The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-18

and developing. If one keeps his or ne: system well ordered there is much less danger as the system may throw off the thrall through the pores or through the natural dejecture or perhaps artificial aids may be resorted to.
 The Typhoid BaciIIi. Yet typhoid fever Is always present in the earth in some localities. The bacillus has been found in places Tar removed from the habitations of man. That in some manner 1t was transported to such places there is no reasonable doubt. The baclll has been planted in the soil and shown to make it's way upward. The question of favorable soil for the pro- pagation of the germs Is still an open one. The relationship of surface water or the lowering of water in the surface of the earth having a tendency to develop the bacilli in the earth is a matter with reasonable ground for support. The field of speculation is yet open and investigations are being made to deter mine whether the colon bacillus so much like the sporadic typhoid germ Is the parent of the dreaded inhabitant of earth and drinking water.
 The ways of infection are but few snd two of them are very common and easy one is in drinks or drinking water the other is taking food. for the mouth is the ppNii uOpi anu lIle OIlly one through which the baclllf can enter the human body as a poison Not even by a transmission of blood from patient to well person can fever be developed In the well person. It Is true that dust blown on the lips may carry the germ, but as heat destroys and moisture aids the propagation of the germ there is only remote possibility of taking the typhoid germ Into the sys- tenn in the dust.
 Bacillus In Drinks.
 One may get the germ in the water from melted ice; in q bottled mineral water; in a drink of coca cola, or any carbonated drink; in glass of whisky and water mixed; in a glass of milk that has not been boiled, but never in a cup of tea bowl of hot soup or a cup of cof- fee. The germ dies at moderate heat, but lives through repeated processes of freezing and thawng.
 Milk Is a favorable soil for the bacillus as IS also butter and the other products of milk. It has been demonstrated that the germ will live for thirty days in milk and butter. Not so with meats for with the putrifaction of meat the death of the bacillus follows There is no odor CT color by which this deadly germ may be discovered Water as clear in color as crystal may carry them.
 Garden vegetables, eaten in the raw state. and not carefully cleansed, may be the means of this micro-organism entering some human citadel to lay 1t low
 Over all food that the poisoned footstep of the dirty house fly takes its trail there are sown the germs of this slowmoving disease. If a fly with poisoned foot touch milk that has been boiled the seed Is sown right there, and so with vegetables and fruit
 It requires about ten days after taking the poison for 1t to develop. Many a person is enabled to throw it off through the process of nature. It has been con clusively proven that epidenics of diar- rhoea have tendency to reduce the probabilities of fever. In the reports of the army surgeons at Chicamauga 1t was shown that of those who had pre- ceding temporary intestinal disorder only 1S.S per cent had typhoid fever, while S5. T per cent of the patients had had no pre- ceding intestinal disorder.
 Precautions.
 The ways of precaution and reasonable care lead to the following rules:
 Boil all drinking water and do not ever cleans the teeth with water that has not been boiled.
 Screen out all the flies possible and kill all that break through
 Persons in contact with fever patie9ts, should exercise every care of scrupulous cleanliness of their hands at all times; too much care cannot be used. Typho- malarial fever may develop at first or as a secondary stage towards the period of exhaustion in convalescence of the ty- phoid In such cases the malarial mos quito has joined with the typhoid bacillus to do the deadly work if possible. In the typhoid the period of susceptibility is greater in the ages from one year to thirty-five. It is supposed that the sys- tenn of older persons become more or less immune from hardening te the for