The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-01-01
A NEW CONCEPTION OF DISEASE
SIR FREDERICK TREVES DESCRIBES THE PROCESSES OF
DIPIHERA IN THE LIGHT OF THE NEW CONCEPTION
OF DISEASE WHICH He PRESENTED IN HIS INAUGU-
RAJ ADDRESS BEFORE THE INSTITUTE OF PHILOSO-
PLY OF EDINBURG

PLY OF EDINBURG.
The history dphheria as follows: The bacerum gains
the throat of susceptible child settling the tons,
toxin which finds way into the blood The the bacillus
effects Judgement the cells of the body rise up against it. and for
tune least make successful defense An active inflammation is
induced evidence energy by
emulation which forms the invaded sruiace This mucdaded
membrane the outcome not OF vicious and purposeess action but
OF process which has for its sole intent the OF the destroying
At developed substance of
definite which andotc the poison hterng
existent at the ue OF the hecuoh Is produced on the spur OF the
moment and with such good result that many patients from
dphhera The child in becomes ILL., and is said that
its distressing symptoms are due to the disease and are therefore i'll
meaning.
the body its attempt bacterial
aaon the very elaborate blood changes concerned the pro-
ducon antoXn That degree OF the i'll condition due
Ito the poison which entering the system mdoubed but when
he phenomena poisoning paramount the child dying With
what called the symptoms dphhera could
The child would uccumb the poison do patients from
mot cope with it. In such calamity the dies in hours sim
py poisoned before characteristic evidences OF the infection have
appeared
nzed efforts towards that they have been initiated the mod
ern treatment the maad In this wise The horse can be noculat
hardly made i'll b. the incident The toxin dphhera injected in
the horse and result the blood OF the animal develops
flor protective purposes anoxn Repeated increasing
o the poison introduced each incubation being followed by
augmented formation antoxn the blood At last
1.-THE blood OF this potent
when drawn off and injected into the body child suffering from
dphthea it possible for the disease be stayed The child its
part is aborng with infinite effort produce antioxin The
Horses blood provides with the andoe nadeqatey
turing The OF the OF dphhera is be-
Iyond all question:
To take other example The whole manifestations
are expressions of an unaggng effort on the part of the
body oppose the progress of invading bce The calamity
this instance is the settling of the germ the boyan of
which the subject unconscious The phenomena which oowhe
symptoms, they caedare efforts towards and under
favorable conditions they restore the patient to health unaded
1t not necessary to pursue the matter further have limited the
application of proposition diseases the OF which
Paavey well understood There unoruna large series OF
disorders whose secrets have not yet been ahomed If be claimed
that they afford exceptions theory advanced
wait until the OF those affections made manifest
One cannot fall however, to be met with the assertion that at least
the Vaccinations OF have nothing in them that good To
this have present What constitutes malignant disease
known to no man. and there little profit in being dogmat about
the unknown.
In this connection experience the past may be recalled with
0ovantage There disease OF blood vessels known as aneury III
which the wall artery diates which tends
Within the widening Nature co layer by layer,
with infinite patience This cot may ultimately fill the cavity close
fully deposited cot considered be malignant growth and
der the influence OF that conviction the surgeon 1t
claimed product the
manifestations OF disease convicted Of i'll Intention the co must
leeds be rid Of SO with much labor and risk the nearly
completed product a drown
ing had the he found about his waist for other
than that he could understand how be there
the clear accepted method
sisted in aiding in every possible way the formation OF the much
abused o to such that the but humby initiated the
phenomena Of a so-caled malignant disease.
1t would that reprodues under noppoune ccun-
type exuberan growth which opporune
when the OF the body being formed that
resucang in the declining body of process which normal in the
young What is the purpose of this ouopace activity can
te In the absence of any knowledge is conformity with
ITO consider it to be magn in intention.
compelled to add the list of pure sunse would point
out that during the period of development in childhood there
tain glands in active which would appear way control
limit and modify OF production which might without such
control riot noteworthy that such gland the hymu
wastes and vanshe after the period of bodily activity
and impossible to wonder whether the introduction OF the
tive principle of such gland OF would
huence late life which be intended to exert when growth
alert in the lhymus extract has been largely tried in me
cine but does appear that active principle has been isolated
from the gland and used mention this merely speculation to
line conceivable the Of may take
In conclusion may hope that the suggestions set forth
will the work Of the physician will lead
sympathy with his endeavors and appreciation of his difficult
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