The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-08

with amazing rapid;y and becomes more
malignant, rapacious; then enters the hui
man being and there finds such an
environment, so much food of every
kind, that its whole system changes, I'D
1t then begins to manufacture now series
of ferments, and becomes malignant
| creature, Is then transported to some city
by clothing Nomltes), and there filds the
| necessa y condi ions, heat, moisture, sewer
gas, decayed wood, filth OF all kinds, for its
still further DEVELOPMENT, and again enters
| the system ard produces disease. Perhaps
wooden pavemeu play a part in the
damage. In Washington the experiment
proved TO be a dangerous one, as it devel-
| oped much sickness | object to w oden
pavementS, especially cypress, for the fol-
lowing reasons: The cypress grows in low,
| moist ground, and, as in the growth of all
| plants and trees, a certain amount of nutri-
| ton is necessary for their growth and
| during this absorption of 70 and water
the probability is that germs of all kinds
| are carried by the absorbentS into the
tree. With the human such is the
case, the trichinae in polk and
Their germs in drinking water; therefore,
why n It the plant! Is it not reasonable to
suppose that paraSi ic life is carried into the
tree and finds lodgment there, especially
where the cypress grows in water or low
pl ces where germs add the lower forms of
life are found! In the use of blocks of wood
made from cypress or any wood, VIVA. is to
prevent these germs from being transported
to the city, and when they begin to decay,
fitting soilfor their development is created,
and for their increased malignity one of the
suitable condltlo is present for certainly
no one will 3env the fac that insects abound
in decayed wood, and that some of the most
venom0us are found in it. 1t has been no.
ticed that when pine is cut down and the
f.Tn - IL
pond, that the water assumes a
greehiSh hue and becomes unfit for use,
and experience teaches us that when a
country has been denuded of its timber,
cleared, that when saw-mlls are erected
and saWdust allowed to accumulate. the
country becomes very unhealthy for a
time. Such has been my experience in a
locality where practicad my profession,
whoa previously ha i been healthy, but to.
gether with few ury seasons, a lowing
the concentration of tie poison in air and
water, l noticed that a most malignant
FEVER, typho-malarial appeared, disa 0pear-
IN : after time. Declyirg wood seems TO
favor the generation Of deadly fegments,
germs, etc, which only req lires an alkaline
body as the human, 10 assume a high
state Of malignity, for as one
rises in the scale, the better the food the
more developed he becomes Just SO with
the lower forms of life-the more fitting
soil favorable to their growth the better
chance for development. Now it does not
follow that yellow fever is contagious, for
| do not believe that it is so, and as to It's
infectiousness, that is So far as man being a
medium for its development and propaga-
ton, that has not been proved. No doubt
that the poison car be carried by clothing
aud by the air, but there is doubt that the
poison, though assuming Il high degree of
malignancy, is developed and propaQated
by human being. VIA.
Savannah, oct. 6, 1855.