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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-02-19
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one.third OF the purchase money. In
cash on the day of sale, one;third
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from the fact that their weapons had been taken from them although eye witnesses declare that many of the men fought the soldiers with their fists protecting the women.
 This general extermination of the Armenian people was carried out in different ways in the different re- gions. From Van southward and southwest the country threatened by the immediate Russian advance was cleared of its Christian population by outright massacres on the spot. In the region northwest of Van extending to the Black Sea, which was close to the battlefields of Arda- han and Sarekamish (but the Rus sians were not yet across the fron- tier), the method of deportation" was nominally employed but the exiles were murdered wholesale at the first convenient spot. Lastly the Armenian population in the west of Antolia and in the immediate neighborhood of the Turkish capital were really deported by rail. They were given no comforts for the trip and hundreds died. All along the route the American mis- sionaries gave aid to the poor crea- lures, many times giving out all their supplies.
 The deportation" usually began with a summons to all male Arme- nians to present themselves at the Government building. They were sometimes called by house to house summons and sometimes by a bugle call. They were assured that the-Gov- ernment had benevolent intentions and they went willingly to the office.
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next day the dose is repeated, except that the next stronger degree is given, and so on for ten successive days, by which time the original poison gotten through the bite of the dog is neu- tralized.
 The method used in the study of various diseases embodies a very unique system. Several guinea pigs or rabbits are inoculated with the dis ease which is being studied, and they are placed in a large glass jar about two feet in diameter. Plenty of food is given them. Then wide stretch of vaseline is run around the inside of the vessel higher than the animal can reach, so as to make barrier over which the parasite that carries the disease cannot cross. A wire screen is placed over the top and the scien- lists await the development of the disease.
 The results are watched with as much care in each individual case as the most painstaking physician would bestow upon a human patient. The animals temperature is taken every day and recorded on his chart as ac- curately as in the most perfectly con- ducted hospital. The amount of poison, instead of medicine, that is given is duly recorded. A complete record is kept until the death of the animal.
 AS several animals are kept in the same jar, it is necessary to distinguish them in order to keep correct indi- vidual records. For this purpose there is an outline on each record card of a guinea pig in the upper left corner. On this outline its distinctive mark fngs are recorded. All the cards of the pigs in the jar are kept on the wire netting above, and as each anil nal Is examined every day his condi- ton is marked on the card. After one of the animals dies, he is dissected and his case studied. The virus. or antitoxin, as the case may be. is col lected and slides are made for use under the microscope.
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The first experiment on a human be- ing proved successful.
 The Public Health Service has car ried on some very interesting experi- ments along this line. The use of anti-typhoid vaccine requires large doses. It is usually given in three doses, the first of which is five hum dred million dead germs, the second and third, one billion each. This idea has been traced to Pasteur, who cured chicken cholera by the introduction of chicken cholera germs into the live animal.
 While the claim is not made that typhoid vaccine is an absolute pre- ventative, it greatly lessens the danger of attacks and also modif1es their severity. This vaccine is made by growing the typhoid germs in the proper media, washing them in salt solution, heating them to kill the germs, counting them to get the prop CT doses, then bottling the doses and labelling the number of dead germs in each bottle.
 Treatment Of Rabies.
 One of the first things that strikes the eye of a visitor at the Hygienic Laboratory is the rabies department, for the treatment of those who have been bitten by dogs or other animals suspected of having hydrophobia and for the preparation of the antidote for this dreadful malady. This antidote is used not only in the cases that are taken to the laboratory for treatment, but is sent out to boards of health all over the United States. The anti dote is prepared by the inoculation of
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Public Health Service Now Attempting To Discover the Secrets ofInfantile Paralysis = Uncle Sam's Germ Farm = Monkeys, Rabbits and
 Guinea Pigs As Life Savers.

