CHAPTER III.. Causes and Signs of Physical Deterioration.

CAUSES AND SIGNS OF PHYSICAL DETERIORATION.

Modern Care for the Individual--Preventive Medicine--Micro-organisms of Diseases and their Extermination--The Reproductive Cells as a Rule unaffected by them--Man has been selected by the Action of the Microbes of Fever--Leprosy an Exterminator of the Unhealthy--Germs of Phthisis and Scrofula, our Racial Friends--If we stamp out Infectious Diseases we perpetuate Poor Types--Births, Deaths, and Marriages--Increase of Constitutional Weakness--Death-rate for Advanced Years on the Increase--Life Tables compared--Physical Degeneration of the Race already indicated 44–68