El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-07-19
By ". ". BODDIE.

Z endless experimentation. yet it seems
/ that tuberculosis has, from many of
! its peculiarities, produced an unthink-
able amount of unnecessary sorrow
and suffering. Patients have willing
Z ~ submitted to every conceiVa b le
Z kind of experiment Its victims have
Z had every possible form and substance
Of every material, mineral vegetable,
and animal, solid, liquid and gaseous,
/ rubbed on their bodies. poured into
| their stomachs or injected under their
skins, hoping to find a cure They
/ lave undertaken violent exercise.
even almost TO the hour Of dissolu-
! ton, submitted to practically abso.
lutte rest, stuffed with all kinds Of
food, or starved.
The Sacrifices 1Iade.\
The number Of human victims, 70
say nothing Of the countless guinea
pigs, rabbits, cats, dogs, COWS, and
rificed on the altar of tuberculosis,
is inconceivable.
It is believed that no other one
thing has caused so many fallacious
ideas 10 gain a foothold in actual
practical life as has tuberculosis. Pa
tents seem more gullible than do
sufferers from other terrible mala-
dies and almost all Of them are will
ing to try anything that anybody de-
clares a cure. Usually one begins
VIII his 4eA4A44Al A44A 4S4LAeAlr GAlausNG
every theory he may offer, tries va
rious sanitariums, and then falls into
the hands of fakirs and quacks, tax
ing everything and submitting to
anything suggested.
While nearly all Of the knowledge
thai has been gained of the disease is
negative. yet an intelligent conception
OF the malady will bring great relief
in many cases and wonderfully alievi-
ate the awful results that so fire.
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evil
Darkness Aids Disease.
Tubercular bacilli flourish and null
tiply most rapidly in tissue that is
moist and in darkness, with about
the temperature of the human body.
Their greatest enemies are light. heat
and dryness- They live but short
period when exposed to sunlight or
dry air The air is generally full Of
them all over the earth They enter
every lung with the air bgeathed
into it
Hundreds Of thousands of autop-
sizes performed in nearly every
large city in the world reveal
the fact t1:at practically every
person is infected with tubercu-
IOsis in early childhood.
Those who are able 10 resist the
bacill never know that they have
them in their systems, while those
who are SO weak that they cannot
overcome them succumb sooner or
later. Long weakening periods caused :
from any Illness may enable these
bacili TO gain fOothold in ones sys-
tenn When once they have made
serious inrOads, it is exceedingly diff
ticult 10 stay their destroying power. !
Nearly all laymen and a great ma
1orlty Of physicians even yet declare
that tuberculosis is contagious in the
ordinary acceptation and meaning Of
the term, and fearful results follow
this erroneous conception No more
sorrow producing idea ever entered
the human brain
Air Is Full Of Germs.
All damp air is ful Of tubereular
bacilI and they are continuously en- /
tering everybody's lungs. While, !
from a purely sanitary standpoint, one /
afflicted with the disease should not |
give off any more germs than posi- |
bles il is silly to separate him from |
his family OF Isolate him from his /
associates
While it is not desirable that a
parent suffering from tuberculosis /
should sleep with his child, neither is I
it sanitary for one suffering from /
any disease to do so, nor is it even I
wise for a healthy parent to sleep /
with a child Persons i'll from any /
trouble should not kiss children It /
is absurd that a father or a mother /
should abandon the rest Of the family /
simply because they are tubercular. /
Yet thousands of families are broken /
every year on the basis Of this ter I
rible untruth.
Thousands Of doctors and nurses /
daily serve patients suffering and I
dying from tuberculosis, yet rarely .
ever does one have the malady com /
nunicated to him by reason Of his +
duty. Of course, sometimes doctors /
and nurses work themselves to death, I
lr so weaken their systems that the 4
,arfT15 cain control VET even that 4
IS almost unknown to history.
Getting 1t Out OF the Blood.
It has been and IS now generally I
believed that tuberculosis is inherit /