The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-12-10
THE MICROBES

To read the reports of physicians when the
meet in convention and tell each other what the
have been doing is scarcely business, for the ay
erage man rises from the perusal asking himself
What is my special microbe and which way is h
heading now?" We have an account OF one Of thes'
conventions which is full Of interest, but alas,
is also full of microbes.
One scientist brought in boy II years Of age
and explained that when he reached the hospita
he was supposed to be dying. He was but IA pei
cent below zero He had hookworms Under treat
ment he went up to "a per cent in six weeks, and
in few weeks more reached 9s per cent He is
still short for his age though he has grown four
inches in height in the last twelve months.
A German physician has found the cause Of
infant paralysis in germ small that 1t cannot
be traced by an ordinary microscope. This doctor
promises a remedy shortly. Paris doctor reports
his conviction that habitua drinking of alcoholic
liquors is, II not the chief cause least the con-
tributing of tuberculosis, liver diseases
Brights disease, paresis, locomotor ataxia and
great encouragement to cancer A modern germ Is
the Of almost universal trouble with the eyes
and remedy is promised soon.
And most Of these diseases, the convention
agreed, are due to the crowding together of many
people in a small space and the neglect Of health
laws by even the wealthy. Insdious Incidence
steals upon the people and the bacteria take adj
vantage Of them and take up their abode with
them.
Dreary as the details are, they not without
announcement, for the medical fraternity is fight
ing each particular enemy as he appears and every
year shows Improvement in general sanitation.
In the last very few years most wonderful dis
coveries have been made. Some of these may be
noted. DR.. Pooh discovered the tubercular bacillus
DR.. Loeffer discovered the ptomane bacillus; DR..
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Herman Straus discovered how to pasteurze milk;
our own physicians discovered the cause of yellow
fever and the cause of Panama fever; the malaria
bacillus has been run down, and remedy is prom
Used soon; Sir Thomas Oliver announces the dis
covery of chemical compound almost certain to
cure coal dust disease and prevent coal dust
plosions in mines. So it Is that enemy
Of health after another is being run down and
throttled and enough has already been shown on
which to found hope that when people learn to
take of themselves and after more investiga-
lions made by the scientists, disease will be
pretty well banished from civilized states
Surely great work is going on, and the work
is notice that cities should not be sparng of
funds to insure the people against faulty santa
tion for every fresh discovery is new reminder
that the essential thing in every city is clean
liness
When the wise wrote that Cleanliness is
next to godliness" he was not understood. He
probably called crank, but every modern discov-
cry OF the of disease only adds to his rep
utation real scientist.
In this connection wonderful story comes in
the New York papers On the 23rd OF last July
man found unconscious on the railroad tracks
near Yonkers, N. Y. He taken to the St. Jo-
sephs hospital at Yonkers and on consultation the
surgeons decided to take the one in million
chance to save the mans life by an operation. The
account, continuing, says
Drs. Duffy, Knull and Lopez performed the
operation. Dr. Lopez says sixty grams of the
mans brain were taken from the frontal lobe
1t would not have been a great surprise to the
surgeons If the patient had died the operating
table or Immediately afterward
But, instead, the mans respiration had be-
come more regular. BY morning he was breath
ing even more freely and the heart action was
better The physicians gathered at his cot and
gazed at him blankly as II he had been brought
back from the dead There was a marked i'm.
provement twenty-four hours later and one OF
the physicians, more sangune than the rest said
half jokingly:
HE may live, but II he does, he'll be an in
durable idiot"
After few days the man, when questioned
would humble two names, one Martin the other
stanislaw So he lay for 115 days. Finally one
morning the nurses asked him the usual questions
when he suddenly half way in bed and answer
ed lucdly. The nurses sent for the surgeons To
them the man gave his history. His name is Mar
ton strabowsii he came from Bozin, Russia He
wanted to return home. The arrangement was
made, and he sailed last week, perfectly recovered
mentally and physically. Evening Telegram
+ + j.
don't think much OF a who is not wiser