Show I r b I Secrets of Health I L 1 and an d Happiness The Electric Mattress l an Effective Aid in Pueu- Pueu monia n nr rm nn LI LEONARD nD g A. A A B. B M L A. A M M. D. D Johns Hopkins Uni Uni- t Pneumonia seems to be the tho super- super grand field marshal of or all the armies ot- ot of mankind's enemies Reports Report's of ot tho the United States department of or vital statistics statistics statistics sta sta- Indicates that pneumonia as a n cause ot of death would ouM have a runaway laco raco with Its nearest competitor tuberculosis tuberculosis tuberculosis tuber tuber- of or tho the lungs lunes Medical science has made little if tc any headway a against this bacterial In Infection on of ot the breathing apparatus The collected observations observations ob ob- ob- ob and figures I upon pneumonia made at the Johns Hopkins hospital Indicate that pneumonia has killed year ear earIn In and out through almost a generation almost ono person In iii every three It attacks at attacks at- at tacks Tho only real reat a advance vance that has been made by human forces against the treacherous like lIko assassinations of ot has been the tho discovery by br Dr Rufus I. I Cole Colo of ot the Rockefeller ler her Institute Dr Cole found that ordinary ordinary nary nan pneumonia Is caused b by four tour different different dif dif dif- ferent types of ot tho ono one of oC which can be used successfully to tomake make malco an nn pneumonia anti serum Gerum for tor those Infected b by this particular type of or bacteria I TLc The First Steps i About fifteen or or r twenty years ears ago Sir William WilHam Osier Osler and his colleagues brought down a n storm of ot criticism upon themselves for tor treating patients with pneumonia in tho the dead of or winter or on cold days on open roofs I This seem seemed d to carr carry enthusiasm for Cor rho Tho number num num- tho fresh tresh air a bit too far her ber or of double nOd and pneumonia monia fatalities appeared to Increase Increase- certainly tho the mortality rato was not nol re re- re A after that time It was suggested sug sug- that the tho benefits to be derived from rom fresh tresh air so 90 sorely sorel needed by the up clogged up ed-up lungs could be better ob obtained obtained ob- ob tamed by raising the air to blood heat before the tho victim received It Ie Icy cold Into his already dl distressed lungs lunS II lion How MV Its It's I Sir William Gull tho the distinguished English physician announces that an nn electrically heated bed seems to di diminish lr l- l minish the numbers and percentage of ot I fatal pneumonia victims Dr Dyne Duckworth and Dr William I Gull With Ith H H. J J. J Gauvain have haVo Installed electric e mattresses In all the tho beds of ot two wards at nt the tho Cripples' Cripples hospital Alton Alton Al Alton Al- Al ton England This has in a n. manner helped to keep tho tilO blood skin and lungs warm ono one of ot the things s needed in ill pneumonia A flexible wire enters at the head hoad or of ortho m mA the tho mattress mattross through an electrical ter ten terminal minal The wire WiN I is insulated ted with glass gIas als beads bead The Thc mattress Is heated in Is at nl atthe such a n. way war that the hottest area the foot toot less In the tile middle and none at nt all at tho Uzo head A. A switchboard at the head bead of ot th tb this bed I controls and graduates the heat All told the plan has worked worle well and safely outdoors as 03 well as Indoors Indoor It Itla itIs la Is harmless and an cannot Injure tho thic victim vie vic tim tim Ur-I of or pneumonia although It Is 15 too early en to exactly how much goodwill good goodwill will HI bo be done d ne by b this method So far tar tho the facts point to several recoveries reco which Seemed helpless |