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. . - A A rwiMjiow fowwjr i'owir. in-ttme-peace they nm. CcT7 vj:A.t;xJs
' . " . tnurdcrr-legalized, ot coaW; : W , ftrlrw ; conducting medical campaigns against ;t - .;; c ; V ' . 0 I -V "
, , j of war but dettruct'to of life nevertheless', ntx-same enemy, that wuld'cf pose tUtn AJ; !vvt r'l?nVv ' .'Sii
' ' 'Aniyettv'en- to mrarmf Uset) ' i the .wtkredoWei-force' once thm --v'- f.,. -v-v, ' V s '
. , protection of Itfe is' lust as important as , the field. . t., . -. ,- . . ' t t -::.;.v , If, V ' ;vL' ' J--? A1- .v''fc-
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arP fit thr nnl'mtittiers at death that. Urrrtnffirt inrikrihlr" enemv hds - .been t W V-"T-rr t r" X T
' in some, wars, tnaeea, mere; nas veen the 'fighting men or every moaern war, - Mv' ;ii r
a more terrible enemy, than human engines and; probably Wany an atictent one. Iyou, '( : " ( ,,'LgZ
. . of .destrucUonpr,orts:and earthworks may, t -tt. has been .virtually conquered by a ,vac-. a i v
, .ruardagainst these, latter from the- frwttH--cine,i'and itSiCQttjqucst' may -.prove 'the.'great -
lbut 4heare tmefle'ss atain'si.dis'e
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- nneninoTeiano8piiaiB8iiuu,ii .-.army. . it ma anr6Ukot Btrfttegy, tut,UottW .V'f;' fcV C'rMHly SI" V ' f-. counting. all three cases, of only .26 about a
'Wwfa .-.qoi -wpeioer viypaoia or .TJiBiti jiever'CawDwn -ewmpiwnea Dyaa.arxny.wetK- J V-i .- , i " lboUsand. , . - : .
i.,.! ,enejny' machine .una haTOJ.furnialwd,;ened by typhoid and oth ailments. , ' , : m. o rt7T '- flt 1 : t " t "st AVith this diminution" of the 'disease to a
them Mrjtfr-patienta-'.y -;y ! ; s t- , .:The? BairielS8on -ia; equally,- tit 'anything.. 1 1 1 1 ihi i 1 1 :compajehe typhoid, record of .the country at Ii
- i'' 'P1. JPM".wonvtheut.wtr wth i Ku8sia,.;,more,ffectiTe for, nations' at peace. The strong- - . -, ,v " ."' ' V'V.l Jlaior F. F. Kussell, of the medical corps'of
pyneiT.;Draye N . . , , f, t. ilJ I r .crmy,' cstunates that in the registration area of
: . . r - h1 't r I . .itates which keen adeem ate records of mortality
, and that, even -when raccinated persons contract
the disease, they ordinarily suffeT from it in such
mild form that fatalities are ; very infrequent '
f J.--: ;Lilie other vaccines, Berums and antitoxins ' "
which have Been coming into use of late years,
this particular 'one' is based upon the well-known
, fact thaf the'human'bpdywin protect ' itself '
from alien attacks' if given a reasonable chance
1. Let malign germs be introduced into the sys
-. tem, and the healthy blood makes immediate waf , :
' . on th?ml:
; , s In this .instance the germs 'of typhoid ar
used to inoculate the person it is desired to pro
tect: But they .are 'killed cultutC8''ithat is,1
' germs which have teen robbed of a part of their '
' virulericy. Therefore,! when introduced into th .
- system - the- : bloody is; able tcr resist: their, com
, parativcly mild action,. ' During the .course of
,this period of attack, hWever, protective prin,f
. ciples are generated, in the blood, which strength ' -en
its resisting powers .o. Buchr an extentthat .
- when 'live." germs of 'full , virulency enter, tha '
body, they are subdued in all' but a Vary small
' percentage of cases. , '' 1
In some of ( tlie principal ' armies of th" ' -,
. world this method has proved so effective that .
it promises the eradication of one of the great ' V
est drains to civil life. .-In America, while exact :
records ' are not obtainable, hundreds of thou- -1
sands of cases every year cause untold suffering vi
and permanently remove a small army of toilers,
' . The human mind is not able to conceive tha.
