The Washington herald., 1909-11-21
Nv GEoRGE c. HENNING.


This Is not a medical treatise nor a
ouack advertisement. I am not a physi-
clan. but wish to put down as plainly
as I can some OF my experiences and
observations. That dread disease.
typhoid. I have observed for nearly fifty
years. I'm a large proportion OF cases,
attends persons who have spent some
time in the country, especially in dry
seasons.
In most country places hygienic pre-
cautions are not observed or understood.
In many places open wells are the rule
where all sorts of stock are watered.
and the wells receive the surface vast
ings. I could give numberless cases or
this sort. since tho introduction OF
driven wells on the Eastern Shore OF
Virginia. there has been a marked de-
crease I'm typhoid and malaria
know of no cure for typhoid but good
nursing and sanitary surroundings. FOR
that reason. the hospital is the best place
for treatment.
OF yellow Fever. I have no personal
knowledge. but have been told by per-
sons who had resided i'm Louisiana and
the coast regions of Texas, that they
would rather have the yellow fever than
the typhoid. My theory. and have read
a good deal about il. especially In the
plague in Norfolk IN 1885,, is that it is
"A disease of crowdIng and Nth, somewhat
similar TO Jail fever. When Dr. Wood
cleaned M Havana he banished the yell
low fever.
II is n well-knOwn fact that large num-
hers Of animals cannot be kept together
in the South without disease setting In.
This is also true Of the man animal IL
Is said 10 be n fact that the yellow fever
was unknown on this side Of the world
until the Spaniards settled and built cities
en- orr low ATTITUDES. BY an eNamina-
tion of the records Il viii be found that
nearly all eases OF yellow fever were con-
fined 20 the cities, and that people who
fled from tire cities 20 the adjacent
country. were comparatively free from 1t.
7 would scarcely recommend the treat
ment described by Gable i'm the story Of
Bras Coupe told an the Grand Dissimes.
Malaria is also a disease about which
doctors have differed. Dr. Felix Oswald.
champion Of homeopathy. in maya
zine article. attributed its cause to a caio-
rife condition from the use of too much
animal food. Our Dr. Garrett. in a pam
phlet recommended a generous diet OF
animal food 20 ward of its approach, at
tributing it's cause TO miasma, which /
think is the correct theory. and yet many
cases defy an theories as well as specific
remedies.
When 7 was "A boy ] had the old-fash-
toned chils and fever every year. Once
tied a rope around my thigh TO keep
from shaking. and the chill did not re-
turn. Such was the effect Of magma
ton.
Another year ! felt them coming and
resolved mentally that ; would not have
them I waded I'm the marshes cunning
about three days i'm the week, and the
other three days ] put in fishing at Four
mile Run. walking there and back. and
that year I did not have thea. Such
was the effect OF determination.
Later an life 7 had a low malarial fever
originating. I thought, I'm the digging up
of the wood pavement on East Capitol
street, which dehed medical treatment
and two trips 10 the mountains Upon
my return from the mountains I went
20 a Congressional nominating conven-
ton at Tsppahannock. slept on n straw
mattress on the floor took "a pungy from
there to the Eastern Shore and slept in
the hold When 7 got there I walked
about two miles TO a friends house, and
made my breakfast Of corn cookies. and
ate them until ] was ashamed of my
self. But ! was cured from that hour.
and this I'm mosquito and malarial
country.
Mr. Thomas Green who resided at the
old Van Ness place for twenty-five years.
told me ne never had case Of malaria
i'm his family while residing there. Al
the same time the houses on the ridge
at r street were fairly uninhabitable
because OF chills and fevers. while the
residents on O street one square north
were not much affected.
No theory can, / imagine. reconcile all
the phases / have mentioned. In most
cases OF malaria the spleen seems TO be
affected. The function OF the spleen
gland seems 20 be very little understood
by tho medical faculty. It's enlargement
is very painful and the feeling is such
as II some one were boring a hole through
the left side with a auger, and pressure
th~rs Of any sort IS unbearable. In my