The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-13
A SCIENTIFIC COURTSHIP.
Beginning with Ague and Running ths
Gamut of All the Diseases.

OeSfnD1ng with Ague ana Running inc
Gamut Of All the Diseases.
''Do you know a very tall, dilapidated
man. who comes to- the club every at
ternoon with his arm in a sling, sits
in the corner yonder 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 Ilcister. At that time he
was monument among men, an athlete,
and breaker of records"
"And now?"
''Now he is the wreck you Fsee him;
he leaves his bed at noon, comes down
in a bath chair, stays two hours. and
goes home TO be nursed."
Consumption?
''No; his story is brief. unique, but
very tragic. Two years after his cleo
ton to the professorship he fell in love
with the rather blue but lovely
daughter of old DR.. Dolamore, the lee
turor on bacteriology, and he 1.-THE
girls father consented to their en-
gagement on one condition-namely,
AAidN i8iC ohctit 10 Dp1Af'DhNA
until both had by vaccination protect
ed themselves against all known ~
motto diseases. You see,' the old fell
low argued, "a mans first aim for the
sake of those dependent upon him
should be preservation, as also the
wife's; and vaccination is the basis of
all security-it is life insurance made
actual, and euthanasia reduced TO
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 comesin
with the morning milk and measles join
hands with the children as they play
k;ss-in-the-ring at the Sunday-school
picnic ] will intrust the future of my
daughter to no one who has not put on
the whole arnor Of salvation woven OF
modern research
And Wallis?"
well. Wallis consented. Apart
from his intense devotion 10 the girl,
this new theory quite corresponded
with his own conviction: and 50 il was
ARA nged that the two of them should
on the following Monday start their
crusade against germ diseases-taking
them alpha betically. They began with
ague: by tire end Of the first six months
we've halfway through the first letter.
and they spent their Christmas holiday
in the throes OF an induced asthma
amid bronchitis kettles wheeling their
love through the steam.
AT what stage are they uow7-
''Wel, not together. At first they
kert company moderately well. but
parted at chorea: since then first be.
then She would make the running,
pa ssIng each other as Il were with a
nos. and a word Of sympathy Just now
the lovely Ethel Is long way ahead
doing hydropho5is in Paris. while he
is still graphing with bis Gs-T
When 40 they hope To snish.-
Il asked Wallis the other dag and he
tells me that given good lymph and
SOME luck. me whole thing should be
over in about four years bE3t the cnrHe
Of the system lies IL the ney. discover
les that are made annually. Wallis
had. Only last month ~ 20 back x, fsh
poisoning. the germ OF which souze
German dropped on. and onlF yester
dar the E,:crobe Of hsy fever vas diff
r :ereniiated-
bat here comes Wallis: he looks
worse than ever. III 20 and speak 20
him
Il shonGhs ss mach FROM the biaeA
CRIT and hat b@ ard
What
EtEel Dolanore died yesterday OF
5lcod poisoning u Paris