Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1893-11-16

pear OF themselves as the disease Is
conquered, and this is observed ip
using the microscope by physicians
prescribing my medicines. consider
this the strongest possible proof that
microbes are not the cause of the dis
ease and that they cannot exist under
normal healthy conditions. 1t does
not require scientist to understand
that inasmuch as the bacilli are not
found until the eXpectoration, becomes
purulent that they could not produce
this purulent condition. No, unlike
smallpox, the disease does not an
nounce itself in any aggressive man
ner, but begins with gradually in
creasing weakness, loss OF strength
and appetite, and is firmly seated be-
fore the bacilli are produced, thus
showing that the disease precedes
these germs. Suppose you YOURSELF
said DR.. Amick to The Post man,
"caught cold; suppose that cold ran
into catarrhal pneumonia. which, in
turn, resulted in consumption. L do
not think anyone could make you be-
lieve it was a microbe instead OF a
draught or exposure which OCCASION
ed your catching cold, and yet you adj
nit the cold produced the disease
No, firmly contend, y concluded Dr.
Amic5, "that the isolation and sepa-
ration of these ponr, sick consump-
tiyes from the only ones who for affec-
tion's sake would care for them, is
not only inhuman but unnecessary,
and not only unnecessary but
imrpacticaole. Please remember
that they are not numbered
by hundreds or thousands,
but by hundreds of thousands, and
that nearly every one who reads The
Post has near or dear relatives in con-
sumption, who properly administered
to. can be restored to health, but
whom isolation might place beyond
all hope. 1t will require no argu-
ment to convince you that the rela-
tives of these sick ones will vigorous
ly protest against any such enactment,
and the good citizens Of this country
will help them prevent them carrying
out of the proposed cruel imposition. "
DIR. Drumming said;
on account of the favorable conditions
which exist for its dissemination. All
cases OF the disease are communicated.
There are no sporadic cases. The
germs are in the atmosphere which
everybody breathes, but they only
take hold in favorable soil, in the
proper type of human organism.
Isolation OF consumptives is difficult.
People attending them should use
great care in disinfecting the dis
charges. The disease is contagious
from its start. -
"Do you think that Ohio should i'm
itate the Michigan State Board of
Health's action in putting consump-
ton in the list OF contagious diseases,
along with smallpox. scarlet fever,
dephtheria and choleraPn
well, there is not quite the same
danger from consumption as there is
from smallpox. Most diseases are con-
tagious, Consumption can never be
stamped out by law. People suffering
from it cannot be dragged from their
homes to special hospital
DR.. T. c. Minor declared that he
took no stock in the theory that con-
sumption is contagious.
1.-The death rate from consumption
is always greatest on the seacoast and
gradually diminishes toward the in
terror. A moist climate develops lung
trouble. / do not believe it can be ac-
counted for by the microbe theory.
1t would be the height of cruelty to
isolate consumptives from their friends
and relatives, who are the only ones
who will properly care for them"
DR.. +. Forchheimer said briefly:
Consumption is sometimes contagi-
Gus, but not always, / cannot now
discuss the matter fully"
AMICK'S THEORY.