The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-01-17
HEALTH AND DISEASE
Professor EllinWOOd'S Lecture Mt
Cooper College.
Infectious Diseases and Their Causes-The
Theory of BacilI Cholera and
Consumption.

Last night at Cooper Medical College Pro
fessor c. \. Ellinwood delivered an inter
esting lecture on Health and Disease"
After brief description of the human or
ganism. its constitution and functions and
explaining what is meant by metabolism, the
speaker said:
Many of the diseases of man are easily
tracrable to the disturbed cell metabolism-
c. g. driving a spirited horse, requiring a
great effort Of your arm muscles; the over
taxing and oyerwaste of the muscle cells be-
yond the power of repair is manifested by
finally a tremor, weakness and by the
time you have driven through the park and
reached the beach your hands are power
less, and must have rest and time to recover
and repair the excessive cell waste or paral =
ySis results
Again, If on the other hand you make no
use Of your muscles you suspend the arm in
a Spllnt, and still supply abundant pabulum
for lis nutrition, II uudergoes great meta
belle disturbances, resulting in fatty de-
generation, the replacement Of muscle cells
or elements by fat cells fatty degeneration.
The same is true in other organs of the
body, as IN the liver cells encountered by
alcoholic drinks and an excessive supply,
beyond their needs, of carbJnaceOus princi-
IleS, which al first embarrass and then in-
hiblt the normal metabOlc changes IN the
LE4lS VI tlle liver anu uud4ll ldLl4 QGHSuGI-
alton Of the gland, dropsy and death.
Yet another illustration should be re-
ferTed TO. Those oYer-rtStless, oyer-anxiouS
worrying brain-workers, wrestling day and
night, without sufficient sleep or chance of
regeneration, with some hard problem for
gain. OF fame, or consuming thought. keep
ing the brain cells in such inordinate and
constant activity as is inconsistent with
their normal metabOlic changes, and the re-
suit is degeneration, soiteulng and prema-
tuIe death.
As we learn more of the operations of mi
croscopic germs in the human body, we find
how in one way or another they multiply
and COLOMBO and invade this organ, and so
by their presence mechanically oDstruct the
nutrition Of the cells and destroy the struc-
ture OF vital organs, or, IN other conditions,
their growth or germ prollfeTatlon certain
subtle poisonous substances are generated
within tie body, which attack and finally
destroy the vital force Uf the cells Of which
the BODY is composed.
he germ of the tIichena spiraliS, whose
natural habitat would seem to be In the
hams and sausages, If they find n lodg-
ment, unlocked, in the human intestnes,
they there undergo a development into MI
nut, thTead-like worms, which penetrate
the intestinal walls and into the muscular
tissues and 50 increase as TO ultimately de-
strOy anu replace the muscular tissue u
most painful and certainly fatal disease.
The tuUeTCla bacillus of consumption, the
llbSL AtdulE 10 uidus WI S ny YET uluGICul
methods aud upon other cells in other or
gans, but with the same ultimate result.
Aud So Of infectious diseases generally, the
germ finds favorable soil and other condi-
tons IN the human body frr its cultivation
BuG rapid growth, which is Incompatible
with the putrItion and proper workings of
the tissue cells and disease results.
Ii Il now known that many of the germs of
disease can be successfully resisted by per-
sons IN robust health, OF fortified by arti-
fetal means, and as we progress in a more
complete Knowledge of the metabolism of
tissue cells, and so learn how best TO main
tam lie blood and all the organs of the
body in their highest vital activities, greater
powers of resistance to disease will be at
tained and a greater immunity, individually
aad collectively, will follow.
50 long as your potOplasmic matter OF al
bumen Is yitalizad by an active circulation
and proper nutrition it reSists the action Of
destroying cells. This is especially observed
IN eh lera.
lie comma bacillus Of cholera finds its
Wy through the water drunk and air
le>pTed by everybody III times of an cpl
uemlc, and some Succumb to It, others do
not. Those debiiitated by disease OF par
ayzed by fear are It's most ready Victims.