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f"1 n r: zi n r ''"3 i Lj ! ) i i LJ Li i L- I f I 1 1 .Vf What Medicine Tlffi BUBONIC ; XCopyrlght, 1907, by J. W. Muller.) This and the other articles to ap : bear la this series have been prepared , by specialists and ' medical t men of wide, reputation. Each, contributor c. stands high in his field. Professional ethics prohibit them from attaching ' their -names; but every statement is made with the highest authority, The bubonio plague, which recently ' re-appeared upon the Pacific Coast, is an acuta, infectious disease 'caused by a minute orjaniatn called the bacilus pestls. - The disease itself has been - known since the time of the patri troha, and one authority estimates that it has killed fully two blHlon human .- beings in the post 2,000 years, but It was not until 1894 that the organism , tvas discovered. Tha discovery was made slmulUne cusly and independently by two noted pathologists, KlUsato and Tersln, and : since then the tatter has perfected an Immunising antitoxin. There is also a preventative vaccine of another sort. Both the antitoxin and the vaccine ' have been used extensively and with ; good results, but the bubonic remains - a violent and virulent plague. . It is epidemic In India year In and year ,y out,' and along the China icoast, In ' Central Asia a"d in the East Indies , and South Sea Islands it is ever pres ent. 1 Bubonic is one of the most deadly maladies known. All authorities ajrree ' that the mortality is usually more than . 60 pet cent., and in exceptional cases It sometimes closely approaches 100 per cent. During the Hong Kong epi demic in 1894 nine-tenths of the Chi namen attacked did not recover. In India, despite the valiant efforts of the . British doctors, the death rate is com monly from 60 to 80 "per cent.- v . The symptoms which gives the bu bonic plague its name Is the appear ance of huge bolls or buboes upon the , ' neck and groin and under the larms of , the patient. The period of. inoculation Is from the three to seven days, and ' after that, for & day or two the patient , nas cnywt. iever, neaaacnes, nausea ' and. tJk other customary signs of an acr,vFiirection. -k.vh? : - ,; ; ? ' r , At'Vi end of this tima the bubo begll Jto appear and the patient grows . vtrw.u. it no is able to walk at all - be staggers like a drunken man. His . temperature rises t 104 degrees or higher and his pulse beats rapidly anl strongly. His tongue is dry and yel ' .low, and he enn scarcely speak. . . , A'ter the third day the temperature , usually falls a bit, but n w only tern poru ly. When it rises again it re ' r;nin at 104 i 105 degrees f?r a week. During this period colhn n l death often put an end to the patience ' suffering. If he is fated to escape, his temperature gradually falls. . , But even under the most favorable conditions the exhaustion following an attack is severe, and the patient may ; die suddenly of heart .failure. Again, perltionitls may set in, or Jaundice, or pneumonia, or the buboes may sup purate and form huge running sores. In any case, the disease is painful. and dangerous, the death rate is high, and recovery Is uncertain and slow,,' There-are great many other forms of bubonic plague, but the 'one de scribed is by far the most common. Nearly always there is some trouble has for many years been given serious thought and lots of time has been devoted to experimenting While our cure has been improved from time to time, the improvements have came from the actual'con tact we have had with patients in our sanitariums, the treatment having years ago passed the doubtful 'or' experimental stage-In order -that humanity may be more benefited by our wonderful cure, some weeks ago, we reduced the price to v since this reduction was made we are more than ever convinced that our action is a benefaction to humanity Our sanitariums have been filled almost to their capacity For treatment of the Whiskey Habit go to our nearest Sanitarium In order that there may be no confusion about the proper entry of a patient, it is best to wire, write or telephone about reservations. All correspondence confidential and given prompt attention PtiONB18U - - 1206 U2 M211N ST. Knows To-Day PLAGUE. some complication. When this takes the form of lung infection the disease Is sometimes called pneumonia plague. The' investigations of the Japanese pathologists . and of the British and Americans - in India, the Philippines and along the China coast have proved beyond a doubt that bubonic is most commonly transmitted from man to man by rats. The large rats which In fest all ships and seaports are very susceptible to the disease, and when it breaks out among them they die by the hundred thousands. Even when human beings do not come into actual contact with these dead