Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-04-02

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the stomach and
overeating, says the New York Press.
The laboratory where the microbes are
caught, cultivated and tanned like lit
tie beasts for several years have been
trying TO identify the germs Of colds, E"
as colds seemed 10 lead % many dis
/ eases that have well-knOwn germs.
The first discovery was hat in colds
! there are several varieties that produce
/ the same results.
Germs look altogether different IN
der the microscope and in the cul-
ture tubes, where the microbes are
bred, after they have been identified
and separated from others by being
shared from the common feeding
ground of all sorts OF bacterial with a
platinum needle. Then 20 make GER
tain that the real microbe OF given
disease is found the germs must be
injected into a rabbit or guinea pig
Tor some dispensary PATIENT to see Il
tie same disease will appear. Microbes
which cause colds are always in the
body or in the air.
There are twenty different forms OF
bacteria constantly present in the nose,
Including nine or ten which are dan
gerous under certain circumstances.
There are ninety forms Of germs in the
mouth. forty of which may cause seri-
Gus disease.
Every one knows that colds are usu-
ally caught by getting oneself over
heated and cooling off too suddenly.
When the surface OF the body is over
heated all the microbes in the air
seem to be attracted to the body. espe-
cially if the air around is chilly or
damp; microbes cannot be killed by
cold or damp, but they do not like il,
and are always on the watch 10 find
resting place in a man, especially in
one who is overheated and whose skin
is covered with perspiration. If the
nose is always in a condition of Ca
tarrh" it is easy TO see how a fresh cold
or acute attack of catarrh is caused by
exposure to a chill. But how about
the various symptoms in other and dis
tant parts of the body which generally
follow a cold?
When the body is overheated and |
then chilled the immediate effect of the |
cold on the surface of the body is 10 !
excite contraction OF the blood vessels |
near the surface. Thus the blood is
driven from the surface 10 the inner /
organs. carrying along with it any
microbes that may have been lodged |
near the surface. This excites inham-
nation in some organ far away from
the first point affected. The way it
seems to act is as follows:
All processes going on in the body
are governed by the central nervous
system. If. as a result of exposure to
cold, the regular routine of nutrition
and of circulation is checked in one
part of the body. the nervous force
sent out from the central nervous sys-
TEN, if shut on in one place. will be
increased in another. Such increase is
really Inflammation. II any organ is
liable to chronic Inflammation this will
be the place picked out for the acute
trouble as a result of having caught
cold All the unemployed microbes
will collect there, and unemployed mi
robes in a slightly infamed organ are
certain to make trouble. There is. how
ever. one safeguard which saves the
body from destruction every time a
old is caught.
There is in the body a set of valuable
;treet-sweepers who do in the blood
7essels and tissues exactly the work
If the STRENGTHENING department
are the white blood corpuscles
,r leucocytes. They differ from Col
white brigade in that they
at up the debris. the microbes and
iuch things wherever they find them.
The more germs and bacteria collected
ogether in one organ the more the I
White corpuscles swarm in just like tie
egular street-sweepers in the dirty
downtown districts.
If these white blood corpuscles are
aught while at their work their round ,
,odies may be found filed up with the .
acteria they have eaten. In case OF
udden emergencies like pneumonia
n immense swarm Of white corpuscles
Till appear.
There are all sorts OF ways OF treat
ng Inflammation in an organ. Many .
re as familiar to the public as to the ;
octors. The old-fashioned porous or :
iustard plaster is simply a means 20
ollect quickly a larger number of !
-hite blood cells in the places where
hey are needed. The same Is true OF
Il hot applications, blisters. painting {
18th iodine or red flannel rags.