Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-10-20 | Page 35 | Many New Ailments Caused by the War

MANY NEW AILMENTS CAUSED BY THE WAR Effects of Conflict Are Shown in Varied Human His, Asserts an Expert. AMSTERDAM, Oct. 19. (By the Associated Asso-ciated Press.) The war has been responsible re-sponsible for the development of numerous numer-ous new ailments in Germany, asserts Professor Albu in an article in the Berlin Lokal Anzeiger. "Its effects have aggravated aggra-vated various human ills. There can be no doubt, he says, that many people are aging more rapidly now owing to the worries and difficulties of daily life. People are going gray sooner. The action of the heart and bipod vessels suffers. Exhaustive observations, he believes, be-lieves, point to the fact that both at home and in the field, arteriosclerosis is a genuine war disease. "What part chronic underfeeding takes in this, we do not yet know," he adds. The increased blood pressure on the heart and the blood vessels entails many dangers. dan-gers. Only in the years after the war we shall be able to gauge the full extent of this unprecedented tension which Is using up human strength. Individual power of resistance of course plays a great part in organic reaction. "The number of those who have gone through this endless war so far without any Impairment of health is not large, and it is safe to say that when wc come to the end there will bo few indeed who can claim perfect immunity. It seems to me, therefore, that It is the wrong policy pol-icy for the authorities to place SO many difficulties in the way of people who need rest, relaxation and a change of air and surroundings."