rodents they may be Inoculated through the medium of flies fleas and other insects. A special rat-flea call ed the pulex cheopis carries the germs from rat to man upon its feet or in its laws. . Bubonic plague is an extraordinarily infectious malady. The germs may enter the body through the lungs in dust for Instance oivby way of the mouth as in food that has been con t&mlhated ' by fleas or flies. Some of the Japanese experts are of the opin ion that the organisms may even enter through the skin. The most minute scratch or cut is sufficient to give them a lodgment and in a few hours they swarm in the blood. - v In the tropics white men usually es cape the bubonic for the simple reason that they live cleanly and take proper precautions against Infection. In the native quarters of tropical towns, where rats are numerous and insects are legion. It often happens that' two thirds of the popuatlon is Infected. Indeed, in India it has been found necessary at times to burn down whole towns before an epidemic could be got In hand. .. Drugs are absolutely useless in the treatment of bubonic, when once a case develops, In, -fact, little can be done to halt ormodlfy its course. But preventive measures are very often re markably effective. They may be dl vided into two classes; those which contemplate the isolation of patients and the destruction of rats and Insects, and those- which Involve the employ ment of the serum and vaccine men tioned above. L ' I : A rigid quarantine is necessary to keep patients from Infecting other persons..' All rats and other small an imals must be killed, and efforts must be made to destroy all roaches, fleas, files and bed bugs. The bodies of the dead must be burned, all sick-rooms must be disinfected with formalde hyde; and chloride of lime must be need lavishly in all drains. Tha burial of any man dead of the plague is a crime -against tha human race, r The bodv 1 llve with, the or ganisms, and ; these will remain alive for an almost Incredible ? period. Months afterward they may reach the surface of the ground and begin ex tensive Journeylngs in the bodies of rats or upon the legs of insects. The result will inevitably be a fresh out break of the malady. f Even convalescents are v extremely dangerous to the community. The Japanese . investigators have found that- patient's . blood swarms with plague germs for nearly a month af ter he has apparently recovered. It Is obvious that he may thus unwittingly 66 TEE: REM, Infect all who come Into contact with bim. Indeed, bubonic is such a virulent disease that, in the past, the military power has often had to come to the aid of those fighting It. Very oftn martial law alone can Insure the prop er destruction of corpses and the proper isolation of patients. yersln's antl-bubonio serum is made b)f inoculating healthy horses with virulent plague bacilli. The blood of the horses begins at once to- combat these bacilli by producing substances which paralyze them and neutralise their toxins, or poisons. By and by this blood Is so full of these subitiances that plague bacilli cannot live in it. Then some of It Is drawn from the horses' veins and Injected into the veins of human patients. It retains its power of combattln k bacilli, and so confers immunity to the plague. Un luckily this Immunity is not perma nent. Experiment tendu to prove, in fact, that it last's no longer than tw) weeks. Therefore, a man exposed" to bubonic Infection should be Immunis ed anew every fortnight. "Haffklne's prophylactic plague fluid consists of a dead culture of dead ba cilli. These bacilli, of course, are in ert themselves, out their toxins, or poisons, art t-naffected bv the means employed to .kill them. When a dose of the fluid is Injected in) a man's veins the 4 toxins stimulate his bloil to produce antitoxin, and the blood after halnt? produced enough to oven come the toxins, keens on. The re suiting surplus of antitoxin that may make harmess any naailll that may wander in subsequently, and thus tht man Is rendered Immune to the bu bonic. There is a difference of opinion as to how long this immunity lasts. In many cases, however, it undoubtedly huts a good wh'le perhaps several months. In consequence Haffklne's fluid is extensively used in the tropics to immunize white men who are ex posed to plague Infection. Lord Cur- son, when he was viceroy o Indir submitted to Inoculation, and thu set an example which, bore prood fruit. : " It Is probable that if ail of . the In habitants of India, for instance, were thus immunized, the bubon'c would soon , die out , But the ignorant na tives, like Igiforant people everywhere else, are opposed to modulation, and It Is difficult to make thsm submit to It In addition, the fluid !s rather ex pensive ana in woaia take a hundred thousand, doctors to lnocu'ite