The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-12-21
A NEW CONCEPTION OF DISEASE
CONTINUATION OF THE REMARKABLE PRESIDENTIAL
ADDRESS OF SIR FREDERICK TREVES, KING ED
WARDS PHYSICIAN, BEFORE THE EDINBURG INSTI-
TUTE OF PHILOSOPHICAL MOST INTERESTING PA
PER ON A MOST INTERESTING SUBJECT

The following is continuation OF remarkable presidential adj
dress OF Sir Frederick Treves King Edwards physician before
Ldnburg Institute OF Philosophy the first part which publish
cd in The Star days ago The Star able publish this through
the courtesy Of DR.. F. H. Humphris
He who grumbe about his cold finding fault with Of
the undoubed misfortune that he is the subject Of bacterial mice
ton and he may also with reason complain OF the discomfort Incl
CO. for successfully defending him against the effects of this casualty
Methods of treatment whether carried by Nature by
seldom pleasant, they blamewohy A
dena swallowed poison should complain that the poison makes
him sick if the his life
How preventive medicine plays its part in dealing with socaled
disease well illustrated by malaria and Malta fever The ions
mali malaria well understood further ref
the scoug of the Eastern Mediterranean
ness both in and navy The victim of this fever becomes
very ILL., and treatment so-caed seems to benht him but little
1t found that the best thing that be done for the patient
send him away Malta has discovered this
Il due to- the entrance INTO the body baceru Unpleasant p
toms follow which said constitute the disease These
sdered be purely caam and to be little profit the victim
as were the dogS OF the torture chamber medaeva times Just
estimate of these symptoms will show that while doubt
come OF an effort on the part OF the body to protect itself from that
poison The symptoms for the part the manifestation Of
cumance the body may be rid of its In this association
1.-THE medical treatment of place
Those who have been patiently tracking down the pooner whom
Malta fever due took of the fact that practically all the milk
drunk Malta goats milk They then discovered that the goat
subject Malta fever and that the milk consumed daily by both the
sick and the sound often warmng with the of this dire dis
ease If they show that the baceum conveyed to in
other than through goats then the story Malta fever closes
happily like the comedy OF old days.
There something pathetic in the picture coniured up by this dis
tovery. The wasted sick DEATH the kindly wemeanng
physician feeding him with milk feeding him with germs yet
Struggling all the while with his symptoms
such symptoms being the of Natures efforts neuaze
1.-THE poison and bring the man back health One need longer be
surprised that the successful the of Malta
fever has far been send the from the island
The terrible disease known bubonic plague welrec
ogized baCterm clearly enough demonstrated that the
socaed symptoms of the maady reality the
desperate attempt the part of the body fight the
rapidly germ The many Emphatic glands which become
named the progress of the disease all bear testimony the efforts
made resist invasion and frequent lack
o success due to the uence of the attacking not to the
of the invaded body The conspicuous symptoms
attempt and benecen intent II
they eNeCraed is because they understood 1t the
story more of Gellert, the hound
There many interesting features with the spread
of plague There is familiar expression in indicate
lis intended convey OF aburdt There would however
be absudy about the expression changed flea
Ider for the plague"
Plague may possibly be conveyed many ways 1t is well known
that very liable plague and that remarkable mortality
among feature plague epdemc There
strong conviction that plague often
niCated through wound scratch by small lesion
bite Rats infested by eas and the fact that rodents
the only living patrond by fea need be dwe
make quotations from the interesting monograph by
Mr. Hankn the Epidemoogy of Plague In April rat
brought that had been found dead the grain dealers
Agra shortly after the first human the disease had
occurred the found living In the stomach of the flea
found the bac Of plague Elsewhere he writes: In the
spring studying eas obtained and dogs in
agra and found difficulty obtaining many these
required But the OF the hot weather found
the living laboratory had suddenly and
completely vanished Recognizing that the interest and
wishing subject adequate offered hafdays
wages my for every they could catch Though the
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