Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1911-11-03

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of the type that used to be hope ~
less. Four of the vertebrae -
were smashed. 1t was worse n
than a broken back. for not one, \
but four of the chain of bones
were crushed.
It was considered amazing
that he should have survived
the fall Naturally. then. II was
still more amazing when 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 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 seven or
eight weeks. He lived and was dis
charged, not sound. but as sound as
any man can hope to be who has fall
en- headlong from such height and
broken four of the bones Of the spinal
column. In this case death was baf-
fed. 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 Ill
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.
Iphoid. Death has already been cheat
ed of dozens of lives by this action.
| It is hardly worth while to keep inst
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 we're not
given the vaccine.
This one step alone will make wars
harder to fight Fewer men win ei'
in the fevered camps. and there WI
be more for the bullets.
Death is being fooled By little bot
ties. He is being cheated by little
tubes of thin glass. filed with yellow
ish. sirupy fluids. that are more pow
erful than anything else on the chem
lists shelves They have within then
possibilities OF life or Of dissolution
They are so small that you coul'
carry dozens of them in side poke
of your coat and never feel thei
weight or bulk. Possibilities OF If
and death for a whole city might b
placed In a pocket case
~There are 50.000.o00 dead bacteri
in this little VIAL" says the bacteria
ogist. II can palm It. hide Il, almos
. lose II in my hand. and yet there
, more power in 1t than you might pu
J In a years ordinary treatment"
. That is the way they are foolin
death. Il Is done with single thing
} that are really complex in their worl
; ings. Into the veins solution
; dead tuberculosis germs is poure'
/, They do not kill their live brethren
! What happens is this: The body rea
E ICES that there Is something pcisonou
; floating around in the blood. A sp'
I cial effort is made. and more OF thos
' never-say-die warriors. the white co
s puscles. appear from somewhere an
; set upon the dead and the Twin
s germs. Deth lets go unwillingly. b
u the enraged white cells never ceas
b their warfare
u -Autogenous" is the name that the
s have given this particular type Of al
d ease relief. It fights its own bret
!. rem. turns against them and breai
them. II is using like to fight like
i but the whole nature of the germ
k changed. II is so new that death b.
& not become accustomed to beir
z fought in that way.
1, Men have been living with half the
% brains gone. With the openings whe
4 the nerves come through the ski
e plugged with parafin casts. In ord