The Topeka state journal., 1919-02-01

has been given in two army camps.
At Camp Upton during the ten weeks
from the period of vaccination until
the troops went overseas. no cases of
pneumonia due to the types of pneu-
mococcus protected against q, II rud
lid occurred among the vaccinated
troops. The incidence of pneumonia
from other organisms was only one
tenth as high among the vaccinated
as among the unyaccinated, altho pre-
vious to vaccination the incidence of
pneumonia had been equal in the two
groups.
"2. The vaccine now being used is a
lipovaccine given in single injection,
and containing pneumococci types !,
IL and III. Reactions are, as a rule,
rather less pronounced than after
anti-typhoid vaccination.
3. This vaccine is intended to af-
ford a certain degree of protection to
monia; it is not intended to cure those
already sick. 1t is not advised for
persons suffering from acute colds or
fever. ''F. F. RUSSELL.
Colenel, Medical Corps. U. S. A"
The injection, we are told, "can GER
talniy do no harm" and drawing con-
clusions from the general principles of
immunity it would seem that it should
afford considerable protection against
the most fatal forms of lobar pneu-
monia.
1t should be borne in mind that dur
ing the winter months lobar pneu-
monia is one of the most prevalent of
the infectious diseases and during the
entire year it is the cause of approxi-
mately $50 of the deaths from all
causes; therefore, it would seem that
protective agent that offers any hone
against such a prevalent and so fatal
disease should be used
Questions and Answers
Question. What is there to all this
talk about bad teeth being the cause
of pretty nearly every kind of sick
ness Don't you think the dentists are
, trying to work UP business Mrs. B.
c. B.
Answer OF course, I cannot an
swer for any individual dentist, if you
have some particular one in mind. but
in the main their contentious, or rath-
er the contention of physicians that
| bad teeth" or so-called 'taural
sepsis' is an important or the all
important factor in certain diseases of
other parts of the body, is well found
ed. That a decayed tooth could cause
anything SO serious as joint rheu-
matism was first hard to believe, so
Investigations were made to see just
how the teeth, tonsils, gums and other
parts of the mouth when diseased af-
fected the different parts of the body.
1t was found that oral infections, such
as bad teeth, diseased tonsils and sup
! puratIng gums, caused by Riggs dis
, ease or assesses, not only caused
( muscle and joint rheuma tism, but kid
ney troubles,-nephritis or Bright's
disease,-heart infections, stomach
ulcers, diseases of the blood vessels,
slandular infections, skin diseases in
cluding boils, and various infections
of the nervous system such as neuritis.
neuralgias and sciatica. If you would
avoid these conditions get your mouth
fixed up.
@. Is aspirin dangerous drug?
~ Any drug that is taken indis-
criminately oE- continuously is harm
full The practice, all too prevalent, of
self medication of those who have had
no training in the diagnoses and treat
ment of disease, is to be deprecated.
! Not only is there danger of serious
/ harm to the body organs and func-
| tions, but there is always great dam
ger of contracting drug habit" par
! tfcularly in the use of those drugs for
| the relief of pain. 1t is not the part
! of wisdom, common sense or economy
! to tamper or experiment with the
/ works of machine about which you
know nothing.