Show F CONQUESTS OVER DISEASE 1 Scientific investigation has opened the eyes of the world in wonder durIng the last half century The progress or mankind has been phenomenal In the last decade And every year it sems that thIs development this advance mtnt Is making time with a constantly increasing ratio In the field or medical research something some-thing In which we are all interested one triumph over disease has succeeded mother until I seems that death and disease arC likely yet to be defied Electricity Is kiln germs and there is an applcton of It that rejuvenates the tired waste and the aged And as investigations never end wonders never ue Inoculation las taken the terror from many n contagion and the plaes are bcng hale In their march of death by the mind and energy of man Diseases Dis-eases which have numbered their vie Hms b uncounted millions are doomed doom-ed to exUucton la the newer schools of medical investigation There is 5 much yet to do along these hose that people sometimes say that very little after all has been ae o lILhe Yet with the discoveries of recent years which nave followed upon the labors of Pasteur Koch Vir chow Roux Behring and the other less famouS investigators who have devoted tldr Hves to finding the ultimate causes of disease there is reason to 1111 for even more than has been rromice With the progress that has alrudJ been made he is no dreamer vho asserts that will some day subdue tn diseases that lie in wait for him on 15 journey through life and have to f ar little more than age war and accident acci-dent 2S cUes of death To Inc cmirical schools of medicine upon which man has depended for I r any years he Is certainly under obl batoM he will not should not forget ThO amount or misery they have al 1lat1 1s incalculable and if they 1nYt not made great progress in mat Jng the people well after they get sick they have done a great deal to mae dyIng easy The lrogcss In finding drgs and methods of administering them to cur disease has been slow for the number of drugs and comblna tllms of drugs is Infinite and only a few of them have a desirable effect hen taken into the body And it is thus that medicIne has sometimes been defined as the science of guesswork with life and death a the issues issue-s doctors do not believe in aderts Ins none will try to advertise himself by attempting a contradiction of this statement Whateer may have been divined cncernln the causes and cures of die case in the earlier centuries it was necessary to alt for the inventor to tarry untl the micscoe had been completed and the science of chemistry lad been developed 1 required aU this to locate to trace disease to its original cause to discover a counteraction acton I has only been about forty yeas sInce the bacterial nature of contagious diseases was even generally suspected and i was nol until within a quarter of a century that i was proved Thp discover ofthe bacteria or microorganisms I microor-ganisms that pervade the natural I world as the lowest for of existence 1 was suspected at first to bring us to I the origin of life But thc careful Ju CsUgatlons of Tyndal Pasteur and other proved that they brought us no I nearer to tlc begInning I Emhica physicians gravely shook I their heads But Pasteur and Koch prove that certain forms of bacilli accompanied ac-companied certain dis ae otanmals and men and were able to r nrduce the same dECSe5Ven after several generations of them had ben mn tan in harmless brthswhen they were introduced into the blood of healthy aImaS Still the sage shook their heads as teur wet a sten further Having dIn covered the germs he sought a variation varia-tion a crosbreed that would produce a milder form of the contagion This he accomplished In the case of some diseases by exposing germs to the In luence of the air for a longer pI shorter period In others by passing the norms through the bodies or a number of animals ani-mals and cultivating a mid variety of the disease with as much care as breeders breed-ers cultivate a partcular marking or quality in their stock This much secured se-cured he exverImented with vaccIna ton to secure immunity fo owIng In this the suggestion of the inoculatiou and vaccination for smallpox Other diseases were met and batted with more or less success Anttoxine treatment treat-ment for diphtheria was also condemned con-demned by the old schqol doctors Vine treatment for hydrophobia has become successful after a series of exDerI meats Then Kochs researches brought usa us-a little nearer the Ilace the medical fraternity occupies today He undertook under-took to ascertain the origin and best treatment of tuberculosis After proving prov-ing that it was prOduced by bacillus Kcch discovered that one of the products pro-ducts or the bacillus was a secfc poison fatal to the bacius Itself tnd at least an application of electricity made in a certain way has boen found to destroy the bacilli In the human system An invention now on trial is said to haVe cured several stubborn cases of consuUUon and is equally effective in other dIseases The 1ossl btes in electricthereapeutics are incalculable in-calculable The other discoveries led up to Ito what perfection wilt lead suffering humanity These triumphs of science made possible pos-sible bJ patient imetlgaton and experIment ex-perIment will bring the boon oflife to thousands |