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00:36 Now, this is going to be a picture of you.

00:41 So who will volunteer to help us?

00:43 Won't someone stand up?

00:45 Ah, that's fine.

00:48 Suppose we choose this man here, and the rest of you

00:51 may sit down.

00:52 Just stand still a minute, friend.

00:57 There now.

00:59 You can sit down, too.

01:00 And now, let's get on with our story, a story about you

01:05 and your worst enemy.

01:07 Now, you have already learned to protect yourself

01:10 from many of your enemies.

01:12 For instance, you've learned to wear clothes to protect

01:15 your body from heat and cold.

01:17 You've learned to grow fine crops,

01:19 and you raise pigs and chickens.

01:21 These things all protect you from the enemy, hunger.

01:26 And if a storm should come, you find shelter in your house.

01:32 Or you've learned to protect yourself from the weather, too.

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01:39 But even your house won't protect you

01:43 from your worst enemy, an enemy who may be here

01:46 in this room right now, hiding in the dark corners,

01:49 lurking in the most unexpected places, a great unseen enemy,

01:54 deadly and silent, ready to strike in an instant,

01:57 ready to attack you without warning.

02:01 No, no, no, wait.

02:02 It's no use running away.

02:04 No one can run away from disease.

02:08 Yes, that's right.

02:09 It's disease that is your worst enemy.

02:12 For disease can be anywhere, in the air you breathe,

02:17 in the ground you walk on, or--

02:22 hey, wait.

02:23 Don't drink that water.

02:25 Disease can be in water, too.

02:28 Yes, I know.

02:29 It looks clear and pure.

02:31 But you see, disease is caused by tiny living creatures,

02:36 creatures so small you couldn't possibly see them.

02:39 This water may be full of them.

02:41 But here, let's call on a man who knows all

02:44 about these little creatures, the doctor.

02:47 He studies disease every day by using

02:50 a very wonderful instrument, the microscope.

02:57 Now, there's nothing mysterious about a microscope.

03:00 It's just an instrument to make things look

03:03 bigger than they really are.

03:05 But suppose we show you how it works.

03:07 If you don't mind, doctor, we'll borrow your glasses.

03:10 Thank you.

03:11 And-- oh, just a minute, Mr. Fly.

03:14 We're going to look at you through the doctor's glasses.

03:17 See?

03:18 These glasses will magnify.

03:20 That means they will make the fly look bigger

03:22 than he really is.

03:24 But let's try a stronger magnifying glass.

03:28 You see?

03:29 Now the fly looks even bigger.

03:32 If we use two strong glasses, the fly grows larger again.

03:37 And if we use three or even four glasses,

03:41 the fly begins to look like a monster.

03:44 Here, let's look at his leg.

03:47 Why, his leg is covered with hair.

03:50 And so through our magnifying glasses,

03:53 we're seeing something we've never seen before.

03:57 Now, if we take these four glasses, put a tube around

04:01 them, we have a microscope.

04:04 Simple, isn't it?

04:05 And yet, by looking through this instrument,

04:08 we can actually see the tiny creatures that cause disease.

04:13 All right?

04:14 Let's try our microscope on some of that water

04:17 you were going to drink.

04:19 This little piece of glass has a drop of that water on it.

04:22 And we're going to look at it through the microscope.

04:25 Come on now, everybody.

04:27 Watch closely.

04:27 There.

04:37 See?

04:38 The water is full of tiny living creatures called microbes,

04:43 the deadly little enemies that cause disease.

04:46 Now, perhaps you wonder how these tiny microbes can

04:50 harm a big, strong person like you.

04:53 Well, just look at this giant tree,

04:55 tall and sturdy and strong.

04:58 You'd think it would take something mighty big and

05:01 powerful to hurt this great tree, wouldn't you?

05:04 But let's get real close.

05:06 Do you see this little beetle on the trunk?

05:09 Just watch him.

05:10 See?

05:11 He's boring a hole in the bark.

05:13 Well, one tiny beetle certainly can't

05:16 hurt a big tree like this.

05:18 But suppose we go inside and see what it's doing.

05:22 Look at that.

