The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-05

fla man than the average in any other
pNession. Hence there must continue TO
hnow and then a hunchback in the flu
TIE. But his existence must hereafter Re
So down simply to the carelessness or Ig-
nance Of the family doctor under whose
81 aie he has been placed. With proper dag
ISIS and intelligent treatment of cases af-
"a fried with the disease that produces
~ mchbacks there is no more excuse for
emitting the deformity TO exist in the
ture than there is for permitting a child
% go blind for want of proper glasses.
Hunchbac& IA Durable Disease.
For a hunchback is merely one of the
Emptoms of a durable disease just as de-
q ldum is symptoms of various fevers. TAX
+ in its early stages the disease may be
checked long before any deformity mani
tests itself
From time immemorial the average man
and woman has put il down that hurch-
ack is due to an injury. And so il oft n
4 : but not in the way generally suffered.
4 child may be dropped out of the nurse s
Ems, or fall down stairs or be run er
q g wagon or come to grief in hundred
lnerent ways, and the result may be a
lnchback. But only if the case is neg
icted. There is no "hunchedback" as a
a erect result in this case as there is, for
Example, fracture if one of the childs
8 kgs is broken. The spine is not broken
it was there would be no hunchba k
There would be a funeral There is prob
Poly no great injury of any kind There
rs simply a bruise, no matter how serious,
which, if the child is strong and healthy
produces no more direful result than
would a bruise on the leg or the head or
the arm. Nature takes hold and cures
the bruise in the spine as readily and as
thoroughly as it cures bruises elsewhe e.
But if the child is sickly or not str ng,
poorly fed and poorly housed, the injury
may produce hunchback.
1t is here that the shaking of the rug or
me delivery of impure milk comes in as
the direct cause. The injury the child
mas sustained figures mercy in an in i
oenta- manner, as the plow figures In the
growth Of poison hemlock. With the hem
lock the upturning of the soil has simply
created favorable condition in which the
poison hemlock is not pc mitted 70 spro u
ana flourish. 1t is uprooted, cast out ana
the earth simply brings forth the sturdy
corn OF wheat or whatever has ree1
planted for the harvest. But If The far
her is lazy or ignorant and The seed poor
tle mock thrives at the expense OF the
wheat and soon cripples the fled. 1t be-
comes hunchback field.
Consumption of the Spine.
It is as though the hand had been cut.
Ie1t TO itself the cut would heal up. But
il, alter the cutting an impurity is inject
eo, blood poisoning in one form or another
viii ensue.
j ne poison that produces hunchback Is
.ile oaeeilli of tuberculosis, the germ OF
consumption. For hunchback is simpb
consumption of the spine, identically he
same things as consumption of the lun S.
IN one case the disease attacks the long
tissue. In the other it attacks the bone
structure Of the back.
Inc rug that has been beaten may have
in m the sick room of a consumpuve'
Inc germs lodged in il, released by the
oeaung. float in the air. A few doors OF
lew blocks away is tfle child that has
pau us backbone bruised The bruise Is
.'aAlg nicely, and under ordinary condi-
Yns no damage would be done. But I'M
~ 1nately ii is a "strenuous" child. as
W. uoetor say, that is, a child with a
r,i 'A constitution, growing in an unnatu'
rl' unhealthy way, as potatoes sometimes
Ni A.. ana sprout when they stand in an
rSSDshled cellar. The germs released
M. Ohe rug outdoors float into the room
Az are oreathed in by the injured child
hey ITS small brother alike. The
,be 7r' being healthy and strong, expels
Gina sims IN natural way. But the
uoa ,e WIN the injured back, being "stren-
tbro, lacks the power. The germs trave
nat7ll the system, enter the blood ant
then me we circuit of the body. BY and BY
brni... eaeh the suot in the spine where the
Aes' Nature Is busiiy at work re-