Evening star., 1922-07-30

of the. cholera microbe is 10 multiply
with frightful rapidi,y-even for a
microbe!
In twenty-four hours a single bacillus
can multiply to go. 600. 900. 900 others.
each worse than himself. So. one neg
lected case can start a cholera eri-
demic.
Let single handkerchief or spoon
be washed in plain water twithou:
admiXture of germ-kilier) and some
6579, 600 600 900 willing workers are
off for the river. A single house-fy.
feeding in the sick room can give
transportation to 1000 little pioneers
ready to multiply into 625.ooo, 10000 10
OoO 900, 600. 900 chillers of the human
blood. to turn men blue and STILL
Unless something stops them.
WHAT can stop them? The present
w olera in East Prussia was
brought in a camel boat. loaded with
nothing but wood scantlings. Ye,
there is something that can stop them!
You may say that it is the quaran-
tine.
The choleras route is known 1t
comes from India-where it exists al
ways. Yet, in spite of quarantine, the
cases slip through.
The route crosses Persia and the
Caucasus. penetrates Russia. and fails
straight on Austria and Germany. Such
is the way by land. By sea. each year,
a hundred thousand Mahometan pill
grims go from India to Mecca. To and
fro. they spread cholera in Syria, Egypt.
Tunis and Algiers.
The boats have their cholera doctors,
inspecting all. isolating the stricken
and enforcing hygiene among the well.
There is the great lazaretto of the Red
sea and the Ojeddah quarantine. a
boat is thrown into quarantine for
single case on board. And yet the
cases slip through.
On the land routes, between Asia
and Europe. military posts stopped
every traveler-in the old days when
the guard. now, by drunken soviets!
Heaven knows. 1t used to be difficult
enough. when there were veritable bat
ties, on the roads from Persia into Rus
sia, between watchful posts and armed
bands of oriental merchants and their
servants, arrogantly, ignorantly. su-
perstitiously refusing disinfection.
But, now!
NOW, the serious effort begins at the
~ German and Polish barriers The
French. this summer. might distinguish;
"Which?" The Germans might con-
fess; Both And censorship may
boast itself the best friend of the
west.
Because of gastric juices.
Here comes the sensational novelty
fies the kids who hung flowers on the
beast, and justifies the censorship of
alarmist rumors, while it works in
dustriously on its serums, in the
shadow.
What! Can alsrmist rumors start
microbes to multiplying? Yes, exactly
so, where there are microbes ready to
begin performing.
(These lines. written for Americans
at home, are not such-because printed
words cannot make microbes, although
silence can destroy them!)
Here is truth. Popular panic has
multiplied every cholera scourge of
the past out of some local epidemic of
it: while in India, where cholera exists
continually, fatalistic indifference keeps
It from unduly spreading!
We carry our cholera remedy with
US!
"The gastric juices of the stomach,
in their normal state, act on the cholera
microbe as an energetic, antiseptic,"
says the Pasteur Institute. 1.-The nat
ural juices of our stomach kill the
cholera microbe quicker than either
sublimate or. phenic acid"
1t Is astonishing.
Cholera ought¬ to exist.
We carry the sure antidote. unless
we spoil It. Our, gastric juices protect
us-until we get great fright!
fright, sorrow or anxiety can change
the gastric juices qualities says
the reassuring conclusion Of pres
ent-day science. land the general ma
ture Of cholera hastens the castrophe.
So,. true cholera hourishes on fear
and doubly. The intestinal tube imi-
tates cholera; and the gastric juices
lose their power. to kill the microbe.'