ad the people in India within a reasonable time, Besides that' there are varjr serious practical difficulties. For on thins. during a few days follow! n Inocula tion the Haffkine fluid makes the per son Inoculated, more,-' lnal of U cs susceptible to Infection; w. another thing, if it Is employed after a person has become Infected, but bi fore tho symptoms of the disease have devel Jn ed, It Is apt to produce a lerMus w perhaps fatal attack. Onlv with prop r precautions is its una advisable. Deep ito the popular ld, bubonks plague U r.ot a malady pec illar to tha tropics.; erring the middle eg U fre iiuently ravaged Europe, and in recent years it nas appeared In Nw yr.rk City, Bremtn, Hamburg, OUaow. fsn Francisco and other seaj rts "f the temperate zona. It is m, common In tropica' countries because the rco pie live with least regard It hygienic safety, . , The pret-ent epidemic In India be gan in 1898. It spread rapidly In the United Provinces. Bengil ami lb- Punjab, sni by 1900 tha nrmber of deaths reached.. more thaa.a.mlUI.n. From Jancary to Augus. 1903. h mortality was 800,000- lnt then It has been Increasing rather than fall mm lng. In 1904, 988,010 deaths .were re ported, and in 1905 more than a mil lion. lived long before the beglmln of tha Chiiftian era. was the ttrs: sklllea observer to describe the bubonic plague. A fragment of his work on the subject, still preserved, saya that tia molaHv In Hla tima urn A nrilflpirkln in Libya, Egypt and Syria. Jt rigcd in Amca for centuries, dui so tar as is known it did not reach Europa until the sixth century of our era. When It once got a foothold it spread rapidly, and soon it began to have victims in all the cities u tne continent. In the year 543 It killed 10,000 persons In Constantinople,. and in 590 It raged In Rome. In the four teenth century, under the name of the Black Death, it devastated the wholo of Europe. There Is some doubt as to whether all of the epidemics ascrmea tn tVi mvutnrtmiM riaaIc Death were really due to bubonio, but it Is plain that most of tnem were. In 1664 came the great plague or T.nnrfnn n-hAn 70 000 nersnna OUt Of a population of less than half a million died. According to iom samoniw the disease was Introduced, by way of Hfntiri from the Levant. No doubt the active sgerfts were ship' rats. In modern times there nave nren mantr vrnni onidnmlcs. In 1803 Con stantinople kwt 160,000 of her people, and ten years later there was unother outbreak with a mortality of 110.000 The next year the bubonic appeared In the Balkans, and the ensuing epi demic continued for no less than 27 years. Meanwhile, the infection spread to Greece and Italy, In 1877 a few cases were observe i I- a nnitata. Within a few weeks there wro thousands of cases and whole provinces were well nigh depopulated. This epidemic Is thought to have been caused by fleas and other insects Introduced from Persia. Th3 number of deaths l not known, but It la thought that It reached 2,000,000. In China the buoonicznas neen prev alent for at least 1,000 years. In the there was a terri ble epidemic and - millions died. - It spread to ail me lsianas oi m wum seas, and when the Japanese annexed Forsoma they found many cases there. CONFESSES TO 6IIOOTIXG. Inuranc? 3fan Says He Plugged Ne gro Who was Tnreawnmg nut um Story oi cgro Jtniirciy inuercnr. rirnhnriv Kent. (. 28.- An Insur- na man here bv the name of W. M. Cable went Into police headquarters yesterday and said that it was he who shot the negro Archie Williams Thurs day night at the same urns tewing nia story' of the affair, whfch 1 entirely jiMiit fvnm thai told hv Williams. Cable says that he called at the house of a woman to see ner aooui an m nollev and was attacked by Williams, who followed him mp the street and . threatened to xiu mm ir he could get out his knire, cawe hrntr irtoaa and started to run ud the street with tha negro ibehind him. and he wheeled around ana inranmea tne negro If h approached farther he would shoot htm. When the negro refused to stop' Cable drew his plstsl and put a bullet in the negro's hip. The negro's story of the shooting is that he was met on the street by two white men who asked him for soma whiskey and when he replied that he was no blind tiger the men became angry and shot him. Cable was bound over to court for carrying con cealed weapons. ? Just what will be tha outcome of. .the affair cannot be said until Williams recovers sufficient ly to com before tha mayor (or a iprellminary bearing; , n b unnr wm eURE, 99 TALKS BY QUEEN CITY MEN DANVILLE, VA., LEARNS OF B & L. Messrs. D. A. Tompkins and S. Witt- kowsky, on Spotiial Invitation of Danville Commercial Association, Address Citizens of Tliat I'lace on the Building and Loon Association as It Works In Charlotte and North Carolina- Future of South Lies In