The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-11-14

lish sanitary reciprocity with the |
American government. The leading |
sanitarians of the country who attended |
the session OF the American Public |
health association, held at the same
time as the conference OF the state boards |
of health, were almost unanimous in the
opinion that the Asiatic cholera will
reach this country next spring.
The discouraging spirit of controversy
| has infected the Investigators who are
studying the phenomena of the pesji-
| lenc6 IN Europe, and, what is Morse
] still, the race AllrVu between The
! French and the German has added its
| gall to bitterness which WAS bad
enough without it for, strange as 1t may
appear, there are no such quarrelers as
| scientific Emen. The French physicians
in the south of France refuse TO accept
the conclusions Of the German Koch,
and their treatment OF the SICK Is KEPT
obstinate!y influenced by his re-
searches, TO the loss, probably OF many
lives. An Englishman, Prof Ray Ian
caster, has made very Incorporate
attack on DIR. Koch in the columns OF
the Pal Mall Gazette, and
has oven gone to the length
of asserting that Koch was
sent out by the German govern
meut to study cholera simply TO cheek
mate pasteur, and that he was pressed
ate wards to produce something deii-
mite, however immature, in order TO
crafty the assumed jealous desire Of the
German authorities to 0utshine the
French scientist. No one who knows
2 tho calm progress of KOch's career Will
4 ind it possible to believe anything OF
7 the sort The man who lot slip the
2 magnificent opportunity offered by tho
, international Medical congress Of 1881
in London To announce his discovery OF
the bacillus OF consumption, and kept
a silent because ono slight link IN his evil
] denc8 WAS wanting, is not man who
D would proclaim immature results on
= the order Of Il politician, even though
$ that politician we're Bsmarck.
T. Koch's theory is that the cholera is
r @ fused by the Introduction into the body
= of distinct germ or bacillus fits som,
Of the most familiar facts of the plague
y and il leads to conclusions which arc o
q practical value. Koch finds that thi:
% cholera b2cillus viii not grow in an aciC
Il medium. Hence, itit is received into
Il healthy stomach II ~ digested ny th'
% Tactic and hydr0ChlOriC acids contained
10 there, and $ prevented from reaching
e the intestiuos, wh9r' 10 does It's mis-
~ chief, This explains the reason WHY
IL chOera is almost certain 10 select as II
l. victims those addicted to drum
y konness and -iu,tony, and persons VIII
d are for the time suffering from the ei
o. lsct5 OF some lmprudeuce in eating O
u drinking, or IRON, sOiue such distlrbIn
.. cause as Il cold. Any of these VIII eau,
IN the inner surface of the stomach to b
coated with tough, tenacious mucous
rs which prevents the gastric juice iroi
h. getting au the contents of the stomach
" and the germ may thus easily slip b
"a it's natural enemy tho acidsot . health
80 stomach-and gain lodgmont in the II
a. testines. koch's theory also explain
id why people who arc afraid of tho cho
Ao era are, as ~ well known, much moi
ld likely than Others TO catch IL. It's b
err cause lear arrests the secretions sud u
n invading germ finds no acid in its pa.