acute agonies that might ,be averted by means
that military surgeons have found harmless and
effectual. , Their testimony is of exceptional :
value, because their , methods are aided by an (" -,
iron discipline that enables them to act with a
degree of thoroughness that is seldom approxi
fc mated in civil life. -'
' For tha,t reason it is doubly conclusive when
the surgeon general of-ihe army, General Tor
ney, asserts. tiiat deaths from typhoid have been '
practically eliminated by vaccination. In. his
last report he says: . ( ' - :;.'! '
MUCH PROGRESS REPORTED
V "Very considerable progress has been mada
during the year (1.910) in the campaign for th
protection of thoarmy against this disease (ty
phbid) by'mcans 'of vaccination with killed cui
j 'tures' of the bacillus typhesus. 'This practice
was introduced in March,-1909,' and in tho last f
i . annual , report details were giyen of the vac-
, ;cination of 830 individuab; since that date 10 ;;"
i . 941 persons have been vaccinated,' making a total .
to date 'of 11,771' of whom completed records
have been received.
Atjd, furthermore,, after tables are cited '
showin'sr that 11.338 of the vaccinated men were
Ha . the ' army proper ' and. the'remainiag 433 in V
V' '-;ithe navy," revenue cutter service, etc., the report
J ' continues:8' : : ' f .,.',- '- '-.
; . " "Among the 11,338 persons in the army.wh f
' J'V . . have been vaccinated there- have doveloned to
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Y ,'-'r 'ft. 1 fu h. . t , .vijccinatidnjwas completed. - ihe other two cases were so mild that,
' " r'-, the. absehce' of blood cultures,, there remains some little doubt
i-V;i rA(4' " Vat -the; correctness of thef diagnosis." 1 -
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lose twice-1 as many men in battle as 'anv.armv trD-rrssirn'Rft rnrif rjtTiA crm tia. ftuu
that' ever" before took the field, because they re- lthem that. wheii exposed; even the most healthy
, . duoed their 'losses, by .'disease to, a "minimum. - person is likely to succumb. " ' - ,
' That waa' thci' boast 'at'the'; beginning of the ; ' One oftthefe,is typhoid.' Let a city'a.water - -''
ww,tB.' they . made , it 1 good. - j r ' , " ; supply" becomecontaminated and . there as - an . - - v
r: '.J '.''.v. VrrFurthermoi'e, hy.their observance of hy-' appalling epidemic' .There is a dpuble -danger,
i , j gicnie rules .and principles 'they accomplished for, in' addition ,to the impure water,' there is t ,! '
' double purpCse., 1 They were-nofonlyable to , always' a small; percentage of those who have.
f t resist such maladies as typhoid) Jrat 1 they., were-. recovered that continue to'give off germs of
i still able to fight when ,the last. ounce bad been great' virulence persons J commonly known .'as 1
i taken out of their enemies. k During the week's t "typheid caVriers." V '-1 - ' T' '
'' 1 1 decisive, struggle below rMudkeri- thev won as '! Tto"Mtnfni'thA'iMnal'TtiWi.A LanUn
. much through their physical1 endurance' as by accept -the -inevitable. - But now military, sur-, ,
I . strategy. They began. a terriSc attack on geon9 inform' uA with all the positiveness ,of i
their right, and .then, when the Russians, shifted . scientists whV . have proved . their .nrooosition. .
' I""!1'10 wa'. the brunt at, that point, the that not'ohly: is .there" a typhoid Yaccine that isl 4
il httle yeUowmendepended on their regular iine : .aimoBt preventiver but that its use,-under .
, kr . to hold firm shifted all thcireserves to the left - ordinary conditions,' is attended by no danger j ,
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-' . 'einebeJcrrnes . even more apparent. . The " number not vaccinated
' was 74.450: and thv, furnished for the same neriod. March: 1909. I
-, to June 30,. 1910, no less than 304 cases. .. That was a ratio per
tnousana oi cases, wnue 'tne men vaccinatea snowea a rauo,
quarter man to a
mere nothingness '
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the United State "
America, (thosa -
statistics) we have .
13,000 deaths and probably 130,,000 cases every year, and that in ,
, f thenation at large this record is tripled in other words, 39,000
. 'people die in 390,000 cases of the disease annually. , '
r 1 A small army is wiped out and a large army is ill from a pre-
ventable-eause, according to these figures,' and there is nothing to
indicate 'that they are in the least overdrawn. Rather, there is a ;
.' V. great deal .to make us believe that they are considerably "under- r
estimated. 1 .
, . Such a scourge as this in time of peace may well enable us to
" . 4 appreciate what a menace the disease is during a war," when in
i. former times whole armies were marshaled into the. field without ; ,
adequate protection from impure water and the like.- ,
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