Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-10-18

OF the type that used to be hope
less. Four Of the vertebrate
were smashed. 1t was worse
than a broken back, for not one, \
but four Of the chain Of bones
were crushed!
1t was considered amazing
that he should have survived
the fall. Naturally, then. 1t was
still more amazing when he be-
gan to grow stronger after the
surgeons had done their best. BY
a seeming miracle the grayish white
spinal cord was preserved. Sensation
remained In his limbs. Fifteen pounds
of plaster OF paris was made into a
jacket for him. He was incased in
that and kept in the hospital eve or
eight weeks. He lived and vas dis
charged, not sound. but as sound as
any nan can hope to be who has fall
en- headlong from such a height and
broken four of the bones of the spinal
column. In this ase death was baf-
fed. Twenty years 6 there would
time after the fall.
How long will we live. anyway.
when the world has been entirely
gone over with a sterilizer? When
the germs have been hunted into their
final hiding places? When the infected
and diseased folk are kept carefully
separated from the remainder of hui
mainly during the term of their III
ness?
The United States army has started
fooling death on the Wholesale. Troop
by troop, battery by battery and bat
talon by battalion, the regular officers
and soldiers are being vaccinated
against that curse of the camps-ty-
phoid. Death has already been cheat
ed Of dozens of lives by this action.
It is hardly worth while to keep a list
of the typhoid deaths in the army any
more, at least in those divisions that
participated In the maneuvers on he
Mexican border last spring. There are
not enough worth mentioning. and
those who have died were those who
for some reason Or other were not
given the vaccine.
This one step alone will make wars
harder to fghts Fewer men will die
In the fevered camps. and there will
be more for the bullets.
Death is being fooled by little bot
ties. He is being cheated by little
tubes Of thin glass. filled with yellow
ish. sirupy fluids, that are more pow
erful than anything else on the chem
lists shelves. They have within them
possibilities Of life or Of dissolution.
They are SO small that you could
carry dozens of them in q side pocket
Of your coat and never feel their
weight or bulk. Possibilities of life
and death for a whole city might be
placed in a pocket case.
There are so. 900, 1000 dead bacteria
in this little VIAL" says the b%acteriol-
ogist. Il can palm 1t. hide It. almost
lose It in my hand. and yet there is
more power In it than you might put
In a years ordinary treatment"
That Is the way they are fooling
death. 1t Is done with single things
that are really complex In their work
ings. Into the veins a solution OF
dead tuberculosis germs Is poured.
They do not kill their live brethren.
What happens is this: The body recl-
ICES that there Is something poisonous
floating around In the blood. A spe-
cial effort is made. and more Of those
never-say-die warriors. the white cor
puscles. appear from somewhere and
set upon the dead and the living
germs. Deth lets go unwillingly. but
the enraged white cells never cease
their warfare.
"Autogenous" Is the name that they
have given this particular type Of dis
ease relief. It fights its own breth-
rem, turns against them and breaks
them It is using like to fight like"
but the whole nature of the germ Is
changed. 1t is SO new that death has
not become accustomed to being
fought in that way.
Men have been living with half their
brains gone. With the openings where
the nerves come through the skull
plugged with parafiin casts. in order