The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-01-24

the most fatal OF all diseases The mortality drug
from 10 to 100 per Average mortality about 80 per


fluente over the people by the mystical
terms It uses in naming the various.
/ deadly potions it employs.
! Few people dare to ask the physician
what the drug is that he has pres
cribed, for they We'll know that he
would not tel them.
+! Thus they have been allowed to pro-
! coed Until they have secured legisla-
| ton that protects them. no matter what
the result of their prescriptions may
Ibe, SO long as they are recommended by
their school in the treatment of that
! disease.
or course. DR.. Osler knows. and so
does every other intelligent physician.
| that the patients are more often dam
! aged than helped by the promiscuous
drugsing that is still too prevalent.
know of one case ia which strychninc
was prescribed when it accomplished
what the doctor claimed it would.
One of my neighbors had a lot Of
hogs that were taken sick. the chief
CONDITION of the hind legs. SO they
, could not stand. A certain doctor
told him to give them dose Of stry-
chime. with the assurance that it
would stiffen the legs.
The strychnine was accordingly CIV
en-. and sure enough 1t did stiffen their
legs, but it killed the hogs.
: There is a trite saying that fits in
here most beautifully: "You can fool
all Of tie people some of the time. and
some Of the people all of the time. but
you can't fool all Of the people all Of
the time"
The thraldom in which the world has
been held by this ''iggnisfatus" is sure
iy being broken. and the day is coming
when it will be thing of the past.
No doubt millions of the devotees Of
this mighty juggernaut will fall a sac
rifice to it's crushing weight. before the
day of emancipation fully comes, but
it is coming. although the mills of the
gods grind slow" But also too late
will it come to save this mighty host.
whose precious lives might have been
spared. to gladden. the homes and lives
of those who hold them dear. had they
known of the value of this new and
more rational method of treatment
OF course you can continue to en-
ploy the old system and take the rom
sequences if you want to. There is no
law against it. except the law OF rea-
SON which forms no part of the drug
system Of medication. We have nei
Their time nor space to give all the vari-
Gus theories in regard to the cause Of
pneumonia as set forth by the medical
profession. but will simply say that it
is generally conceded that it is due to
a microorganism which is known as
"diplocaccus pneumonia.
Or. Os,er, on page 546 of the work
above refereed to. says that this
microorganism occures in the second
airy sage of the disease, but he gives
US no light as to what causes produce
The primary trouble. that makes pos
sib'e the condition in which this mic
roorganism can find such q favorable
field for his development. To this
task We will now address ourselves
with the hope that some at least. will
be interested enough to careful weigh
what We give them.
1t will be remembered that our pa
muscular tissues of the upper part of
the body We're sore and tense. while
the neck and especially the upper part
OF the back were stiff and sore.
|. BY pressing deeply into the tissue
taleng this region of the. spine. we find
that the llgaments, which hold the
veftibre together. are much thickened:
sore and contracted.
The cold from which the patient is
suffering is responsible for the con-
traction of all these tissues, for like
Eevery cold from which any person -suf-
fers. it entered the body through the
muscles of the back and neck.
The contraction of these tissues pre-
vents the poison laden venous blood
from passing out as it normally does
through the thread like veins. and as
the blood is thus held in the tissues
the poisons it contains soon set up
process of fermentation. that is res
ponsible for the tenderness to which we
have referred.
You ask what this has to do with
the lungs that seems to be the seat of
the trouble from which the patient is
suffering. They are situated in the in
kside Of the body. where they seem TO
he we'll protected from outside infiu-
ences.
Here lies the secret of the whole
question. The lungs. as we'll as all of
the other internal organs derive their
nerve supply from the spinal cord, and
the spinal cord. like all the other It's
lsnes Of the back. is burdened with the
fvenous congestion above referrer to.
+ The nerves also partake of the same
congestion. as they derive their blood
supply from the spina. cord. and to.
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