SHORT CUTS TO HEALTH DERIDED

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 290, 3 September 1919, Page 7

SHORT CUTS TO HEALTH DERIDED

. . ■ —; 4 :„•■. A WARNING AGAINST QUACKERY. "Short outs|-;'Short'out3.,to,life, liberty, and the pursuit of. happiness," commoiita the "Journal of ' the , ',""American, Medical , Association" on the' (Sbntente off' a certain "healtli fad'' ' magazine. It continues: "Short cute to health it course predominate. "Ono learns that ho may cure himself of almost anything, from soft corns to ■cirrhosis of; the liver by. means of * the various 'internal bathe' so plausibly presented'by numerous gentlemen who wish, . to relieve humanity—of surplus cash. You can ,be ma<!e '300 per cent, man'' by at.least-six different methods of pliy-> sical training, each of which is unique and entirely different.- from its five worthless oompetitorß., "Are your eyes weak? There is a short out ouro for .them! ■■'■ Are you deafP There is a short cut 'to perfect, hearing I Are you ruptured , ?-, Thero Is a short cut to hernia ouro! . Do you orave largo busts? Presto, change 1 You may have them." • ■ ■•■-,:■•• Among othei' short cute cited mo a - method of -learning shorthand in seven days, one of gaining a "thorough know . lodge of law in your spare tao"; other* ivro to "incroaso your will power in one hour"; to learn in one evening "the <, saoret of being a convinsing talkex ; i» learn to play the piiiao in a quarter thp usual, tune at a quarter . the usual - cost. "Verily wo live in an ago of qnacKery," comments tho editor. "And all tho quacks aro not ia the medical urofeesion." It is wise to remember that thero are no short cuts to health, no short cubs to learning. You cannot becomo. a Paderevraki except by years of laborious practice; you cannot learn the Moreo telegraph code in fivo minutes; Rome woe / uot built in a day.