Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-11-04
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SCIENCE NOTES.
The Nature of Disease.

Inc prevalent idea ABOUT disease is
that it represents a 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 be
possessed of a 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 ailment
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 educa-
ton in the matter. Not that the
public is to be blamed for it's
ignorance. They have had little or no
opportunity of gaining knowledge of
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.
Baudot Type-Printing Telegraph.
The Baudot multiplex type-printing
telegraph is said to be operating very
successfully on the Berlin-Paris tele-
graph line. The whole telegraph bust.
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 uninfluenced
by minor Interruptions of the conduit
The work for the operators is not
more arduous than with the Hughes
apparatus. Says Consul-General
Guenther, of Frankfort, Germany.
''The new successes are quick and
multiplex telegraphy will create a
peculiar situation for the administra
ton of the Geographic service. If
the Baudot system be introduced all
over Germany, and, in addition, if the
quick telegraph of Pollak and Virae
be utilized for newspaper kilograms
and if Professor Slaby succeeds in
applying his discoveries concerning
multiplex-spark telegraphy to ordinary
wires, then it will be only question
of short time when the existing
telegraph business will hardly keep al
the lines busy
Dangers of Hypnotism.
DR.. Morris, a prominent English
physician, who has used hypnotism tC
a considerable extent in his practice
says in public statement that it is
"a dangerous resource" which should
only be, resorted to in special cases
if at ALL He found it easy tC
hypnotic children and most adults
power in treating headaches and other
minor ills. His experience was, how
ever, that the operation tended &c
weaken the will of the patient, leaving
him susceptible to suggestion from
any source, and he came to the con
clusion that there is SO much real daE
ger in the use of the power as to ex
clude it from rational therapeutics.
Against Fires.
One Of the methods of protecting
broad grasslands from fire is to burn g
swath called a fire guard" around the
area to be protected. A Montana
stockman suggests that this offers a
good opportunity for inventors to 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 it before it has
spread beyond the proper limits, but
the stockman thinks that a cheaper
machine can be made Fire guards"
so miles or more in length are de,
sira BILE.
The Pasteur Institute.
During the last year 1920 person.
were treated at the Pasteur Institute
at Paris. Eleven died Of hydrOphoba
and seven of these received treatment
too late Of the lab patients whr