Show r I r 1 a Y CP CPr Y 1 r i Jr t f w 4 t l' l t. t r 1 r A 7 j ry t 1 Ei t ff A a j v p r f r 4 t nR t e IF TF F AS S an outcome of the great war there shall be developed a blessing importantly affe affecting ting the future welfare welfare wel wel- r fare and happiness of mankind surely it will be a very wonderful thing The war is reckoned to have cost 30 human lives But a discovery to which It has given gi rise bids fair to save saye incomparably greater multitudes n Once in a while it happens that good does come com out of evil It would seem to be the case in this instance For some a of the called so-called war gases which as weapons proved so terrible are now found to serve as cures and even as preventives preventives preventives pre pre- of maladies hitherto so widespread widespread wide wide- widespread spread as to be well-nigh well universal Respiratory Respiratory Respiratory Re Re- diseases those diseases those aff affecting the breathing organs such as influenza bronS bronchitis bronchitis bron bron- S pneumonia and especially tuberculosis tuber tuber- respond to the treatment respond gas sas Take influenza for instance Up to toP P the present time doctors have been obliged to confess themselves almost helpless helpless helpless help help- less to deal with it It spreads with great rapidity and kills many people During the wave of it that swept this country in 1919 1918 ph physicians ns complained that their patients were like dying flies So indeed they did and there seemed tobe to tobe 1 be Je no way of preventing it c. c But now v it appears that chlorine gas In a mild and harmless concentration 1 I is absolutely deadly to influenza germs A little of it let loose in the bedroom p of a sufferer from the disease will ordinarily ordinarily ork or or- k effect a cure cure e within twenty twenty- four hours If used in schoolrooms the thea theatres a- a 4 ties tres churches and and other closed places wherein people congregate in numbers number it it will during the prevalence of an epidemic pr prevent vent the spread of the malady mali malady malndy mal- mal i ady which is commonly communicated by the breath x y Ch Chlorine orine was the original war gas and was first used by the Germans in inthe inthe the spring of 1915 being let loose upon r the British from metal cylinders provided provided pro pro- vided with nozzles When a breeze bleeze was r Sr b blowing owing toward the British lines the nozzles were opened and the stuff which was compressed iii the cylinders to a g liquid rapidly evaporated and was carried carried car car- ried vied toward the British in a greenish cloud by the wind r That it should become in a much di diluted diluted di- di fo form actually beneficial to health was an idea which naturally did not occur occur occur oc oc- cur to anybody atthe time B BUT T UT it so chanced that in the spring sprin of th the year 1917 there was a great epidemic of influenza in France It attacked at- at tacked rather disastrously some of the ther thel r l large rge military camps camp j prostrating the tho soldiers by thousands At that period there were many thousands of casualties casualties casual casual- h ties from gas rat but it r was as noted that t none DOIle of the men who vho had been gassed been gassed developed influenza Furthermore i in n t camps where t troops oops that had been more or less exposed to gas were were quartered there there was was very very little tr trouble uble from the disease It Was was further noticed ced that behind the 5 lines in sectors where troops had been exp exposed sed to attack by chlorine there was a a. a. a marked reduction in the number of cas cases s of bronchitis pneumonia and other diseases of th the breathing orga organs organs- s. s That f I f I d Q z T t P c cJ i J a A AS i S Ys sy f. f 7 S I 1 Y is to say what do doctors tors call the incidence of such cases was far below normal aver aver- aver age Study of the subject finally convinced convinced convinced con con- vinced the arm army surgeons that the presence prese pres pres- once ence of a small percentage of chlorine in the air was accountable fo for this happy state of affairs affair A A FAVORABLE opportunity for an in exp experiment was afforded last summer summer at C Camp mp Perr Perry where there here was an encampment encampment en