The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-11-28
80 M 4pEApLlEsr rHlNe IN wAR.

n .sThe war has now been two months
Swaging. And the epidemic problem Is
appearing, as wise military men have
Il expected It would, as factor that
would worry commanders sorely."
" So says Dr. John B. Huber. one OF
: Y our 3rfrs army surgeons in the Philippines,
an authority on tuberculosis and pro-
fessor of pulmonary diseases, writ
Ing: in Harper's Weekly on Bullets
and Germs. He quotes Philip Gibbs
from the front in France:
Presidential stencil steals down
the wind in gusts of obscene odor.
For three weeks and more bodies oil
Germans and Frenchmen have been
1rotttng there. The frontier fields
have been Uttered with corruption
where plague and fever find hating
ground"
IL was several weeks ago that Gibbs
\ wrote. The armies in France are
lighting over the same ground, over
and over. Yesterday a Berlin story
stated that the allies had been thrown
back at Scissors. 1t was at scissors
that General French in his second
detailed report to Lord Kitchener
said that the allies had made sue
scessful advance-more than montn
\ ago. over and over the same ground
has been 1ncessant battling.
Cold rains, Major Huber says, have
lately added to the difficulties of gath
u nf.3I..i{,S mn the wounded and getting
them to safety and proper care. More
sofi Them die of pneumonia. therefore,
which Says DR.. Huber, sis an infec-
sStioti. III He0adds:
Then many Of the dead have been
thrown into the rivers. which are
thus hfdeously contaminated with ty'
5phSid fever, dysentery and the like.
sTybhus cases are appearing And
u there Is Echolera. Z. :. And these cpl
gdemic, infectious, bacteria-engender-
ed diseases are going to become worse
In esSeometric progression during the
next few months. During the next
six months all the soldiers whose
physical and mental stamina Is not
that Of seasoned veterans are going
TO succumb."
Dr. Huber recalls some of the In
sfections that have succeeded great
wa Wal lexander introduced malaria
into Europe, He brought it from In
dias which thus conquered her con-
SulIuerors.' =, Alexander died of this dis
ease: The Tartar invasion sowed tho
SCrimea with the seeds OF Dunonic
nlaRne. Cholera also is an "Asiatt@
Il GuSstr in Europe introduced by war.
saT4phoid is only one of the 'ingestion
Striad !. cholera with its own specific
5bacterium being the second anu oys'
sezIn'tary; having Its own essential oac'
! terftali cause, the third. Cholera and
dysentery bid fair to carry OH mora
! Than typhoid. This is because we
s s,sasrrsfnow, with measurable eject vac
4 sinate against typhoid, whereas no
smjchi means Of preventing either chol-
4 arasfor dysentery has yet been perfect
y IA "A devastating disease mentloneo
= hv5Dr. Huber as already in evidence
4 3i,s.Imeasles. Gin civil, life more laugh
sbIsg than serious In warfare II
lakes on an unwonted virulence. II
IE;pir1eads rapidly;in camp, once intro
5luced. And the yenereal diseases are
3ssTIoinE tosreap their unclean crops es-
= SecialyE among the victorious troops
: inS cities Thus will conquered places
y ri sgtheir vile revengcs. The types
55f Syenereal disease incurred IN lot
eign countries are even more V1r"-