The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-26

lions and eat and drink by more mil
lions, and any one of these germs may
be the bacillus of typhoid fever, dlph-
liberia, tuberculosis or some other dire
malady. IT fairly makes the gooseilesh
start Just TO think of what we have cs-
capped and of what confronts us. Just
think what those old fellows lost-your
forefathers and mIne-by not knowing
that the bacilli of some dread disease
was waiting around the corner to infect
'em. No, they went right along, year
after year, drinking their gin and tansy
and their herb teas when they felt un-
der the weather and believing that they
wouldn t die till their time came, and
all the while these bacillI and microbes
and disease germs were lying in wait TO
pick them off, it took our present day
soothsaycrs, the medical fraternity, to
find out all these things. Any little dis
crepancy in their theories is made to fit
all right by the explanation that mil
lion of these microbes or bacllli may
romp around in our system with impun-
Ity and never do any harm unless the
system is in a certain weakened or de-
bilitated condition. That lets every
body out, and things are about as they
were when old Stone Ilatchet dIdn Z
know the difference between stom-
achache brought on by eating green
il IS all the same TO the dead man wheth-
er he died Just because his time had
come or because his physical condition
was such that the typhoid bacllli, which
he had been assoCIating with more or
less since his birth, had taken advan-
tage Of it to down him, but it is a
great relief to the sorrowing rcla-
tlvcs.'
also It gives the doctors an excuse to
uI 1nntlpr ff.nrp n the mort
bill" interrupted the Smart Cashier,
physicians must live" the Old Book
keeper went on, ''and these same 'mcdi-
cine men who have reached q point
where they can asCrbe about all the fatal
maladies that afflict the human race to
| this germ or that have come to short
stop and that stop seems TO be about
| the beginning of the circle In which they
started, They have chased bacillus TO
his lair and turned the lens OF the mag
nfying glass upon the microbe. but be-
yond that they have not made much
progress. They can surround the pa
tient with what seems TO be the most
healthful conditions and then leave the
rest 10 Mother Nature, and that is about
what old DR.. Stone Hatchet had 10 do at
| the beginning OF the cycle,
| "Of course, they are ctcrnally expert
| menting. Always some bold. restless
| spirit, impatient at being baked almos,
at tire beginning Of his quest, strives 10
pierce the veil ana discover something TO
| couDteract the ravaEcs of the germs. But
| always they are met with the granite
| fact that similar germs or becilli are to
| be found In every human bcing-ln all
| animal life-and that the part they play
| is. TO some extent, beneficial. IL not abb
solutely necessary So. after all. II is the
| condition which "a man reaches and not
the germ that kills him. That is he dos
when he stops brcathinE-wh his time
| has comc--no matter what you call II"
| Medical science has made wonderful
| advancement in the past few years, re-
| marked the Junior Partner, who Is much
| inclined TO follow the beaten path of
public opinion, and who seemed to think
that the science Of medicine needed his
| defense.
mo doubt of it," said the Old Book
| Keeper but the advancement has been
| very largely along the line Of surgery
| which has risen TO be an exact science.
| About the best We can say for medicine
| Is that we have come to Il point where we
| have cut out a lot OF the dangerous drugs
| and decoctions with which we used TO be
| dopcd and learned to use fresh air, sum
| shine, antiseptics, anaesthctics and ether
| aids and accessories To nature in COM
| batting disease
| In my younger days 1 knew All old
| quack doctor who had four standard rem
| cdles which he used on all occasions and
for every ailmeut-Slippery elm, white
| oak and wild cherry barks swamp root
| and whisky, that is, he used the whisky
| with each of the others. He used to say:
! THE b of dcctorln' Is in the diagnos~
| in Let me find cut what's the matter
OF II man an | can fetch I'm with my
med cines. And that Is the trouble that