The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1922-12-16
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IL means can be found to control
speed maniacs and eliminate deaths
oue 70 carelessness. the human race
mas q fair chance to survive the perils
OF disease. True . the speeding auto
mobile and the deadly grade crossing
continue to count their victims BY the
tens OF thousands. and regiments die
from diseases classed as preventable.
But against the tremendous odds
preventive medicine is winning, slow
ly but surely. its fight for the proion-
cation Of human life.
Twelve to fourteen years have been
added to the average OF human life
In the last half century by the prog
ress In medical sciences Infant NOR
tally has been cut In half. tubercu-
losis largely robbed of its .terrors,
and fevers and epidemics brought un-
der control. Nevertheless. six hun
dred thousand people still die in the
United States annually from prevent
able diseases-
This figure Is appalling. but reas-
surfing, for 1t Ia the evidence of DIR.
August 8. Knight. medical advisor Of
the Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company, that there is less dying be-
ing done now than ever before. In
fact. people are not dying SO much
around North America az they used
to. The 1922 death rate for the Uni
ted States and Canada. according to
DR.. knight, who deals with mortuary
statistics gathered by life insurance
companies. accepted a accurate by
all statisticians, will be almost ex-
actly what 1t was in 1891, and that
year the rate was the lowest ever re-
corded in medical health history.
Tuberculosis, typhoid fever and child
ren's diseases will have fewer VIC
Tins this year than ever before. But
| automobile accidents and diseases
such as organic heart troubles and
cerebral hemorrhage and Bright's
disease will take q larger toll this
year than eve Heart troubles have
already killed about 10000 people
in the United States and Canada, ac-
cording to this authority.
The p~leasantest thing DR.. knight
tells US is that the average span Of
human life In the United States and
Canada can be extended by ten years
IL full advantage Is taken of the pres
emit sun total of medical and SAM
tary knowledge.
1t has been only some ten or twelve
years since q German medical scien-
tist discovered what may be said to be
q specific for one Of the scourges Of
the human race. Steadily the re-
search has continued. and diptheria
has ceased to decimate childhood's
ranks. thanks to this research. Now
comes announcement from the New
York hospital Of the successful use
Of a remedy for diabetes, that all
mem which has swept many thous-
ands into the grave, and from which
medical authorities say about one In
every hundred Of Americans are suf-
fering. in one stage or another or one
form or another.
Some moths ago researchers in the
University of Toronto gave out q
guarded statement that perhaps a
cure for diabetes had been found.
Since the announced discovery exper-
iments have been conducted in New
York, and, according to DR.. Howell,
superintendent of the New York hos
pital. with such success as to warrant
that this treatment will ave the
lives Of countless thousands Of suf-
ferers from diabetes.
Still another discovery Is one hailed
as a successful treatment for gang
rene, that dread disease hitherto con-
sidered incurable and relievable only
by amputations. DR.. BENJAMIN yab-
Ions. the celebrated New York patho-
logist. says the treatment consists of
the injection Of q serum into the
blood OF patients.
Medical science and preventive
medicine have traversed much
ground in recent decades and much
progress has been made since the
period when the night air was re-
garded as deadly and consumptives
were kept in sealed rooms. Medical
science still progresses; It has not
conquered some diseases, cancer. for
instance, but 1t has prevented many
diseases from clutching new victims.
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