The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-23
ALL
DISEASES
OF MEN


description of some OF these maladies /
very interesting reading. There is dem /
que, disease which often coeXists with /
yellow fever, and Which Is often called |
break bone or dandy fever because of the |
stiff. laudihed walk of those suffering |
from it, It is found in Manila Java, In |
dia, Cairo. and even in our own Southern
states. Epidemics of deugue have swept |
around the world. Charleston had il in |
1898. II was epidemic in the West In |
dies in 1927, During two months in 1897
2O000 persons mad il in Galveston, Tex |
That il is due to a blood parasite is not |
known but II is general statement thar
covers the field of research one that
needs thorough covering when there is
record that half Of the inhabitants of Ha.
vaua were Office attacked
Beri-bert is another tropical disease that |
needs investigation. The medical authorl-
ties have had long disputes over the prob
able origin Of the disease. Some say it
is due TO eating rice; others to the con-
sumption of raw FISH. It is prevalent in
the Far East It is found in China, In
dia, Japan, Sumatra, Borneo. Java, Mo
uccas and in Cuba. Vessels carried it 60
Cuba from Asia. To quote Prof. Oser,
"the mortality from this disease among
the coolies of the Malay Archipelago Is
simply frightful." Yet, as minated, no
specific organism of the maady has been
found. The period of incubation is prob
ably long, that Is the period elapsing from
the time a man is inocuiated until the dis
ease mamie sts l'seh' may De rev Gays
vi 1t may pe HiaiiS iioiltnS' one SViuoH
se'S ilu ol II ehtIely' man may nave
~ every not season theh again II may
ul9aPpeaI loI years 10 return uhaily' froI'
Schedule had a patient who had the dis
ease twenty years. 1t atflicts more men
than women. and more young men than
Old. 1t is accompanied by pains and weak
ness OF lhe llihos' pdlpitaIoh OF the heart,
SNORT uesS Oh otea0h ana slIhliar symp-
toms so Nhal II renders us victims pc
cullarly helpless. RABBITS and monkeys
lnoculated oy germ whlcn Lucerda elm
mated nave taken the disease nut the
origin remains uhaisputed. Inc japanese
fl'Ss''ld"s nave given II ihuch STUDY ana
clam IL que 10 the eating or raw tsh.
lheN polht 10 the apollshlhS OF raw hSh
eauhS IN the japanese navy ana the sub
sequent absence OF beri-ber as proof of
the theory. But the Dutch physicians of
java hold that the eating OF bad rice
causes the hdlauy aIlo prlhB forward sta
uSllcs TO uphold thelr claims. on the
Cther maud ber-Der Is contagious and
thrlVes under non-hygtenic conditions, in
shlps' Jams, asylums, Sums etc. Perhaps
the johns Hopkins commission may throw
new light on its origin when the members
return 60 America.
travellers in CHINA have often reported
the great number of cases of elephant
ass, that remarkable disease which makes
a veritable mountain of a man, swelling
his limbs particularly until they are out
of all proportion to his size. Prof Pat
TICK Manson proved cOnclusiVely that this
disease of the Chinese was caused by little
thread-like worms which the mosquito car
ries about from one person to another in
oculatinS them. In this country, by the
way, the common crow gets elephantasis
from being bitten by the mosquito. This
little worm, the hlaria, has several cou-
sins which are the cause of two or three
tropical diseases, such as the Guinea worm
disease of Africa and the East Indies, the
sleeping sickness of the African negro,
and others equally remarkable There is
the hlaria diurni, which Manson found in
1891. This curious worm can only be found
in the peripheral blood during the day
time, or when the patient stays awake. 1t
cannot be found at night, or when the pa
tent is asleep The theory is that ii must
go into the inner blood passages at night
The filaria bancroft exists under direct
ly opposite conditions. 1t cannot be dis
covered during the daytime, but only at
night when the patient sleeps The filaria
of the Guinea-wo disease enters its vic
TINS mouth with his food, and having
reached his stomach, refuses to be digest
| ed and penetrates outward until il comes
to the surface of his body under the skin
| of which it can be felt like a bundle Of
| fine threads Then ii works its way down
ward, giving birth to enormous numbers
| of young worms on the way, unul it
reaches the ankles. when, strangely
| enough. il voluntarily leaves its host.
Liver flukes is a disease caused by
| germs. which is prevalent in Japan, and
which results in an enormous enlargement
| of the liver. One case is recorded where
| in the liver reached a weight of eleven
pounds Twenty per cent. of the popula-
| ton of certain japanese provinces are
! afflicted. There is another fiuke disease
| of the bronchial tubes which is common
in parts of China, Japan and Formosa.