The Cause Of Disease

The Cause Of Disease

Many People erroneously think that disease is an unavoidable calamity. Physicians and scientists have now demonstrated that diseases are due to specific causes.
Some diseases are due to the  body not being supplied with the proper kinds of nourishment beri-beri is such a disease.

There are diseases that are caused by poisons entering the body; Such a disease is phosphorus poisoning, which is often contracted by those who wrok in match-making  factories.

Disease may be brought  on by wrong habits; For example, wrong habits of eating may cause dyspepsia. The above-mentioned causes do not acccount for more than one-tenth of the sickness in the world. The other nine-tenths are caused by disease-producing germs.





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