Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-12-02


chncry to merely mercenary and selfish
schcmrrs. Such abuses are not INSOFAR ;
able from the system, which must not.
therefore, be judged by their results.
Meanwhile there are those who make
the sacrifice, and enough Of them to sug-
gc-t u doubt whether the remark of the
shrewl Frenchman is well founded. d.-EDI-
TORS EASY CHAIR, in Hlper' Mlgaziae
for Utceulter.
Typhoid Fever.
Professor Tyndal has Just written a
highly important letter to the Loulon
Times in support Of the theory of DIR. Will
liam Buld, f. X $. of Clifton, England.
which is that - the living human body Is
the soil in which the specific poison of
tvl lhnid fever breeds and multiplies.' In
this letter he quotes 1T length from the
work referred TO, but in this place it will |
he sufficient to say that his quotations re
fer almost exclusively to instances where
typhoid fever WAS evidently communicat
ed to other persons by contact with the
patient suffering with the disease, and
could not possibly have been communicat
ed in any other manner. Many Of these
instances are exceedingly striking. par
ticularlv those which prove that Il healthy |
man bv simply visiting Il person sick with |
tvphoI fever can, and often actually doe.
carry away with him the poison in hi
system. and import the disease into "a
healthy district miles away After quot
inm these instances Professor Tyndal SAYS:
/ :. There is no confusion of data here; no
blur or indi-tinclnr>> in the observer
vision: no flaw. ;l> far ;,> can see. in his
reasoning. He follows the morbtic agent
from place 10 place, sees it planted, shed
ling il seeds. producing new crops:
growing up where it is sown and there
only. A-lpit> fail to develop it; putre>-
c,.ncc fails To develop il: stencil fails t"
develop it; even the open privy is power
les ~ long A. it is kept free from the dis
charges Of those already attacked. The
c;,-e Of North Tauton is TYPICAL; numer
ou- other cases equally conclusive are ad-
; ,iucci among them the foul condition of
thrThamcs in the hot weather of 1875 and
I Io5Y when stencil tor the first time 'ros,,
, t. the hight of Il historic event. and when
= nevertheless. London, even along the rlr-
,.r. cniovr,i a singular immunity from
: fever. Ii l. think. impossible for any in
I tcllir,l.t reader. ana should say certain
: IL impossible for any man trained to sci
g ,llti1it reasoning. to quit DR.. Budls vol
I ume without closing with his conclusion
that the living human body * the soil
' in which the specific poison of typhoid
J fever breeds and multiplics.
, After pointing out that if the typhoid
=: virus has. a> he believes, it origin in the
l. human body. sewers. become practically
n a, DR.. Bu.ld saw. direct combinations 0
H. tli,. diseased intestine. He says:
y :. The results point with unml>takablt
IN precision 10 the mode of attack. But TIN
II point will be best illustrated hy L case ou
l' of Dr. Budds own practice. 1t occurred
III in the convent of the good Shepherd. Ii
Amos Court. near Bristol. At no prevl
'' ou- time had typhoid fever ever appeare'
n in me convent. In November, Iet;;,
n" rirl actually laboring under the dl>e;i>
T. was admitted in the Reformat"ry. Sh
WIS removed by the permission OF a med
it.tl man. who. in accordance with til
on doctrine. held that typhoid fever was III
y result Of bad drainage, and IN no VA
! runtamiou- When DR.. Buld visited III
nf place. on the 10Th of February. thirt
-, youn~ women were in bed with the fever
and within fortv-cCht hours twenty nor
= were added 10 the lit. Fortv-slX. [
~. whom eight died. We're struck down b'
It foe the larue WAS sub u.d. The mes
ia urr> adopted We're these;
-, u. Flooding al the drains of the plac
j.. with ,liScnfrcttnt>. with Il view To de>tro
IL. !. far a possible. the poison already ca,
H. :. ,. The reception ofall discharges froi
vi the sick. Immediately on their issue frol
u, the body. into vessels charged with dl
m infrctant>.
W. .... The instant immersion of all be
and body l;ncn used by the sick into :; dl
49, infrctin.r liqtid before liz removal trol
to the ward.
~. II. >crupulous ablution and diSenfr
l,- tion of the hands of the nurses
~ "La~tly. the burning or dl>iniectI"n
II all beds occupied by the sick. ;iS soon
1at vacated by death, conVale>ence OF o'he
ro- wise.
m. loose or slip--lop way. but with the pr
NV, .,i.inn of a sci,ntifl. process. 1t may
m >aid that the plague WAS instantly stage
,,l only thr,. certain cases of infection havll
ys. occurred subsequent TO the adoption
ian these measures
,nl In conclusion. he says
ia .On the 9th of June, 1871. | ventur
to.Npre>> myself thus: With their r.
c,- pcctiye viru>c> You may plant typhoid
H.. yer. Scarlotina ur smallpox. W nat q
hIi,. thr crops that arise from this husbandr
I,, \. >urr a, a tii>tlc rises from this
nv. seed. as surely Is the tig comes from
On. iir. the grape from the grape and
:. h. thorn from the thorn, 80 surely does
and typhoid virus increase and multiply u u
nth tvph"ld fever AM, ;.', I'M,
Rtr- Sf1rlatlni' tlic I'M ,; .L,, :,
ink poN- hat Is tlic .oi.o .i; ,I'.,
/ ',, nf ILinr which we vaguely call a virus is
of All intcntS and purposes a $eed that,
mr.. rIuJinr the notion of vitality, in
~ W , Whole rcn.e of chemical science y
;rh, cannot point to an action which illu>tr;'
Is. thi, perfect Iar;lli-m with the phenome
;J.,o &c lif.-'This demonstrated power OF st
the multiplication