The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-01-30

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| discover some measure which will limit
| it's spread or produce a cure of the
disease. tuberculosis was ably dis
cussed in this city, columbus, Ohio) |
last June, at the meeting of the Ameri- |
acn Medical association, by our hOnored
president Joseph Mathews, NJ. D., l.. l.. |
| d., in his opening address to the as
| sociation; and he voiced the sentiment
| of the medical world in language too
| eloquent and indiction too strong for me
| to do other at this time than wish all
here assembled to have heard him.
We have reason to be alarmed at the
death rate throughout the world from
| tuberculosis, and since we have, L
| wish to call attention to the late dis
| coVeries made in cases Of tuberculosis
| following smallpox. 1t was Laudowzy,
in his paper before the congress of
tuberculosis in 1885, who pleaded for
compulsory vaccination as an aid to
eradicate the tuberculosis predisposi-
| ton.
| DR.. Marchand here quoted the Journ-
al of tuberculosis, referring to an
article on the subject of tuberculosis
following cases of smallpox, from few
years to 90 years after the occurrence
of the disease. And he then proceeded:
The value which vaccination has been
and is to the world aside from the con-
siderations given, is of immense bene-
fit commercially. Vaccination has made
it possible for uninterrupted commercial
relations between all nations. Com
merce has been fostered and made per-
manent upon the seas. Foreign Coun-
tries are kept constantly in touch with
each other. Diverse relations with all
nations have not suffered by reason
of smallpox.
i Unlike many other pestilential
| diseases, smallpox is in every cline and
selects it's victims from every color and
race of men. 1t takes in the entire
world and since it does, vaccination
is a benefit to the whole world. The
whole world has been benefited by vac
Cination, inasmuCh as it has prevented
any hindrance or obstruction to emigra-
ton. Vaccination stamps out the
/ importation of smallpox from foreign
lands.
When great international difficulties
f cannot be settled in any other way
> than by arms and war, vaccination
f preserves whole armies from smallpox
| Notwithstanding whatever opposition
= there may be TO vaccination. The civil
f lized nations of the earth today vacci-
nate all soldiers in actual service. AS
nation we owe an everlasting debt of
e gratitude to Jenner and his discovery.
e 1t enabled us in less than 100 years to
c become the greatest nation upon the
n face of the earth. 1t kept out smallpox
j when there was every chance for it's
r introduction among us in the large
e numbers of people seeking homes in the
+ new world 1t has been practced so
generally among our people Of COM
6 posite blood and nationalities, that we
= owe the building and structure of our
5 nation uninterruptedly, largely to the
d benefits of vaccination.
Vaccination has been we'll fOstered
: here, and if not as we'll as it should
d have been, our Republic will eventually
regard it absolutely necessary for all
II our citizens to be rendered immune
= against so deadly disease; or if not
r entirely immune, the disease will be
l, amenable to treatment, with a low
If mortality.
y We will carry the glad tidings OF
% life and health to our new possessions
l. in the distant Pacific. The downtrOd-
n den people of those pest stricken
l. islands, Hawaii and the Philippines, will
h come in for their share of protection
le against smallpox. Cuba and Puerto
lie Rico freed from Spanish misrule anC
= mOdernized barbarism, will enjoy al
ID increased population by reason of the
80 virtue of vaccination.
Mr.. President, we should take courage
Df in the work which our board Of health
l. is doing in Ohio. The position which thi!
N board occupies today has been gained
ID after a long, hard struggle. But it il
1t only our tenth annual meeting. Her,
lie let us dedicate ourselves anew to tn,
l. work which each one of us has to do
IN Sanitary work is a growth and it,
3, formation in this country is only start
t. ed. Before closing this paper permit M
in to quote the words of the illustriou
and now glorified DR.. William Pepper
l. president of the Pan-American Medica
ze congress at Washington, in 1898.
lie THE history of European medicin
Of for more than one hundred years is
lie record of which we may well be proud
2; when the enormous obstacles to pro
D. gress are held in view. 1t is not neces
Of sary to remind this audience of a singl
IN one of it's great triumphs. Vesalius AM
c. Pare, Harvey and Sydenham, connec
themselves with Bichat and Laennec
Mt and Hunter and Jenner, and Pasteu
a and Lister, and Virchow and Koch an,
IN the torch Of genius is passed down tn
c. line of these immortalS and lights VI
le the ages with the splendor OF thei
lg achievements. But it is sad to reflec
It., upon what has been done with wha
lg might have been.
THE dense ignorance of rulers an
Of masses on scientific questions, tn
A. slow progress Of sound, useful education
among the people, the huge claims o
Of Imperialism and militarism, the wan
es ton waste of luxury, have retarde
research, have left but paltry sum
c. available for the diffusion Of knowledge
have hindered the embodiment o
of legislation, and in actuality of muc
l. that would help the healing of tn
rs nations. 1t is an odd Commentory o.
as the Vaunted civilization of today t
e. contrast the sums doled out by the mos
,x enlightened governments of Europe 70
Y, the promotion of education and origin