Show EVER PRESENT DANGERS under the caption of things to be avoided the san francisco Chron ioie has baa a thoughtful article which might be read with profit by numb numbers eire of people in a great many places it being shown that science has traced most of the die diseases dases that flesh is heir beir to to the invisible but industrious microbes mic robea robes that infest the air and water that wiggle unseen la in the dust duet and nourish flourish in most moat liquids but chiefly in milk and beer humanity to is thereby afflicted with a nameless terr terror orand and does not know where to look for protection from it As to milk and water a limited number of persons persona who are their own masters can take certain precautions but the vast majority fre are at the mercy of those who serve them or who in one way or another provide for their entertainment then the average man is notoriously a careless and improvident being if he be la Is menaced by a mad dog or a swiftly approaching railroad train tie gets out of the way if he is able but let death insidiously approach him in the food he is about to eat or the beverage he to is about to imbibe though he be to la aware of tits the danger he be Is unwilling to take the slightest trouble necessary to avold avoid it we are shown that science preternaturally active in this thia age of splendid achievements is continually finding out some new peril without in every case jaee being able to determine its nature or attribute it directly to the terrible microbes mic robes fish balled or preserved in oil are said to distill a poison whose nature in spite of earnest investigation remains unknown A certain quantity of this Is sound found at the bottom of every box of sardines and interess in anorea eress with age the russian government offered several tend years ago a large premium for the discovery of this poison codfish are also said bald to tain a poison called rouge which Is v very ery d difficult 1 ou it to detect when the fish to ig dr dried 1 d and n 1 these we are to conclude are some of the things to which the heading has reference regarding the cholera microbes mic robee robes it to is declared that they are not dangerous unless taken into the stomach with the food or drink hence the need of distilling or boiling the water used to quench thirst or boiling milk that has been exposed to the air unless the most scrupulous neatness to IB observed these germs may adhere to the food and be taken in with it or to the hands bands and so be passed into the mouth children should not suck their thumbs nor should adults put their fingers in the mouth till these members have first been dipped in acid the nalls nails should invariably be kept clean for when in mourning they are pro bounced the most luxurious abiding place of our microscopic enemies cows being often especially if kept in stables cheh milk transmits the seeds of consumption and should always be taken by children or adults with the precautions indicated standing water or that ol of cisterns or neglected wells transmits not only the germs of cholera but typhus or typhoid fevers pro proofs jofs of this are said to be of daily occur occurrence renee one being cited from a certain country district in kentucky not far from cincinnati usually very healthy but which was literally devastated by the cholera in 1862 1852 cistern water being the cause of it as was afterwards deter mined we then come to a cause of disease that requires more delicate treatment the kiss kias this is not only a transmitter of disease but the medium of a great deal of other mischief as has been shown in these columns and elsewhere many times there is one particularly notable case on record in england that of the Princess Beatrice who died of a throat disease caugh by this means one of her child children red the case came of a parts paris doctor not precisely the same has been recently ile ie ported in this instance a lent throat trouble rendered tracheotomy necessary and RA as the patient ws in danger of strangulation the physician applied his mouth to the throat and withdrew the purulent matter it was inevitable that be should catch the disorder but fortunately tuna tely he escaped death the kiss it may be said not only transmits the microbes mic robes that cause throat troubles but those which inhabit the mout hand band thee the species are numerous butia but it theatos the kiss is to be tabooed tabo oed it is remarked that the shaking of hands bands is also open to objection not dot merely because it is a means of communicating diseases but the more danger dangerous microbes mic robes mentioned it really begins to look as it there were no longer safety anywhere from anything that endangers and vexes |