en- of a brigade of lf the National Guard of Ohio There was a a cold wet period and an an epidemic of bad colds broke out in the camp with numerous cases of acute bronchitis The chief surgeon surgeon at c the the camp assisted by the medical officers of the brigade fixed a chamber in t the up gas e headquarters building and let loose in it a quantity quantity quan quan- of chlorine calculated to contribute to the air a a. certain p percentage very small of course of the gas Then the sufferers from colds and bronchitis were brought into the room in squads of fifty and seated there for a while All they had to do was breathe As a result their troubles cleared up with within n twenty four hours This was a Much of the investigative tiYe work however is purely scientific and is being done mainly mainly mainly main main- ly in the laboratories of the Edgewood Arsenal near Balth Baltimore oret under the direction direction direction tion erf of Colonel Edward EdwardR B B. Vedder chief of the medical research division of the arsenal There it has been definitely proved that chlorine and and certain in gases prevent the growth and multiplication of or b bacterial germs d r 2 A fY Y Yx r x 6 4 P Y 1 J ti 3 fr L k SC rY a r 1918 there were one and one-half one tim times s as s many cases cases of of tuberculosis tuberculosis tuberculosis losis per thousand men meri men men- among among all the oops thet troops oops in in France as s there w were r among among th those se who who h had d t r beert been exposed to mustard mus mustard mustard mus- mus tard gas In 1919 there were nearly twice wice as many cases cases' cases cases' per cases p per r thousand among among all troops tro ps as as there were were e among those gassed T The e number of cases ases of tuber tuberculosis in the allied allied- armies notably l lessened during during the latter part of f the war The Am American rican expeditionary expeditionary expeditionary forces showed a de decrease ease of 15 15 per percent cent Whereas s owing to exposure exposure and hardships hardships hardships hard hard- ships th the d di disease i s sease e e Copyright Cc 1823 1923 by V l' Q k kP 1 P r aft d r a s k kv v by 1 a p 1 w R b 2 1 0 c Q 4 Q K 5 J r Ss sw a Q y S ti r a Y 1 r. r y 2 n Y Q r ry y b r roc oc ocL t L Q r y I i i irr rr w 4 r 1 P y I 7 i Ii W 4 4 t ft V 0 0 j I I phi m r I I b. b 11 S' S SrA Y M 11 1 t 1 P. P ii f rf LL I k I t 1 Can war war gases g gases ses bo be made to serve as acure a acure acure cure cure or a preventive preventive preventive tive tive of tuberculosis tuberculosis tuberculosis losis The answer seems to bb be yes But as yet experiments experiments experiments ments have not proceeded far enough to warrant the holding out of expectations expectations which might disappoint the i afflicted But mustard gas offers most interesting promise Mustard gas is known to the chemist to as sulphide and gets its popular name from its peculiar smell which is said to resemble that of hot mustard Of all the gases u used ed in the war war none equaled it in military effectiveness effectiveness though the sufferers usually recovered It is a liquid which rapidly volatilizes into vapor which is much heavier than air clinging to trees and walls and sinking sinking sink sink- ing into trenches and shell holes Puddles of this gas gasso so to call th them m would linger for a long time in hollows in the ground a source of danger Mustard gas was first used by y the Germans in July 1917 at Ypres Ypres' As As' Asa a result result result-of of exposure to it the eyes become n bec become ne- ne swollen and inflamed and little by li lithe litt the sight is All the mucous mucous membranes mem membranes mem- mem branes are attacked and the b body seems on fire inside while burns cover the tho skin At t the e time of the ar armistice a plant plant at t th the Ed Edgewood ewood Arsenal had had-a 11 had d' d a producing ing capacity of tons of mustard g gas us s per pel day Now mark what follows follows follows fol fol- lows During the tho year t ova Li F I I i f LL J i Y Nr v 4 t 1 b hY WI d i f r 4 r A At t f I Y 6 r t I P y Chemists are bu busy y analyzing the gases used in war to destroy life in their search which has been peen successful for curative properties in these deadly agencies J. J r k t Chlo ine Mustard