The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-01-19
"FROGS AND LICE"
CANKER, PERHAPL
Continued from Page Nine.)


2,540 The Statistical Committee of the
Board reported that the death rate in
1901 was IA per cent in the cases of per-
sons who had been vaccinated: IS FER
cent in doubtful cases, and 501a per cent
where the patients had not been vacci-
mated"
Another account, dated the sane day.
says: ION all sides in the United King
dom, extensive and alarming precautions
are on foot to deal with the unprccc lent
ed outbreak of smallpox. Almost all
the large firms are ordering their en-
ployes to be vaccinated, and it is doubt
full if ever city in the history of the
world contained SO many sore arms as
London does today
Now, this is small pox, and if it gets
into the united States, our frogs and
lice" canker which has killed with one
of our most fatal disease superadded
less than one third or per cent in
Wilson county, will be forgotten.
In Dr. Lewis communication he says
his long range DIAGNOSIS was a joke;
and right here / take back all I had to
say in connection with that, and ask his
pardon for the prod" But he admits
that it was made from hearsay, because
he had confidence in the opinion of
SMALLPOX Inspector Tayloe who was ia
miliar with the disease from actual ex-
perience." 1t seems that his confidence
has extended to the Wilson experts also.
and by adding their testimony to that of
Tayloe, he knows it is smallpox with
out seeing it,
l knew" it was smallpox from DR..
O'Hagans testimony until 1 saw 1t, just
I haf
was progressive glaucoma of destruc-
tive bent if DR.. Lewis should SO pro-
nounce it, But if that eye should revert
to state of absolute health without
treatment, l should have my doubts
about his diagnosis.
The Doctor has prodded me unjustly
in his article by saying, | called the
thing chicken-pox He ought to ask my
pardon, for there is not even the sem
blance Of joke in what / said. Refer
ring to the case visited
week ago today, said this,
and 1 stick to it: 'If the Bulletin is
right, this is case of chcken-pox and
not a case of smallpox, for more ac-
curate description Of this case cannot be
written than is described in the Bulle-
tin as characteristic of chicken-pox." /
QON KNOW WHAT IL Is, UuI huoW WY
we'll what it is not, and in lieu of
dictionary name, have called it frogs
and lice pest.
/ see from the papers that the doctors
in Philadelphia are in trouble over a
satisfactory name. for this foreign inn
migrant. They call it smallpox OF
whatever it is" / think frogs and lice
better name than that
Now, word about chicken-pox in
grown people: Last Saturday Mr.. Buck
Gill was in my office, and we were
talking about the pest when he said,
I'm the winter of 1886 and 81, l had
chicken-pox which made me very sick
for a week or ten days" He then show
ed me three as pretty pock-marks on
his back as ever came from vaccination
or smallpox. He was then twenty nine
years old.
ON Christmas day visited my mar
ried daughter, Mrs. DR.. Stevens, at Clin-
ton. Her little boy years old was
broken out with an eruption all over his
body. My daughter, Julia, went there
the day before, and / quote extracts
from her letter of the 14th inst: Il
have the smallpox, or at least the same
thing that John, Jr., had when you were
here. / am broken out in little bumps
all over except my face ard hands.
am not broken out near so much as
John was, but DR.. Stevens says he thinks
it is the same thing
There are several cases in Clinton and
the people are very much excited over
it. DR.. Elliott Lee was in Cuba few
years ago and he told DR.. Stevens that
one woman here certainly had a genuine
case of continent smallpox, and he
knew positively it was, because he had
seen it on the Island. / was vaccinated
in Salem. / have had smallpox several
days now and it is nearly all gone"
Now, l call on DIR. Lewis for another
long range diagnosis, or a diagnosis from
expert testimony. DIR. Lee must be an
expert, for he saw the disease in Cuba,
and he says it is smallpox. If small
pox, why did it not hurt the little boy,
who never has been vaccinated? If
chicken-pox, how comes it that young
lady nineteen years old can take it? L
leave DIR. Lewis to answer these Ques-
tions, but / have one more for DR.. w.
H. H. Cobb, of Goldsboro. Don't you
think Doctor, that you could have en-
ployed your time better in nursing Mr..
Hood, who died of smallpox in your
county the very day you went to Rocky
Mount to make quarantine against Will
son?
DR.. Lewis made an unfortunate asser-
ton when he said, the Chicken pox doc
tors were responsible for the spread
of this disease. 1 have made dligent
inquiry and am only able to find two
such doctors in the place-Dr. Anderson,