The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-12-05
are not always present in the same dis

are not always present in the same dis
ease.
For instance, one of the learned bacter-
biologists has told US that bacilIi are to be
found In malignant scarlet fever, while
In mild cases none are to be found Now,
this IS strong presumptiye evidence, at
least, that scarlet fever is not due TO the
presence OF these germs, since meme are
found in mild cases.
Cholera is said to be caused by bacillus
which, from the fact of its being curled
under at one end, is called the comma
bacillus. 1t is never found in the blood,
but only IN the dejecta, and the trouble
some fact to the disciples of bacterioogy
Is that this comma bacillus Is not always
round IN the dejecta of cholera patients.
In several who recently suffered and died
on the vessel Moravia at New York. no
SUCH bacilli could be detected, although
every symptom of cholera was present.
Had the government delayed its measures
OF stringent quarantine until the physi-
clans discovered the bacillus cholera
would have obtained al alarming foot
bold at New York. There are many larger
and more potent things that can be seen
poisonous elements in decaying human
excreta which may cause cholera and
cboieraic deaths long before the bacilli
have chance to show their culture"
Certain is it that state of reasonably
good health renders these bacilli and all
other members of the family of bacteria
quite harmless.
These 'snall fry" have mo power for
mischief until mischief has already been
done" and "they are themselves depend-
ent for their existence upon certain forms
OF animal decomposition rather than the
decomposition being dependent on them"
Cholera thrives everywhere amid filth.
The quarters of city where it delights to
revel are those where uncleaniness pre-
walls. ltappears IN them ii rst and stays IN
them latest, and multiplies its victims there
in startling numbers, as compared to
cieanly quarters. Like typhoid fever. 1t is
eminentiy filth disease" and hence is
most prevalent among the poor. the over
crowded, the ill-fed and the uncIeanly.
Persons of scrupulous cleanliness and iiv-
ing In the best-kept sections may suffer
from 1t, but only in limited numbers, and
then not in a virulent form. Personal
and local cleanliness, in accord with we'll
known laws of private and public SANTA
ton, will quickly and effectualiy stamp
OUT a threatened invasion of cholera re-
ducing IL 20 tritiing visitation.
This has been shown great many
times. the malady finding no real foothold
In our vigorously guarded cities, but show
ing Itself with virulence in cities and
towns where sanitation is neglected. The
active quarantine regulations lately en-
forced at New York illustrate how effect
lively the advances of this disease NAV be
checked. Ii is only when municipal
authorities are dilatory and weak in their
sanitary measures that community
suffers to any severe degree.
By numerous and most elaborate in
vestigations it has been shown that drink
ing water is the chief medium for the
spread of cholera. A pollution of the
water by the decaying elements of human
excreta is its one constant source, and
when once gendered a very small amount
OF such elements seems capable of injecting
large amount of water and thus Of ex-
tending the disease.
Circumstances and influences that re-
duce the bodily vigor favor the development
of cholera. Thus the poor and the sickiy
are little prepared to resist an attack, and
the disease goes hard with them, while
the healthy pass through it almost with
impunity. Whatever dsturbs and weak
ems the stomach and bowels favors the
malady. and thus it IS that surfeiting on
coarse food is often followed by serious
or fatal attack when one has been exposed
TO the infection.
Tie use of beer and of intoxicants has
most damaging influence in helping
cholera to rapidly fatal results, and tip
piers are among its surest victims.
From the statements already made you
will at once understand why | am not a
believer in "bugology" nor Prot. Koch's
tuberculin "bug juice" hypodermic in
jections in consumption.
Mr.. Hammerton. in mentioning antipy-
refine, says: "A few grains OF the taste
less, apparently harmless, white salt will
in a few minutes make a marked reduc-
ton in the number Of heart beats. and
that in skillful hands this new remedy is
a most valuable one"
Antipyreine is used for the purpose of
reducing the temperature of the body and
lessening the number of pulse beats. 1t
is "heart depressant," and while YOU
can lower the temperature and lessen the
frequency of the pulse with this agent,
you do it at the expense of vitality and by
weakening the life power, and any agent
or method of treatment IN typhoid fever,
pneumonia, or any other disease,
which lowers the temperature and re-
duces the pulse ut the expense of vital
ity," can but work an 'injury to the pa
,ient" aud will 'prolong his illness" and
'lessen his chances for recovery"
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