Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-11-07
THE BODY AND ITS HhALrn.

USE STET.ILIZED MlLA.-- le new Ork
Medical Record urges the disuse al6-
gether of unsteriliZed cows milk as food
Tor young children. insisting that more
harm than good comes from such food,
The Record il Of the opinion that cows
milk is fruitful source of much Of the
tuberculosis that now curses humanity.
that in the very young the tuberclcs do
not attack the lungs as ut mature age,
but the mcsenteric and other lymph
glands. The point is made that in japan.
where there are no cows, tuberculosis is
unknown.
DEAR Foop Nor THE Mosr Nurn1-
rrous.--The maxim that ''thc best is the
cheapest does not apply to food. The
best food in the sense Of that which is
sold ut the highest price is rarely the
most economical for people III health.
The food ,h,t is best filled to the real
wants of the user may be the very kind
which supplies the most nutriment at the
lowest cost. Round steak Mt fifteen cents
u pound contains as much protein and
energy, is Just us digestible. and is fully
rs nutritive as tenderloin Mt fifty. Mack
erel has us high nutrtive value as salmon.
and costs from an eighth TO half as much.
Oystsrs arc delicacy. II one Gun afford
them there is no reason for not having
them, but twenty five cents invested in u
pint would bring only twenty mine grams.
about an ounce, of protein, and 26) eai- i
cries of energy. The same twenty-five
cents spent for flour at So a barrel, or
three cents Il pound. woald pay for AGO
grams of protein and 1900 cnlorics Of
energy. When day luborer buys bread
at u cents pound, the actually nu,ri-
tive material costs him three times rs
much rs it does mis- employer who buys
it in -four at So barrel.-lForum.
DIslNFEcrloN AFTER CONSERVATIVES
CASES both in France ard Amer ca.
the risks incurred by tho lack of antisep-
tic precautions in consumptive cases are
kirs, of Townsville, in stating that he
has joined the growing army which
placed tuberculosis in the category Of
contagious diseases. explains that his cx-
pelience for 10 years with this disease in
consumptive resort has made him a
willing subject of Koch. He does not
doubt that all persons receive the tuber-
Gle bacilli at some time or other into
their air passage, but fortunately the
great majority possess the power of re-
peIiing them. Indians in state of
nativity seem impervious to the germs
Of consumption, but are now
dying by thousands on the rescrva-
tons. The whites and tho blacks
in prisons all the world over
labor under similar conditions. A report
from the Illinois State Prison at Jolies
says that there are 400 convicts, and
that fully one-third OF them have con-
sumption in light or bad form: nearly all
deaths in the penitentiary have been
caused by consumption. DR.. Hopkins
emphasizes the danger that turks in
sleeping cars, in carpets, bedding, cloth
ing, and in the walls of apartments
occupied by consumptives which have
not been properly disinfectcd. He CON
siders that the time may be approaching
when the resorts now soliciting the pat
ronage of the consumptive will be quar-
antining against him. In Paris, it APP
pears, the hospitals are increasingly over
charged with phthisical patients, SO much
SO that the Society OF Medicine and Pro-
fessional Hygiene has lately issued re-
quest for the founding of special hos
pital devoted to the treatment of this
disease, (which contaminates GONZALES
cents aud ordinary patients in the genera!
hospitals. "-I Hospital.
THE PROBLEM OF HEREp1ry.-The
scientific shibboleth of our time is hercl-
lty. The word is on every ones tongue
Viewing fallen fellow mortal, it is
quite the fashion to shake ones head and
say: "Oh, heredity accounts for him;
blood will tell" And with this formula
we are accustomed to measure our fell
lows, much as clerk measures cloth.
And lest there should be any doubt about
the method, the man of science comes to
our aid. YES" he says, ..you are quite
right. Your formula expresses the uni
vcrsal principle of heredity. We word i,
little differently, but the idea is the
same. Like begets like is the way we
put it. 1t applies to every living thing
IN the World. Notice this bacillus, for
example. Even as you observe it be-
meath the microscope it divides, and two
oaciill are there in place of one. This
process 1t will continue indefinitely. un-
der proper conditions, until there aye
myriads OF bacilli there, but every one
will be precisely like the first.
The cholera bacillus never changes into
the bacillus of consumption, nor that
into the bacillus of diphtheria. Each
produces its own kind and no other.
Lake oegets like! 1t is beautifully SIM
pie, unequivocalIy trus and of universal
application" 1t is little wonder that so
relatively simple, SO true and so sweep.
ing proposition has proved alluring.
All universal formula are so. But il
saould not be forgotten that a seemingly
simple principle may become very com.
pick, indeed, in its application. So
1t is here, indeed, stumbling block of
most alarming dimensions appears at the
very outset. if we attempt to apply the
principle OF heredity intelligcntiy to any
higher organism, in the fact that two
parents are to be considered. These
parents are not precisely like one an.
other. hence, in the nature of the case.
the offspring must be either identical
with one parent and unlike the other or
else Identical with neither. Here theory
wavers, but experience proves that the