Daily Republican., 1888-05-07
Danger Frsm m,erOpss.

A large audience, comp 1sed principal
I of women, assembled In he le cture room
/ OF Association Hall, Fifteenth AMI Chest.
nut streets, Philadelphia, recently, Ia
hear lecture on 1.-THE Protection Of the
Sick end Injured from Disease breeding
GerDs," delivered by DR.. Barton Cooke
Hirst This was the ninth and last Of the
series under ths auspices of the Philadel-
phia Branch Of the Red Cr,s Soc iety.
DR.. Hirst said the micro,cope OF a
power to increase objects 1000 fold would
be required to distinguish disease germ,
and the number OF germs could not be
told. 1t has been demonstrated that one
single germ or micTobo inoculated into a
person will, in few minutes, multiply
with incredible rapidity The germ
bred every second, and in the courss Of
an hour millions have been known to be
born.
To know something about the germs
that cause the infectious diseas,s such ss
tmallpox, tJpho fever, diphtheria, vel i.
low fever and all other contagious dis-
eases, we must LOOK for different germ
for each disease, which has Its own pecu-
liar and different germ. Though they ie-
semble each other 10 appearance and 10
their manner Of work they are very hard
to distinguish apart, and this can only be
done by competent che 7 ist.
There are very few families that have
not felt, with sorrow. the power of these
dreadful microbes, and no matter how
much cleanliness ie preserved there is
always dagger All infectious diseases
originate from these small microbes.
The action OF germ is generally the
same. They enter the body through a
cut, the nose the air we breathe and he
water we 6rlnk They 90 until they
reach the right side OF the heart. Here
they are halted for q time, but gradually
force their way through to the lnngs.
They continue and enter tho intestines,
next he spleen, from there into the
blood vessels, aud then a EAR path TO the
heart. which 1909 forces them thou .h
the whole sJa.en.
Pcope ought Tot to breathe IN elck
room more han Ia absolutely necessary
and should abstain from being connected
with any diseate TO which germs belong
A room 10 which per,on with con
tagious disea is lying shoald be thor
oughly dlsaiiected by the burning of sui
phur. Putrihsation or decomp position
springs forth as deadly as any germ. III
piece OF decomposed meat, which has
been EXPOSED TO the air, should be taken
and placed over cut 1t would result in
blood poisoning and a speedy death
You are all aware" eaid the coctor,
18th in making wine the bottle has to be
thorough y air til and II not so the
wine will soon begin to work and turn
sour. Wei, II you should take a few
drops of thi, sour wine ard place them In
bottle of good wine, by the aid of the
micoscropo the germs could be plaiRly
seen doing their destructive work and
ould not be long before the po)d wine
would be turned into another chemical,
vinegar These germs are always floating
In tho air until they 1nd some one who
has not the proper chemical proportions
to combat against them. An experiment
was made on forty-eigbt rabbits with one
drop oil decomposed ood, which was a
peculiar substance resembling the aka
oids such as morphln, opium, nicotine.
1t ~as mi, cted into the rabbits and be-
lore twebty-iour hours had passed half OF
them had died, Rnd ten dreps caused the
death OF the 0 hers 10 few hours
What an elect I must have upon The
human race. We a'e subject TO exposure
cons En'ly; every breath we take IS filled
with germs OF various d'seases The
water especially that Is furnished by the
city OF Philadelphia is not dit to drlnk,
bu this can be overcome by thoroughly
boiling IL and using a weak preparation Of
bi-garhOnALa 0f mprpurv -