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THE DIPLOMA OF DISEASE

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 11, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 2.

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THE DIPLOMA OF DISEASE.

By David Paulson, M.D.

[From Good Health.]
THE child does not enter the public school until he is five, six, or seven years old, and he leaves it at the age of maturity. But there is another school that he enters at infancy and from which he is not graduated until death, and that is the school of bad habits; he learns bad habits early and sticks to them late—until he gets his diploma. The diploma in this school is ill health; it is disease; it is invalidism. Sometimes the student in the secular school is guilty of some misdemeanor, in consequence of which he does not get his diploma; but from the school of bad habits he is sure to be graduated.—David Paulson, M.D.