The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1901-01-25
smallpox or Elcphantiasls, which.

Almost every year, for the last scvcra
past, there has been what is termed -
Smallpox Scare" in almost the cntir
$ uth Tina, the discuss Of which man
kind hrs so recently II q SO often brcl
SUBJECTED il Smallpox is Il mootet
question, even among the learned Mcdi
ca Fraternity. while the laity has bee,
IA badly divided. Aud, that it is small
poX, the laiiy is growing more un(
more inrredu'ous every year. Thcil
II ason for doing SO is very plain, wt
| have been told time and again, that the
way TO stamp out this disease Is 10y gen
era, vaccination. TO this people have
submitted in almost every case without
complaint. though many have had, nnd
expressed s ave doubts ms to the disease
| being smallpox But stead Of stamp
my out the discasc it seems rather
To grow worse every year. The con-
| tagion, every year, becomes farther
! reaching and more general: and thoug h
people have been vaccinatt d, sti'l they
have it all the same, Boards Of Health
| adopt vigorous rules and regulations
in almost every town and city, yet all
TO no purpose When the period Of
the so-callcd smallpox scare comes,
thch along comes, the disease ready TO
accommodate every diciple OF Jenncr,
or rather the milk maid, of tho seven
tecnth century, and dcplcte the town
and nitV nSIIi,s "A N ff this
caused many to seriously question the
assertion that the disease is smallpox:
aud the longer this sort Of thing goes
on, tho more will it bc questioned.
|! our Boards OF Health and city ply.
sirians were Il little more particular in
the use of "plcvcrtivcs" and less in
the use Of cures, we would have less of
so called smallpox In the country,
II n layman be allowed TO express his
views in 'he matter, they arc simply
Cn's": That to prevent the contract
ing and spread Of this disease, we must
be more careful in allowing crcuscs or
any other; travelling muncgcrir to parade
car streets. Ii any one who Is interest
ed enough in the matter will take lh,
trouble /" investigate, he will find the
following to be true: You will nevc,
Ii q an ''lThar1 hur TN It hr will j ,vn
pusLu'cs to ~ at'.r or less extent,
never saw an elephant in my life thu
was entirely free from them. Now, see
| that your haud is perfectly cleun-usc Il
Il strong magnifyiug glass with which tn
'ctcrmine--thcn draw your hand lightly
acr S~ an elephants 8 skin, then use !,
strong glass and inspt ct your hand, ami
on will be utterly astonished at what
you will see. Yuu will think that YOU,
| hand is Il perfect den Of scrprnts Of
every description. If these are allowed
to rcmnin, and your blood is the lras
| impure, on will have thi, same disease
tn t is now being called small p0x. But
| If Your blood is pure, Nou will suffer no
| Inconvenience. No ', it is an undisput-
| able fact. that all circuscs that carry
! mrnagcrics have one or more mon
| affected with this disease almost all the
time. Such was case when the last
circus visited Newberry. Ono man
would, if the doctor had seen him, been
| MT from here at once. But the doc
tors did not see him, though several
others did, and he was allowed to STAY
till h" had inoculated some people with
| whom he came in contact, and they in
turn ino 'ulated 0 hers; and it has been
mild or severe, according to the condi-
tion OF the patients blood.
| Again: The circus managers were
al owed TO dump the straw out of an
elephants Car out on the side of the
rail road, whore it may yet be seen,
TO lnoculatc rs many whose blood was
impure enough to be inocula,cd. Now
it is my humble opinion that If we had
not allowed these to have occurred VIC
would have had no smallpox scare now
And till we do prevent these things
from taking place, we will never stamp
on. this disease. Some may try to dis
pute this By saying that other towns
and cities have this same disease.
Grantcd; but other towns and cities
have done just like wc-allowcd them.
selves TO be inoculated by the same
means.
Now gentlemen Of Medical profession,
don't throw this aside aud let this
matter drop simply because it is lay
mans views on The matter. There arc
some ,hings mentioned in the above, to
prove which Witnesses arc no! wanting
| The M'dicai bre' hrpn Of the seventeenth
century laughed DR.. Jenncr's Milk maid
theory to scorn, but the Medical fratcr.
nifty of the twentieth century are max
ing money out of it If it was that Of q
lk.mnid. let us look into these mat.
ters and see If VIC can't prevent on,
stree ts from being the dumping ground
Of every filthy circus and menager ie
| that comes along and when VIC do thu,
we will have less Of the so called small
pOx. POT Hooks.
| Dub couldn't Have Stood st