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Show I Some Reasons Why the War Will Make Us Live Longer I It ; Do you want to live to the age of l; ; our score years and live instead of It ;t the traditional three score and ten? If i If so, take your lesson from the If; ; European war. Ii ' "But," you say, "the European war is the greatest expenditure of life- l othat the -world has ever seen the II; utmost of slaughter the zenith of , m : death." F True enough! But out of this Mi prodigality of life is growing the If . popular acceptation of a science r lieretofore douhtcd and damned with It the wiseacres' sneer. "Theoretical." It ; Bacteriology In the form of pre-l( pre-l( ' ventive medicines is proved to he If good by the field doctors on Enroll1 Enro-ll1 : pean fronts. Its life saving qualities ll! are driven home Into tho popular l imagination by the efficiency of sell: se-ll: rums and vaccines used in Red Cross and hospital work. I LOUIS PASTEUR, l -T f; ; THE PIOXEEE, ' I j t For ten years this great move- ' ment among medical men, this new r study which fortifies the human sys- j ': tern against disease instead of wait- II ing to begin the fight until after the ! ; ailment is active, for ten years it ! has been progressing slowly but . surely. Ml i Dr. Victor Vaughn, dean of tho m, medical college at the University of II : Michigan and former president of It; i the American Medical Association, r says that the truth of the disease It question was not reached until the l science of bacteriology was started. I He goes on: "Tho oldest Idea '. concerning infectious disease was ! ji that it was sent on earth by some r superior agency to afflict man. It jr prevailed many years in fact, some ' peoplo still believe it. t r "Gradually tho general idea jf changed, but it was not until Pas- f ; teur whom I regard as having ac- II r complished the greatest good for humanity of any man that ever lived i discovered that such diseaso was due to micro-organism that the :. science of bacteriologj' was started." Dr Vaughn states that a victory L will bo gained by the present war in t i its contribution to preventive medi- cine. "Within the last twenty-five years, he continues, tho average length of ! ; lifo has been increased ten years, ; and that it is easily possible that hull hu-ll : manity, if the present advance in ' medical learning is continued, will see tho average life of the next genii gen-ii eration increased fifteen years. II BALK FOUR ll ; DANGEROUS DISEASES. Now, bearing in mind what long- evity already owes to medical prog-I prog-I ' ress, turn to the words of H. K. If Mulford of Philadelphia, one of tho It most famous of pharmaceutists. It "This war has proved the absolute If i preventive qualities of certain med-Ij med-Ij icines in four diseases typhoid, If ' tetanus, cholera and bubonic plague. It ' It has seen nino diseases in all It I either wiped out when brought in It contact with preventive medicines or It f reduced to a point which field doc-l doc-l ' tors ten years ago would have con-Ij con-Ij r sidered impossible. These nine dis-It; dis-It; ; eases are pneumonia, diphtheria, Ik cerebro-spinal meningitis, dysen-II dysen-II ' tery, blood poisoning, cholera, bull bu-ll bonic plague, typhoid and tetanus." I J TOE VACCINES. I j, CLAIM VICTORY l Gcorgo Is. Genz of tho Parke- I . ; Iu tho military hospitals lias been proven the tremendous efficiency of the theory of immunization, and from their precedents civilians of subsequent subse-quent generations "w ill use nino separate new "ways of lengthening: the spun of life. a wlso treatment. The elimination of tetanus and typhoid by the use of vaccines and serums has been complete. com-plete. Medical men knew tho efficiency effi-ciency of these prophylactics before the war, but the average man did not appreciate their surety until this war made it plain." War, with its creation of a maximum maxi-mum of wounds, filth, congestion of population and its lowering of all man-made resistance, offers to the diseases which strive to flourish in times of peace a free sweep. It aggravates ag-gravates and exaggerates the ailments ail-ments of neutral peoples. If organized medicine can either eliminate or successfully hold in check the nine diseases named above, what cannot it do when war is done and the cesspools of slaugh- ter are filled, when man may turn his wholo attention to tho administration adminis-tration of prophylactic skill upon diseases that are then Isolated instead in-stead of congested? The German army today compels its soldiers to becomo immunized against disease before they go to the battlo trenches. Other armies insist in-sist and urge it upon their men. Elaborate field corps of surgeons Inject In-ject cultures and serums into the arms of countless soldiers who aro preparing for their turn before the enemy's guns. Never before In. war did preventive preven-tive medicine play, a part worthy of consideration. During the Boer war and the Russo-Japanese war various vari-ous faltering attempts wero niado to use smallpox