The Cairo bulletin., 1905-10-02
EXPECT To CURE
"LAzINESS GERM
Concluded from Fourth Page)

United States by the acquisitions OF
recent years is being realzel now /
more fully than ever before, and medi' !
cal men, who in the ordinary course Of
events Will never come in contact with I
any Of the maladies peculiar TO trop- !
ical and semi-tropical peoples are
keenly alive to the Importance of the
problem In the current number OF
he Post Graduate, for example, the
Post Graduate Medical School, an edi-
torial calls attention to the need OF
scientific investigation of tropical dis
eases by original workers and the good
to be derived from advanced instruc-
lion in them.
| OF this, the conditions in Porto
ERico furnish good evidence. The I'M
willingness to labor hard and long
displayed by the average Porto Rlcan
is really physical incapaeity. the re-
lsult of incubation with the "laziness
germ" The existance Of this malic-
ious little parasite, only small frac-
ltion of an inch in size, is believed to
have been known TO the ancient Egyp-
iians, and on a papyrus dating back to
1850 b. c. there has been found a
description of disease very similar
Ito the modern uncinariasis. At the
present time so per cent Of the Egyp'
tlans are said to be affected with the
same trouble.
/ Although OF such long standing in
y the world, the little germ did not
, arouse much stir in the medical world
' lrntil 1879 when the tunneling of the
Y great st Gothard Pass through this
Thigh Alps began On the progress OF
/, this engineering feat the eyes OF th'
D. whole civilized world we're bent ant
a when the labOrers began to sicken ant
lc die by the hundreds, the secret Of tn
rs mysterious epidemic was sought 10
re- until it was found 10 be the same germ
re that IS now working such havoc il
Oh Porto Rico.
IT. Between the climate Of a high A
ne pine pass and of Porto Rico there
little resemblance, but in the tunht
itself much the same conditions pr,
vailed as on the island today. Me
worked half naked in great heat, ofte
I'D TO their waists in muddy watt
aud with comparatively little regar
-v- to sanitary precautions. The unshC
l West Indian working In the cofft
1 fields Of tie sugar plantations Is g
! posed to the same danger with u
same results.
1t is popularity or "Iaaine
AT germ" so fatal to the development
Nm the natural resources Of lands {
PC which nature has layisbed all h
wealth, that il finds its way into q
body more often through the skin TIL
through the mouth. For this reas
}. uncinarasis has been called pc
q man. disease, and the poorer he
ing the more disposed Is he to infcctlc
ma The weil-clad citizen OF the tow
'ec' familiar with the ordinary rules
uci' hygiene, IN general escapes. II Is
aborers in the fields--the great bl
of the population OF Porto Rico-w
suffer the most, with their scar
clothing, their ignorance or conten
- OF common pTccduliohS, anu, dpONc
liNe The contract with the soil necessl
hey ted by their daily WORK.
oat' Once within the body the tiny pa
, ,' site makes its way unerringly TO
NJ digestive tract, and there foods
~ leisure upon the blood OF his vict
The peasant Is usually found TO
inoculated no once. but many TIL
With these germs-thc favorito
trance being through the feet--i
the effect is as If multitude of Ii
FM veins should be opened and allo'
70 bssA
LA, urMnAtis continuous drain the
po'' ticnts VGod becomes thin and wat
!, nm and the inability to take any VIC
excrllon from which the uncinara
rives It's popular name Of the "lazif
germ" becomes more and more
nounccd.
In cases whore the victim escs
furthr infection and has good food