The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1912-05-20
Organic Diseases Versus Germs

by DR.. Roy K. Flanagan, Of ch= state
Health Department Of Virginia:
H Organic Diseases Versus Germs.
Il Do typhoid fever. diphtheria, small
pox. measles. malaria and Bubonic
/ plague constitute the complete roster
Of the important diseases We know
how 20 prevent? I trow not. Look
about you. What Is the matter with
John Smith? Oh. he has the rheuma
tism. What's the matter with Henry
Jones? On. ne has diabetes. Poor Tom
Brown is down with BrighJs disease
and will never get up. VIII Johnson.
as you all know, has had a stroke of
appoplexy, and Jim Robinson, sad TO
relate, has just been taken TO Williams
burg with softening Of the brain. Do
tell. What an awful dispensation Of
Providence Bosh!
II Fixing the Responsibility.
The devil may have had something
to do with the bulk OF these diseases;
the Lord. never. You know, and /
know. that these men, cut down in their
prime, but for one common cause would
stand strong and we'll before US. Di-
verse as their ailments are, the same
thing brought them down. and though
Taboo be written large across the sub
ject, and through commercialism and
greed have built about the practical
consideration Of common cause a Chin
Iese wall, the fact remains that alcO-
holic drink is the arch purveyor OF
sickness and death TO mankind Say
what you will, make all the allowance
you please for what has been called the
wild eyed agitators exaggerated vapcr-
ings, but we, We medical men, can
that disease and death stalk hand in
hand with the use of liquor as a bey-
erage
AS our physicians are the leaders of
thought concerning the cause and pre-
vention of disease-we ask that they
give the above careful consideration
The leading force today that is pre-
l venting the crystalizing process OF
l sentiment against the saloon is the Ii
I Quor dealers rally cry, Let the people
l rule" The Women's Christian Temp
l erance Union believes that God does
l rule, What is morally wrong can never
be made legally right.'-Mrs. E. l.
1 Calkins.
Il am not a suffragette. The world
/ will never have woman suffrage unit
the women of the world want it, We
i don't want politics. But the only thing
that could drive US into politics is t.
] demand better laws to protect our chill.
1 dren."
III These are the convictions of DR.. Car.
olyn Geibel, the Battle Creek health
expert, as expressed in a speech sht
made to a gathering of ladies Wednes
day afternoon in Ira street school. Sale
she continuing.
THE laws of our country are lacking
They don't afford adequate protection
for our children. Why, there are fou
laws for the protection of swine to ev
cry one for the protection of babies
Last year half of the babies born died
If better laws not given to US, th'
time may come when the women will
rise up in a body and demand SUI
frage in order to get the protection GU
children ought to have"
Practical Idea of Needed Philanthropy
A Chicago judge suggests a new dut,
for the courts. He says:
1T is all right for people who do no
come in contact with these classes t.
say that there IS plenty of work 70
the man that wants it, but when
man is down and out and has no plac
to go he needs some one to take al
interest in him and get him braced u
again"
And then the court suggests tina
some provision be made whereby
may assist the unfortunate man; Civ
him some assistance, although the ma
may be down and out and hasn't
cent to pay a fee. For this duty Their
should be, it suggests, an attache o
ha ha
tain influence it may carry in finding
the man work. The unfortunate ma
himself. under such influence and care
a might spruce up, do his work we'll an
- make something out Of himself
Alcohol the Ally of Disease and Deatf
IL DR.. Arthur Evans, Of London, in a
Z address delivered at the annual break
:" fact conference of the National Temper
n ance League with the British Medica
Association, at Birmingham. called at
tention to the part alcohol plays in re
;, gard to special group of bacterial in
10 Reimbursement diseases.
If He says, There is no doubt that eve
little alcohol stimulates the ANNA
passions; there is no doubt that even
little alcohol dulls the highest menta
ca pacities of judgment, of cold, calm
= deliberate purpose; ii dulls the sense o
what is right and wrong-in a WORD
the highest and the best in our cere
bration is off the throne, the lower an
, the worse rule for the time. To quot
Sir T S. Clouston, AS a physiolo gica
fact all these toxins talcohol, opium
cocaine, etc) act first on the power o
! control and the moral sense, which ar
the highest and latest evolved qualitie
in man
Listen to what that great English
/, pathOlOgist. Professor Mott, says
| Drink is not only the cause Of a grea
number of crimes, but OF great miser
\ and human suffering; it causes disesas
i and accelerates and aggravates dis
eases caused by pathogenic organisms
- I. e. tuberculosis and syphilis; more
over. II IS the indirect cause OF venerea
: Infection in q large proportion OF tn
causes
: There Is no need that l should sa
/ more than give you these quotation
only TO emphasize this: These first ef
feCts OF alcohol on the brain occasion
situation Of such grave peril that ever
!, oen ought 10 know OF il. time does no
= permit 10 ella hOrate this subject. :
l crowd my meaning into a sentence
n When a young life starts out from tn
shelter Of home TO fight the battles tina
=. must be fought and brave the danger
/ that must be faced one Of the mos
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