The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-07-31
LeprosY Cures Questloned.

LeCragy Z zEc-1sr l1czrz5Ie-
hzs sesn cured 90 rare= tizes b.
Cslnett'z rze@iczl preparation ~
snake v.rzs feobrz veazny. years
ego Dr. Dgeze. q FfzTz1z'z Le1 =
Hozrl.al, found live leDEosy germs
81 the S.o1sch u : yeI.oT teYer mos-
quito, Do4br,eas this lirtle deadly
solgstrssz ezrries Il 70 zen. AL oVe-
South America and me Svesr lr5.@z
e.1tles and hogas vsrmia are b.
llsged "a BE- the criminals.
Ped man gsoTe vine wzs disco ered
bY leDrous West Indian negroes AID
lFft tried ont ~ d. Duque. he claim
Ing ssveszI cures. One tEtnZ certain.
II survey os hundreds 81 lepers. {,
yas eazg 70 p.ek ort taose using the
wlle b. their letter looks End color.
Il the Bible al kinds q skin dis
eSaes were called leDsosy. u The
tenth century Britain had &. bad.
II the twelfth Il vas spread Al: over
Europe by the Crusaders. but u tire
la: fer centuries # has about uIayed
ogt n The Old Country. moving THAI
h0weFeE !ncrrable Z dleeaze may be
81 me individual, there Is no sucn
thing a n incurable disease IL the
faca. Lsgrosy - ugly enough. but
nol patching II looks with conG1-nt
smallpox. where the head ig Is big
AZ Z bucket. end 10 features % be
Cleeersad through taa spongT mask
II swelling Literally isDrcsy. Ike
IN Zen Hur. Is a pardonable form Of
ezag9era,lon. Indeed, leprogy IS only
dramatic IN literature.
when Dr. Crandon, 81 Boston, re-
Gently said that sickness is goine out
Of fashion. well organized. civilized
gociety VIII not stand for It. and It
must co." the doctor did not reckon
with the nerve cell. the neuron and
~ cu.elegs troubles He was nut
speaking OF Grass germ and filth Iis-
eases For locomotor ataxia (Tabes
dorsaiisJ the sons OF men may nave
forever.
The only absolutely ont and out in
curably digeaseg are nerve cell, nnu-
rOnic diseases, and It will presently
be shown why this must be SO. Nen-
rons are the central nerves and brain
cells, the cardinal uniie Of life T.
self. Some are seenirgiy simple
cells with gtarlike points. while
others may look Ike 4 :adpolc with
tail three feet long, a';G reaching
from the middle of the back TO the
tip Of the toes. The neuTon is the
centre and origin Of thought, sensa-
tion and motion, but these cells are
80 complicated, SO highly and in
finitely delicate and perfect in con-
structiOn that IL injured or destroyed,
It leaves no reproductive cells to re-
produce or regenerate itself Once
gone, gone entirely, which Is only
true OF itself, for all other cells can
reproduce and regenerate themselves
to some extent at least. Then, too,
this long tail-like conductor is the
part that most often. and incurably.
goes out OF business.
Some of the strongest minds IN
modern medicine are trying to make
the neuron the standard around
which most medical thought of the
future must rally. However, and
anyhow, when neuron or its fine
filmy electric tail once dies the jig
Is up for that man. OF course most
II not all maladies Of the mind are
neuronic and incuraDie, and are quite
too deep to handle here. There must
be incurable neuronic diseases until
some wizard, some future doctor who
can do with men as Luther Burbank
does with plants, and so develops a
self-producing, safeguarding neu-
ron in man. With such neuron at
the head OF human affairs barring
disaster, man might live almost as
long as he desires. Right herN there
seems something wrong in the neu-
ron theory. How else could some of
our old war horses like Mark Twain
and Watterson stay in the ring so
long? Such men must have used I'D