strong and

stland in Chicago, and the loss of the Titanic. Railways have wrecks, collis

The shipping authorities, all railway officials and employees, etc., should be as alert as possible to guard against all accidents. But this can be done without one moment's worry on the part of a solitary human bein

n is a tramp, who is a burglar in disguise; every stranger is an enemy, or at least must be regarded with suspicion. Such worriers always seem to prefer to look on the dark side of the unknown rather than on the bright side. "Think no evil!" is good philosophy to apply to everything, as well as genuine religion-when put into practice. The world is in the control of the Powers of Good

will soon justify his suspicions and the children will become what he imagines them to be. Yet such a teacher often

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