ANAEMIA AND ITS CAUSE.

Thames Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 10128, 9 December 1911, Page 5 (Supplement)

ANAEMIA AND ITS CAUSE.

'I x'ul in iiiiig time uvidonco n,at» uocii accumulating tuat auaeuna is ntn "eueraily due to luuK 01 irou, l.uc co tne pre»enco iv ih© intestines c: putiutiiLiivt) products, by wincn tliu 1 Diooanmkiug prowesses, oi tlie bouy ure interfered, with through the a'u- ■ Horptiou 61 poisonous products oj putrefaction. It has alao been demonstrated that in some instances ■' substances are formed iv the intestines which, wjieu absorbed into the • blood-yessels dissolve the blood and so produce auaeiuia. At- very interesting rose was recently reported by an eminent New York physician 'which seems to show very conclusively a connection between intestinal putrefaction and anaemia. A young i woman who had for some time sufjfered from very pronounced anaemia, ' was found to have in her intestines a dead^tape^worni. The dead (parasite was expelled, and the patient made a very prompt recovery. We see, no reason why fragments of dead cowb, pigs, or other animals undergoing putrefaction in the intestine might not produce just as bad results as a--1 dead tapeworm. , IT IS WORMY THAT KILiLS. It is marvellous, an English doctor writes, how active an old woman of eighty can. be; Ido not believe these' almshouse people ever; die. They are quite comfortable on earth, and they stick .here, century after century. I believe it is a common experience that if you agree to give an old Bervant a life annuity, he lives for ever. What kills you and me is modern life, the telephone, the dread of being run over by a nuotor "bus, jthe fear of invasion by a fleet of aeroplanes dropping bombs on oiir heads, the fear: of being rolblbed, tha misery of paying.; rent, the difficulty of making both ends meet. But, bless you, my old friends do not worry about anythingl! Wear and tear is reduced to a minimum, and they live

placidly on through sunimer aud winter, and come up smiling at each new year. The lesson to learn i« that we should be a. good deal heai • A thier if we took things easier and went thi-ough life with the childlike faith that if we do our duty we shall come to no real harm. As the Irishwoman said: "My life has been full of troubles, and half of them ner<»r

came."