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8 We see therefore both ancient and modern appreciate the enormous value of the first few moments or the first few hours in preventing the spread of fire or disease.

We have compared sickness, illness or disease to fire, and it would be well if others always carried the same comparison in their minds, for an essential characteristic of an illness is its tendency to spread from one point to another in the human body and for a single symptom to rapidly develop a group of symptoms. In other words, an indisposition may be compared to fire in the fact that it may be looked at in the light of a red flame that gives a warning of danger before it leaps up into devouring strength and destruction.

Sickness or indisposition is a danger signal; within the body, somewhere, a conflict is going on between the forces that make for disease, and the forces that make for