is claimed that no one has ever seen the germ, for 1t has never been iso- lated. Yet it's size is we'll known, and the scientists are aware of this because that the germ will go through a filter which will catch another germ of a known size, and it will not go through filter which another known germ that is smaller will go through. And in this experiment 1t is shown that the infantile paralysis germ is not known in the ordinary way. At this point the homely monkey comes to the rescue of science. Within the last two or three years unprecedented advance has been made with infantile paralysis, measles and typhus fever through the aid of the monkey. It has been found that neither rabbits or guinea pigs will become affected with these diseases, and the medical men have been forced to follow, along different lines in their experime enta- tion. The monkey, possibly because he is closer related to man, contracts the diseases that do not affect rabbits and guinea pigs.
 Whenever an inoculated monkey dies, his spinal cord is removed and placed in glycerin, under which con- ditions the germ of the disease keeps alive for months. A new case of the disease may be started by injecting a monkey with a piece of the spinal cord.
 That the large stable fly will trans init infantile. paralysis has been proven beyond a question of doubt. The stable fly, which is a small mem
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views depicting the development and ravages of tuberculosis. One of these slides contrasts the number of deaths from tuberculosis in the past four years, estimated at 640,000, with the entire mortality record of both sides in the Civil War-the latter being just a little over three times as great. Another slide places the total financial loss from tuberculosis during 1913 at the amazing figure of $2,272, ,4S8,9S8.
 But the story is by no means solely one of the horrors of this dread dis ease, for it also shows the means of prevention, the proper care of patients and groups of patients who have been cured, including views of the Govern
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After a number had collected they were marched out of town without be- ing given time to adjust their affairs or bid farewell to their families. They were usually murdered at the first lonely place on the road-stabbed to death because the Moslem butchers were unwilling to waste ammunition by shooting them. The men of Kera- sond and Moush were stabbed and their bodies thrown into a stream. At Trebizond they were driven on board sailing vessels-not only the men but the women and children as we'll. They were then taken out into the Black Sea and thrown overheard. At Angora Turks went out armed with axes and knives and slaughtered their Ar menian fellow townsmen down as they would wild animals. Many of the chill dren were handed over to the Der wishes, where they were tortured to death by these Moslem fanatics.
 Few Give Up Faith.
 Tn many instances the Armenians were told that if they would give up the Christian religion their lives would be spared. Only few, however. con- sented to this, but the Turks failed to keep their promise and the con- verts met the same fate as those who clung to their faith These women suffered even more than the men for they suffered all sorts of indignities before they/were killed. Many of the best looking girls were seized by the Turks and carried off to the harems. Little children were beheaded before their mothers eyes. The women were marched along rocky roads under the burning tropical sun and only per- nlitted to drink in the streams if they had money to pay the soldiers. Resi- dents of the. towns tried to assist the victims, but even when they were per mitted it was too late and the women died.
 A Danish missionary reports that he passed over the road between Ourfa and Aleppo and found the road strewn with dead Armenian women and children. Some were partly buried, while others were lying in the open and partly gnawed by dogs Sometimes one two were able to escape their captors by hiding in the towns and from these the missionaries obtained full accounts of the brutality of the Turks who had charge of the deportation.
 At Aleppo two streams of exiles met perhaps one-half of the number who had left their homes. They camped in the mud and filth, for there was no sanitation, and hundreds died of disease before they were put on the trains which were to carry them out of Turkey. Some of the refugees reached Port Said, where they were placed in refugee camps Several French cruisers brought supplies and the Red Cross nurses attended the sick. A few of the children even reached New York, where they are being cared for by Armenian societies.
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series of rabbits to weaken the virus so as to render it safe to administer to mankind. One thing, however, has changed since r ,-Steur's time. He used the brain of the rabbit for the prep aration of the virus. It has since been found that the spinal cord is safer, and therefore is used
 On the floor are cases containing rabbits and guinea pigs that have been inoculated with hydrophobia. These, after they have developed the disease, are killed and their spinal cords ex- tracted, the cords are allowed to dry for varying periods of from one to ten days, in order to obtain the nec- essary strengths of poison needed for treatment of patients. The longer the cords are allowed to dry, the weaker the poison becomes. F
 The surrounding shelves contain the labelled bottles of poison of each de- gree of strength. When the patient is brought in, he is placed on a glass operating table and an injection of the weakest degree of hydrophobia poison administered. Three such doses are, given the first day. The
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menian Kingdom was a plateau, the shores of which were washed by the Mediterranean, Caspian and Black Seas, and occupied all the region of Western Asia situated between the Southern boundary of the Caucasian Mountains and Mesopotamia. The authentic history of the people begins in the sixth century, B. c. We then find King Tigranes the First, King of Armenia, maintaining his independ- ence even against Cyrus the Great, but like the successor of Cyrus the successor of Tigranes succu-nbed to Alexander the Great, BPS, B. c.
