The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-12-15
A NEW CONCEPTION OF DISEASE
Continued from page six,)

They multiplication and the field
joined by comrades of the kin.
There takes place battle the like of which pen has
attempted describe Millions opposed to Millions and the fight
ing the death The hosts of Armageddon
full to the uncountabe hordes which fill the battlefield about the
fines OF wound.
The eucocytes destroy germs by eating
call them phagocytes they also, by sacrificing living
mortality of this beyond ompua
ton The is piled up with the dead living the
matter" pus, and the trouble probably ends.
Should the invading force beat down the first line of defence and
find way the channels the body then vigorous
made the second circle Of entertainments the Emphatic glands In
invading host They nhame possibly they suppura The subject
o this condition gmbes and depores the misfortune which, in adj
dtion his wound (Which was trouble enoug has given him an
famed hand and tender gland under his The blame
paced 1t is the story all over again Ge the faithful but mis-
This inflammation regarded disease
portent of calamity 1t the multitude disorder whose ymp
toms must be combad by means within the surgeons power
In reality wholly benevolent process with purpose that of
protecting the body and am that of it fail only be
cause the task was impossible never because the generous intention
ered For centuries there has been presented the strange pect
annate process OF cure volume alter volume has been written
Upon the treatment of Inflammation and schools have been formed
uphold with much wrangng this method that At last amidst
Lhe baD Oh SuggeSuo ADVICE ana HesS dsCouSe surgeon
Lord Lister points that the invading force be prevented from
landing the country body polite will remain and the aid
OF inflammation will be uncaed for Such is the whole teaching OF
antseptcsm.
would vanish the lives of without the protection
Of inflammation, the human could hardly survive month
interesting that schools
and the of scientists little element of
courager of inflammation.
Since inflammation is method of be initiated rather than
ndeed modern treatment itself mainly with the proven
ton of conditions which make inflammation necessity and with the
carrying of such hints the provides When namma
ton therefore, does supervene it is the surgeons make
oeabe the patient possible and becomes evident
that Nature intending throw certain from the
me- acting on that % opens an abScess or nces tense swelling
In that phase of the nammaory process known by the dread
name OF periton the benign intentions OF what are termed mani
eaons OF disease are very remarkably illustrated The pero
susceptible the nroad of bacteria whether they find
through wound through breach in such
the appendX The moment the invasion takes place the symptoms OF
perOns appear These symptoms nothing than Natures
efforts towards the saving of life from undoubted disaster They
serve TO at once secure those condon Wch are most conducive 10
recovery they provide prompt means for closing the breach and for
staying the spread the trouble Peroni has always been spoken
friend.
lis low This fortunate circumstance due peront for without
that much abused ally example OF the disorder would be fatal
Even say that death appendix trouble
to peronis should rather be said that about in spite Of
other than OF 1t only the accident which calls into
being that is wholly disastrous.
To go There disorders which called
ctous because they have been proved to be due to an infection
without In such maade there the simple disposition OF seed on
hand and of soil which uxurian the other
The specific pacerum the soil the body living
ture generous uscep-
be when nhosabe he said to be immune The common cold
is doubt ocald bacterial disease. 1t be caught
conveyed from The would to nger
the haun and find pleasure in the maddng crowd
When concerned in starting hospital ships the North Sea
were very prone to catch cold Many od me that they develop cola
whenever they ashore The chilly blasts OF the North Sea in
the winter unpleasant enough but they not laden with the
bacillus while the air OF the cosy seaport was 1t is
often claimed that the common cold due to cold In connection with
surgeon Discovery Antarctic expedition Speak
ing of colds he writes 1--WE entirely free from this trouble
from the time entered the ice the time reached New Zea
land and half later occasions which
somewhat remarkable On the occasion of unpacng large bale
clothing after had been in the very Vuent
form of nasal catarh through the whole ships I'M
clothing the
the aarh accounted for by the fact that ward
room carpet taken for beating and the Infection which had
lain many months liberated and had the usual effect
The germ through the air passages and finding suitable
medium for growth in the lining membrane of the and throat de
veop there The which result we'll known to be
dwe upon There the neezng the catarh the sorehoat the
cough the maa According popular medicine these phenomena