The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-17
Peril in the Hand Shake.
SOMETHING NEW UNDER THE
SUN TO BE AFRAID OF.

Years ago George Francis Train refused
to shake hands with anybody and said
it was a principle with him and that
he had good reasons therefor. People
thought him vcrank," but recently DR..
J. N. Hirsch, of Chicago, has published
an article giving good scientific reasons
why it is sometimes harmful. He says ::
vThe most delicate perfume upon the
hands is not a sign of freedom from
germs, and the most refined are not free
from disease of lungs or throat, and the
germs are rapidly spread by touching the
hand that has handled the handkerchief
of one afflicted with a cold, catarrh or
consumption. These diseases cause more
than one-seventh of all deaths-some
persons hold their hands before their
months when they cough or sneeze and
cover them with germs enough to infect
thousand people. They use their hand
kerchiefs with the same results, and
when we have an epidemic of the grip it
is spread by the grip of the hands of
friend, or casual acquaintance, or
mere stranger just introduced" He also
asserts that all germ diseases may be
disseminated in this manner.
ONLY HEALTH CAN RESIST THEM.
Recent experiments have proven that
the germ of consumption was present in
the mouths of physicians and nurses
who were in attendance on tubercular
patients. They were not themselves
infected on account of their power of
resistance, due to perfect health. The
breath one inhales from the lungs of an
other may contain germs of disease.
You will not only be able to resist the
germs of consumption, but many thou
sands of cases have been known where
persons who were suffering from incipi-
ent phthisis, or the early stages of con-
sumption were absolutely cured by DR..
Pience's Golden Medical Discovery. It
maintains PERSONS nutrition by en-
abling him to eat, retain, digest and
assin1ilate food. It overcomes the gas
trio irritability and symptoms of indiges-
ton, and thus the person is saved from
those symptoms of fever, night-sweats,
headache, etc, which are so common. A
tonic made up largely of alcohol will
shrink the corpusc1es of the blood and
make them weaker for resistance. A cod
liver oil makes the stomach groan be-
cause it is irritating. What IS needed
is an alternative extract like DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery, made of
roots and herbs, without the use of alco-
hol, that will assist the stomach in as
similating or taking up from the food
such elements as are required for the
blood, also an Alternative that will assist
the liver in throwing off the poisons
in the system. When we have accom-
plished this we have put the body in
a fortified condition so strong that it
can repel the germs of disease which we.
find everywhere the street cars,
the. shops, the factories, the bedrooms,
wherever many people congregate, or
where sunlight and good air do not
penetrate.
THE USE OF LIGHT IN CURING DISEASE.
The best disinfectant of all is sunlight.
It destroys by it's very brightness all
sorts of germs and helps the growth of
plants and animal life. Doubtless all
have noticed that mould grows in dark,
damp cellars. Bright sunlight quickly
destroys germs, mould or other organ
isms. That is why it is best to let the
sunlight into your houses for its puri-
flying influence. Not only is sunlight
disinfectant, but it is one of the best
surgeons now in use. It was Finsen who
discovered that concentrated sunlight
would cure many malignant growths of
the human body, such as cancer of the
skin, and other malignant grovths. A
substitute for sunlight was then found
to be still more effective, and that was
the concentrated rays from arc lamps.
At the Invahds' Hotel and Surgical
Institute, Buffalo, N. Y, DR.. r. v.
Pierce, chief consulting surgeon, started
some three years ago experiments with
the Finsen light in conjunction with
the X-ray in the treatment of many dis
eases. He invariably obtained excellent
results therefrom and was among the
first to adopt this remarkable cure in
+ many cases formerly supposed to be
treated successfully only by the knife.
Not only is DR.. R. v. Pierce notable for
the surgical achievements at his hospital
in Buffalo, but over third of cen
tury ago he discovered that certain herbs