 Just before the death of the Mace donian King he divided his first Asiatic Empire among his generals and Armenia fell to the lot of the Selucidea who governed it until the Parthians appeared and made themselves mas ters of that section. It was then ruled by a Parthian king who founded a new dynasty for the country. Tigranes the Second, who reigned many years, was at that time (S0-55, B. CD, the most formidable ruler in Asia. In- deed, Plutarch calls him "Tigranes the Great--a man who made Rome tremble before the power Of his arms" After his death, however, Arm enia had great difficulty in main taining her freedom, being compelled to go to war against other nations
 many times The Kingdom of Armenia finally fell in 1875, and since that time no territory has been their fK- elusive possession. Even their native plateaus are tenanted by Kurdish shepherds, who pasture their f1ocks on the mountains and foothills, con- fining the Armenian cultivators to the valleys and plains.
 Armenia is celebrated in ecclesias- ticaI history as the first State to en-
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AA TITLE does the average man or
 woman know what debt of
 gratitude the world owes the
 D scientist who, in the quiet lab- sOratbry with his microscope, studies out the various problems that con- front the medical world. It has al- ways been a custom to look to the family doctor for relief when some beloved one is i'll, but above and be- fore the doctor comes the laboratory worker, who has pointed out the way X to cure the patient and also to pre- vent the spread of the disease.
 While a great plague-infantile paralysis-has been raging in the United States during the past sum- mer, the little known disease has been a subject of study and experimental ton by government experts. These skilled workers, in the Hygienic Lab oratory of the Public Health Service, in Washington, have wasted no effort in attempting to stamp out the dread disease and in preventing it's spread from certain sections where it was most prevalent.
 Although only few important facts are yet known concerning infantile paralysis, it is claimed that it is only question of time until the scientists have uncovered it's secrets-its origin. its method of contagion, and it's cure.
 Experiments With The Disease.
 It has been found in the Hygienic Laboratory, sometimes called Uncle Sam's Germ Farm" that the infantile paralysis germ is difficult crop. It
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The Public Health Service has some nine thousand lantern slides in it's possession with which to drive home the facts it wants to disseminate; and about four thousand of them are i'll constant circulation from one end of the country to the other.
 Educators, physicians, welfare workers, institutions and clubs may have them free of cost. They portray wildly vital facts about daily living conditions and the prevention and cure of diseases.
 They are classified by subject, of course, and each story is told in the way calculated to best hold the att tention of the spectators. The story of the dread plague, for example, is
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that growth is obtained in from forty-e eight hours to a week, accord ing to the germs being grown. At the end of the time the medium used is full of the germs. s..-t, Numbers of rats and other small animals are kept confined in small cases and are fed on certain specific diets. The effects upon the rats are observed, and from these are reasoned out the effects of these various foods upon the human system. One rat is fed upon a normal ration, another upon a diet absolutely lacking in nitrogen, third upon some one lack ing in some other essential. The Ani- mals are carefully examined in every particular and compared. The effects of the various diets upon their loco motion, heart action, temperature and other physical conditions is carefully noted and used as something to rea- son from in case similar symptoms are found in human beings.
 Vaccination And Serums.
 vaccination is the introduction of the live virus or poison germ, gre y attenuated or weakened so as not to be dangerous, into the human body, SlSluS Lue poIlCuL LH0 OiSGdSo III a mild form. Nature arises to repel the attack of the germ. She forms her own antitoxin or army of valient soldiers in the form of antibodies to repel the invasion. It is an unequal combat, as the germ is always weak ened. This light attack, however, has rendered the patient more or less in- mune from further attacks.
