Editorial October 1, 1904 Issue

A Better Way

A Better Way

The editor of a prominent daily voices a very general protest when he says that if things continue at their present pace, every man who hopes to retain a vestige of his strength and comfort will have to keep a scientific valet about him all the time to sterilize his toothpicks before he uses them, and perform a thousand other kindred services, in keeping with the petty requirements of modern medical dictation.

New theories respecting the material sources of disease are constantly being exploited, and they have not only brought into discredit the ideas which were so recently honored as scientific and authoritative, but they have imposed such an ever-increasing number and variety of exactions that a much-burdened and oft-befooled humanity is getting rather tired of the dance, though the pipers be ever so scientific and distinguished.

Even the devotees of materia medica are beginning to realize that, at their present rate of increase, the task of forestalling and defeating all the swarming enemies of health and happiness is not only a hopeless undertaking, but that the anxious and persistent care it demands speedily becomes in itself one of the most serious and menacing things in the way of our comfort and well-being. Experience is proving that incessant watchfulness for the body, the tireless endeavor to forefend hygienically all its possible ills, does not secure immunity from them; but, on the contrary, that it supplies the most favorable conditions for the encroachment of dreaded maladies.

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