The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-02-10

Movement to Suppress tuberculosis.
Science has demonstrated beyond
question that pulmonary tuberculosis
or consumption of the lungs is both a
preventable and a durable disease.
This disease is produced by germs
which find their way into the body
through abrasions of the skin, through
the mucous membrane of the mouth
or the intestines and through the
lungs. The germs of the disease are
found in the sputum of persons SUI
fering from tuberculosis. The germs
are also found in the flesh and milk Of
animals suffering from the disease.
The germs are found nearly every
where. These germs cannot live in
the tissues of a thoroughly healthy
person, as the cells of the body are
capable of destroying the germs, but
when the body is weakened by indi-
gestion, by the habits of breathing
foul or bad air, by anything which i'm
pairs the health, the tissues lose their
power to destroy germs so that when
they enter the body they find lodge
ment, grow and develop and tubercu-
losis of the lungs, bowels or of some
other part is the result.
Statistics show that at least $50 900
persons die Of this disease in this
country annually. Four or five times
that number of persons are sick all
the time with this disease. Tubercu-
losis kills more than any other mall
ady. Experience has shown that the
disease is not incurable, as has been
generally supposed, but is very cur
able malady if taken In time, and if
the right treatment is applied. Not
less than one hundred thousand lives
could be saved every year by the ap-
plication of proper means for prevent
ing and curing this terrible disease,
Danger In Alcohol in Cold Weather.
When the skin Is warm 1t is red or
pink In color. The cold air Of winter
causes the skin to become whittier in
color. This is due to the contraction
of the blood vessels of the skin. The
amount of blood passing through the
skin is decreased, and the amount of
heat thrown off into the cold air is
likewise decreased. If a glass of wine
or brandy is taken the skin becomes
red. The sensation of warmth pro-
duced is delusive. The victim i'm
AGNES himself warmer. Indeed, the
skin is warmer, but at the same time
a great increase is observed in the
heat thrown off from the skin. The
result is an enormous loss Of heat to
the inside of the body.
DR.. Parkes, the eminent English
says: Gall observers con-
1emn the use of spirits, and even of
wine. or beer, as preventive against
cold" The names of DR.. King, DR..
Kane, Capt. Kennedy and DIR. Hayes
may also be cited, as holding to this
opinion. In the last expedition in
search of Sir John Franklin the whole
rev were teetotalers.
Prof. Miller states that the Russian
military authorities "interdict it's use
absolutely in the army when troops
ire about to move under extreme
old, part Of the duty of the corporals
,eing to smell carefully the breath of
'ach man on the morning parade, and
o turn back from the march those
Who have INDUCED in spirits, it having
een found that such men are Pc
uliarly subject to be frostbitten and
therwise injured"
DR.. Carpenter is authority for the
tatement that the Hudson Bay COM
any has, for many years, entirely ex-
luded spirits from the fur countries
f the north, over which they have
xclusive control, ito the great i'm
rovement," as Sir John Richardson
bserved, "of the health and morals
their Canadian servants and of tho