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to light in the handling of this all
ment. 1t should be the object,
then, and the duty, Of everyone
possessing any information on the
subject at all to try to establish,
or re establish, confidence IN the
people whose Intelligent aid IS so
much needed at the present mo-
ment.
Ia the first place, it may be stat
ed that the ordinary disease pro
ducing germs such as those OF con
sumption, anthrax (charboD, chol-
era, diphtheria, lockjaw, typhoid
fever, etc, all belong to the veg
etable kingdom, are known as bac-
terra, and are capable of existing
outside of the human or animal
body, which, of eonrse, renders
them doubly dangerous on that
account. On the other hand, the
germs of malaria, yellow fever and
Of Texas fever of cattle are animal
organisms, not vegetable, and do
not maintain Il seperate, existence
apart from the bodies Of the peo-
pie or animals in which they pro
duce disease, and those Of the in
sects which harbor and transmit
them. In other words they are
"two- host" organisms, requiring
for their life and perpetuation the
bodies of two individuals. In the
case of malaria and yellow fever in
man the germ requires the human
being and certain mosquitoes IN
cattle fever, the OK and the com
mon cattle tick which transmits it.
Neither one of these diseases, then,
can be said to be infections they
are inocuiable diseases, requiring
to be transmitted through inocula-
tion by the particular insect, or
secondary host concerned in the de-
veIopment aud perpetuation of the
germs causing them. No "stegom-
via fasciata" (yellow fever mos
quito), no yellow fever; no maIa-
ria mosquito, no malaria; no com
mon cattle tick, no Texas fever of
cattle, even although there may be
present persons suffering from the
two human diseases, or an animal
of the OK tribe affected with the
cattle ailment.
The poist that these germs re-
qnire two hosts, or individuals, to
maintain and perpetuate themselves
is one of the greatest Importance
to remember, as intelligent treat
ment hinges entirely upon this
fact.
1t should be remembered, also,
that these lowly forms OF animal
life are not of spontaneous origin,
as some seem to imagine, but be-
long to the general plan OF crea-
tion, Just as We. ourselves do, and
that this "double life, so to
speak, which they live is their nat
ural method of maintaining their
existence and perpetuating them
selves.
Bearing this fact in mind, then,
| it should easily be inferred that If
the natural round of the life of
those germs is interfe:ed with viz,
by separting the two hosts (the
human being and the mosqulto),
so that they cannot carry out their
life cycle by transmission from the
one to the other, they must be cut
short in their development and
rendered harmless.
1t is this separation which the
authorities are endeavoring to bring
about, by either destroying the
mosquito the least valuable OF the
two hosts) or protecting the human
yellow fever patient by bars or
screens, SO that the mosquito can
not get to him to suck his blood
and carry the germ from him to
those who are susceptible. IT our
people will throw aside all baseless
prejndice in the matter and try to
realize the true conditions, based