Show roydan 9 BE calef CAREFUL UL OF TYPHOID MENACE typhoid fever feve has become so rare that an outbreak a of four or five cases in a community causes wide aide publicity and intensive public health department part ment activity yet there are many doctors still engaged in the practice of medicine who remember only too well vell the times when during the late sum summer dr natha S and early fall davis 11 hospitals were full t ta 1 6 overflowing with patients who were incapacitated for foi from 6 to 12 weeks by this disease typhoid fever presents four stages a formative stage lasting two to three weeks an active stage of eu equal al length a declining of a wee week 0 or r 10 days and then a convalescent period of three or four weeks during the formative period the symptoms are chiefly languor weariness indisposition to exertion sensations of heat and cold a bad taste in the mouth dizziness and pain in the head back and larn limbs by the time the second stage is reached the patient is so ill he goes to bed is dull and drowsy and there is a continuous high temperature which falls gradually during thy the third stage which the symptoms disappear the veterans of the spanish american war remember that typhoid fever was as almost as epidemic in camps in this country in cuba puerto rico and the philippines as was influenza during the last world war if the medical profession had not learned that the disease was caused by drinking water or milk that contained the bacillus and that with the killed organisms produced a temporary immunity it would have been as prevalent during the last world war as etwas it was in 1898 As a matter of fact there was a great deal of typhoid in france in 1914 and 1915 even though the protective had already been developed by a frenchman at the time of the mexican border service in 1916 our troops were werd protected r I 1 DEATHS i Is ibi wild atall s by TYPHOID pot only against typhoid but a number of cases case of a similar though milder dise disease ase paratyphoid fever that had its source in infected meat developed As ia a result those participating in the world war in 1917 and 1918 were inn against both simultaneously and there were few cases of either disease I 1 the improvements in water supply sewage disposal and in food sanitation on have tremendously lessened the chance of infection with either of these diseases or with cholera and amoebic dysentery which are similarly carried and have also been epidemic in the unit ed states however there are a few typhoid carriers even among food handlers and as a result abo sporadic cases occur sometimes political politic fl officials who do not thoroughly appreciate the dangers because they do not remember the conditions existing prior to 1900 neglect warnings and there isan epidemic buchas that at the mantino mangeno state hospital in illinois in 1939 because preventive measures hive have made these water and food borne infections extremely rare even the members of the medical profession begin to neglect them yet one of the most important benefits that will accrue to all who volunteer or are drafted for military or naval service is the fact that all willbe inn against typhoid and paratyphoid fevers furthermore r the army and navy in medical edical corps and the U S public health service are doing all in their power to give the soldiers pure food milk and water give me health and a day arul anil ill make the pomp of ept epi ridiculous emerson QUESTION send questions question to dr nathan S davis ni in winnetka enclose a self addressed stamped envelope Q many times while lying 19 relaxed in bed lust just before going to sleep a berye in sofaie some part of my body will contract suddenly causing me to jump involuntarily Is there something wrong with my nervous system do you think I 1 i should see a doctor F M ait is a muscle that flut contracts not a nerve it indicates that you are not completely relaxed ineat ina comfortable position antt |