Dr° Sq HEALTH the Contagion of Cheerfulness

Dr° Sq HEALTH the Contagion of Cheerfulness

JL" tab MARCH 1969 dr° sq HEALTH The Contagion of Cheerfulness by William G. Wirth ID YOU EVER NOTICE," said Neighbour Singh to that "ruleth his spirit," that will not allow himself to D me the other day, "how a man with a cheerful cast a gloom and depression upon others because of countenance and a hearty expression of goodwill his troubles and cares, is indeed better "than he that toward everybody, who joins a group of people, makes taketh a city." Why should we make others suffer every last member of that group put a smile on his because of the difficulties we have to overcome? The face? It acts just like the coming of the sunshine after handicaps of birth need not keep us down. Many a dark thundershower. I have seen folk with a worried are born with weak eyes, but the glasses of the oculist look and with dark lines of despair on their faces have made reading a success for them. change into charming people by the magic of a man's It was Lincoln who said, "I have found that or woman's cheerfulness. The contagion of smallpox most people are about as happy as they make up their or diphtheria has nothing on the contagious effect of minds to be." There is profound truth here. Do you a happy face, a glad word. The contagious diseases want to be a blessing to others, to spread gladness as of the body will be outrun every time by the contagi- you mingle with them? Then take yourself in hand, ous cheerfulness of a joyful soul. If cheerfulness were take inventory of your good and bad points of char- catching with us human beings what a better world acter, and determine, as Vash Young expressed it, to this would be." be "worth something to yourself." Have faith in God What a heap of truth in these words, I thought and confidence in your fellows; do not be depressed to myself, with a good measure of personal shame by the discontent and unhappiness around you. that I was altogether too immune to this contagion. Having done this, we should then realize that Maybe Singh made the observation for my bene- we can get good cheer only as we give it. It never fit. But when you look around it must be admitted comes by one-way traffic. Was it not Lord Byron that a lot of us have this immunity and need the les- who sang, "All who joy would win must share it— son Singh was attempting to put over for my benefit. happiness was born a twin?" There is small wonder Psychologists tell us that this matter of being that so many of us are gloomy, joy killing in our in- cheerful is largely a matter of how you are born. If fluence, since we live withdrawn from others in the you have the good fortune to be an extrovert, you castle of our own t.clfish thoughts and deeds. Do good will just naturally be sunny, optimistic, joyful. If you to those about you, and you have found the best way are brought into this world as an introvert, then you to be good to yourself. Give joy to your fellows and will find it easy to be self-absorbed, serious, anxi- you will find a full reservoir of joy for yourself. Our ous. And they are right. But let us not surrender to likeness to the Divine cannot be attained without this the sorrowful because we may have been born with altruistic attitude. If it is true that "God is love," so a slant in that direction. There are no greater heroes it must be with us as His offspring. If it is true that than those who conquer their own self-absorbed, "God so loved the world, that He gave," this spirit saddened souls and make them the vehicles of good- of giving to others is a "must" if we would be radiant will and happiness in their converse with others. He and cheerful. 