Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-01-15

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tuberculosis, tell them at the same time
that it is far from being the death war
ra: it was once considered.
Every hour of the day from thence
| forward should be specifically provided
for by his medical adviser 1t is moi
enough to say to him, you had better
be careful about where you cough an6
J expectorate, and be sure to have your
room ventilated"
If these are your directions, the pa
tient will fall far short Of what Is alb
solutely essential. Provide him with
paper spittle cups and have them
and he can not be told too often that
all Of his spittle must be in this cup
1t will be essential to explain to the
patient with all the emphasis at your
command that all does not mean a part
Handkerchiefs, which are to be boiled
and used again, must be discarded and
instead, buy cheap cloth and when soil
ed, burn. Every time there comes
on a paroxysm OF coughing, this cloth
must be held over the mouth to prevent
microscopic droplets of spittle being
forcibly driven into the air in the room,
to be later inhaled by some other party
and in course Of time to set up fresh
cases Of infection. 1t Will be equally
necessary to explain to the sick one
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of the family that proper ventilation
means, windows up and shutters open
day and night, summer and winter.
Nothing less than this will answer.
OF course, the window through which
the wind comes should be closed, but
the others must be open. Here the
parents and all the kin will declare
open war and tell you that this will kill
their child. But stand your ground.
If thus all Of the eXcretus Of the sick
one are taken care Of and rendered in
nocuous, the party will cease to be a
menace to the health Of the remainder
of the family and there will be no ex-
tension Of the disease from him to 9TH
ers previously healthy. When patient
suffering with tuberculosis dies, do not
imagine that when you have placed an
cid oven or pot in the middle of the
room, and burned therein one-half
pound of sulphur and left the room
closed with the fumes of sulphurous
acid for a whole night, that that room
is d.sinfected and ready for occupancy
again. Such disinfection is a delusion
and a snare and so far as the tubercle
bacillus is concerned is perfectly HARM
less. Burn every thing from that room
that can be spared, take out the furni-
ture and place it where the sun can
shine on 1t all day. Take off the WIN
dow blinds and take out the sash,
upper and lower, remove every obstacle
to the free entrance of sunlight and
lock the room off from the rest OF the
house and leave it so for an indefinite
length Of time, and eventually your
room will be rid Of it's unwelcome in
habitants and ready for occupancy.
Exposure to bright sunlight for a
very short while, promptly destroys the
bacillus. Ordinary daylight will de-
stroy them after a much longer time,
but a crack, or Granny, or crevice,
where semi darkness prevails, will pre-
serve them alive and virile for an in
definite, but long period Of time.
For the second of our subdivisions,
namely the prevention Of it's spread In
a general way, we are to take part
in a world wide crusade, that looks to
the final determination Of the disease.
Here we must begin with the genera
ton that is to succeed US. Children in
schools must be taught proper methods
Of living and the very first lesson Will
be to get rid of that idea as old as hu-
manity, that there is something noxious
and dangerous in night air. The air
you inhale tonight is the same air that
YOUR were inhaling at noon on yester-
day, and that you will inhale tomorrow
from sunrise to sunset. People must
be taught that each individual requires
a certain number Of cubic feet OF air
for himself and to put into a room
more than can be supplied with this
number apiece, is to invite disease and
that air once respired is not desirable
for breathing again, until it has been
purified through the medium OF the
diffusion Of gases and hence every fa-
cility for the ingress and the egress of
an open window and open CRATES sum-
ner and winter.
Sermons from this text should be
preached by every physician in season
and out of season, whether men Will
hear or whether they will forbear.
Preach them in the house and in the
street, in the office, in the school room,
anywhere even though you come to be
called a tuberculosis crank and every
single convert which you make to your
doctrine brings the race one step nearer
emancipation from the power and do
minion of this plague. Those Of us
now beyond middle life will never live
to see this happy consummation. But
the task will not be finished until 1t has
been begun. And as we see the leaVen
IF the right manner of living spreading
it will be in old age a proud moment
when we reflect that we, too, bore
oart in the struggle.
For certain, it is that when the race
at large realizes that air and sunlight
are the too great antagonists of this
disease and use these two agencies as
hey should be used, that day will
emancipate the race from this plague
and in that day the grand work Of
Trudeau and his cClaborers at Saranac
and of the Germans in the black for
ests of Germany will be appreciated at
It's real value, and it will be seen that
they have done more for the cause Of
humanity than was accomplished by
all the embattled hosts that few years
ago, on the plains and mountains Of
Manchuria were tearing at each 9TH
ers thrOats beneath the banners of the
mikado and the cZar.
az A party of Maine hunters has the
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