Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-15

That insanity--especially in early
| stages-does not always involve the en-
tire brain has been taught by DIR. Ber-
nard Hollander for five or six years,
and he has shown that in certain cases
cure may be affected by surgical opera
ton. A year and half ago he tre-
pinned the skull of a middle-aged ply
sician, removing an excess of cerebro-
spinal fluid that had been pressing
upon the brain in the spot to which
the disease had been traced. The pa
tient had been kicked in the head by
horse seven years before, and had
since suffered from severe headache,
neuralgia and partial paralysis, becorn-
ing emotional, irritable, profane and
melancholy. Since the operation his
mental and physical health have been
perfect DR.. Hollander would estab-
lish special brain hospitals, in which
mental and nervous diseases would be
studied and treated by specialists, and
he would have no patient sent to an
asylum until fully proven to be incur
able.
Prof. Charles Moureu of France has
studied various springs at the spot
where the water gushes from the
ground. He finds that they give out
continuous emanations of radium and
comparatively large quantities OF such
rare gases as argon, neon and helium.
The single springs of the Lyrube at
Bourbon Laney yields more than 10000
quarts of helium. The academy of
medicine commissioned three young
physicians having proper scientific at
tainments to study certain well known
springs. The Bad Geistein in Austria
was found to have an emanation with
all the properties of radium emanation.
The sediment is also, radioactive and
the surrounding atmosphere lightly so.
An observation which explains why it
is not the same thing to use bottled
waters and lake the waters" at the
springs shows that the radio activity
disappears in a short time. Within
four days half of 1t was lost in water
taken away from the springs. 1t is
even probable that all spring water,
taken at its source, is slightly radio
active
Do you know that the common house
fly is one of the greatest enemies of
1t is a solemn, scientifically ascertained
fact that he is. He is one of the worst
dissemlnators of disease known. In
spreading evil he so far surpasses the
insect negligible quantity by compari-
son. He thrives where the mosquito
would die of inanition. He is omnipres-
ent and the amount of danger that he
can spread over a city absolutely stag
gers the imagination. With one kick of
hind leg, for instance, he can dis
tribute among men, women and chill
dren 100000 disease-laden germs.
For the source of all intestinal troubles
you must go to the house fly. His buzz
is the first symptom of typhoid Merely
to light on your hand, or to scamper
swiftly across the lips of a sleeping
child, may spell contamination and in
fection and death.
That these amazing facts are true is
vouched for by j. Pierpont Morgan. DIR.
Albert Wander Veer, Colonel John Y.
Culyer DR.. Daniel D. Jackson. former
health officer of the state of New York,
and Edward Hatch, jr., who, as chair
man of a committee of which the other
gentlemen named are members, has just
submitted a report to Governor Hughes
in which the results of experiments con-
Quoted in relation to the house fly are
fully set forth.
The common fly is more dangerous
than the tiger or the cobra. Worse than
that, he is as bad as the mosquito. Here
after we must take no half measures
with flies. The theory that they are
here for some good purpose must be
overlooked. Kill the flies.