2 HERALD OF HEALTH, MARCH 1969 o muLIPPII stj ig GS and deQta' HEALTH Vol. 46, No. 3 March 1969 The average cigarette contains the following nineteen active poi- sons: ammonia, arsenic, collidine, Editor THOMAS A. DAVIS carbolic acid, carbon monoxide, Associate Editor JOHN M. FOWLER coridin, formicaldehyde, lutidine, marsh gas, methylamine, nicoline, MEDICAL CONSULTANTS nicotine, parvoline, prussic acid, I. R. Bazliel, Ex-Maj., I.M.S. S. J. Yawalkar, M.B.B.S., D.V.D., M.D. pyridine bases, pyrrole, rubvidine, C. A. Ninan, M.B., F.R.C.S., Ed. sulphurated hydrogen, furfural. Elizabeth J. Hiscox, M.D. Have you taken your poisons to- R. M. Meher-Homji, B.D.S. day? There are 1.5 million fewer ciga- ARTICLES rette smokers in the United States now than there were a year ago, The Contagion of Cheerfulness William G. Wirth 2 even though the population has in- TB in Children Charlotte Isler, R.N. 4 creased three million, according to Soft Bones Vernon L. Curtis, M.D. 6 a United States Public Health Home Training Ellen G. White 8 Service survey. These figures are How Your Doctor Makes a Diagnosis Edwin Poole, M.D. the first ever to show an actual 9 decline in smokers. Syphilis Clifford R. Anderson, M.D. 11 Cesarean Section Zeph J. R. Hollendeck, M.D. 13 Know any chronic pill takers? A The Kidneys H. 0. Swartout, M.D. 15 psychiatrist offers the opinion that Do-it-yourself Help for Arthritics Helen Carey Pyle 17 "pills are often used as a crutch, Miracle of Muscular Motion Harold W. Clark 18 a cover-up for the unresolved Your Child's Report Card Martin Tonn 21 problems in people's lives." Stomach Trouble 7. Mark Cox, M.D. 23 Typhoid Fever U.S. Dept. of Health 25 Dreams appear to be essential Growth Ida Elaine James 36 to our emotional health. In experi- ments, sleeping volunteers were awakened each time eye move- FEATURES ments showed them to be dream- Clippings and Comments 3 Editorials 5 ing. When this was repeated, night Your Radio Doctor 11 Notes on Nutrition 14 after night, the volunteers became Hints for Health 22 Garden 'Round Your House 27 edgy and acted strangely. Doctor Advises 29 Little People 31 Medicine Today 35 In 1966 India produced nearly fifty-six per cent of the world's legal output of opium-436 out of A SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST PUBLI- Bengal—Morabadi Villa, Ranchi, Bihar; Assam CATION issued monthly by the ORIENTAL —Nongthymmai, Shillong; East Pakistan- 782 tons, official sources report. WATCHMAN PUBLISHING HOUSE, P.O. 130/C Dhanmandi Road, Dacca; Ceylon- Box 35, Poona 1, India. 7 Alfred House Gardens, Colpetty, SUBSCRIPTION RATES: 1 yr. Rs. 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EXPIRY NOTICE: X on wrapper of PHOTO CREDITS REGIONAL OFFICES: Andhra, Kerala, magazine indicates subscription has expired. Cover: Colour transparency by S. Asad. Madras and Mysore-13, Cunningham Road, Owned by the Oriental Watchman Publish- 4, B. Bhansali; 6, Hari Krishna; 13, 15, 18, ing House, P. 0. Box 35, Poona 1, and 23, 27, J. S. Moses; 17, Brahm Dev; 21, N. ClubBangalore Road, 1;Bombay Gujarat 8; andUttar Maharashtra-16 Pradesh, East printed and published by V. Raju at and Ramakrishna; 25, Orient Longmans; 36, Punjab, Delhi and Adjacent States-11, for the Oriental Watchman Publishing House, Ramesh Pedi, G. C. Thomas. Hailey Road, New Delhi; Bihar, Orissa, West Poona 1. 1053-68. HERALD OF HEALTH, MARCH 1969 3 by Charlotte Isler, R.N. It is not just children who live under unsanitary conditions that contract TB A MAJOR TB IN CHILDREN • HEALTH MENACE T'S A DANGEROUS FALLACY to believe that TB A. The bacilli may spread rapidly via the blood I occurs only in children who live in poverty, stream and cause severe, and often fatal, com- under crowded and unsanitary conditions. No child plications such as miliary or meningeal TB. Or, is immune. Wherever there are adults with TB, chil- they may seed another part of the body that dren who are exposed to them—however well-fed doesn't have enough local immunity to ward and healthy—may contract the disease." them off. The result may be TB of the bones, The speaker was Dr. Edith Lincoln, professor of joints, kidneys, eyes, and so on. paediatrics at New York University Medical College This is why it's so important to detect infec- and an authority on childhood tuberculosis. I was tion early. There are excellent TB therapeutic interviewing her in her office at Bellevue Hospital, agents available today; but their effectiveness New York City.

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