The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-02


 manity fs the finding of the germ of paresis. pr, John D. o'Brien. of the Masilion, Ohio. State Hospital claims to have found it, and offers scientific proofs of his theories.
 Another valuable discovery yet to bear more fruit, Is that of Dr. Junod, the eminent French physician of the past generation. He evolved a system of enforced circulation by the use of vacuum cups and receivers. His work was so successful that the French government commissioned him to car " 1t further. In France and Ger many his method was hailed with wide acclaim and has been put to great use. Last year q member of the University of Bonn travelled all the way to Wash ington to tell a tuberculosis congress of the successful application of this treatment in tuberculosis of the joints. It has also been successfully used in locomotor ataxia and paralysis.
 Leprosy for many long. hopeless cen- turtles was deemed incurable. The old Leviticai code decreed that the unfor- tunate sufferers be stoned from the cities and be forced to live in caves. The United States is seing things dif- ferently--though only three years ago 1t suffered the persecution of leper through two of it's commonwealths un- til death released him. It now pro- mulgates the theory that there is lit- tie danger from the disease. The Uni ted States Public Health and Marine Hospital Service has recently built and equipped an experiment station at the Hawaiian leper settlement on the island of Mololxai, where science will be brought to bear on every case. Louisiana has gone further. Through Dr. IsIdore D. Dyer. physician in charge of the state home for lepers. sixteen cases have been successfully treated and sent out into the world again, pronounced cured.
 It is in the realm of aneesthetics that medical science has found some of it's richest trophies to lay st the feet of the suffering humanity. It has made possible thousands of life saving operations that otherwise could not have been accomplished. The present decade has given the world many im- portant discoveries along this line. To Ind something that would make the patient insensfhie to pain without affecting the heart deleteriousiy has been hard quest. It has recently been found that the system can be electrically shocked into a profound sleep by the, saMe. sort of contacts with the body of the patient that are used in electrocution, and. this
 
 Humanity owes one of. It's greatest debts to vivisection. It has proved one of the greatest aids to modern medical science, IL has enabled scien- tific men to reach Important conciu- sions in their investigation of disease and its cause. These men have met stern opposition at the hands Of one of the most determined hodtes of peos ,,I. Ar, QgE0Ci9ff0n anti-vivisectionists who. have dlligent-- ly sought to have Congress pass na- tional anti-vivisection bll. They would save a few rabbits. dogs and guinea pigs at the expense of probably lO,- 900 human lives.
 Most people kick at their doctors bills. Sometimes they are the last of the household bills paid-and some times not paid at all. Yet, when one comes down to facts, there are law yers in the United States by the score who make a half million dollars a wear out of their profession, while there Is scarcely a phyBtcian who has an income of S100,000,. the majority having a few thousands at most. Take any city in the United States and 1t will be found that the man who pro- tects the property of his clients gets more out of 1t than the man who pro- tects their lives. In the final summing up of the big worlds affairs. if roll call of heroes be made it is safe to assert that more will be drawn from the ranks of the quiet, self-sacrific- ing, plague -quelling physicians than any other class of people. For of such stuff are heroes made.
 (Copyright, 1908. by Fredricv J.
 Haskin.)
 Tomorrow-THE PUBLIC HEALTH.
 II. Industrial Hygiene.
 Traitors Note. This is the first of series of articles that Mir. Haskin has prepared for The Advertiser on Ine p,,h1Ic Health. They will cover a wide eeld of public interest and will ena- brace the following topics:
 l. Progress of Medical Science.
 II. Industrial Hygiene.
 III. Pure Food oCngress.
 ". Pure Food Legislation.
 V. A National Health Department.