Health Is A Victory (1942)

the [Music] the [Music] everyone is interested in good health everyone is interested in preserving his own health and that of his family and friends that's why we have these meetings to give you the facts the facts which will help you to guard against illness which may cause suffering and unhappiness for you and your families medical science is hard at work fighting to prevent suffering preserve Health prolong life but that's only half the battle equally important is know on the part of everyone all of you your families and friends of how to use what the men of medicine have to offer time and again science has found a strong weapon against a disease only to have it rendered useless because people did not know how to use it in a broad sense this very situation exists today one of the most prevalent of all serious diseases is still causing tremendous suffering and working widespread damage to our national health may we have the slides please thanks to the microscope Physicians and other students of science have learned to recognize many of the germs which invade the body among the many types of germs are these biscuit shaped Invaders called the caucus group this caucus group includes these the strepto caucus the cause of many skin and internal diseases and these the pum cus the cause of pneumonia and this is the staf caucus which causes boils and carbuncles another important member of the caucus family is this fellow the gon caucus which causes vaginitis athalia neonatorum frequently called Baby sore eyes and Gara the widespread disease with which we are concerned at this meeting lights please the ghak cacus is a weakling when it is on the body surface and can be destroyed by soap and water and most antiseptics but once entrenched in the T issues it is stubborn and dangerous garia has caused more suffering than any of us would care to think about thousands of women have had serious operations unnumbered marriages are childless a tremendous number of people are blind because this disease a disease which Medical Science can cure is still the most prevalent of all serious human ailments like many other diseases gharia begins its attack on the body as an acute inflammation the germs gain a foothold in the mucus membrane which line the sex or urinary organs and after a few days cause swelling tenderness and a discharge the disease often spreads to the internal parts in a female the organs of reproduction are frequently involved causing great Pain and Disability the tubes through which the ovam or egg passes may become permanently cloes if this happens the woman cannot become a mother in the male the same kind of damage often occurs the narrow tubes through which sperm or seed passes may be permanently blocked this prevents the man from ever becoming a father for this reason garia is called the Great sterilizer when the disease is allowed to go unchecked it often attacks more remote parts of the body the heart the kidneys the joints may suffer Serious injury Gara is one of the oldest afflictions of man for centuries it was confused with syphilis in 1767 John Hunter a famous Scottish physician actually infected himself with syphilis in a mistaken effort to prove that syphilis and goria were one and the same disease it was not until 70 years later that Philipe RoR working in Paris demonstrated conclusively that syphilis and garia are too quite different diseases finally in 1879 Albert nther discovered the germ which causes gharia he was the first to see and recognize the Ghana caucus as the cause of ganaria and his work opened the way to a series of brilliant discoveries by scientists working in research centers in many countries they grew the G a caucus in their Laboratories and produced valuable laboratory methods to Aid in diagnosis they learned how the disease passes from one person to another they learned that now as in past centuries gonorrhea is spread to men mainly by infected prostitutes and by infected men to their wives and families it spreads almost always by sex contacts although little girls May sometimes be infected from towels or clothing carrying the GH caucus one of the great gifts of science to humanity has been the discovery that a silver solution dropped into the eyes of babies born of mothers who have gonorrhea prevents infection and blindness until recently the treatment and cure of gara was slow and expensive hundreds of drugs and dozens of instruments have been used none was satisfactory but science ever searching has found new methods one of these is a method which raises the body temperature to Fever level resulting in destruction of the Ghana caucus but this fever treatment is reserved for a few resistant cases the newest weapon is a group of chemical compounds popularly called The sulfur drugs which are revolutionizing the fight against the Ghana carcass today modern treatment under a physician's care cures at least eight out of 10 cases cures and stops the spread of the disease medical and chemical research have already done wonders but they are continuing the task of developing even better and safer methods of treatment but though these drugs are effective they are not without danger serious results and even deaths have occurred when they were taken without the guidance of a physician and the various examinations he makes for the safety of his patients an infected patient must always remember that a physician is needed to cure and prevent the spread of Gonorrhea avoid advertised remedies avoid quacks don't attempt self- treatment all are extremely dangerous mere disappearance of symptoms does not mean that the patient is well only laboratory tests can finally determine that and only a physician can be trusted to administer safe and effective treatment yes most cases of ganara can be cured quickly and easily the first thing a person who suspects Gara must do is to go to his family phys or if he has none the nearest health department Hospital or Medical Society will tell him where to find diagnosis and treatment within his means all over the United States thousands of capable Physicians hundreds of reliable clinics and scores of Health officers are finding treating and preventing ghac caucus infections with the cooperation of the public the prevalence of gharia can be reduced suffering can be prevented sight can be saved the gift of Parenthood can be preserved it is everyone's job yours and mine to see that the facts about the dangers and the Cure of Gara are known to everyone for when ignorance gives way to knowledge when FY fear yields to confidence when people learn to consider goria in the same light as they do other dangerous infections then and only then can science be successful in the fight against this most prevalent of all serious human [Music] ailment