The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-08-13

ago myself. Ii Is IN Ine atmosphere,
drinking water. etc. Now, our disin-
fectirg is not thorough enough. Sup
pose YOU heard that the town was full!
of these reptiles and man would
chunck a rock at them and kill few,
the poir is that you might see that
they are all. killed. In typhoid fever
the disease germ is indicated in the
way have indicated +" --~'-, and it
can be killed. A solution Of bichloride
of mercury will destroy the disease
germ.
Now, ladies, there is another disease
that furnishes some Of the saddest ira
gedies of human life and that is tuber-
culosis. It is a fact that if you begin
early to take care Of the system, ex-
perts say that Is per cent are durable.
Thousands have died ard thousands
more will die from this disease. These
beings. who have the disease, are an
xious to protect others from it.
I knew a young man of great pro-
minence, bright intellect, bright fu-
ture, noble ambitious, educating his
brother in school. In one hour he took
this disease and fingered at home in
despair as only tuberculosis patient
can. He went to the far west to a
sanitorium. There he was treated. The
fatal message came at last that he
must come home, where he fingered
and died. He said to me, "Doctor, l
a lady at Due West. She was told
don't want anybody to catch the bugs
from me-" The other was case Of
that she had consumption. She Shut
herself up in her own room and refuS-
ed her own children admittance. She
only allowed them to look az her
through the window panes. How that
mother must have suffered as she
looked upon her children, what pain,
what sorrow when she knew that she
was slowly but surely fading away
from them. Why did she do that !
Her prayer was, go, God, let not my
children suffer my own sad fate.''
When you have the disease, ought
you not to be anxious to protect 9TH
ers from your fate? Now then, if that
be true, what can we do? We can kill
this disease germ. And ladies and
gentlemen, T want to say it before I
forget it, consumption is often start
ed in the school room and when you
send your children there and the chill
dren are allowed to spit upon the
floor, it will often result in consump-
ton; then, too the disease is often
contracted from drinking milk from
a COW that. has tuberculosis. Now,
the point that [ want to make is this,
that every room, every school house,
every hotel, every railroad station
ought to have a spittoon upon the
floor with disinfectant in it so that
everybody could spit there whether
they had the germ or not. am so
much wrapped up in the subject that
I am afraid I will consume too much
time. All persons are liable to take tu-
berculosis. There is no such thing as
hereditary consumption, but those,
upon whom it finds a suitable soil to
exist developt the disease. But the
poitn that I want to impress upon you
is that a person who is liable to cou-
sumption should live as much as pos
sible out DOORS, In other words,
should take as god care Of themselves
as possible. ..:-
Malarial fever it has been demon
strated from experiments is caused
by the bite of mosquitoes, for in
stance in Egypt they were deeply af-
fected with malarial fever and tie
mosquitoes. Those persons who liv-
ed there were deeply interested and
formal a systematic plan to
eradicate the mosquitoes. They
closed up the places where they were
allowed to enter, cut down the weeds
on the banks, etc., made everybody
pour all of the water in the house out
of the drains so that it was all gotten
rid of, and put petroleum in there to
kill the germ. Now, ladies. there is a
peculiar thing about that certain
kind of mosquito that gives you ma
larial fever. In 1908 there was not a
mosquito in the whole district. Three
years from that they had 1900 cases
of malarial fever. Men had tried it
again and again and'protected them
selves by wire screens and been free