 I., inoculating an animal with the dis ease, letting the army of germ sol- diers be formed in the blood of the animal and then transplanting them to the human body to fight the dis ease. Many years ago, mice were inoculated with typhoid germs which had been killed by heat, with the re- suit that they rendered the mice inn mune to the disease. Then the experi- ment was tried with rabbits and guinea pigs, and it proved successful.
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brace Christianity. This was in the year 274, A. D., when the Armenian king, Tiridates, was baptized in the faith by St. Gregory. The race then embraced Christianity en masse-a faith in which they have never wav- cred. During the Crusades the Armenians lent assistance to the Crusaders and according to Pope Gregory XIII it was these people who made it possible for the Crusaders to reach Antioch as promptly as they did. Yet this Christian race has for the last five hundred years been crushed beneath the sabres of the Turks, and the whole period has been an unin- terrupted record of violence and tyranny towards the Armenian people,
 The Persians have been particularly bitter against the Armenians and as early as 1904 the Persian Shah Abbas laid waste the Armenian homes and carried off forty thousand of the race as slaves. Thousands of others were murdered either by the sword or put in prison to starve to death This action has gone. on from time to time until the present day when. the mas sacres have been given the name of deportation" which despite the pro- tests of civilized nations is being car- ried on in a most brutal manner
 Suffered From Turkish Cruelty.
 Ever since 187S,. when Turkey had to cede the northeastern part of the Arm enian plateau to Russia, the Armenians have been the special tar get of the Turkish soldiers and the most trivial incident cause for an out break against this unfortunate people. In 1878 over one hundred thousand of the race perished, but these figures are dwarfed by the record of the past two years.
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Der of the fly family which dis tinguishes itself by standing on it's head when biting, has been placed in a cage with an affected monkey. The fly has bitten the monkey and the latter has been removed to another cage. Then monkey in perfectly good health has been placed in the cage with the fly, which goes on with it's biting. The healthy monkey was taken i'll with the disease.
 Facts About The Laboratory.
 The Hygienic Laboratory is divided into four sections, the department of chemistry, the department of zoology, the department of pharmacology, and the department of bacteriology. The last department is devoted to the study of germs and germ diseases There is everything that concerns the public health.
 Chambers Of Horrors.
 There are two chambers of horrors in the Hygienic Laboratory. They are behind double doors, such as are used to protect bank vaults, so as to preserve the proper temperature and protect the remainder of the labora- tory from infection. The first is the cold room, which is a. stock room. There are kept the deadly bacilli in a quiescent state. In one bottle are housed enough lockjaw or tetanus germs to kill every man, woman and child in a great city. In another are kept the deadly hydrophobia germs, more venomous than a serpent's bite. Still another contains enough diphtheria germs to kill all the children in the country. The entire room is filled with these potential enemies of man. kind.
 The other chamber of horrors is the hot or growing room. When growth is desired of any particular germ, the proper medium, usually beef broth, is with the germ taken from the cold room and placed in the hot room, which is kept at a temperature of the human body. There the germs multiply so rapidly
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The Armenians are not a race of fighters, yet for centuries they have. like the Jews, suffered at the hands of various nations, and like the Jews have found stimulus in adversity. They are keen Witted business people, gifted with remarkable energy and with an industry which made the most of their work. By the year 1900 statistics show that they had spread themselves over the world from Cal cutta to Singapore, to New York and California, and wherever they settled they made their way in the business world. They are peaceful and happy in their family life, preferring to choose the path of the least resist ance. The vast majority of the na- tion, however, is still to be found within the frontiers of the Turkish and Russian Empires where today they arc suffering untold. miseries
 An Ancient Heritage.
 The original home of the Armenian race and the seat of the ancient Ar
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told In one set of pictures so that the child in school may understand it; and yet the same theme, in another set, is presented so that it will interest the physician and the college pro- lessor. Therefore, it is possible in every instance to select pictures suited to the character of the audience that is to see them.
 ''Typhoid' is set forth in some $50 views, including pictures of unclean living conditions, how milk is infected, the pollution of water, the improper disposal of garbage and, of course, the deadly way in which the fly spreads the infection.
 There are one hundred graphic