Telegram-herald., 1890-02-17
UUR NATIONAL SOURCE
A Prominent Hs~ YORK Physaclaa
Talks Cn Pneumonia
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nAxss ls a n0st asEonal seo4rzs. Ia
sEs -argsr eis-ss Il "a specially drsaisd
tAs mortality Asss saOs ta4t lE = -
sp0asio-s Tor vsrf age proportion %
dsa.as. and scislss has th4s f4F been
sppafsns4y aaasAillaz Ia restricting e
FaFages II a majority % cases, even
ths most SKILLED Plyslclaas 4ckn0sl-
stEe themselves po~er.sss % 10 more
soah sOsGas tas s--srsr. a. the disease,
encs begun. NJ astran IS e0urss
Latsly p4bhe attention has osen
specially tirsctei 20 this modern
scoarzs. ~hish hAs come - % recog
nlse9 as ths nat4ral SEQ lsl ot many Of
the miltsr forms of lung troubls Not
Ia nany ysars hAs death made 50 vide
as~Ath among the ranks o. the famous
as during tas presen- slnter Both
here and 10 Europe the saVs Of pnea-
monia Eh4s followed IN the Nake OF a
grippe carried or hundreds Who we're
eminent la al the notable paths Of life
-kinys. sRvAnss, authors ana statesmen
Alike. For weeks the press in Almost
svsry American city printed long and
omiaous daily lists % me dead. n ever
had prod aced 0ns quarter OF ths nun
OsF oi deaths directly ,raceabls 20
pasgmonLa in any one season. the com
mPnitY would have been panic stricken.
Thsrsls very gensral movement on
she part OF the medical fraternity here
Aad slss-hers 10 devote 100 fullest IN
vssEiZA.ion 20 pasumOnia aud is train
of kindred diseases As the most tn port
AIT question that Affects the public
health a. the present time. IL may
presently DO expected % occupy lead
ing place as sopic IN tho medical our
na.s and among hospital studies. There
are already several hundred works upon
the subject mainly European; but
only lew are text books. and even
these ars inadequate.
Yesterday called upon one Of New
Nork's most distinguished physicians,
DR.. Thomas Theodore Janeway, and
talked with him about the remarka BILE
growth OF this deadly disease.
"Pneumonia aisa com parasively recent
name for whss vas known fifty years
ago under a variety OF different deSig-
nations. be said. 1t IS the same With
iipthsria. which msny people regard a.
nov disease; but IL isn't, IL Is iden-
tical with sn ailment which some four
o. fVs centuries ago vas known as the
syrian sore throat because IL was
thought 20 have been imported 10
Europe from Syria
TO what causes do you attribute the
remarkable increase OF pneumonia >"
1T - chiefly d.e 70 our changed
habits OF life and 70 the hig h-pressure
siyilikasion o, the age we are living
In. he replied. The higher the civil
lization. the more liable we are 10 dis
sases While I believe that on tho
whole men and women are better ply
sically today than they were in the
time OF our toreiathers, still thers are
many ensrvating habits contracted and
many debilisssing usages. Men are
perhaps more liable 20 disease from
these causes than women. II is one of
the penalties Of a high-pressure civili-
,atiOn.
'Is would - tedious 20 enumerate me
.suses that produce such effects. Our
PEOPLE live in rooms heated by steam or
by furnaces, and lily ventilated indeed
not inirequently fresh air is almost shut
out from supsrheated dwellings,. Late
2 hours and improper food have. I think,
very little 20 do with IL although OF
course they help along the general dc
teriorssion Tho habit OF promiscuous
drinking has 20 do with it a great deal.
itmay no. act directly on she individual,
butth next generation feels the effects.
In this way hereditary deterioration Is
established. There 10 a constant infuI
% br Eht men from the country dis
tricts % the cities and their families
verv o'sen amount 20 nothing. from ne
-auses have indicated How few bril-
liant mon OF the las. generation have
children anyway equal 70 themselves
n thers IL any deterioration in the race,
30 ia ln .he cities But it would be un-
iust 20 claim. because o. numerous in
stances that the whole race is therefore
deteriorn.ing.
is it among this class that the
national disease finds its readiest sub
,sCts 7"
-nqpsstionsbly Now, great deal
has been said lately concerning he con
dition OF she blood in diseases like
the grippe. .consum Dtion and pneumonia
The factis ne condition ot he blood in
majority % diseases s still deoatable
question BY that mean that is IS not
a. az settled thst il really undsrEoe'
any radical change in sny of the lung
@ seasss
You have Rad oi she discovery b7
Professor Weicbselbaum OK Vienna oi
she grip bacillus ''
les pith sn'ils. an not prs
pared 20 sisber give assent or denial q
the report The professor = vel
known savant bat he cannot Be placed II
the s.7le ratsxorY A. koeh. should no
care - consider "a serious any aileged
d scoverv fhst was not conducted ~
thorough and scientific plan 81 inves
.fra-ion The bacillus ~ Consu n ptior
hss heeu fully investigsted ani = Nel
0a8rsd. but the experiments wien t1'
barilla ~ pneumosis sre - In thei1
jrfan-v Tb- system p producin
sse minute hsr.lii By she cultur'
process Il m sv> >~me'7 is'icste on'
snd "a, 20 z-eat skill
Vow tast - grip a about over
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There a-p many peoD's living II
fbe frre- rr fsr f~ou any age ctt7
~bo sod ls mvosst 5 q to cal IN he a.
cf SCI 81 rh7sirians rhsn attack
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