The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-27

siblv all diseases are SO caused. Intense
heat is fatal to most of these disease
germs. Cooking pork kills the dreaded
trichinnae. In regions where COWS
drink stagnant water, those who boil
the milk before using it escape attacks
of malaria and typhoid fever.
Il has been found that each kind of
germ requires certain conditions of
heat and moisture to develop them.
Antiseptics and disinfectants are used
TO destroy these favorable conditions
and cause the germs to perish.
The fact that the guinea pig readily
takes cons umption while the cat shard
to inoculate, and that vaccination pro
tects from certain diseases, is explained
as follows: It is the function of the
white cells of the blood to swallow up
and digest germs when these enter the
body. IL these cellular guardians of
health are mere and strong, the
body resists invasion; if they are few
and weak, it succumbs to attack. 1t
has been found that q rabbit will not
take tuberculosis if fewer than $50
germs be injected into it's blood. The
white lymph cells are able to dispose of
that many, but not more Il has also
been found that if germs be weakened,
though not killed, by heat, the 81 stem
resists them more easily. The light
and heat of the SUI 80 weakens most
| germs as to render them harmless.
Now here lie the theory of vaccina
ton: The presence OF disease germs in
the blood arouse all the resistant force
of nature. Weakened germs from one
animal are inoculated into the blood of
another, Rrousing nature SO that she
provides an abundance of white cells
to Gestroy all germs of like kind that
may enter Ia future.
On the other hand, exhaustion, from
labor, disease, starvation, loss OF sleep,
etc, weaken the resistant powers Of
the system and render them likely to
euccumb to the attacks of the germs.
Oxygen of the air and the heat and
light of the sun are the greatest weap
obs nature has provided outside of the
body, against disease germs of all kinds,
and especially against the germs of
consumption.
Hence, let dwellings and stables be
well lighted and we'll ventilated, fire.
quentlY expose clothing end bedding to
the air and sun, and les both people
aud their domestic animals spend as
much time as possible in the open air
and sunlight, care being taken against
exposure to bad weather.
1t has been definitely proved that
consumption is not hereditary. The
fact that it runs in families" led to
this belief; but that fact is due to the
fact that people of the same blood have
tho came weakness of the white cells
and this afords a favorable breeding
ground for the germs which one mem
Der of the family is sure to get from an
other, and to the fact that children
who Nurse tuberculOus mothers take in
the germs by thousands with the milk.
Calves born of COWS almost dead of
consumption remain perfectly healthy
If separated from the mother and reared
on wholesome milk In rare cases OF
tuberculosis Of the sexual organs of the
parents the child is infected at birth
bat in most cases tuberculosis Of these
organs destroys the power OF reproduo
ton.
The germs of consumption enter the
body with the food taken into the
lungs.
Now, from the foregoing facts, it is
plain that tuberculosis, Oh consumption
may be suppressed in the following
manner:
Kill diseased animals and keep dis.
eased persons to themselves, like lepers.
Disintect all discharges from the body
of such persons, including those from
the mouth, as soon as they come from
the body. Give their living rooms
plenty of air and SUI. Take away their
children at birth.
The above precautions and the thor
ough cooking of ali food eaten and
boiling Of all 6lids drunk will prevent
tuberculosis from spreading.
1t is hoped that a Ire for this awful
malady will be evolved soon by some
of the many scientists who are laboring
on the problem.
GREEN FRUIT WORMS.
This is the subj set OF Bulletin 1873 of
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statement of the bulletin ia that during
May and June of last year most of the
correspondence related to the cause OF