Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-09-26

Tho following nanar was NJ Tyr n,
zErrE's request. Contributed by Dr. - !
Beall, Of this city, and will DO read with in.
terest;
A distinguished member Of the Brit
ish medical procession of a decade or so
past wrote that when one died Of ty-
phoid fever some one should be killed.
The ameer OF Bokhara ordered the
cleansing of the city. Hearing that
his subjects reyolted against the order
his highness at once ordered the exc
oution OF every subject who did not
carry out the new sanitary regulations
within week.
Typhoid fever depends upon n bacil-
lus-that OF eherth cholera depends
upon bacillus, the comma bacillus Of
Koch. Both are Of the infectious class,
but preventable. Other diseases-pcr-
haps diptheria, dysenterp, typhus fever,
etc, are in the same class lpythogenic
or filth diseases).
Filth will, doubt less, never produce
these diseases, yet nth oilers q indus
in which the germs Of such diseases
will multiply, and multiply rapidly.
The germ introduced into city or
community from without represents the
spark, or leaven; the filth the gunpow-
der or flour. There will, of course, be
an explosion or leayening when the
one agent comes in contact with tho
other.
The foregoing statement OF the dis
tinguished Budd OF Kings college, Lon
don, and the edict OF the ruler OF q Tar
eastern city, indicate the great neces-
sity for cleanliness, distinction, etc,
in the face OF preventable diseases and
also indicate the great responsibility
resting upon the sanitary officer, the
physician and the head OF family, in
his relation 10 the safety OF the indiyid-
ual and the community The members
Of the medical profession are strong be-
levers In the well known means now
advocated for preventing and staying
infectious diseases in their play with
human life, In no department OF med
icine have such rapid strides been made
OF late years as In that OF the prOphy-
laNis or prevention Of diseases. The
advances Of archaeological, chemical
and other correlative sciences, with the
great aid art has loaned in periecing
the appliances needed for the develop
ment OF these branches astOnish and in
terest every student who may have
"prugressn as his watchwOrd and the
ameliuratiOn Of human Ills AT heart
The shield is indeed mightier than the
spearl Through these Instrumental
ties the natural history OF disease is
becoming better known.
The habit and habitat Of cholera
now threatening to come upon us from
the old hemisphere in It's cycle around
the world have succumbed TO indnstrl-
Gus endeayor until the near future offers
u reasonable hope-ll NOT III lrultion
that we can control the agencies
so destructive 70 human life and hap
piness. In the face OF such threaten
ings as now exist, the responsibility OF
protecting the material interests OF
lie and OF life itself, rests, first, upon
the commonwealth, second upon the
state, and third upon the community or
towns and cities, The general govern
ment has ordered a quarantine OF %
DAYS to be enforced against all ships
Tr5m infected ports. which carry en-
iprants. The state authorities In CON
nection with the marine hospital
service are guarding the ports OF
antry with argus ewes; and already az
Esw York. where the enemy has sur
rsntitrousiy found foothold. Proven
~ medicine bv its benedcence has
rcared a shield Of thus far shalt thou
~ I'm, no farther and perhaps the
Enemy will be iugulated at the TIRES
boId 9f our rreat country. The states
a,.a establishing quarantine stations