Show 1 1 S let our motto be oe GOOD HEALTH BY DR LLOYD ARNOLD Pro feor so of bacler and pre bentive med cine un veti vere 1 lyof of noil nois college of med nc ne WW f WHOOPING COUGH anyone an one who has seen a child go through the strangling vomiting phase of whooping cough t a in 1 n 1 17 wishes t that h a t whooping cough might be wiped off the face of the earth Whoop ilig cough Is a major infer flous disease it causes or more deaths yearly in this country in the seven years end ing in 1031 there were approximately 2 2000 deaths from whooping cough in the state i of illinois or an average of about a year during 1031 and part of 0 1932 cases were reported to the illinois health department by physicians of the state monety per cent of the deaths ec oc cur in children under three years of age the largest number of deaths occur in the second half of 0 the first year girls are more sus susceptible cep tible to whooping cough than boys are it Is the only communicable disease of childhood in which there is this sex distinction death rates are higher in the ru ral districts than in the cities and the disease Is more severe in colder 0 climates than in warm warin zones while few deaths occur past six years of age anyone may get whooping cough parents if they have not had it before sometimes get it from their children hut but when one has had a case of this disease one Is usually immune from a sec ond attack so far as known monkeys arc are the only animals besides man that can contract whooping cough this Is one reason why it has been biffl cult tor for bacteriologists to expert ment with this disease as monkeys are scarce and expensive indeed the papers reported recently the plight of a cleveland doctor who Is trying to find the cause of the distinctive whoop ile had secured four chimpanzees at a cost of each ile give gave the to two of the animals but kept the other two isolated for a later experiment cut but in some way these two als got it and he Is unable to give any one of the four a second atta attack it so go I 1 he be has to get a new lot of chim before he can continue his work whooping cough Is transmitted from person to person in secretions of the mouth and nose and by kiss ing and by close contact it Is not contagious during the period of in cub which Is from two to three weeks usually fourteen to sixteen days but it can be transmitted from the appearance of the first lymp tom and it Is most cont contagions ageous dur pf fa ing the early stage before the whoop develops deve ipg it may also be comma pleated in the early stages we have not any vac cine for it yet etah etther er for its prevention or its cur as we have for diphtheria but in ING two bel glan scientists gengor and the fa bordet discovered the bac bae teria terla thit cause whooping cough these bacteria we find far down in the bronchial tubes however and for a number of yeara doctors tried out various methods of raising bic teria to the surface but with many patients they were not successful in doing so then ten years later two german scientists and meyer invented a cough plate which was perfected by a danish scientist madsen this Is a shallow tin box with a cover the size siz of the palm of the hand band in which a special media Is put the pin la Is beld before the mouth of the cough ing child then the cover Is put on and the box sent to a laboratory to find out if the whooping cough germ Is present the reason it Is advisable to have this test made Is because somi nervous children develop a cough thit that resembles whooping cough and yet t t and it would be a hardship to isolate them from other ebil dren and in the first stages ot of whooping cough the cough does not differ so much from the cough of a severe bronchial cold the point Is that if a child his hir become exposed to whooping cough and then develops a cold thit wit chill should be suspected of having some rome thing more than a cold that will yield to home remedies rem edles A physician should be called at once and the culture made if the culture Is the then the child should be kept away from other calill iren there is a strong ray of hope though in the whooping cough sit nation several doctors here and bation a abroad road who gho are devoting much tune time to whooping cough have made very promising progress in their develop ment of a vaccine for its prevention and a serum for its cure they have been quite successful in their treatment of a duall er 0 of patients but their treatment has not quite reached the stage where it can hive the universo il api apt ik ift i tion that the diphtheria hare C western newspaper NeWt peytr union |