The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-05-17

published an account Of one Of the most
dangerous varieties. 10 which it Is proven
more deaths are due than TO any disease
Incident 10 the human race.
He describes Il as simple cellular organ
ism belonging 70 the same order as the
bacteria. When dried the germs may, with
out losing any vitality, endure great ex.
tremes Of temperature. Being as fine and
as light as dust, invisible 70 the naked eye,
they may be blown any distance by the
wind or carried upon the clothing or body.
Like seeds, they may lie for months or
years undisturbed upon the furniture, hoor,
carpets, curtains, walls, or In the bedding
and only requiring proper degree OF
warmth, moisture and food to waken into
life, develop, and grow. They thrive and
lions of the human body. When the sys-
tenn is unhealthy or weak they attack the
cells that mako up the animal frame. Any
albuminous fluid will furnish them with
food for growth, and a single drop is SUI.
fcient to contain hundreds. Examined
with microscopes Of great power, which en-
large them so that they can be seen and
studied, they have the appearance OF MI
uute rod-like bodies having, when active
some power of motion. They bend in ths
middle like a bow and straighten with
Jerk that sends them few times their own
length. At the temperature Of the human
body they are the most active.
Their power of increase or reproduction
Is remarkably great. One germ In few
weeks time, under favorable conditions,
will give rise to millions. The process Is
by simple growth and division. Cold de-
stroys or prevents their growth, and this Is
why refrigeration prevents decay of meats
and other animal foods. Exposed to warmth
these small organisms attack and eat up
the albuminous tissues leaving foul mass.
The odors so common to this process are
given eff by these minute organisms, and is
al tho onIv Indication of their Drps-
ence. This is the warning OF nature and 1t
is an instinct to avoid all such smells. The
foul breath, bad odors of old sores, ETC.,
leads man to avoid these germs in q great
measure. The danger of their presence In
the body can be imagined when their rapid
increase is considered. A few germs may
be readily absorbed into the system by
breathing air containing them. They are
thus drawn into the interior of the body
through the long and narrow respiratory
which are lined with soft membrane and
covered with sticky mucus. In this fluid
they find ready Judgment and favorable
conditions for development, increase and
growth. The "cold" or catarrh, oZBna or
chronic catarrh, hay fever, etc, are COM
the least harmful of these germs or mi,
crozymes. In the discharges from the
respiratory passages at such times thou
sands of the living animalcul@ are found.
The fever, debility, pains sin the bones,"
loss of appetite, ETC., are indications of
their depressing effects upon the vital
organs.
1t is from germs of slower development,
however, that the greatest danger follows.
To the one most fully described by KOCH
is due more deaths than to any other known
cause. According to the researches of
CUTTER, FLINT, and DEJERINE over eight
million people die every year from this
cause alone. The annual deaths in France,
England, Germany and Russia from their
destruction was over one and half mill
ions. In the United States and Canada
over three hundred thousand persons per-
ished in the last year from the bacillus
alone. The most common disease result
ing from it is consumption of the lungs,
but other organs of the body are liable to
be affected as they develop slowly but sure
ly in any organ that may be in weak or
unhealthy state.
If active and healthy, the liver, kidneys
and bowels have to a wonderful extent the
power of expelling these deadly animalcu-
lac or parasites from the system. And this
fact furnishes an important indication for
the successful treatment of all the long list
of maladies caused by these parasites as
will be hereinafter shown.
The studies of LkNCISCA, an eminent Ital-
ian, and WOOD, Formal and others, are in
teresting, as showing the large va
riety Of chronic diseases as heretofore
Among the most common were oliver COM
plaint" biliousness or torpid liver, dyspep-
STA or indigestion, lung affections, bron.
chitis, kidney diseases, chronic diarrhHa,
spinal complaint, fever-sores, white swell
ings, hip-joint disease, rheumatism, ma
larial diseases, such as fever and ague or
intermittent fever, general and nervous de-
bilities, female weaknesses, chEonic catarrh
of the head, or oZ8na, many forms of I'M
healthy discharges from internal organs,
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the skin, glands, bones, joints, etc, includ-
ing consumption, which is but scrofulous
disease of the lungs.
In this large catalogue of apparently
widely differing diseases, but really all de-
pending upon a common cause, and there
fore naturally to be successfully treated on
the same general principles, examination
of the blood and secretions revealed large
numbers of these parasites, and curiously
enough the number bore direct relation
to the severity of the disease, compare
lively small number being present in mild
cases and a very large proportion in bad
cases. Under the use of the specific treat
ment which they give, and which is sub
stantially the same as that described and
recommended later in this review, the num-
Der was seen to steadily diminish from day
to day until, with the restoration of health
and bodily strength, they could not be
found at all.
The greatest variety of symptoms were
found to accompany their presence, due to
peculiarities of the constitution, the part of
the body most seriously affected, and the
efforts of the different organs to rid the
system of these germs. Among the most
common were frequent headaches, neural
gic pains, nausea, constipation, poor or
variable appetites, diarrh9a, bad breath,
hectic fever, cough, night-sweats, cold ex-
tremities, dyspepsia, catarrh, sore throat,
sore eyes, ETC., while where the skin was
affected, salt-rheum, boils, carbuncles,
scurf skin, erysipelas, st. Anthony's fire,
and other symptoms were common, and all
gradually but with certainty were cured by
the same means. The hectic fever so often
met with in consumption, with the hacking
or tearing cough, night-sweats, diarrhpa,
and other symptoms due to the efforts of
nature to throw off and expel these germs
were also readily controlled and cured in
the same way as were the old sores, alb
scesses and ulcers in the lungs, liver and
other important organs. The pale and
waxy hue and enlargement of the glands,
due to the early signs of their presence,
were at once improved and soon disap-
peared under the system of treatment
adopted.
1t is found that in robust health the puri-
flying action of the liver and excretory or
gans soon expel from the blood the few
germs that may gain entrance, and that
otherwise would remain if these glands
were not active, and create serious disease.
The presence of these germs in the air in
rooms occupied by sufferers with such af-
fections, points to the necessity of keeping
them well aired and summed. Weak per-
sons should not expose themselves by
sleeping or remaining in such rooms or by
too intimate association with invalids.
All clothing and discharges should be