The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-10-03
THOUSANDS OF SPORES DAILY.
They Arrive Done Up in Packages In the
Baggage OF Florida Refugees.
From the New York Herald

CFrom the New York Herald }
DR.. RobertT. Morris of l33 West 34tE
street said yesterday when called upon
that he worried very little about the In
PRODUCTION of yellow fever into the city,
But he said that thousands of the spores
are coming daily done up neatly II
packages with the baggage OF Florida
refugees.
GAS q matter of fact," said the doctor,
ssyellow fever is not at home here IN
New York, and not being quickly In
fictitious, as infectious diseases go We
feel in the profession that our present eff,
cient health board will easily prevent
any epidemic of importance. There will
be few more cases probably, but there
is not enough danger to cause any alarm.
Yellow fever is well known nowadays,
as a germ disease. The microbes re-
produce themselves pretty rapidly ID
warm, moist atmosphere, but they are
quite heavy and settle near the ground,
so that the winds do not carry them any
great distance. Besides, it is necessary
for person to take into the lungs an
enormous number of the microbes II
order to become infected, I wouldn't
mind taking in few hundred OF them
this afternoon, but if / were in heavily
infected neighborhood and coming into
hourly contract with millions OF the
microbes, l should be as badly frightened
as any nervous Old bachelor who has
nothing to live for.
THE SYSTEM MENAGERIE.
"Why," said the doctor, "don't you
know that your system is daily perfect
menaserie OF different disease spores that
are entering and passing through it? A
person in ordinary health is not apt to
be troubled by any of the spores stopped
to feed upon him, but if his health is bad
they may attack him just as spores OF
fugisprout in decaying trees.
"Yellow fever spores, continued the
doctor, ssmust be concentrated IN order
to be dangerous. Why is it that they
become concentrated in certain street
or certain yard, it is hard to say; which
but they act something like the spores
that cause rust on salt Goldfish. Go into
o storehouse in which red rust is grow
ing, and you will find it very abundant
by certain box or upon certain table,
and the bales of dried fish In one corner
of the room may be all red, while those
in the middle of the room are not attack
ed.
$50, again, you will see in the woods
that the spores of certain species OF
mushroom are abundant along one path
or near one bill, while in similar ground
round about there are few toad-stools--
and the spores of the microbe which
produces yellow fever are distributed
unequally for some reason best known
to themselves.
WHAT MEDICINE CAN DO.
"These microscopic vegetables that
grow in the blood and cause yellow fever
are pretty small, but their growth and
propagation are governed by natural
laws as definite as those which rule the
cabbage and the cucumber. Can I de-
scribe the symptoms of yellow fever for
you? Why, certainly! But 1 shall not,
for every person who read the description
would discover that he was q sufferer
from the disease in about twenty-four
hours"
"Con medicine help the yellow fever
patient any2"
s'Of courseit can; in the way of making
him more comfortable and in avoiding
dangerous complications, but cannot
limit the disease. The disease is not as
fatal as most people suppose it to be
anyway. In the 1878 epidemic IN
louisiana only about sixteen per cent. OF
the cases proved fatal, and in the practice
of good physicians the relative mortality
percentage was much less.