Williams news., 1914-01-01
OBSERVATIONS OF
 A CLODHOPPER
By Tempest t

II passed another milestone and 1913swill retire forever into the :shades of the past to be mentioned 5 only in the chronicles of time. 1914 will be born and like 1913 will live its appointed time and pa-s into history.
 During all thaf decades to modern christendom one calamity after another menaced life and property and disease has carried away countless millions. And as the years roll on new and strange mal- adies constantly spring up to baffle the most skillful physicians. How little the average citizen realizes what awful maladies thrive
 in close proximity, silenced by the
 medical fraternity as a matter of
 precautions. The worst feature of
 the various diseases rampant is the incurable nature of many.
 Nothing is more to be feared than the dread diseases which are epidemic, infections, or contagious yet which medicine can do little to cure.
 The United States Government spends millions of dollars yearly in the investigation and cure of di- seases of dogs and other domestic animals, yet thousands of human beings die every year of diseases that should be controlled. A few dundred- thousand dollars iudi- ciously expended would save hun dreds of lives every year.
 Itseems as though, when physi- clans control one disease that another becomes more vile and courageous. A few years ago dip theria anti-toxin was unknown, prophylactic treatment for typhoid fever was unheard of and various serums are of recent discovery. At that time typhoid, pneumonia and diptheria were the most dread ed agents of death aside from con- sumption. At present all but the last have been placed pretty well under control.
 It is very noticeable that since these diseases have been compara- lively conquered that appendicitis. cerbro spinal menengits, and can- cer have assumed more virulent forms and Cerebro Spinal Menen- gitis has become highly infectious and somewhat contagious.
 Few know the terrible suffering endured by menengitis victims. With all known treatment the mor- tality rate is S7 percent. Even 75 percent of those who recover are rendered, invalids or cripples for life. & Z
 Of late this maladv has carried . if thousands and is ravaging senie localities all the time. It is more to be dreaded in lower elevations and is especially disease of infants though of late years nearly third of the victims are Rrown-ups. Males are more susceptible than fe- males.
 About the only precs utions con sist in keeping the blood in order and not allowing tbe system to run down. The nostrils and chambers of the nose in catarrhal state or when effected by cold in the head afford ingress of the Menengitis Bug
 By using an atomizer srd spraying the nazal cavities with or dinary table sal | and peroxide in solution the membranes may be healed and rendered tough enough to resist the bacillus of menengitis and other microbes.
 It has been observed that menen- gitis follows la-grippe, measles and scarlet feaver and 1t Is some what predisposed by ill ventilation and 
 The writer has lost a brother with menengitis as the indirect cause of death. The patient recov- cred from the dreadful disease but was so weak that over-exertion and cold brought about heart failure.
 An effort should be made to get the U. $. Government to create a of public health to study and disseminate abroad cures and preventitives for such dread de sease, especially as menengitis. tet- anus, pellegra, bubon ic plague and 
 Millionaires could find us better me ms of relieving humanity than to establish institutions for req search in the microbe realm.