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your body or tram it badly and you sufler: know thc sccrct and treat it rightly and you profit. But it isn't so casy after knowing thc truth. is it. to apply it to your own lifc?

Bcing somewhat of an humblc philosophcr mysclf, I'vc known these truths a great many years. To a smali degrec |'ve tricd to apply thcm to my own life. But not umil

Mafoe Lomit A. Frffdn of the U. S. Mitrme Corfft. Ifdfntng C*pt. Rojrit**,' methoA, oftew the Captain'• leetmre at the Prnn. Alhlelir Club. PhiUdelbhi*.

Captain Rodrigucs camc along. betami’ associatcd with thc same great city hcalth dcpartment with which I was connected. sat oppositc mc day aftcr day for months. and demon-strated his simple discovcry —not until then—did I cvcr attempt to apply this phil-osophy to my own body.

Then camc thc grcat influenza epidemie of 1928-29. In everv home. in every family there wcrc cictims. Schools and univcrsitics wcrc closed. thc newspapers blaz-oned forth thc disagrccablc f a c t s — influenza, tiul strange. littlc understood and apparently unacoidablc discasc. was taking its terrible toll. Having practiccd Captain Rodrigucs' system, or ralher learned and applied his simple littlc secret. still I did not realize how much good his posturę method was doing mc. until it proved itself in a rcmarkablc way.

Hic Captain had a habit of laughingly boasting that he couldn t catch cold. thc influenza, or any other discasc of this type. referring particularly of coursc to the respiratory infcc-tions. Bcing old in hcalth work. with many years of expcri-ence bchind mc as a clinic manager, and knowing as I did