Show DISEASE IS OFTEN BENEFICIAL 1 N an address before the students at IN University ty College Liverpool Eng Ens En England land gr pr Frederick Treves reeves has made the somewhat novel assertion that dis disease disease ease is often otten He said In part The old physicians regarded every symptom of disease a as being of necessity wholly noxious git hse and as a needing e to oe be stamped stamp d out If It the patient vomited the vomiting must be stopped If I he coughed the cough must be made to cease if bo he failed ailed to take food he must be made to eat To the modern modem physician 1 b however b ever things appeal In a a very different manner T To them there theres Is nothing preternatural about disease Modern pathology teaches that the symptoms or ot tuberculosis do but represent a valiant attempt on the tha part of ot the body to repair an accident r such accident being the entrance of ot a parasite Into the tissues Take again an inflammation Uon follow tallow Ing a septic wound of a finger fingor The Tho dis disease ease so called caned Is distressing enough but the manifestations are no mere out outcome outcome outcome come of ot a malign maUn purpose They Thay Th are aro well ell intended and have bave for or their object ob ct the protection of ot the body from further i parasitic Invasions and the tile elimination of such septic matter as may have been already introduced and so on Even the peritonitis which to surgeons of ot the past appeared as the very hand of ot fate an impending horror borror spreading only disaster and nd death Is now recognized recognised as the operating sur surgeons surgeons geons geona host best friend mend Times have hae changed Y our views VI have altered and we must no longer lower fight disease la to the old manner |