The morning news., 1899-12-12

Will produce a simple sore throat. while
another form of Inflammation of the same
tissues will cause deadly case of dlph-
iberia. Thus, too, an Inflammation of the
membranes lining the interior Of the lungs
viii be called pneumonia, while another
form of inflammation of the membrane
covering the lung is called pleurisy SO
II goes through various tissues and organs
of the body, each having a variety OF
forms of Inflammation, particularly as dis
eases which are known by this or that
name.
A single organ may be subject to nearly
score of diseases as for instance, the
liver, about which much Is said and writ
ten, and which receives much blame for
the varying moods of man. In a we'll
known work on the practice of medicine
the liver has set down to it fifteen diseases
with which its owner may suffer.
Besides the specific disease which is sup
posed to attack all well-ordered hearts in
their youth and leave them more or less
affected throughout life, the medical writ
ers assign half dozen diseases to that
organ which are 10 be treated by the
doctor
Voeations Of life give Their impress to
diseases, as the ''clergyman's sore throat"
the 'thousemaid's knee" writers cramp"
and "chimneysweep's cancer Some of
the rec mt additions to this csass Of diseas-
es are "lypewriiets' paralysis" and "tele-
pho1e headache" an affiction to which
some of the exchange girls are subject
from cons ant use of the telephone rece.v-
er.
Change With the Seasons.
Diseases, like fashions change with the
seasons, some being more prevalent in one
month of the year than in another al
though there is no hard and fast rule to
confine them 10 a particular season. Under
The proper provocation a person may have
a ccfd in the head in midsummer, as we l
as in winter. There is less change from
year to year than in fashiors. 1t is quoted
from the Bible that there Is nothing new
under the n" This IS held by some to be
true of medicine. Ii is pointed out that The
same maladies have existed for centuries,
only, perhaps, they were not so well sludv
led and less was written about them. The
progress of medical science has also
brought about changes in the method of
treatment, aud this caused prominence to
be given some diseases which had pre-
Viously he'd an obscure place in medical
and surgical literature. A case in point Is
appended is, which in old works on NELL
cine held little, if any, place, and then
under another name. The first perform
ance of the operation Of opening tie abdo-
men, by an American surgeon, less than
a score of years ago. led to the recogn tlon
of this disease and it's surgical treatment.
operation for appendicitis.
Influenza or grip, has its periods of con-
sequent activity when every cold of con-
sequence is called by this Understanding
name along with the genuine cases of the
malady. Again, it sinks into comparative
obscurity until dragged into prominence
by an epidemic in some section of the
country.
Fighting Common Foes.
The multiplication of remedies has more
| than kept pace with the growth in the
number of diseases. All the coal tar prod
ucts were unknown but few years ago
! Chemists and manufacturers are now busy
and allow scarcely week to go by with
out putting on the market a new remedy
for which some special curative function
| is claimed.
! The medical colleges, too, are turning
out hundreds of graduates every year who
are taking up the fight against disease
! adding their investigations and deductions
| TO the work that has gone before Hy.
| giene and dietetics are being given more
| attention in the, field of preventive~medi
| cine, in order TO build up the human sys
| tenn so that ii will resist the single com.
| bined assaults of its disease enemies. Sc
the fight goes on against the 60O-odd dis
| eases.