The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-04-12
SMALLPOX.

By J. D. Jones, Jr., in Physical Culture.)
Smallpox is the filthiest of the filth
diseases. It is epidemic in winter,
for the well-knOwn reason that then
the blood usually is mud. Because
then people perspire less, eat more,
battle less, breathe more foul air. not
only rebreathing their own exhala-
tiOns, but taking into their lungs and
blood the filth breathed out by
Others.
The excessive waste matter and
food cannot all be expelled by the
kidneys, and great quantities must
remain in the body to decay, when ii
is poison. 1t accumulates rapidly,
and soon the blood is overwhelmed.
The lungs throw off foul gases. Try
CHS experiment: AS soon as you
have dressed in the morning, step
outside few moments and breathe
fresh air; and then return to your
bedroom and notice the odOr. Do
this before you have ventilated the
room. Those who do not have the
windows we'll opened all night will be
surprised at che foul air. Very few
can smell their own breaths or body
Oders. and so most consider themselves
exempt.
The lungs of every one are passing
on the gasses which come from ami
NAL matter and food decaying in the
blood. AS one breathes in the gas of
another, it mixes with his blood, and
the combination often forms a viru-
lent poison which the body gets rid of
in the quickest manner. e., by the
skin. Nature never cares for appear
ances or refined methods; the quickest
means she employs. -,
Pimples, eruptions and postules oc-
cur. These are not the beginning of
smallpox, but the ending. Any one
with rotten enough blood will have
smallpox, and that without being
within thousand miles of another
case. Or a person with thick, bad
blood, by breathing the exhalations
of another in like condition, will
most likely have his blood badly pois.
oned. Thus may one "catch" small
pox from another who does not have
it nor was exposed to it.
This so-called conta,yion is more
from Within than without. Blood
which is pure will not become dis
eased by any ordinary exposure or
contact with contagious diseases, OF
by breathing another's breath. A
large amount of filth mus be put in.
to that blood before any disease is
produced. Filth may enter in two
ways. first, the common way by daily
accumulations of waste matter which
is hourly produced in the body; and,
second, by injection, as by vaccina.
tion, antitOxin or other serum treat
ments.
Vaccine virus, by means Of which
the trick is done, is the pus found un.
der and collected after pulling off the
scabs OF innoculated animals. All
these serums are the matter found in
the sores of innoculated cows, horses
or other animals. Oxygen is about
the most powerful ants optic known,
and it is found in abun dance, ready
for use, in fresh air.
Blood freely circulating, as by exer-
else, will absorb much oxygen when it
is at hand, and will mix it thorough
ly with its corpuscles. The oxygen
will then brrn up the poisons, disin-
fecting tine blood, and on its next trip
to the lur.gs, leave the body with the
poisonous gases it has made. 1t is
very pls in to see that by filling the
blood " ith food and refusing to let in
oxygeTl, rank fluid will be produced.
Then let any of the many germs that
live upon decayed matter find en-
trance, and breeding will rapidly pro-
duce poisoned condition, at which
nature rebels; the conflict is termed
sickness.
Pure blood with but a small per
cent Of excessive food and large per
cent Of oxygen, free and fresh, is a
powerful scavenger, and all germs or
bacllla that may enter the blood will
soon pc IRISH.
Witness the case Of the doctor in
the West who does not believe in vac
cinatiorl or contagion; he rubbed the
poisonO US pus of smallpox patients on
his hantls and face, allowing it to re-
main, breathing time, and again the