Scared To Death

Are you scared to death about this kind of bug or that? Are you fearful of getting a bug or germ of some kind because someone sneezed in your presence without a handkerchief over their mouth or nose? Are you scared stiff because of germs of countless kinds? How miserable can you make yourself and others by needless fears? What should you do? The best thing to do is to get rid of your fears.

The American Public Health Association in New York shared publicly research regarding the control of communicable diseases. Here is what is said about pneumonia:

"1. Infectious Agent:  Defined as the various pathogenic bacteria commonly found in the nose, throat, and mouth, such as the pneumococcus, the bacillus of Friedlander, the influenza bacillus, etc.

2. Source of Infection:  The discharges from the mouth and nose of apparently healthy carriers, as well as of recognized infected individuals, and articles freshly soiled with such discharges.

3. Mode of Transmission: By direct contact with an infected person, or with articles freshly soiled with the discharges from the nose or throat of, and possibly from infected just of rooms occupied by, infected persons.

4. Incubation Period:  Short, usually two or three days.

5. Period of Communicability:  Unknown; presumably until the mouth and nasal discharges no longer carry the infectious agent in an abundant amount or in a virulent form.

6. Methods of Control: 
  A.  The Infected individual and their environment:
     1. Recognition of the disease, meaning the clinical symptoms. Specific infection organisms many                 be determined by serological and bacteriological tests early in the course of the disease.
     2. Isolation: Patient during clinical course of the disease.
     3. Immunization - None; vaccines are worthy of further careful trial.
     4. Quarantine - None.
     5. Concurrent disinfection - discharges from the nose and throat of the patient.
     6. Terminal disinfection - thorough cleaning, airing and sunning.

  B.  General Methods
        In institutions and social functions, when practicable, people in large numbers should not be congregated closely within doors. The general resistance should be conserved by good feeding, fresh air, temperance in the use of alcoholic beverages, and other hygienic measures.
"Note - The early reporting of pneumonia is highly desirable in view of its communicability."

Therein we have the medical attitude toward pneumonia and the germ theory; "much ado about nothing" as one of Shakespeare's plays is entitled. When you sum it all up, good common sense is of most importance in all diseases. Health comes from within outward and is determined largely through the nervous system that stems from the brain and spinal cord. Also, its numerous fibers that radiate from the spinal cord through openings provided between the vertebrae are for this purpose.

Sometimes, however, due to spinal shocks and strains one or more vertebrae are displaced to a degree so that nerves are "pinched", this in turn disturbs function, lowers resistance, and results in dis-ease determined to a great degree by the resistance of the body, the environment, and other factors.

Remember, health comes from within outward thus opening the way to a more abundant life, free from fear and the side effects of drugs.

"Fill your mind with forgiveness, faith, and love, and you will radiate blessing like the sky above."