Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1886-02-07

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The last number Of the Popular
Science Monthly contains the address
Of Professor virchow, Of the Berlin
tPrussia) University, delivered by
him before the Congress of German
Naturalists and Physicians, +" at stras-
burg, recently. Professor Virchow
ranks along with Tyndall, Huxley
and Helmholz, as one Of the five or six
most eminent scientific men Of the
world. His fame is universal. The
subject of his discourse was one that
has received a great deal OF attention,
and Is Of the most weighty import
ance. II relates to the effect OF emf
grafton by people from one country
TO another. As intimated, much has
been said and written on this subject,
and II is of great practical importance.
In this exact form IL has seldom been
made the subject Of newspaper dis
cussion, but II is really the question Of
climatic effects on the human races,
after all. Professor virchow claims,
as many able men before him have
claimed, that the people OF a nation
can not, as rule, change their hab-
itat, where they have become accli-
matized, and locate In situation with
different climatic influences, without
being injnriously affected thereby.
He claims, indeed, that as rule the
resultant deterioration is such as
10 eventuate in the not remote entire
extinction OF the people emigrating to
the country radically different in eli
mate from their old home. As an in
stance Of this he cites the fact that
portions Of Italy, only separated from
a part of Germany by a range OF
mountains, have on several different
occasions since the Christian era,
been invaded, conquered and settled
by populous Germanic tribes, such as
the Lon,bards and Cloths, but that
now il is extremely difficult, II not
impossible, to discover any traces OF
the descendants Of these German
settlers. He argues that they could
not perpetuate themselves in the
warm climates Of Italy, which he
deems antagonistic to the Teutonic
Temperament. The same thing, he
asserts, is true Of the English in
India and OF the French in certain
warm regions. He lays down the
rule that the deterioration commences
with the immediate individual emf
grating, especially II warm climate
be settled in, the evidences OF which
are principally that the liver Of the
emigrant becomes affected and slug
gish, refusing to perform its normal
functions properly, while an@mia, or
partial "bloodlessness," almost in
variably sets in. These evidences
are augmented in the posterity with
eaeh sacceeuns so"e' "
same becomes extinct. ne "''o o,'o'
infertiiity OF genera'ion us ""o'''o'
result and evidence OIL race oesr"e'a
ton induced py cnaheeS Vi ''''""'0
and place oil residence.
While It IS true, as 10 our own
country, that IN paris Oh Nc" N',s
land Old families are sa'u W 10
dying out in many cases anu newer
and fresher blood from nu'ope 10
taking their places, ye. o'es'o,
Virchow's rules Apply 70 pi' ''"' ~,
portions oil the united o'a.es' "o
people OF pennsylvania, oi"o' Nen
lucky and some other s'a'es are ''e
equals in clinical deveiopme,,' Vi any
in Europe. And on the racine ooas'
the exactly opposite results 70 'noSe
laid down by Professor sircnoW 40
indicating race deteriora''oh, are oo
served. Immigrants, resa'"'oe' Vi
their nationality OF run ""e'oo
they come, almost ihvari"o,y en"
fiesh and blood IN inns o'','''o'
Anemia may be SAID 10 DO aoso'u'eiy
unknown here. And the gehera''oi'
Oh uatiVe .1hiiiofhiahS "io hN"''' ~