Amador ledger., 1910-05-13
A MEDICAL REVOLUTION.

There field of human investigation that has advanced
rapidly of late years than the science Of medicine and
surgery. anything it has more than kept pace with the
progress in other departments of effort The germ theory
has revouonized the practice of medicine DR. enner when
he proclaimed the Heretofore unheardof theory of nocua
ton preventive of disease and applied stay the ravages
of the greatest scourges of the human racesmapox
sounded keynote of prcgress which has been wonderfully
enlarged upon since his day. His idea to Introduce
mild and easily controlled form of disease SIS preventive of
the disease in its malignant form Practitioners OF the
orthodox school secuted his advanced IDEAS and denounced
him as dreamer and wanderer from the established paths
of his profession But the truth which he boldly advo-
Gated slowly worked its way face of persistent opposition
to an abiding place in the universally accepted truths of
medical science Indeed the theory of the origin and
Of disease belived promise for the ameora
ton Of the human than other method OF treatment
Consumption cancer and other pagues hitherto
garded incurabe being treated by the antl-toxn
method with marked In instances, complete
claimed of these diseases when taken in their early
stages and the hope is confidently held that in years to
come mortality from these maladies will be materially
reduced Disease in its infinite variety of forms simply
contest supremacy between antagonsc forces in the
bood other words between disease producing and disease
resisting germs The advance decline of the malady is
determined the other of these contendng armies
in the ascendant 1t less that the life Of
every person is battle between the marshalsd
hosts health and disease the shape of disease This
conformity with that law of nature by which form of
life another Men differ In their disease repel
ling powers fully much they do in mental and physi
cal respects. In the health preserving so
active song that disease bearing germs of every des
crption unable foohod Unhealthy microbes
NAV be introduced in millions but they killed
azed without the least apparent disturbance of the general
health. The constitution of another individual may be
bombproo against species of germ, and afford
fruitful soil for the propagation of another hostile germ
Thus the citadel of health may be strongly fortified against
fever for instance and easily susceptible to attack from
another quarter Now the drift of medical science by the
use of antitoxns in combating disease reinforce the
vulnerable spots by the introduction into the system of the
patient of the fighting germs of the particular form of disease
from which he suffering That is say by the introduc
ton of blood from outside sourcesbood richly endowed
with those elements which lacking in the patients
stituonthe battle line is thereby reinforced at its weakest
point at critical time The resistant forces
this way placed in the ascendant and this condition results
the patient Marvellous have already been
achieved by this treatment and the is yet in its in
fancy Even the culture of the dseasefghtng germs is
a vitality important branch of medical science.
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