Her Manufactures, Declares Mr, Tompkins -Many Courtesies In tended the VWtlng Men by the Peo ple of Danvlllo, Special to The Obterver. Danville, Va., Sept. 28. Messrs. D. A. Tompkins and S. Wlttkowsky of Charlotte, N. C, were guests here to day of the Danville Comimerclal Asso ciation, which organization invned them here for tho "purpose of explain ing the modus operandi of the build ing and loan asaoclutlon In Charlotte and other North Carolina towns in which thy are interested and which has been operated with wonderful suc cess. The visit of the Charlottes gen tlemen was fraught with highly sat isfactory results and they were voted many thanks by the commercial asso ciation and the citizens present at a mass meeting to-night for the valu able Information burnished and the suergeetlons they offered. The Charlotte visitors arrived in the city early this morning and were driv en about Danville by President A. B. Carrlngton and Secretary W. C. R1er- son and a special committee- from the commercial association. To-night they were tendered a reception by h as sociation a the House Rook Country Club, where an old-fashioned Virginia supper was served them. The supper was ttttended by twenty-five or thirty of the leading and most influential cdtlsens of Danville. MASS, MEETEflO OF CITIZENS. To-night a mass meeting of (the citi zens to hear add reuses by Messrs. Tompkins and Wlttkoweky on the building and loan project was held at tho municipal hull and was attended by a representative gathering of citi zen. President Carrlngton presided at the meeting and explained that its object was for the purpose of getting Information regarding the formation of a building and loun 'association in Danville for the interest of all persons, both rich and poor, and especially for the working man. . Former . State Senator R A." James, the editor and owner of The Danville Register, In troduced Mr. D.. A. Tompkins as "one. of North Carolina's broadest frnd most liberal citizens and one of the capital tots of the South." Mr. Tompkins spoke of the ups and downs of prosperity In the South and bow thrta section had .always in eolte of handicaps worked out its 'own sal vation, s ;The future of tha South." he said," "Ilea in her manufacturing enterprises, wnicn snouid be fostered and encouraged." Mr. Tompkins de clared that the south needed desirable Immigrants and that tha way to ' get them, and to keep them was to devise a plan, whereby they could be their' own home-owners and could therefore have an Individual interest In the building of the cities in which ihev resided. He cited Philadelphia as on of the best examples where tha work ing men owned thr -own homes and were lawabiding and respectable cKI sens. .-. "':v ' -i j'- ..-.-,";, B V L PROJECT OUTLINED. Mr. Tompkins was followed by Mr, Wutkowsky. who was presented by Hon. Kugene withers, city attorney or uanviue, tte explained ruuy tha workings of tha building and loan as snciatlon s.t Charlotte and of the North Carolina Building & Loan League, of which he has for years been at tha head, Tha growth-of tha association in North Carolina, he said, has been remarkable and It had met with abun dant success on all sides. Mr. Witt kowsky clearly and forcibly eluci dated his ideas and at the conclusion of his address stated that he was open to any questions which might be asked him. Several In the audience questioned him regarding points that they had not fully understood, At the close of the address a resolu tion was unanimously adopted that tne commercial association of Dan ville endorse the building and loan project as outlined by the Charlotte visitors. A committee will be appoint ed to carry the resolution Into to ef fect. Messrs. Tompkins and Wlttkowsky were the recipients of many congratu lations. Missouri Railways figure Losses of 91,500,000 in Three Months. St. Louis, Dispatch, 26th. Missouri railroads have lost 81,- 600,000 In the last three months through the operation of the new two-cent passenger fare law, accord ing to statements . compiled by the ofllcers of the various roads, with the Issuing of these statements comes the announcement that the railroads will contest the further enforcement of the statute upon tha ground that It Is confiscatory. The roads that have Joined In fighting the measure are the Chicago ft Alton, Missouri Pacific, the Wa bash, the Chicago, Burlington 'ft Qulncy and several other trunk lines. Under an agreement with At torney General Barley tha railroads were to raduee their rates In ac cordance with fhe requirements of the law and test the result before taking any action. They will now file a complaint with Federal Judge Mcpherson at Kansas City asking an Injunction to restrain tha State from further enforcing tha measure. 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