05:22 The beetle's drilled deep into the wood and laid its eggs.

05:26 And now look.

05:27 The eggs have hatched.

05:28 And the young beetles are boring more holes

05:31 and laying more eggs.

05:33 Then there are more beetles and still more until finally,

05:37 there are thousands of beetles all eating away at the life

05:41 of the great tree.

05:42 Now the tree becomes sick.

05:47 And before long, the tree dies, killed by tiny enemies

05:52 much smaller than itself.

05:54 Now, let's suppose you drank some of this bad water.

06:00 If we could look inside you, we'd

06:02 see that the microbes are carried down

06:04 into your intestines like this.

06:06 And now we can watch the little enemies

06:12 begin their deadly work.

06:14 At first, there may only be a few of them.

06:17 But see what is happening.

06:19 The microbes are growing fat as they eat your body.

06:23 And as each microbe grows larger,

06:26 it splits and becomes two.

06:29 And these grow and split again and become two more.

06:34 Now the microbes multiply by the thousands,

06:37 just like the beetles in the tree.

06:39 Soon your body would begin to lose its strength.

06:42 And before long, you are a very sick man,

06:46 all because of these tiny microbes

06:49 in the water you drank.

06:52 But remember, it isn't only in water

06:54 that we find these little killers.

06:56 No.

06:57 With our microscope, we can find microbes almost anywhere.

07:01 Suppose we take a look around your farm.

07:03 What's this?

07:07 You have no latrine?

07:10 You use the cornfield?

07:12 Well, remember we said there were microbes in the soil?

07:16 You see?

07:21 Here they are, the vicious, deadly killers

07:24 that live in soil fouled with human waste.

07:28 But these microbes are not only in the field.

07:31 They may be right inside your house.

07:33 Let's go inside and see.

07:35 Well, there are some flies on the table.

07:39 Now you may think that flies are harmless.

07:41 But let's look at the fly's leg through our microscope.

07:47 See?

07:48 It's covered with filth.

07:50 If we look closer, we see the filth

07:52 is full of microbes from the field

07:55 where you left your waste.

07:57 And when the fly walks across your food,

07:59 he'll leave thousands of these deadly killers behind.

08:04 But microbes can be found in other places, too.

08:08 Hmm, we see that many people sleep in this room.

08:13 And one of them is sick.

08:14 Well, this is where we find microbes in the air,

08:24 microbes that came from the sick person's lungs.

08:29 And now, as the others breathe, they

08:31 draw into their bodies the disease that is in the air.

08:36 If we look around, we may find other microbes in this room.

08:40 This is the Anopheles mosquito.

08:44 Our microscope would show that this Anopheles mosquito

08:47 is full of malaria microbes.

08:51 And when the mosquito bites you, it

08:53 will leave many of these microbes in your blood.

08:56 Then you will have the disease the mosquito carries.

09:03 Yes, it's true that disease can be anywhere.

09:06 And you must protect yourself against it.

09:09 You must fight it.

09:11 How?

09:12 By attacking disease before it attacks you.

09:16 First of all, build yourself a latrine.

09:19 That way, you'll destroy the breeding place of disease

09:21 and the flies that carry it.

09:23 Cover your food so the flies can't get at it.

09:29 Cover your bed at night.

09:31 Then the mosquito can't reach you.

09:33 And you'll be safe from the disease the mosquito carries.

09:38 So we have seen that there are many kinds of microbes.

09:41 But remember this.

09:43 They are all living creatures.

09:45 Therefore, the microbes themselves can be killed.

09:48 For instance, the microbes we saw in the water

09:51 can be killed by boiling the water before you drink it.

09:54 The microbes that live in dirt and filth

09:57 can be killed with soap and water.

10:00 So wash yourself regularly.

10:02 The sun will kill microbes.

10:04 Fresh air is your friend, too.

10:06 So let's put windows in your house.

10:09 And let the sun and fresh air come in and help you.

10:13 Now that you know what disease is,

10:16 you must fight it wherever you find it.

10:20 Protect yourself against it, and you

10:22 will make your life healthy, happy, and prosperous.

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Health for the Americas - The Unseen Enemy (1944)

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