Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1912-09-15 | Page 48 | How They Prevented Plagues Long Ago

c- c HOW THEY PREVENTED PLAGUES LONG AGO Qi- Qi 0 ideas of the middle ages that tha MANY VI were later ater discarded as foolish Coolish and silly have been reinstated b b- b modern science as correct and very ven near nea the tho truth of the matter after all During the sixteenth century the doctors prescribed perfumed insulating pro plague of nf f ti n toIV costumes inH for Info t tho the pro pro- 11 1 L toIV 11 1 diseases and In irs 1 1619 the ph physician to toL Louis XIII then king of I France rance wore k a suit made of morocco leather loather both night and da day In tho the days of the epi epi- so frequent during the Itar conditions of ot those times time no one dreamed of ot stepping out of oC doors without with with- out garlic In his mouth Incense In hl his ears cars and glasses or rather goggles over his eyes ees a d t c d A LEATHER I. One of oC the thc kings king's doctors t wore a mask of ot leather Jeather over o his taco face with the nose flOSe six inches long an and fashioned so 80 as to Isolate the tue wearer from foul air Others Other used co costumes of Cordova CordO I l eather leather and false noses filled with Ith Infecting vapors These Theao Ideas wore ere discarded In later times 0 ns as being ono one of ot the more or Ie less leNs s senseless superstitions of ot the middle ages when shen most of the people were s sunk unk in deep I ignorance norance of ot anything pertaining to Injuries or sanitary COndl condition con COn- dl Hut But modern bacteriologists sa say sa that t hose ancient ancien t protective costumes were sere both rational and practical as plagues a are ara re spread b by fleas During the last e epidemic of sickness In Jn Manchuria the French Drench doctors wore oro a a. pre preservative er athe r robe obe of white gauze and an n maRlc of oC the same material which cov coy covered ered red e tho nose an and tho the mouth of the wearer AIR TIGhT Another costume used In Manchuria a at t the same time was wat composed of pantaloons p high boots gloves bloe an and a v est cst est all antiseptic The Tho garments g were a also U ah tight air ht These Those antiseptic clothes clothes' prevented fleas any ny from reaching the tile dust carrying skin while germs were stopped b by ho thA mask When the epidemic In of cholera occurred oc- oc France In 1832 a great doctors doctora as well vell many as other persons ons wore I I masks and gloves as preventives from tal taking the disease Naturally the newspapers made endless endless end end- less fun of such uch customs and canica- canica caricatures tures tunes are arc still sUll saved from that time showing timid persons persona walking walking- tho the streets arrayed In fantastic garments often otten completed by copper shields What do you think ot educator book It places Ignorance with alL alu U. U S Self Sympathy Is 18 gene gene Mawkish or and and a little of ot Both