vaccine, but no progress prog-ress was noted. Perhaps tho greatest single achievement is the elimination of typhoid ty-phoid fever. Still, the present war cannot claim tho total elimination of that disease, for tho United States army by tho enforcement of an order or-der compelling all troopers to submit sub-mit to typhoid vaccination, expelled tho curso from the ranks in en- Dr. Victor C. Taughn, denn of tho University of aiichigan 3Iodlcal College, who believes tho average av-erage life of the next generation will be fifteen years longer. ifilik Um M fl Typhoid fever used to claim its Tlctims by tho thousand. Armies are now frco from it, thanks to tho scrupulous vaccination o each soldier fl': Austrian troopers are here shown being inspected by German Bed Cross doctors. It is said Austria's success agalust Serbia has been due fli r- lartrclv to superior preparedness against disease. ", vA sltt Davis Companj', manufacturing i chemists, says: "Tho success of preventive treatment at the front has proved conclusively to the lay-9- manniind that it is a practical and tlrcty. t. LOCKJAW '6 LOXGEll PEAKED. More dreadful than typhoid is tetanus te-tanus "lockjaw," as it is called. Iu i H contracting it and almost 4 per cent ! of the wounded caught it. M In the soil of Flanders where tho ? land has been under cultivation for f centuries, kept allvo by heavy coverings cov-erings of manure, tetanus germs flourish in million lots. Trench fighting subjects soldiers to these germs, as soldiers have never been subjected before, since "digging in" has been the sole means of defense on either side ever since tho conflict began. And yet with all this subjection sub-jection to tetanus the mortality from the disease is zero. Scrupulous vac- C ' - '4W' "mi A "- J h i MM peace? H Remarkable cures - of wounded H soldiers have been effected in H France by the new polyvalent se- H rum, discovery of which has given jH complete recoverj' to terribly mu- H tilated soldiers, for whom all hope M would have otherwise been given H up. Drs. Leclainche and Vallee H brought it out last March. M What of the intensive, tireless M work being dono to isolate the M gangrene germ to discover the se- H rum that will kill this deadly bac- JA teria? Mr. Mulford says that H chemists everywhere are bending H their greatest energies toward this H PIrst aid to tho mounded soldier lias developed a new phase of preventive treatment. It Is the immediate Im. H muiiizatlon against blood-poisonin g, that malady which once was considered Irresistible. Wounds are now lesi m heavily bandaged nnd heal moro quickly. H pasL wars practically all of those who developed this terrible malady (lied. The rate of mortality during tho Franco-Prussian war from this disease was 95 per cent of thoso cinalion has robbed the malady of its viclousness. Tho best possible proof of the wide-spread extent of the practice of preventive medicine is the news that tho Turks, known for centuries H as the dirtipst, most unprogressive H people in Asia, have forced vaccina- jH tlon against smallpox, cholera and typhoid upon their soldiers imnjv- dlately upon enrollment H WILL SPREAD H EW TREATJIETS. When peace finally descends up- on Europe and Asia 'these habits which the millioBs of solidera are learning, will bo spread to every corner of the world. First aid am- M pules containing dosages which prevent blood-poisoning, dysentery, typhoid, pneumonia and diptheria will he familiar sights in even the H lowest households if the present in- dications prove true. H From the considerations of Ion- M gevity, aside from war aspects, t is M apparent that lifo is lengthening. H Between 1900 and 1910 there was a H marked proportional increase In the average age at death and since 1900 H the strides made by preventive med- M icines have been infinitely longer than those made in the decade im- mediately preceding that year. H Tho United States census con- M trasts them thus: In 1900 those IH who arrived at the ages of from 35 UH to 24 years were in proportion to IH the whole 19.6 per cent, while in H 1910 they were 19.7. Between 25 H and 44 years of age they Increased H from 28 per cent to 29.1. The ages H ranging from 45 to 64 grew from 13.7 to 14.6, and those living to 65 H and over were, in the earlier census, lH 4.1 per cent, and in the latter cnum- H eration 4.3 per cent H DEATH REPULSED i BY SCIENCE. H This longevity, says Dr. Vaughn, H is due to the enlightenment of the H public on how to live according to IH the rules of sanitation and medical IH science. H Granting that the rate of accident H and industrial injury persists in the H future (an event that seems unlike- H ly In the face of "safety first" cam- H paigns and protective devices), what H of the marvelous progress that H science is making in restoring lifo H and comparative health to the maim- H ed in the warring countries? What H will the devices surgeons are learn- H end. it is tne ncen oi iuo iuu. jm Avounded arc crying for Jt and it H will come. Of that I feel absolutely H confident." . M fCopyright. 19150 M |