People who continually speak of disease invariably attract it. After a person knows the truth, they cannot be too careful with their words. For example, Florence had a friend who often said on the phone do come to see me and let's have a fine old fashioned chat. This old fashioned chat meant an hour of about 500 to 1000 destructive words, and the principal topics were loss, lack, failure and sickness. Florence replied, no, thank you