Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-11-07

SCIENCE NOTES
The Nature hi pisease

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The Nature Of Disease.
The prevalent idea about disease IS
that it represents something or other
which having settled down in the
system, requires to be driven out.
That this is a very ancient notion is
obvious 1t is akin to that of old
which taught men that they might De
possessed Of devil" the evil pos.
session refusing to be exercised by aid
OF bell, book and candle" Con
tinually one hears even educated per
sons speak Of getting rid OF an aiImont
as if the sum and substance Of the
complaint could be bodily lifted out.
side the confines Of the body.
This view OF things is a simple
consequence of the want of all cduCa
ton in the matter. Not that the
public is to be blamed for its
ignorance. They have had little or no
opportunity of gaining knowledge or
this technical kind. and the ancient
ideas in consequence linger with them
still 1t is important that we should
correct notions of what disease is,
not that we may cure our ailments
that is the doctors business but that
We may be enabled to prevent them,
which is everybody's business.
5audot Typu-Prnting Telegraph.
Tho Baudot multiplex typeprlntiug
I telegraph is said to be operating worry
successfully on the Berlin-Paris telc-
graph line, The whole telegraph bu i,
ness between Berlin and Paris, which
! heretofore required five telegraph
lines, can now be easily done over one
by means Of the Baudot system. The
| operation is said to be uninIluenCcd
by minor Interruptions Of the conduit
The work for the operators Is not
more Rrduous than with the Hughes
apparatus Says Consul General
Guenthor, Of Frankfort, Germany
The new successes are quick and
multipleX telegraphy will create q
peculiar situation for the administra
ton Of the telegraphic service If
the BaudOt system be introduced all
over Germany, and in addition If The
quick telegraph of POllak and Virag
be utilized for newspaper kilograms
and if Professor Slaby succeeds in
applying his discoveries concerning
multipleX-spark teIegraphy to ordinary
wires, then it will be only a question
Of a short time when the existing
telegraph business will hardly keep all
the lines busy"
Dangers OF Hypnotism.
DR.. Morris, a prominent English
physician, who has used hypnotism to
a considerable extent in his practice
says in a public statement that It is
"a dangerous resource which should
only be rcsorted to in special cases
if at all He found II easy to
hypnotic children and most adults
| and was tempted to make use Of this
power in treating headaches and other
minor ills. His experience was, how
ever, that the operation tended 10
weaken the will of the patient, leayinr
him susceptible to suggestion from
any source, and he came to the con.
clusion that there Is so much real dar
ger In the use Of the power as to cy.
cludc 1t from rational therapeutics.
Against Fires.
One of the methods Of protecting
broad grasslands from fire is to burn P
swath called a fire guard" around the
area to be protected. A Montana
stockman suggests that this offers a
good opportunity for inventor 20 de
wise a machine which. passing over
the ground like a hOrserake, shall
burn the grass clean from a space
about eight or ten feet in width
Already an apparatus Of this kind has
been invented. using gasoline to set
the grass on fire and a train OF steel
brushes to extinguish 1t before IL has
spread beyond the proper limits. but
the stockman thinks that cheaper
machine can be made. Fire guards"
so miles or moro In length are de.
sirable.
The Pasteur institute.
DuElhB the Iast year l,4ZO persons
were treated at the Pasteur Institute
at Paris. Eleven died of hydrophobia,
and seven OF these received treatment
too late. OF the t.413 patients who
were treated In time four dicd-the
percentage being 28.10O Of I per cent
In 1881, when the institute began
operations. the percentage was 94-106.
by 1888 1t had fallen to IS 100: since
that date II ha with the exception NJ
one year. been less than 40-100; and
since 1898 II has been less than 30-1O0
~ per cent.