Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-06-25
DUNGER TO THE RESCUE.
Ho,r Typhoid Fsper is ET9endered. and
Hoe to Prevent 1t.
.f Tho C1oha

CHICAGO, ILL.,, june 1i.-1 oui
locality. l am informed, IS sorely
afflicted with that most dangerous of feb
rile Affections, typhoid fever, and have
lately had the sad news that several ladies
and gentlemen with whom had the hon.
or of being on terms of warm friendship,
have succumbed to the dire scourge and
passed away.
Typhoid fever ought to be well under
stood and is so by the great mass OF intel
ligent medical men; but communities, as
awhole, are usually deficient in knowl-
edge as to what it really is, its seat and
cause. With view Of enlightening
them as far as lies in my power-I make
no pretension to be able to enlighten the
medical fraternity-and because l desire
to be of service to my fellow men, per-
nit me to say that the seat of this fever
lies in the solitary or agminated and pey-
erian glands, which have their place on
the interior surface of the lntestines. The
disease usually expends its virulence In
the lower third of the smaller portion of
the intestinal canal, known as the lleum;
at least, autopsies have so instructed us.
The hepatic functions are first affected,
which brings loss of appetite, lassitude,
dull headache, etc., which condition
really goes to prove that, IN the very
beginning of the malady, the liver is
greatly and dangerously deranged In
this state dose of the improved COM
pound cathartic pills, followed by tea
spoonful doses three times a day OF the
fluid extract of cinchona (both articles
can be had at any drug store) will nip the
disease in the bud and prevent an attack;
but, the fever having fully set in, the
services of q good practitioner should be
at once procured, who, doubtless, will
follow the established, customary and
only proper treatment of keeping down
the temperature of the body, by frequent
spongings of the same with tepid water,
to which has been added moiety of soda,
sustaining the system by nourishing 1t
with extracts of beef tea occasionally
few drops of sweetened whisky therein),
cream, ETC., until the fever has run its
course. He will likewise pay attention to
the alignment of nervous excitement by
the use of bromide of potassium, IN five
grain doses hourly, and prevent such
complications as confluence OF urine and
brain fever with the known diuretlcs and
ice applications.
But why should you have more typhoid
fever in your dual city, with its 100000
people, than we here in Chicago have
with our more than 100000? You have
arapidly running river by the side of you.
while we have only seven or eight miles OF
a stagnant stream in our mldst-a stream
that would puzzle even geography-mak-
er to tell which way it runs. Our sewers,
too, have the least possible fall, not near
so much as have yours; but they possess
this advantage: every couple OF hundred
feet there is grated ventilator. Besides,
our excellent city medical man - DR.. DE
Wolf-sees to 1t that these Ventllators, as
well as the sewers, are kept clean and
free. Your readers may say, ''Ah, but the
Chicago people have had the smallpox
badly" So we have; but smallpox IS a
contagious disease and typhoid fever is
not There's a difference, and
wide one, medically, at least.
And there is this, also, in our favor:
We haven't any drive wells, those ingen-
ious arrangements of man which not
only draw water to the surface but like
wise suck up large amount of poisonous
effiuvia with it. The discoverer of this
Continuance to help old death ought to
be punished, instead of being favored
with a royalty. Fact.
Typhoid fever Is the result, mainly of
drinking water contaminated with vege-
table poison germs or inhaling air i'm
pregnated with them. With one accord
scientific physicians say ''yes'' to this:
And what communicates the water and
impregnates the air! Why the distilla-
ton that is constantly going on in stag
nant pools Of water, in piles OF animal
manure, in i'll constructed water closets,
in choked up drains and sewers, in heaps
ofkitchen garbage, dlsh-water and laun-
dry Stops ''lying around loose" Accu.
mutations of sewerage in poorly drained
cities and towns send out their poisonous
unseen gases, these are inhaled by the
people; and, IN time, those Of the resi-
dents whose organisms are too weak to
withstand the constant poison pressure
give way to it, typhoid and malarial
fevers gaining footholds. Granting that
when single house-drain is choked up,
that a bad odor arises and case OF ty-
phold results, what can be expected
when an entire city becomes choked up,
as it were, for the want of ample sewers
not only in all its streets but in Its alleys
and by-ways, the latter of which, from
Llule lllUlcUlOlldi, nave poOI ehO uuihplHS
places for the refuse of back yards, dead
cats and dogs, etc.
Allow me to tell you, Mr. Editor, that,
if the streets of st. Paul and Mime
apolis were severed as they should
bel mean with underground tunnels
large enough to permit man to walk
through them-and all the waste pipes
from your dwellings led into these, you
would not have any typhoid fever. This
inattention to sewerage is the result Of
either ignorance or parsimony, (but the
latter is probably the principal reason),
and the sooner your property holders
common sense and iberality gets to work
the better Both towns are getting the
names of clever holes"-I have often
heard them so denominated here-and
such reputation doubtless keeps away
capital as well as people. No longer ago
than yesterday travelling man was in my
ofiice-(travellng men always exagger-
ate)-and, in speaking of your two cities,
remarked that half the people were
suffering from typhoid fever, and that it
was really dangerous for a commercial
traveller to stop in either city for single
night Injuring to your city pros
poets thus being brought about
it behooves your councils to
put their heads together and devise such
Saurar ir,provanantc &c will pffpctuQ1lv