Fumes I Utilized J in Experiments Which Tend to Prove That I Maladies Lik Flu Bronch Bronchitis and Pneumonia May Be ta Out f hare i been expected to to show an increase in in mortality the opposite was the case in the armies of F France ance Great Br Britain tain an and Belgium Physicians nowadays s say that that nobody escapes tubercular infection Every human being without exception exception acquires lires it it it- before he or or she is thirty years years s of age In slum districts of c cities ti s try J r. r J itc i iss 5 i f fJ J m t k R i t R r Z i I a t r cv i 4 lia I 2 5 c AV A j i h v t T MT T II S C w w tl Me Q k G trw Eil- Eil t Lii r 13 iF W X k x N L k y fk f 1 dP l t Experts believe that with the adva advance cc of science whole may be wiped off the map with a sin single bomb in the o towns wT but to offset this it is now next war virtually assured d tK that V at citizens v be rendered immune may Y to epidemics diseases Z o of f influenza and nd kin kindred eases of the respiratory tract by th spraying them m with chlorine ch ririe g gas WHich was extensively used U all all children are infected are three years old But the disease makes n kes itself manifest and becomes dangerous only when there is is a very considerable in infection infection infection in- in or or when soine some debilitating ailment ailment ailment ail ail- ment or exposure exposure gives it a chance to attack successfully Recent experiments at the Edgewood Arsenal have have- proved that tha mustard gas of 1 per cent cent strength in glycerol containing containing containing con con- virulent t tubercle bacilli when injected in injected injected in- in into guinea pigs absolutely prevents prevents prevents pre pre- vents the development of tuberculosis Even Even- tenth one-tenth of that percentage distinctly dis dis- distinctly retards the development of the theY disease At the time when the war ended theca thera had b been en perfected at at atthe the Edgewood od Ledger Ledger Company r 1 1 Arsenal anew a new gas called tom tom- com pounded Pounded-of of f arsenic and if it it- it had been beeri used acetylene which used would have incomparably more destructive an ny gas employed than any during the great conflict s It is a gas that burns so and is is said to tb be e frightful in its effects that a drop of it it- single coming oming into co contact with a a persons person's skin will cause death Here again however Vever seems to to be lethal alethal alethal a a- agent that may prove prove important importantly beneficial What first suggested the idea ea is not explained but the stuff tuff is now be lag jOg experimentally utilized d in the treatment treat treat- ment of paresis and nd ata ataxia ia of the two tw most dreadful of human afflictions which hitherto have been deemed hopelessly hopelessly hope hope- lessly incura incurable le Dr A. A S. S L of of 4 r ay C n 1 r s i 4 nS 1 t Sy Y f if i riff iJ i. i any l 0 r a al l f fR R t l f H t if r i R i r f f 7 f r V y i w. w f y t gain J 5 H I tR i p If f J t rt a phi Ali it t a r r Ai 1 S a V t l lJ li i J lP 9 the University of Wisconsin is studying out out- this problem in operation co-operation with the chemists at the Ed Edgewood ewood Ars Arsenal nal and md it it is is stated that that- twenty twenty one one sufferers 1 ti from paresis after undergoing the treatment treat treat- f m ment ht have already been discharged from hospitals for lor the insane as entirely cured In the meantime Dr William P P. Nolan who ho was a a military s surgeon at Base Hospital Hospital Hospital Hos Hos- pital 65 05 at Br Brest st during the war thinks that he has has' developed a a. cure for con con- of the lungs by inhalation o of I furies of car carbon on d calcium Seventy- Seventy Y tw two cases he he says have been cured b by u y this means The idea idea- is suggested b by i I the th low death death r rate te from r m tuberculosis in inthe a the Pitts which as everybody everybody everybody every- every body knows is much afflicted b by Y smoke t the from from the burning of ot soft coal He was wag thus led to study the effects of carbon do lung tissues its tendency says Ur Dr I Nolan olan being to dry up tuberculosis sores in in the lungs and build a wall around th the infected centers preventing the infection i tion from spreading t i |