Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-03-31
PARASITES IN MEATS.
The Poison Which People Eat and the
Impurities They Breathe.

DR.. H. Cradle, professor OF physiology of the
Chicago Medical College, delivered an interest
ing lecture on "The germ theory of disease" re-
Gently. The professor attributed large proper
ton, if not ALL of the diseases to which flesh is
heir directly or indirectly to the presence of par
asites, known as bacteria, which were only visible
by the aid of powerful microscope Fifty
thousand in single file would scarcely cover an
inch. They were very prolific in the lower
orders of plants and were to be found in decayed
fruits and vegetables. Vinegar and cheese con-
tanned more or less of them. These germs were
more to be feared in the air we breathe than the
food we eat. Healthy persons have the power
to combat disease, but the weaker we become
these germ-polsOning parasites. In France and
England disease germs were grown outside
the body, and herds of cattle had been inOculated
against spenic fever. The doctor hoped the
time was not far distant when scarlet fever,
diphtheria. whOoping cough. ETC., could be vac
cinnated against just as smallpox now is checked
by that means.
Fresh air in sck-rOOm should be ha d at the
expense OF taking slight cold The physician
or nurse who went into close room where a
typhus patient lay took their lives in their
hands. while the patient could be treated in a
tent In the open air without danger to his ply
sicans or attendants. The doctor was particu-
lar to say that typhus must not be COnfOunded
with typhoid, as the former had not made it's
appearance in the west yet. He explained how
the ski1ul surgeon protected the wounds he
made in performing his operations from these
deadly parasites. as they were everywhere pres
ent, by driving them from the location of the
wound by medical means
He combated the idea that linen from old,
WORKOUT garments was of service in dressing
wounds; it was very likely to contain disease
germs that would irritate the wounds. These
disease germs, he said, would produce cOnsump-
ton, and persons who were hereditary con-
sumptiVes were more liable to be injured by
asserted, had consumption in mild torn than
people were generally aware of. He deprecated
the absence Of spittOOns in halls and other pub
lie places; they should be placed at convenient
places, with enough solution in them of a ne
ture deadly to eXpel the disease germs. and
they should be used and no expectOratiOn on
the floors permitted. as diseased matter was
broken up and scattered through the air as soon
as dry.
Among the questions asked the professor after
the conclusion of the lecture was one whether
people should eat only vegetables to be healthy"
he replied In the negative, and said that animal
food, at least milk, cheese and eggs were neces-
sary. Meat might be discarded, az animal para
sites might be taken into the body in meat food
but they were easily guarded against even in
pork. In which they were most abundant by
proper cooking. Meat boiled to the boiling
point could contain no living parasites
The New Orleans Picaysne defines a compli-
mentary vote as something that Is thrown at q
man to make him feel bad because he ia not
quite popular enough to be elected.
Gail Hamilton says that Mormon is hus-
band who harnesses his wives abreast, and
man who has been widOwer three times is one
who drives them tandem.
The statistics, as given by the Detroit Free
Press. show that q California stage rObber
saved 81. 5S1 in ten months, but in nine months
a Niagara hackman saved S. 265
The Archbishop Of Chicago and the Bishop of
Minnesota have come out with powerful ap-
peals to their Roman Catholic people to sustain
the movement for high liquor license.
visitor to Rio Janeiro writes that the burial
caskets In that locality are covered with black,
red or violet material bordered with gilt tinsel,
giving them the sprightly air of bOnbOn boxes.
An acrobat gives an exhibition in Chicago that
Tor daring surpasses anything ever seen. He
balances himself on his head on trapeZe thirty
feet high, and. without support from either
hands or feet, remains for fully five minutes eat
ing and drinking in this inverted position. He
then makes the trapeze swing sideways.
The new compulsory education law Of Rhode
Island requires that every child between the
ages OF and IS years shall have sixteen weeks
vi sChoohng each year. No child under IL is to
Nc aIOwed TO work in any mandatory, and no
oHe unuer IA VINO cannot write his name, age
and place Of residence. or read some part Of the
state constitution.
dukes carries two reyolvers and guilty con-