The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-07-31
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wHEELING, W. VA" JuLY ~ 1885,


,vbich lumbar about ono hundred are the
o,,'ont canss Of mortality, From the be-
Ginning Of the history of medicine up TO
ths urpsept has this grouping Of diseases
baen tho came, modified somewhat by
customs and the advance OF civilization
and with a new name added occasionally
as tbe cause Of an old malady was pe''eF
upderstood and new symptoms were Cd
s,rved, but materially the NUMBER NV
n0mes remain unchanged. A certain
t,ouble that ril'c,ed the children OIL
1srael at one time is still very common
AMI inst as painful, though the treat
ments has been slowly progressing Vel,
ans. a R,man writer Of nineteen hunuFeu
wears ago, gave as the signs Of lhil'maIion'
TuJor, tunor, clIor, dOlor-rsdness' swell
ing, heat and paini y better DESCRIPTION
has never yet been given.
Carlyle, the cynic, once raid that noth'
ing Was 60 unreliable as stat1stics; he
might have added, more truly, that moth
ing WAS 60 misleading IS names, The
nomenclature Of diseasesis largely fanclIul,
vet Mt the same timO very iorcelul. Cau'
car was 60 called from it's resemblance to
acrAb; catarrh, from the flowing OF a cur
rent; inflammation, from the burning Of
a lire; angina, from q sIrangllng or chok'
ing sensation; apoplexy was "a knock
do DlsCme is certainly an absence OF
ears, and tho name is its best definition,
for It is a departure from health. Some
day the different phenomena oil this de-
plrlure will be still better understood and
t len the naming OF these phenomena will
bs more scientific and systematic.
Disease, to u certain extent, is bounded
bv srace. Some, like those Of nervous
origin, IS epilepsy, paralysis and apopIexy,
are seen in all parts Of the Garth and
plaques, like small pox and cholera, can
DO carried everywhere. Others are dis.
t~iuctlye and local, aud while they could
be developed anywhere, arc mostly found
in certain regions; an example is the
goitre Of mountainous Countles.
Others, again, are strictly confined to
limited boundaries. Yellow fever is not
found under q mean temperature OF sixty
eight degrees. Typhus fever ilourishes
between forty and sixty-two degrees.
That most iatal. OF all diseases, consump-
ton, cannot exist in certain cold regions:
and the common colds or cstarrhs are
only found within u range OF temperature
extending from a mean Of foty.one de-
grecs To tho Arctic climate.
DiFesso gems also to be modified by
Qualities Of race. The saxons are more
subject than any other rrca to the ravages
OF consumption. Among Mulattoes scrof-
MIA Is most common. The Jews show the
greatest endurance aguinat disease Of all
civilized communities, and have the best
record Of vitality. The average duration
OF life among Jews is nearly forty-nine
years, while among Christians 1t is only
thirty.seven years.
In Prussia the mortality OF the Jews
was found to be l.6l percent; while that
OF the whole kingdom was 2.G2 percent.
In 1910 Prugsia returned ono death Tor
every forty Of the Jews, and one for every
thirty.two Of tho remaining population.
The Jews also escape tho great epidemics
more readily than the other races with
whom they live, the mortality from cholera
among them being 80 small that It's occur
renee has been disputed. From statistics
computed in Europe suicide was found to
have been committed by less than n OF
the Jewish race to four Of the mixed
Christian races. The cause for this higher
vitality may probably be found in the fact
that they live more soberly. The Jew is
moro temperate in drink than the Chris
tiau; he cats better ioodi he marries
earlier; he rears his children more care
fully; he tends his aged moro thought.
fully; he takes better care Of the poor, the
sick and the unfortunate.
These same traits that give this higher
vitality to the Jewish race have also been
the means OF their attaining the highest
positions in letters, in politics, in finance
and in philanthropy. Three names that
might be selected as proof Of this ttate-
ment are, Disraeli, ROthschild and Monte
torA.
II teaches the plain lesson that atten-
tlon to our physical interests will help
more than anything else TO gain for us the
highest positions and honorO Of this world,
and at us best for doing the greatest good.
Tho StuFfy NOnScnsO of n Tito.