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HEALTH IS THE PATH OPENER TO SUCCESS
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! HE word “‘health’’ is an Anglo
! Saxon term, meaning man's
‘ ’ patural condition. Health is
natural or normal. Disease is
/ unnatural or abnormal. Health
Lf___l} is the natural result of right
living. Disease is the result of
abnormal, unnatural living, or living under wrong
mental or physical conditions, or both.
Health and harmony have their rise in the same
word,
Sanity and sanitation are closely related. That
15 to say, if you live in a sanitary way you will be
sane. Unsanitary conditions breed insanity. In.
sapity is an abnormal, inharmonious, unregulated
condition of mind, where thought is not consecu
tive or related. Sanity implies a righ* under.
standing of the conditions that surround us, with
due deference for the rights and opinions of other
people.
Hygiene has a little more extended meaning
than sanitation. It refers not only to physical
condition, but to psychological surroundings.
Psychology is the science of mind. Psychology is
the science of the emotions, or the tides that play
through the human heart.
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Hygeia was the Goddess of Hygiene. The God.-
dess Hygeia comes to us from far off Greece, where
six hundred years before Christ she was war.
shipped and importuned for health and happiness.
The Greeks did not use the word ‘‘Health,’' the
word hygiene covering for them the subject.
Hygiene meant the gracious smile of the Goddess
Hygeia £
When the Goddess Hygeia was with you in
spirit, the body did its appointed work thoroughly
and well. We were . love with our surround
ings, with our friends, the earth was beautiful and
the happy, ‘oyous mood complete.
This was to be hygienic.
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] ‘lb-dhay we nandelr:und now better than ever be
ore that mind plays-g part in bodily well
being. People who are :io‘rking and succeeding.
who are planning, devising and putting forth ef
fort and seeing their plans unfol& are well. Cir.
culation is complete, digestion good, elimination
proper, sleep sound.
If we are distressed in body and the tide is
going against us; if we struggle day by day and
make no headway; if we have misunderstandings
with our friends and we think we have enemies
who are planning our undoing, then the smile of
Hygeia is withdrawn and the current of our life
runs awry. Sickness may follow, then disease,
and dissolution is near.
Dr. Weir Mitchell, who passed away a short
time ago, aged eighty-four, was one of the most
successful physicians of modern times. Dr, Mit
chell once said: ‘‘There are over six hundred
diseases listed in the medical books, but the fact
is, striotly speaking, there is no such thing as a
disease. Disease is the result of a cause, and a
wrong condition of living may bring about ome or
many symptoms which we call diseases. Then
when the person gets one disease and is reduced
in vitality, other diseases seem to know it and they
come and take possession, and we get a ‘compli
cation.’’’ -
Dr. Mitchell’s idea was that medicine for the
most part was merely palliative. In'order to cure
a disease you had to remove the cause.
People overworked, hopelessly in . debt, dis
tressed in mind through any cause, are sure to be
sick a part of the time.
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There are two general kinds of diseases—func
tional and organic. Ninety-nine people put of a
hundred who go to a phg'sician have merely some
functional disorder. Stomach, liver, lungs, eyes,
ears, nose do not function naturally. For in
stance, a cold in the head should not be classed as
a disease. It is a result of lowered vitality, com
ilg with a sudden change in temperature, causing
a temporary congestion of the membranes. If one
thinks back he can usually tell just when and
where and how he caught cold.
You do not catch cold by going out of doors in
draughts, because if you are in a joyous mood you
find the outdoors, although it may be very cold,
stimulating. But if you are depressed in spirit,
worried and at the same time have been over..
eating and have not been getting quite enough
sleep, you will catch cold either in a hot room or a
cold one, through inability to adjust yourself to
new conditions. '
To go to 'a physician under these conditions
seems to sensible people silly and absurd. We
should live in such a way that we do not catch
cold, and, if we do catch cold, the very best treat
ment is to cut down eating one-half, omit meat
entirely from our diet, and eat fruit instead.
“‘Starve a fever and stuff a cold’’ is half bad ad
vice. Most ailments can be starved out. Z
A man once said: ‘‘You are certainly right
about wrong mental conditions bringing about
disease. If I have a quarrel with my wife I have
granulated eyelids, a cold in the head, or
geiatica.”’
