TO AVOID INFLUENZA. . « MEDICAL ADVICE. Giving evidence before the Influenza Commission, well-known doctors agreed that the best safeguard against Influenza is to live in the fresh air as much, as possible, and to keep the body in a well-nourislied heait. y "conditio.!. This, it was pointed out, increases our power of resistance, .and enables us to repel attacks with greater ea.se. As a second visitation is expected, the advice is timoly, and what is equally as important, may be followed without undue troub.e or expense. For instance pure fresn air can easily be obtained by -anyone in search of it, while health, strength, and a vigorous vitality can be seemed bv taking a course of Wilson's Malt 'Extraoc* Nature's great tonic food. Prepared solely from prime malted barley, Wilson s Malt Extract possesses unnvaJed tonic and strength-prcmufing properties. It curcs indigtst'on constipation, and similar, ailments, tones and braces up the system, impaits vigorous red-blooded vitality, and fortines ag-i-sb disease. Take a course and be prepared. 21 More and more does it become clear (writes A. C Benson) that all tho offscourings and failures of civilisation are the outcome of diseased brains and nerves, and that self-control and vigour are the results of nature rather than of nurture. All tJiis is now steadily in sight. Ine aim is personal freedom, the freedom which shail end where another's freedom begins; but we recognise now that it is no use legislating for social and political freedom if we allow the morally deficient to bear offspring foi_ whom moral freedom is an impossibility. And perhaps the best beje for the race lies in firmly facing this problem.
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Press, Volume LV, Issue 16558, 25 June 1919, Page 2
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