The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1893-12-14
| patlents almost continually without III ef

patients almost continually without Ill ef
feet"
"On what grounds, doctor, have all these
appeals for the isolation Of consumption been
madel'
ION the theory of some bacteriologlsts
that the disease Is communicated by microbes
expectorated by the consumptive."
Asked as to how many Of the medical pro.
fesslon agreed with his theory to the Son
| trary, DR.. Amck said: "From all ! can
learn perhaps one-half and a majority of the
other half freely express their surprise that,
considering my treatment is not based on the
3acilli theory, IL proves so efficacious A
year or TWO was practically alone in i'd
vocatlng my theory, but to-day the progress
siVe physicians agreeing with me are num-
bered by thousands, and / prophecy that In a
few years very few will contend that the
mlcrooe causes the disease. | make no at
tempt TO destroy the baclli In my treatment,
| Tor they disappear Of themselves as the dis
| case Is conquered, and this Is observed in
using the microscope by physicians prescrlb-
Ing my medicines / consider this the strong
est possible proof that microbes are not the
cause OF the disease, and that they can not
exist under normal healthy conditions. II
does not require a scientist to understand
that inasmuch as the bacilli are not found
uhtli the expectoration becomes purulent
that tney could not produce this purulent
condition. No, unlike smallpox, the disease
does not announce Itself in any aggressive
manner, but begins with gradually increas.
ing weakness, loss OF strength and appetite
ana Is ficmly seated before the bacilli are
produced, thus showing that the disease pre-
cedes 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 CON
sumption. / do not think any one could
make you believe 1t was a microbe instead
OF a draught or exposure which occasioned
your catching cold, and yet you admit the |
cold produced the disease. No, l firmly
CONTEND" concluded DR., Amick, that the
isolation and separation of these poor, sick |
consumptves from the only ones who for af-
1eotion's sake would care for them, is not |
only inhuman but unnecessary and not only |
but fmpractcable. Please re-
member that they are numbered not by hun |
dreds or thousands, buh by hundreds of thous-
ands, and that nearly every one who reads
The Post has near and dear relatives in con-
sumption who properly administered to can
De restored to health, but whom isolation
might place beyond all hope. 1t Will REQUIRE
no argument to convince you that the rela-
lives OF these sick ones Will vigorously pro-
lest against any such enactment, and the
Sood cltizens OF this country will help them
prevent the carrying out of the proposed
cruel imposition
DR.. Drumming said:
consumption Is increasing In cities on ac-
count OF The favorable conditions which ex-
81 Tor its dissemination. All cases of the
disease are communicated. There are no
poradlc cases. The germs are In the atmos-
mere which everybody breathes, but they
'nly take hold in n favorable soil, in the
roper type OF human organism Isolation
Il consumptives is difficult. People atteud-
ng them should use great care in dlsinfect-'
ng the discharges. The disease is contagl- ]
us from Its start"
DO you think that Ohio should initiate
nc Michigan State Board of Health's action ,
4 putting consumption In the list of con 6
igious diseases, along with smallpox, scarlet
aver, dptheria and cholera!'
well, there Is not quite the same DANCER +
,om consumption as there is from smallpox a
LOST diseases are contagious. Consumption
an never be stamped out by law People 1
iuering from 1t can not be dragged from
ielr homes 10 special hospital.n d
Or. L. Z. Minor declared that he took no t
ock In the theory that consumption is con. c
glous. y
1.-THE death rate from consumption ia el h
avs greatest on the sea coast and gradually d
mlnshes toward the interior. A moist Al
innate developes lung trouble. | do not be- W
I'VE II can be accounted for by the microbe n
cory. 1t would be the height of cruelty to o.
plate consumptiyes from their friends and
latlves, who are the only ones who will tr
operly care for them" W
Dr.. +. Forchhelmer said briefly: "Con v,
mptlon Is sometimes contagious, but not to
Ways. l can not how discuss the matter OF
lly." ~