How to keep well in wartime
1943 1943 1940s 28 pages : illustrations BE MODERATE IN ALL THINGS attack upon the body by germs, tiny living organisms so small that they can be seen only under the microscope. The ones that cause disease are parasites and live on the bodies of human beings and other animals. They get their food by...
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| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
| Language: | English English |
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London : His Majesty's Stationery Office
1943
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10796/56D97CF2-412E-4EE6-BC92-FCE4B97EFB32 http://hdl.handle.net/10796/D6410AB3-8BA5-4DB8-8F7F-718017420960 |
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28 pages : illustrations
BE MODERATE IN ALL THINGS attack upon the body by germs, tiny living organisms so small that they can be seen only under the microscope. The ones that cause disease are parasites and live on the bodies of human beings and other animals. They get their food by destroying bits of what they live on. Sometimes their attack is so violent that the infected person dies. There are two chief forms of venereal disease. One is called gonorrhoea (" the clap ") and the other syphilis (" the pox "). The germs that cause these two infections are very different from each other to look at. They injure the body in different ways. But in the beginning, with very rare exceptions, these germs attack the sexual organs, and they generally pass from one person to another during sexual intercourse. The infection is kept up in a community by promiscuous sexual intercourse. In time of war there is nearly always an increase of venereal disease. This is a serious matter because, among other things, it immobilizes man and woman power. A hospital full of cases of gonorrhoea means loss of tanks, loss of aeroplanes, loss of guns. It also means loss of happiness, loss of health, loss of efficiency. Doctors now have better ways of treating venereal disease, especially if patients will go to them at the earliest opportunity. Clinics for the treatment of venereal disease have been set up by public health authorities, and the confidence of the patient is strictly kept. A woman who is pregnant and believes she may have venereal disease should have a blood test to safeguard her future baby. "Prevention is better than cure" is an old saying which is as true of venereal disease as of anything else. It is obvious from what has been said that venereal disease can be prevented in one way — by avoiding casual sexual intercourse. Some Sex Problems. The sex instinct is very powerful, and in any form of society, savage or civilized, it is regulated by many customs and attitudes which make it difficult to discuss with freedom and reason. The modern world tends to become more artificial and complicated; the more artificial our lives become the greater is the strain upon so natural an instinct as sex. Men and women differ widely in their make-up, in the way they react, in the way they have been brought up, in the standards they adopt. The Talmud, that collection of ancient Jewish rules of human conduct, says : " Love thy wife as thyself; honour her more than thyself. He who lives unmarried, lives without joy. . . . All the blessings of a household come through the wife, therefore should her husband honour her". Family life is the basis of national life. In family life is the flowering of the sex instinct. Anyone who is worried about sexual problems should go to his or her family doctor and talk to him frankly about them. Open discussion is good for the soul. Often enough difficulties and worries are greatly exaggerated in the mind of the worrier because he or she is not rightly informed about the matter in question. 15
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