The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-05
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6ndited by Dr. David n Reeder. Chi


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 Germs and Disease: In my health articles. extending over 8. period of at least two score years I have steadily taught temperance. cleanliness, ra- tional diet and, exercise with cheer fitness and freedom from worry as the fundamental requisites to good health That the germ can cause a disease unless the suitable soil or ptoTnaine is already tn the system. At the present time it can be safely stat ed that there are many laymen who are as we'll. if not better posted upon matters of vital importance to their of the doctors of 50 and 100 years ago, all of which Is due. to the broad minded physicians who have during recent years been teaching the layety the fundamental principles of health and disease. It will be a long time, however, before the stbug theory of disease is overcome, but it will be- A New York correspondent of The NasutiIus., for April contributes the following Interesting eyidences
 ffAs 8 medical man I assert that vaccination Is an insult to common senses Dr.. Charles Creighton, an eminent English physician once de- clared. 'It is superstitious in it's, origin, unsatisfactory in theory and practice, and useless and dangerous
 
 the British Royal Commtssion on Vaccination that. in his opinion vac cination affords no protection what ever. He has written several books on the subject and has made spe- cial study of epidemics. He was en- gagged to write an article for tsThe Encyclopedia Brittanica'' on vaccina- ton. At that time he was 8 be lever in it, butecnanged his views when he investigated the subject, What he wrote was omitted from at least some of the American editions.
 The foregoing paragraph is quoted from an article on Germ ophobia, ' tby Helen s. Gray, in the October ''Forun,'s which presents the views of several distinguished physicians on cause of disease. contagions infec- ton and immunity Some of the leading physicians of all schools pre- dict that the day is not far distant when the contagiousness and 1nfec- tiousness of disease through germs, vaccination, the injection of serums, as preventatives or cures, and the re- sorting to the use Of medicines by deIuded people as, a substitute for correcting their habits of living will be generally regarded as superstit ious When that day comes, we shall cease this pharisaica1 seIf-righteous atd- tude, this dread Rnd suspicion of oth- CTS as germ<1aden, and face the truth
 
 Speaking of the examination of cats whisAers and fur by some Chi eago doctors to find how many vfru1ent varieties of germs there were on them, she says: From Topeka came the report that six different kinds of deadly germs had been found on a cats fur and that the board of health had, in consequence, issued a mandate that Topeka cats must be sheared or killed. But why stop with shearing them? There are germs on their skins. And now public pen holders in banks and postonices are under suspicion. An investigation is being made by the Kansas board of health, the St. Louis Republic stated, and individual penho1ders may have to- be supplied. From time to time a health board official or. some other doctor gives out a statement for pub Iication condemning manufacturing as a dangerous and reprehensibIe prac- tice. Verify, a. fool and his time are soon partedI"