Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-02-19
BRING ONLY
BAD DISEASES TO U. s.
uV OF After-War Epidemics
Removed BY Great Strides
OF Medical Science
EUROPE NOT 50 LUCKY

That war has not happened which
has not had It's attendan. read q
communicable disease, not only amoni
tie conquered peoples. bu. among IL,
conqnerors through TIE medium u e
burning soldiers Bur this War b
German aggression Ii likely 70 prove
Al exception 10 the rule No great
epidenics are locked for III Thu
country as the result of doughboy re.
turn from foreign shores, largely be.
uaGase the last two decades have beer
10 rich In medical discoveries and
methods of control have been 20 thor
0nghly perfected
THAT Fl not saying. however. thai
isolated Instances 81 communicable
disease, more Or less common In GER
tain parts Of Europe, viii not be seen
among returning soldiers and possibly
transmitted in limited extent 70 the
citizen population III this country
Physicians have repeatedly taken
oognfzance Of this during the progress
oE medical conferences III the last year
and whenever isolated instances 81
strange nlaladies occur. 1t will find the
demonstrating doctor more OF less un-
familiar with these tieyiations from
the normal. prepared 10 make nen
eOnQuests
Among the more interesting offhese
}osseases. strange to America but often
encountered abroad, especially In Sc
sected sections. are three which have
this incommon. VIZ, that they are
transmitted from person to person BY
the active and vicious cootie. These
animalcuiae are usually regarded BY
che laiety with considerable aInuse-
nant, even when some accidental
contact produces new and desirable
Tor undesirable, according to the point
~ View field for exploration, But
their capacity for producing real harm
aside from the momentary discomfort
81 direct penetration. II that Of the
mosquito, quite unlimited
Three Cootie horn Diseases
The three eootie borne diseases are
trench fever typhus fever and relapa-
ing fever The first Of these Ii In
seresting because Ii Is undeniahly d
new disease, coming first within The
ken Of medical science on the West
ern front in 1916 and 1916 The incl
zsRnce was high. as many as third 81
various commands being in the hos
pital at different times, and therefore
u seriously interfeTed with military
operations II Ii characterized chiefly
BY pains II the Iags, particularly at
me Insertions of the leg muscles into
the bones. and BY D fever After the
symptoms last for few DAYS or d
week. the malady subside 10 reuur III
d few days with diminishing violence,
The death rae. fortunately. was zero,
Egsd while the method 81 transmission
Aeom person 10 person has been dem
unetrated through experiments on vol
unteers the same state of knowledge
skis Ing In regard To yellow fever
the nature Of the virus Is not known
During the war trench fever appear
ga among the Germans and was also
found among the allied forces IN Salon
Ska. and 10 d Iiaaited extent In MesOpo-
9amia I.as summer isolated cases
we're reported among English civilians
and II would be rather singular II a
few caaes5 were not observed from
time 10 time in the larger metropoli-
ean hospitals New York residents.
however. need have no fear Of gem
sgaI epidemic. as the extremely large
AumDer of bathtubs and the natural
Aendsncy Of the American to use large
quantities of soap are the best pro-
section Imaginable
The care used BY the Medical corps
80 the United States army In France
prevented any large dissemination Of
shis trouble among the American
troops In fact II Il largely through
Ahe research work ~ American sur-
ge0ns that the method BIZ which trans
snission is& Tected Was discovered. tt
ysas believed BY Continental surgeons
early ID the war that the mere stand-
ing Il the cold vet of the trenches was
sufficient 70 determine the disease
Famine Fever AncieRs Disease
Relapsing fever or famine fever I'd
Known because + has nothing to do
with fanlines or scarcity of food. has d
much longer history Hippocrates
gave very good description, cases OF
which he observed FL the Island OF
Thasos After his time references to
4 disappeared from medical literature
until Napoleon's surgeons observed an
epidemic Cairo. Egypt In 1900.
Since that time L has been epidemic