The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-01-11

1 I1dl cause disease ana Otner SclelitiSI
are discovering how to exterminate them
Doctors are learning that a proper die
is better than medicine. Doctors are no
giving medieine. nowadays like they usee
to. You can't beat nature. Just Civ
1t a chance and 1t beats all medicine:
4 in the world
There has been a great deal of prog
ress in medicine as we'll as in surgery
The doctors are performing holder op-
eratiens that formerly. They know more
| about with his hypodermic syringe in
for it. The doctor of the future-there
| will always be doctors-will instruct his
| patient how to care for the human frame
and how to diet himself instead of Civ
| ing him medicine.
| Look at Lorenz; how perfectly he I'M
| derstands every lgament and tendon in
| the limbs OF a child. And how simple
| his operations are. 1t is a wonderful
| thing he is doing for humanity
'"The bacteriolegists have traced fe-
vers to the little mosquito who gets
about with his rypoderrnic syringe in
oculating human beings with fever ba-
ciIli. There is no doubt about their be-
ing right in that. Some way will be dis
covered TO annihilate that mosquito, and
the danger of yellow fever and all other
| kinds of fever will be unimized.
Il see today that they have discov-
cred that the juice of lemon will de-
stroy the typhoid germ. L don't doubt
that it's true. in my own experiments
1 have observed the affect of nitric acid
in, l.alfx -,
this new discovery
A chance remark directed the thoughts
OF the inventor to newspapers.
"Ah, the newspapers said he; they
are the great school. They are one of
the great influences of the world that
will get better in 1903 and in succeeding
years. They are getting better now.
They are printing more science and
devoting more space to the things that
benefit and advance humanity. That is
the sort of newspaper L like. 1 care
nothing for the morgue newspaper-that
places morbid sensations ahead of soldier
things.
THE man who doesn't read news
paper might as we'll be dead. He prac-
tically is dead. L read them all the
time. They are the great lights of the
time. They can do a yorld of good in
all the great movements of science ana
humanity.
"One thing the newspaper can do is
to help in the right for pure food. Food
adulteration is one. of the great evils OF
the time. The newspapers could do q
great deal to stop such evil if they
would wage a fight against it.
In that connection 1 have watched
with interest the experiments of DIR.
Wiley on adulterated food at Washing
ton. This is one of the things that is
going TO help stop the commercial dis
honesty that manifests itself in the adul-
teration of food
The subject of peace in 1908 interested
the great inventor.
4 believe we will have a few more
more peaceable every year.
wars. he said. 'The world is getting
I'VE ought to have greater navy.
however. a navy three times as large as it
is now. We are going to fight but
if we should fight the navy would be
there. If we should have a war. say with
England, NHeEe WOulu we Dt.
"A strong navy is the greatest insur-
ance of peace. A good navy is one of
the greatest stimulants to science. The
forging of big guns and great projectiles
at the steel works is a mighty help to
science. 1t creates interest in that branch
OF science.
Talk about the cost. of a big navy?
VIZ, its like giving a man 10 cents
when you are getting $50 a week.
I'VE are not even at the beginning
of the development of electricity said
the great inventor, returning to his IA
vorite topic.
THE possibilities of it no man can
dream. See how the world stood fifty
years ago-electricity was then almost
unknown. eW had it only in the tele-
grauh, and not much of that. We are
only in the infancy of its development
Great things that We cannot see now but
which will be unfolded year by year.
will change the whole world in a few
years
1t would be idle to try to predict what
will come. Who could have predicted
what has come? Men are working >ev-
erywhere-all the time something new
is constantly being discovered. Who can
tell what will flow from the tiniest little
discovery.
Men are active in all the fields. hunt
ing germs trying new uses of electricity.
They may even discover the germ OF
old age. though 1 wouldn't predict it.
1t might be possible to prolong life by
the sacrifice of animal life-I don't know
how, but some man might find a way
tcw. Some way might be discovered
for the injection OF the fresh. healthy
fire of animals into the veins of old age
The world is progressive. This is the
most active and progressive time. The
modern things are the best. in my opin-
ION. The new books are better than the
in plot. better in construction
and better in English. And. l suppose
they will say I'm a barbarian but I
ike n modern picture of Gerome better
than one of the old masters
Once or twice Mr.. Edison referred TO
getting electricity from coal as a great
problem now. Asked If that was 'one
IF the byways' in which he is going 10
experiment this year. he said.
Yes that is one of them. I've tried
( before, and expect 10 work on 1t more
Lots of men are trying it. and 1 hope
some Of them win get it
Mr. Edison will take rest Of two or
hree months after his storage battery
$ put on the market. perhaps this week.
rhe battery will be exhibited at the
automobile show Ia New York City this
month
Il have sacrificed hieh economy in it,"
said Mr. Edison. to extreme simplicity.