St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1893-09-02

4 SCIENTIFIC couRrsh,p.
OoeAhhlhg with Ague and Rannl.g the
GaANt or An the Dlseases.

Beginning with Agve and Rannlng thu
Gaoat Of All the Diseases.
"Do You know . very tall, dilapidated
man, who comes to the club every af
ternoon with his arm In q sling. sits
In the corner yondeS and reads the
Lancet?"
''Know him! Know Wallis, my dear
fellow? knew him seven years ago,
when he first accepted the chair OF
biology at llcister. At that time he
was . monument among men, ,an athlete,
and . breaker of records
''And now?'
"Now he is the wreck you see him;
he leaves his bed At noon, comes down
in bath chair, stays two hours, and
goes home TO he nursed."
'Consumption?"
mo; his story is brief, unique, but
very tragic. Two years after his elec-
tion to the professorship he fell in love
with the rather blue but lovely
daughter of old DR.. Dolamore, the lee
turer on bacteriology, and he (the
girls father) consented to their en-
gagement on one condition-namely,
that the wedding should be postponed
until both had by vaccination protect
ed themselves against all known xy-
motto diseases. sYou see the old fel-
low argued, = mans first aim for the
sake Of those dependent upon him
should be self-preservation, as also the
wife's; and vaccination IL the basis Of
all security-it is life insurance made
actual, and euthanasia reduced to q
certainty. Death in some form or other
turks at every street corner and peers
through the bars of open drains. waiting
for the unprotected. Typhoid comes in
with the morning milk. and measles join
hands with the children as they play
kiss-in-the-ring at the Sunday-school
picnic. l will intrust the future of my
daughter to NO one who has not put on
the whole armor Of salvation woven of
modern research"
And Wallis?"
"Wcll, Wallis consented. Apart
from his intense devotion to the girl,
this new theory quite corresponded
with his own convictions; and 20 it was
arranged that the two of them should
on the following Monday start their
crusade against germ diseases-taking
them alphabetically. They began with
ague; by the end Of the first six months
were halfway through the first letter,
and they spent their Christmas holiday
in the thrccs of an induced asthma
amid bronchitis kettles, wheexing their
love through the steam.
'At what stage are they now?'
"Well. not together. At first they
kept company moderately well, but
parted at chorea; since then first he.
then she. would make the running,
passing each other as it were with q
nod and a word of sympathy. Just now
the lovely Ethel is q long way ahead
doing hydrophobia in Paris, while he
is still graphing with his G's."
"When do they hope to finish!'
81 asked Wallis the other day and he
tells me that, given good lymph and
some luck. the whole thing should be
over in about four years, but the curse
Of the system lies in the new discover
les that are made annually. Wallis
had. only last month to 60 back to fish
poisoning, the germ of which some
German dropped on. and onlv yester-
day the microbe of hay fever was diff
fcrcntiated."
"But here comes Wallis: he looks
wore than ever. I'll 60 and speak to
him.
.
Il thought as much from the black
coat anl hat band"
"What?'
Ethel Dolamore died yesterday Of
blood poisoning in Paris"