Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1911-11-01

$500 hhoie dIndZlnR Wnen he be-
gan to grow stronger after the
surgeons had done their best. By
seeming miracle the grayish white
spinal cord was preserved. Sensation
remained in hjS limbs Fifteen pounds
or plaster OF paris was made into a
I Jacket for him. He was incased In
that and kept In the hospital seven or
eight weeks. He lived and was dis
charged. not sound. but ns sound as
any man 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 case death was BAT.
He'd Twenty years ago there would
have been a funeral within a decent
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 hu.
mainly during the term of their i'll
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 yaccinated
against that curse Of the camps--ty-
phoid. Death has already been cheat
ed OF dozens OF lives by this action.
II 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 the
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 fight. 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
| They are so small that you could
carry dozens Of them IN a side pocket
OF your coat and never feel their
weight or bulk. Possibilities OF life
| and death for whole city might be
placed in a pocket case.
There are $4,000 900 dead bacteria
in this little vial" says the bacteriol-
| ogist Il can palm It. hide Il, almost
lose II in my hand. and yet there is
more power in II than you might put
In years ordinary treatment"
That is the way they are fooIing
| death. II il 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 real.
ICES that there Is something poisonous
| floating around IL the blood. 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. II fights its own breth-
rem. turns against them and breaks
them IL is using like TO fight like"
but the whole nature OF the germ is
changed II is so new that death has
not become accustomed &c being
fought in that way.
Men have been living with bali their
brains gone with tho opeufnge vvbero
the nerves come through the skull
plugged with parafnn casts. in order