New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1929-02-23
YOUR HEALTH
BY DIR. MORRIS IISHBEIN
Editor journal Of the American
Medical Association and OF Hygeiu
the Health Machine

by DIX. MOthlS flShSEIN
Editor journal Of the American
Medical Association and Of Hygciu
the Health Magazine
Just a few months have passed
since the world was startled by the
sudden death Of an intrepid inves.
tigator of tropical disease, Hideyo
Noguchi. He was but one OF many
scientists who have gone to study
at first hand the causes OF infection.
SO that man might be freed from
the peril of disease.
In the jungle, sleeping sickness.
yellow fever. malaria, and dozen
other diseases are far more danger
GUS than lions, tigers, elephants or
serpents. In the control of these
enemies scientists do not use rifles
but pills of quinine and syringes
loaded with salvarsan.
The savages who have seen whole
tribes wiped out by tropical disease
es have learned to trust the science
of the white man rather than al
chemy, the magic, The dances and
avistic medicine men.
Insect Carriers
One OF the extremely interesting
observations Of investigators of
tropical disease is the fact that these
complaints are transferred form
/ man to man or from animals to
man by means OF insect carriers.
Thus malaria is carried by the an
opheles mosquito. fllariasis by sew.
/ eral species OF mosquito. schistomi.
asis through larvae found In fresh
/ water streams. relapsing fever by
lice and bedbugs. dengue by the
stegomyia mosquito. trypansomiasis
by the tsetse fly. rat-bitc fever and
/ Wells disease or infectious jaundice
: by tn rat. plague by the flea and the
, rat.
| In DR.. Arthur Torrance's interest.
ing account Tracking Down ths
Enemies Of Man." he gives a real.
astic account of the way in which
| the tsetse fly brings to man the dan.
gcrous annd indeed almost invari.
ably fatal trypanosomiasis or Afri'
can sleeping sickness.
The bite of an infected tsetse fly
is usually announced by SHARP
, necdle-likc prick of pain hi
writes, land is invariably immed
diately followed by a snse # tor
mentins irritation, more or less Sc
we're in the vicinity OF The bite. 1r
the course of several days later tn.
pain subsidies. but a few days latel
the bitten person becomes i'll witt
fever. which may last several day
before completely subsiding. bu
which will recur at irregular perio j
OF days or weeks with an ever in
Creasing severity.
Victim Enfeebletl
"In course of time, the infecte,
person becomes slightly anemic
much debilitated and acutely feeb;
in mind and body. He suffers ter
ribly from headache. The glands be
come tender and enlarged.
after a few weeks. or even mucl
earlier. there will appear at the pc
RODS Of the recurring fever. a pecu
liar rash on the middle of the ches
right between the nipples. Thi
rash is definite sign of infection
by the parasite OF the trypansosom
disease"
Through the martyr-like death
of many medical investigator,
through the inspired studies in tn
Laboratories of the chemists. tn
means of transmission Of this di
sease has been determined, method
OF prevention discovered, drugs 70
, treatment developed. and whole
areas Of pest-ridden tropical Ian
made available for production an
civilization.
l Copyright. 1929. NEA Service. In,
r Printed in L. S. A,