Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-11-21

Since the interview which appeared
in last Sundays Oregonian, describing
my experiences during a plague cpl
demic in Russia, have been asked by
many to give further observations On
the epidemic.
Plague is called any destructive pes
thence, especially specific, acute an1
malignant fever, which often prevails
I in Egypt, Syria and Turkey, and has
occurred epidemically at different
times and places in the large cities of
| Europe. 1t is attended with nervous
disturbance and usually accompanied
by buboes, or swellings of the inkuina,
or other Emphatic glands, and occas-
ionally with carbuncles, pustules,
spots and petechiae of various colors
and distributed in different parts of
the body. There are various kinds OF
plaques, as for instance:
Black plague"-the plague which
ravaged in Europe in the fourteenth
century.
"Bubanic plague'-an epidemic con-
tagious disease of great virulence
which has prevailed in different parts
of the world from a very remote per-
iod. 1t begins with slight fever and
thirst and within a few hours SWELL
ings appear in the axillas or groins. or
upon the neck, or in two, even In three
places at once. Delerium and uncon-
seriousness rapidly follow an intense
fever and pain.
The Plague in China.
DR.. Buchanan, director of the Eng
fish medical board: Nelten Radcliffe,
Authors Lyanblygien and n. Wendt,
and Chinese customs official Emile
Rocher observed the epidemic in Yum
nan. Guychow and Packchoi, near
Tonkin in 1882. Their description of
the symptoms of the plague are re-
markable in their accuracy DR.. Ayers.
the chief colonial doctor in HongKong.
and DR.. Bonnie, of Canton, gave very
valuable accounts and pathological
symptoms o. the plague in Canton In
1882, where 60 900 collins were used In
a short period OF five months in a city
of 100000 inhabitants. In April. 1882,
the plague appeared in Hongkong but
was not recognized as such in the be-
ginning, and only when in the hosoi-
tai Dunwa entered a number of pa
tients who (having been apparently
welD suddenly fell sick with a 1906
degree fever, severe headache, rest
lessness, stupor. with swelling of the
Emphatic glands in the armpit, etc.
Temperature sometimes fell a few de-
grees, the patient became unconscious
i and died on the second day, If not
sooner Dr. Lawson, the inspector of
the city hospital in Hongkong, wen.
to Canton, and ON the % day of April
visited with DR.. Bonnie the pest-ridden
: districts and the Chinese hospitai.
where they found that from thirty-six
patients who entered the hospital on
the 22d of April, twenty-five died. He
returned to Hongkong satisfied thar
the Hongkong cases were identical
with the cases he saw in Canton, and
only then they adopted proper meas
ures to stamp out the scourge.
Facts About The Plague.
Plague is an acute contagious dis
ease originating from specific excit-
er-plague bacillus.
On the globe there are several
, places where the plague exists. so to
| say, permanently. or endemic For in
stance, several districts in the south
west part of China, as Junnam and the
neighboring provinces; the province Of
Guravl-Kumaon. in West India. on the
southern declivity of the great Hima-
laya mountains, and several localities
near keroei. in Mesopotamia.
In the above localities the plague
/ eontagion exists in the soil. on ac-
count of the superficial burying of the
dead from plague, an saturatior of
the soil with decomposed organic mat
ter.
In places where the plague exists
endemically the disease oftentimes
breaks out in tn eform of an epidemic
and is then exported, so TO say, to
, neighboring. far away countries.
The contagion is communicated to
the healthy by the sick and from the
| dead by this scourge, as we'll as from
clothing and other articles which were
used by the sick or with which they
came in contact.
The contagious elements are con
tanned in the pus of the buboes, in the
blood, viscera and different orgaKS or
the body Of the afflicted with the
plague, and of those who died from
IL; also in the discharges of the pa
tient and i'm the atmosphere surround
| ing him.
The contagious elements. once they
adhere to various materials (for in
stance, to linen, clothing. bedding. car
pets. silk muffiers. even roses can
exist there long time-for months
even years. without losing their vIru.