“‘Can you take your choice of these?’’ he was
wsked.,
And he said, “*No, I am obliged to take the one
that fate sends, and sometimes I have all three at
once.’’ 3
Under these conditions, as a sensibie adviser,
would you tell this man to use liniment for
sciatica, an eyewash for hig eyes, or a nasal douche
for his cold in the head? Probably not. ¥ou
would say, ‘‘Do not quarrel with your wife,”” and
‘his is only another way of expressing the phil
ssophy of Dr. Weir Mitchell when he said that
‘¢ we would avoid disease we must avoid the dis
‘urbing cause.
Uisease merely means lack of ease. When
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And Health Is Almost Entirely a Matter of Mind. People Who Are Overworked, Hopelessly in Debt,
Distressed in Mind, Are Sure to Be Sick a Part of the Time. A Quarrel Can Give You a Cold in the
Head or Rheumatism. To Succeed in Life You Must Be Healthy, and to Be Healthy You Must Be
Happy, Hopeful, Earnest and Courageous. : |
health obtains throughout the body we are at ease;
that is, we are not aware that we have:physical
organs.. The healthy mpan doesn’t lmowhe‘has a
stomach. ; : ;
Witkin forty years the physicians of the world
have evolved a brand new Materia Medica. The
medicines given forty years ago are to-day Pm"tfi\}'
cally obsolete. and yet the physicians then were
absolutely sure they were right, and they had laws
passed legalizing their methods of treatment, and
any physician who did not belong to the orthodox
school was anathema, illegitimate and beyond the
pale. Yet we have seen the homeopaths accepted
and placed on a parity with the allopaths, just as
we now accept the affirmation of a Quaker or a
freethinker as equal to the OatlalvOf,‘ the orthodox.
The sick are to-day regarded &3 just*as safe in"
the hands of a homeopath as in the hands of an
allopath. This is the legal view of the -übject,
and life insurance companies who have allopath’
examiners, who surely have no prejudices in the -
matter, do not regard an individual ‘ilho has a’
homeopathic family physician as an unsafe risk.
Osteopathy had its days of persecution, but now
it is legalized in most of the States.
For a time Christian Scientists were under the
ban. If a Christian Scientist died, it was as
sumed that if an orthodox physician had been em
ployed the man would have lived op indefinitely
We now say that such reasoning is not sound, and
we allow the parent, the guardian, or the indi
vidual to choose his own physician. The insur
ance companies do not differentiate against the
Christian Scientist, ¢
He is regarded as an eminently safe and desir
able risk. '
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We have discovered that all drugs have two
effects, immediate and reactionary. The imme
diate effect may be beneficial and give relief and
the reaction may be decidedly deleterious. So
there is a whole round of diseases where no
physician can tell whether the disease was caused
by a gross disobedience of the laws of health, or
is a result of medication taken to relieve anothér
disease. Powerful drugs leave traces of poison-
ing in the system, and in the course of time may
bring -about an actual disease.
Strictly speaking, the only actual disease is an ~
organic one; that is, where the structure of an
organ has deteriorated until it loses its capacity
to act normally. Functional disorders, if con
tinued, will leéad to a breakdown of the tissues, and
then we get an organic disease Where the offend.
ing ‘organ may have to be removed by the sur
geon’s knife in order to keep it from poisoning
the well springs of being.
Right living tends to prevent this unkind con
dition when surgery is necessary. The best phy
sicians of modern times recognize that there is:a
certain degree of truth in all the various schools
.of medicine. They also recognize the great and
beautiful truths of Christian Science and mental
science. Many able physicians who cannot accept
the theology of Christian Science realize the prac.
tical commonsense that there is init. ‘*As aman
‘thinketh in his heart, so is ‘he,” is._eminentlya
scientific maxim. ;
The happy,. joyoiis, - courageous,-hopefnt mood
reacts-on-the body ‘and health follows. "Faitl in
ourselves, faith in our fellows, faith in.the Divinity
that rules the world, a belief ‘tha' everything is
coming out all right, that there is no devil bul
fear, and that no one can harm us but ourselves
is eminently scientific.
“I and my Father are one’’ is interpreted to
mean that we are a part of 'the great Intelligence
that rules the world. This was Emerson'’s idea.
