The principles of health control . it maybecome contaminated and be a source of danger in itself. 4. That of availing oneself of whatever protection maybe afforded by vaccination. While the results of vacci-nation have, so far, been disappointing, the possibilities foraid through this means are encouraging. 1A simple but effective face mask may be improvised by folding a smallhandkerchief (n by n inches) through the middle and over a cord which isused for fastening it on. The cord is passed above the ears and tied backof the head. HEALTH CONTROL AND THE WORLD WAR 477 If one has an attack of th
The principles of health control . it maybecome contaminated and be a source of danger in itself. 4. That of availing oneself of whatever protection maybe afforded by vaccination. While the results of vacci-nation have, so far, been disappointing, the possibilities foraid through this means are encouraging. 1A simple but effective face mask may be improvised by folding a smallhandkerchief (n by n inches) through the middle and over a cord which isused for fastening it on. The cord is passed above the ears and tied backof the head. HEALTH CONTROL AND THE WORLD WAR 477 If one has an attack of the flu, l he should go to bedat once and send for the physician. He should, further-more, follow his directions explicitly. Then in order toescape the serious sequences that may result,2 he shouldbe extremely careful about resuming his work or exposinghimself to cold or wet after recovery. The deaths thathave been caused by the flu have not, as a rule, resultedfrom the disease itself, but from its sequences, Fig. 96. — An Improvised Flu Mask. A Start on Our Great Unlearned Lesson. — What manhas never yet learned and what even this great war hasfailed to teach him, is the serious nature of his everydayconflict with disease. When we add together the deathsfrom typhoid fever, tuberculosis, pneumonia, and otherdiseases, we have a number that each year exceeds the num-ber killed in battle and those dying from wounds duringthe entire World War. This conflict, moreover, goes onunceasingly. Our indifference, partly due to ignorance,to these enemies in our midst is little short of while the war has failed to teach us the need of keep-ing a large army of well-trained health forces constantly 1 See symptoms of la grippe, page 401. 2 One effect of the flu is to diminish the number of white corpusclesin the blood, thus destroying the bodys means of defense. This permitsthe germs of other diseases present anywhere in the body to very easilyget a start.
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