The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-09

| LONDON. June S.-Sir Almroth
| Wright. the dlscoverer of the system of
therapeutic incubation. delivered an
address Of profound interest and lmpor-
tance before the members of the Au.
thors club at a dinner given IN his
honor last Monday night.
DR.. Wright said that we wanted to
congratulate ourselves upon our civiliza-
ton being complete, but it was more or
less of make believe. Take, for in
stance. bacteria which were among the
newly discovered things of the world.
| Man had not Yet come TO an apprecla-
ton Of their role in hfe, and he would
have to learn TO fight them, Their role
was a very formidable one. Bacteria
were not responsible only for the epi-
demic diseases. which, in the case Of
plague, carried away 100000 people III
India the year before last. We thought
AS a matter Of fact, we had only been
fighting against one very small portion
OF infective disease. We had got the
better of smallpox, typhoid and dysen-
tery, which carried away very few peo.
pie IN England or America These were
not the really serious ills of life pro
duced by bacteria. The most serious
were not the epidemic diseases, but the
chronic diseases Everybody was either
the subject or was going TO be the sub
iect of bacterial disease. These forces
we had not gor under control. and they
would have 70 be got out OF the way be
fore we could consider our civilization
complete. Bacterial and infections dis.
eases ought not TO he ignored.
The great task. civilization had was
to get rid of them or hold them in
check. The broad general principle re.
manned that it was useless TO look to
drugs 10 kill microbes in the interior
Of the body.
The method of extirpating them by
the knife would finally he given up.
We had got IN immuni2ation means
in the body itself for killing bacteria
We could increase the natural resist,
ance of the body TO vaccine when we
knew the doses and the character of
the microbes.
Having Increased the resistance, we
could by surgery and hot poultIces
bring anti.haCterial agents TO work in
the particular places where the microbes
were,
In his opinion. that would ultimately
be the treatment of bacterial disease.
DR.. Tom Robinson. who presided re.
marked that he could Uoi follow Sir
! Almroth Wright in saving that the
| drugs physicians gave were injurious.
He himself got his living by writing
| prescriptions
| An important project is now under
! discussion in Jewish circles for deainp
with the cver'growing problem Of the
emigration from Eastern Europe 10
| America IT is recognized that The tide
of emigration, which abatcd somewhat
last year owing TO the industrial depres
sion in the United States. Will soon re
sumo its former dimensions. particular
| ly as the economic conditions Of the
Jews in Russia Roumania ard Galicia
are becoming worse, Bnt although cmi-
grafton TO the United States, which Mt.
tracts about so per cent of the cmi-
grants, from Europe, is regarded as in
evitablc, il can hardly provide n salts
factory solution Of the problem so long
as the incoming Jews crowd into the
| already congestcd Ghettos of New
| York. Philadelphia. Boston, and other
large cities The proposal has, there
fore, been made that the flow Of immi
grafton into the States should be so
regulated as to empty itself in those
ccnters which provide reliable prospects
Of employment, and tho work of rcgu-
lation should he undertaken by an in
teruarional organization, with branches
! i'm all the principle countries affected
| by the question, start has already
been made by thc establishment in
New York. n few months ago, Of the
- American Jewish society for the rcgu
laton Of immigration.
! 4 representative of this society. Mr.
n. Davidowitch, who has already Sc
cured support for the scheme in sew
cral American cities has now rome 10
! London 10 assist in the formation OF
I similar spcirtY, and hopes to win the
tapv5o> al Of the aetloritics of such in