The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1922-01-26
Prominent Physician Says
Disease Is Not Necessary

work on agriculture. Such studies
have also shown that wheat rust is
carried through the winter on a bar
berry shrub, that botulism, a deadly
poison and product of bacterial ac-
ton, develops in badly preserved
olives as well as other foods. Such
microbes kill, if eaten, and cause the
disease Timber neck" in chickens,
although they are often carried in
the intestines Of hogs without appar-
ent harm.
Great economic losses occur from
diseases of domestic animals, such
as contagious pneumonia, hemor-
rhagic septicemia, and blackleg. Vac
cination has proved very effective in
cases of blackleg, and the use of vac
cine and serum prevent hog cholera
if employed before the disease su-
pervenes.
tuberculosis is great destroyer
of cattle, hogs and chickens, and the
State agricultural departments are
doing a great deal to eradicate the
disease. Infected milk is frequent
cause of tuberculosis of the lmyph
glands of the necks of children as
well as intestinal tuberculosis, which
leads to prolonged ill-health and
handicaps them early in life. Our
larger cities compel the inspection
of dairies and the testing of cows
for tuberculosis, or the pasteuriza-
tion of milk to protect children
against milk-borne diseases. Many
epidemics Of contagious sore throats
and typhoid have been traced to con-
|taminated milk. Man is subject to
glanders conveyed from diseased
horses, and to actinomycosis and
Icarbuncles from diseased cows.
WHY FRENCH FAILED.
Within a few decades the world
has recognized certain carriers Of
disease, such as the mosquito in dis
seminating yellow fever and malaria
The lack Of this knowledge led to
failure by the French to build the
Panama canal. General Gorgas gave
the world great medical master
piece of hygienic control by convert
ing the pestilential canal zone to one
of the healthiest places in the world.
The research investigations made
some years ago by Rickets and Wild
er in Mexico revealed that typhus fe-
yer is carried by the body louise.
: Rickets died of typhus during the in
vestigation. We now know that the
disease is also carried by the Central
American woodtick, and the common
bedbug, if such have access to in
dividuals with the disease. Spotted
fever in man is due to the bite of the
Rocky Mountain tick. The cattle fe-
yer in Texas, carried by the tick, is
overcome by dipping the animals and
the selection of certain breedings
more immune to the disease. An ex-
ample Of disease Of trees is found
in the chestnuts which have beer
killed throughout large arease Of our
country by injury to the paper bark
of the trees. Slight variations in the
chemistry or taste of the substance
give immunity; for example, the Jap.
anese chestnut is free from the dis
ease.
DISEASE PREvENTABLE.
Attention is called to a few of the
varieties of disease in the living cell:
of plants, animals and man in ordel
to emphasize the fact that they art
all so much alike; that the diseases
of man are as preventable as are
those of plants in the best managed
greenhouses and gardens and of ami
mails on well managed farms, an(
that the economic gain is far greater
The application of scientific know
ledge in the war prevented dealt
from tetanus caused by the contain
ination of wounds, by contact witt
the richly manured lands of Franc,
and Belgium; especially prepared
serums and antitoxins were use,
which furnish the body with a small
amount of material in the blood, sucl
! as is left after recovery from small
, pox, typhoid fever, measles, or scar
r let fever, rendering the patient i'm
: mune to a second attack. On tn
t knowledge of how this is accom-
plished in the body, and the name
in which it can be transferred, nc
D necessarily by the individual havin
4 the disease, is based all on the pre-
ventive treatment of contagious dis
: J ease; thus measles and scarlet feve
r undoubtedly soon will be classed i
: this group of unnecessary disease
avoidable by vaccination. The sprea
:, , of such knowledge over the countr
q by four million soldiers will contrib
e ute much to the development of
n campaign for national health. A
. the wounds and diseases of these so
diers were cured they were returne
h again and again to the lines in orde
> that a military decision might resul
! The failure Of such decision has lie
the world in chaos for three year
!. More than 10000 of the PHYSICAL
e and mentally best medical men {
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