Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-02-22

consumption IL the penalty of civil.
zation-' u Is a strange remark aud
yet one verified by reading the writ.
ings OF those who by knowledge are
Of authority. There Is today no house.
hold subject foremost III consump.
ton. The American doctors and the
American people are demanding re-
lief from the terrible scourge that Is
sweeping the world. An able physi-
clan and a recognized leader OF those
who have waged a crusade against
tuberculosis Ia DR.. Lawrence r. Flick,
OF Philadelphia. This able man Is
the author OF a number OF works, and
his recent volume. Consumption, a
durable and %preventable disease" II
Interesting reading and contains mat.
ter that every person should know.
II h. beyond the grasp OF human mind,
says DIR, Flick. TO fully realize what
consumption means to the world. The
disease exists In every part OF the.
habitable globe. upon the surface OF
the earth, underneath the waters, and
In the heavens above. II probably Is
the direct cause OF death OF one.
seventh OF the human species. and \
fair percentage OF the animal snecie4s|
II affects thestiNhes OF the se&: an6,
the birds Of the air.
Consumption Is q disease OF the
poor. II turks In dark corners.
In the United States upwards Of
100000 persons die annually from con.
sumption. In Germany the number OF
deaths every year IL nearly the same;
and In France the figures stand very
little lower. In Austria there are
about eighty thonsand deaths q year
from the disease: in England about
sixty thousand: In italy about lifty
thousand. Throughout the world
there probably n Z million deaths
- year from the disease.
Every community has its little army
Of victims Of the disease. but they are
seen only In ones and tw0s and make
impression. Could they be massed
and an the armies brought into one
picture. what a narrowing
sight they would present!
There r many chronic diseases
we'll known to the people. which are
tuberculosis, but travel under aliases.
The real character Of these diseases
II never suspected.
Scrofula nearly always ID due to-
the growth OF the tubercle bacillus
In Emphatic glands. Lupus Is tuber-l
Of the skin. White swelinsl
Is tuberculosis Of the bone. Spine
Is tuberculosis OF the verte.|
bra. Hip disease Is tuberculosis or
The head Of the thigh bone. Fistula,
N many cases, IL tuberculosis Of the
perineum. Water on the brain is tu-
b~erculosfS Of the sereous membranes
lining the brain. Marasmus, or take
1n' as It is sometimes called, liz tn:
o~erculosis Of the lymphatic glands or
mesentery.
Many well known deformities are
he result Of tuberculosis which has
IN It's course and got well. Nearly
III spinal curvatures are due to tuber.l
The pitiful little hunchback
been made so by tuberculosis,t
Yearly all stif4 joints have been put
OF use by tuberculosis. The un.
slightly scars which frequently are
'een on the necks Of people are most
y OF tuberculosis origin. Among the
Incentives to the disease DR.. Flick
fatigue, alcoholism, variable
The Jews, Of all known people, are
east prone to tuberculosis ani rel
over most readily when they have It.
rhe GentIles, Greeks, Lattns, Teutons
md Celts follow each other in res
;cctive order, The Span.arfs. .tal.l
ans and French, the English. camSn
md Irish follow In their order. Thu
'merican coiored man Is three times
more susceptible to the disease thanlI
lis white brother. And. yet, in the
Of Africa tuberculosis as al
.tsease Is wholly unknown.
DR.. Flick says that It Ia too muchl
Q ask the consumptiye to bear the
ntire burden Of protection to others.
hey who ask protection should be
to take part OF the burden.
q fairness they should assume Il ali,
II ne Is to keep away from those
are well, he should be given some
lace 70 90. II he Is to use certain
hinge for the protection OF others, he
mould be supplied with the money
0 buy them with.
And here at this point steps IN the
reat American fraternities. Brother.
'e want you to get well. they say.
We will build for you q home, eouip
with every comfort and II you have
o. the money necessary We will fur.
ish that also.
That. my worthy u the Mystict
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