Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1917 — STOP FUSSING ABOUT HEALTH [ARTICLE]

STOP FUSSING ABOUT HEALTH

Many People Worry Themselves Into illness by Constantly Having It in Their Thoughts. In advising people how to escape disease, a noted physician said not long ago that “some people give too much thought to the question of health. They are forever fussing about their health,” he said, “and live in perpetual and irrational dread of disease. Indeed they may actually make themselves ill by their morbid fear of illness. The physician does not discount the advantages of complying with the well understood rules of hygiene and sanitation. He knows that many people ruin their health by overindulgence in food,or drink, or both; he does not minimize the importance of taking the best of care of oneself at all times. But he has hit *Upon a fundamental truth when he says many people make themselves ill by morbid fear of illness. It was once expressed a little differently by a physician who said that as soon as a man discovered he had a liver there was no hope for him —meaning thereby that he jvould “doctor” and “dose” himself to death. There Is no doubt that fear is responsible for a great deal of the world’s illness, as well as for many of the troubles of other kinds. Ah of us kqpw, or ought to know, that it is possible for one... to “worry himself sick.” So it is well to pay some attention to the words of the physician when he advises us that there is just about as much danger in thinking too much of our health as there is in thinking too little of it. —Dayton News.