It was the philosophy of transcendsntalism. It
was also the philosophy of certair schools of
Greeks in the olden time. Marcus ' Aurelius the
Roman Emperor, and Epictetus the Roman clave,
possessed the same philosophy. Marcus Aurelius
said, ‘“When you get up in the morning, say to
yourself, ‘ This day I will live as becom.es 4 man.’ "’
Epictetus said, ‘‘Bach day you wiil meet with
disagreeable people. Unpleasant things will fiop
pen, disappointments will come, ‘nappreciation
and ingratitude may be your portion; but above
these we must rise and be superior to every cir.
cumstance.”’
And then, who,can forget the words of Robert
Editorial and €ty Tife Section of Hearst's Sunday Fmerican, Fitlanta, February 28, 1015
Louis: Stevenson: ‘‘The day returns and brings
us the petty round of irritating concerns and
duties. -Help us to play the man, heip us.to per
form them with laughter and kind faces; let'cheer
fuiness abound with -industry. . Give us to go
blithely on our business all this day, bring us to
our resting beds weary and content and undis
honored, and grant us in the end the gift of sleep.”’
FORE :
These ‘thoughts relating ‘to right thinking and
right living are beautiful, right and’ excellent, but
they -are. not quite enough. First, every indi
vidunal should have.an occupation, a business, a
vocation. Call'it a_job,-if you wish, and,it is just
as beautiful to get a job-as-it'is'to.accept'a situa
tion. Every individual: should earn" his ‘living,
and to earn his living ‘he must do'somethiag for
humanity. -He must'be a good.servant and add
to.-the welfare and happiness of. the .world.
Oflierwise, the mental. conditions are not com
plete. :
‘Work is man’s great blessing.
There must be an excuse, a reason, something
that gets you up in the morning before seven
o’'clock, that gets you down to a certain place on
time. This is your job. Thank heaven for it!
Hold it by doing your work well, for all good work
is a preparation for better work. Any man who
has a job has a chance. Healthy, happy people
are people who work. Yet every day you should
have a little play spell out in the open.
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Then, also, we shorld cultivate a sense of sub
limity, which is an exultation of spirit where for
getfulness of self comes through joy. These
things bring about the sense of sublimity, concern
ing which Edmund Burke wrote a book of six
hundred pages.
The sense of sublimity has been called ‘‘the
bath of the midd.”’ .
Every day listen to beautiful %c, look upon
a beautiful picture, or read a }Jittlggfrom great and
good books. Then besices your job have a hobby.
Your vocation is your regular work, your avoca
tion is vour hobby. In Pittsburgh lives a man
who worked in the iron mills and whosa hobby
was the grinding of lenses for telescopes, and he
became the greatest lens maker in the world
Spinoza, one of the world’s great philosophers,
one of a persecuted race, was a gardener and he
made spectacles as an avocation and studied phil
osophy for a like reason, and his name is death.
less. In The Hague sits his form in undying
bronze, and yet the man was just a gardener, bu#
his spirit roamed the universe.
Benjamin Franklin was one of the best educated
men the world had’ever seen. He had his work
and he ‘had: his ‘hobby. He could work, play,
study, laugh, and his heart was full of sympathy.
Sympathy for others takes our mind off of our.
selves. We forget our troubles in looking out om *
the world of doers and workers in kindness and
sympathy. As a general rule men who love
nature, whose hearts go out to plants, flowers,
trees, animals, who study geology and the stars
live long and are well. Such were the three Her
schels, and one of these, Caroline Herschel, made
the century run. She lived to be a hundred,
happy, sane, sensible, always well, always at work.
Caroline Herschel was a musician, an astronomer,
a gardener, and when she was eighty-five some
callers went to see her and found her on a ladder
painting her house. She joyfully explained to
them she was doing it for two reasons. One was
because she wanted to ‘‘get up in the world,”’ and
soo she climbed the ladder, and the other was, she
didn’t want, any man to do for her what che could
do for herself.
The willingness to work, the pride in bhelng able =
to accomplish, the sense of sublimity found in dis- *
covering the stars, the joy in her music rounded =
out her life and makes the story complete. i
So the snmming up of the secret of good health .
is this: i
Get a job, have a hobby, realize that you are .
part of all we see or hear or feel. Believe in yougs, =
self, believe in your philosophy, have faith in ¢4
Power that rules the world. FEat sparingly, =
breathe deeply, work steadily, Then every orgam
of the body will act harmoniously, and all good
things ‘,?wfl%be yours. b