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The  Ills  of  the  Body 
Having  Your  “Operation” 
Have  you  had  your  operation  yet? 
Well,  one  is  coming  to  you.  Don’t,  think 
that  because  you  are  tough,  never  had  a 
day’s  sickness  iu  your  life  and  know  the 
doctor  only  by  sight  that  you  are  going 
to  escape.  Grandfather  swung  his 
scythe  at  ninety  and  mowed  his  swath 
clear  ahead  of  Father  Time  until  the  lat¬ 
ter  caught  him  by  a  sudden  spurt. 
Father  only  knew  that  a  hospital  was  a 
big  brick  building  iu  the  city  where  he 
s’posed  people  went  sometimes.  But  you 
and  I  are  not  of  their  generation.  They’re 
building  hospitals  nigher  and  nigher  now, 
and.  sooner  or  later,  one  of  ’em  is  going 
to  get  us. 
It  appears  that  the  more  yon  know 
about  a  thing  the  more  trouble  you  are 
bound  to  have.  When  the  appendix  was 
only  the  back  part  of  the  dictionary  uo 
one  died  of  it,  but  when  it  was  found 
that  people  had  them  in  their  stomachs, 
cholery  morbus  went  out  of  style  and  ap¬ 
pendicitis  came  in.  Nowadays,  no  one  is 
safe  until  he  has  been  vaccinated,  inoc- 
breathe  naturally  with  that  rubber  con¬ 
traption  over  your  nose  and  that  sickly 
sweet  stuff  being  poured  on  it.  Besides, 
you  are  afraid  of  choking — and — and — 
we]],  it  don't  seem  quite  right  to  go  off 
and  leave  your  body  all  alone  there  with 
strangers.  But  you  breathe  easily  now, 
your  nervousness  is  gone,  those  bells 
whose  jangling  hurt  your  ears  have  got¬ 
ten  so  far  away  that  you  just  hear  their 
faint  tinkle.  That  music  is  pretty  and 
you  begin  to  float  away — and  away — 
until:  “Why,  nurse,  how  came  I  back 
here?”  “Couldn’t  they  operate  after  all?’’ 
“They  have,  and  it’s  all  over — and  I 
didn’t  know  a  thing  about  it!” 
Home  looks  different,  someway.  They 
were  good  in  the  hospital,  and  did  every¬ 
thing,  but  there  was  no  cheerful  dirt 
there.  Home ;  well,  it’s  just  home. 
Mother  can’t  plot  any  curves  ou  your 
temperature  chart,  and  you  are  glad  of 
it.  You're  tired  of  thermometers  and 
nurses  and  charts  and  white  paint  and  iron 
beds.  You  don't  want  to  be  a  case  any 
longer,  and  you  do  want,  homo  cookin’ ; 
The  Young  Man  With  the  Hoe — No  Infantile  Paralysis  Here 
ulated  for  typhoid  fever,  and  had  his  ap¬ 
pendectomy  ;  and.  if  you  haven't  had  your 
appendectomy  yet,  your  turn  is  coming, 
.lust  you  wait,  just  you  wait. 
It  seems  such  a  disorderly  thing  to  do; 
to  go  to  the  hospital.  Never  did  a  thing 
like  that  before  in  our  litres.  Who  is  go¬ 
ing  to  milk,  and  who  is  going  to  do  the 
other  chores,  we'd  like  to  know?  But, 
the  doctor  says  go;  your  own  judgment, 
or  what  you  thought  was  your  judgment 
before  you  found  that  you  didu’t  have 
any,  says  go;  and  mother,  with  a  catch 
in  her  voice  that  she  can’t  quite  hide,  and 
a  look  on  her  face  that  maybe  angels 
wear  when  in  trouble,  says:  “Yes.  go”; 
and  you  go.  The  surgeon  is  a  kind- 
hearted  man,  no  doubt ;  maybe  has  a 
family  of  his  own ;  but  he  looks  at  you 
as  if  you  were  a  case,  and  being  a  case 
gives  you  a  crawly  kind  of  feeling.  The 
nurses  scurry  around  like  ants;  they 
seem  to  have  perpetually  forgotten  some¬ 
thing.  Everybody  smiles,  but  the  smiles 
are  kind  o’  like  sunshine  in  November, 
not  very  warmin'.  Being  sick  here  is  evi¬ 
dently  going  to  be  a  strictly  business 
proposition ;  no  coddlin’. 
Yes ;  you  are  trying,  but  it  is  hard  to 
and  you  get  it.  But  it  is  comfortin’  to  know 
that  your  appendix  is  canned,  and  that 
you  stand  a  fair  chance  of  payin’  nature's 
debt  in  a  Christian  way,  in  your  own  bed. 
They  say  that  appendixes  are  remnants, 
of  no  use  to  anyone  hut  surgeons,  and 
that  we  should  have  left  them  off  when 
Ave  left  off  being  monkeys.  Be  that  as  it 
may.  it  takes  nature  a  long  time  to  make 
a  mullcy,  and,  meanwhile,  Ave  may  as  Avell 
become  reconciled  to  operations. 
Infantile  Paralysis 
A  few  facts  concerning  infantile  par¬ 
alysis,  taken  from  a  recent  address  of 
Dr.  Flexuer  of  the  Rockefeller  Institute 
of  Medical  Research,  will  interest  many 
parents,  ns  the  disease  is  always  present 
in  some  part  of  the  country,  and  fre¬ 
quently  assumes  the  proportions  of  a 
serious  epidemic. 
The  disease  is  not  avoII  named,  not  be¬ 
ing  confined  to  infancy  and  not  always 
being  accompanied  by  paralysis.  Older 
children  and  adults  may  he  affected,  and 
paralysis  may  be  so  slight  and  transitory 
as  to  pass  ttu noticed;  iu  the  main,  how- 
OA'er.  it  is  a  disease  of  early  childhood. 
Infantile  paralysis  is  caused  by  a  germ 
August  19,  191G. 
Avhieli  finds  lodgment  in  the  nose,  throat 
and  intestines,  and  finds  its  way  thence 
to  the  brain  and  spinal  cord,  it  being  in 
these  latter  organs  that  the  mischief  is 
done.  It  is  carried  from  one  person  to 
another  in  the  secretions  of  the  nose  and 
throat,  and  in  the  discharges  from  the 
bowels.  Coughing  and  sneeziug  throw  a 
spray  of  infections  mucus  into  the  air; 
kissing  permits  direct  transference  of  the 
germs  from  t.he  sick  to  the  well ;  and  the 
soiled  hands  of  a  mother  or  nurse  en¬ 
gaged  in  the  care  of  a  sick  child  may 
carry  the  poison  to  food  being  prepared 
for  others.  Adults  coming  into  close  con¬ 
tact  with  the  disease  may  acquire  and 
harbor  the  germs  in  their  own  noses  and 
throats,  and,  Avhile  not  being  made  sick 
themselves,  may  carry  the  infection  to 
more  susceptible  children.  Flies  soiling 
their  feet  and  bodies  in  the  discharges 
from  the  sick  may  easily  iufect  food  upon 
which  they  alight  and  may  even  carry 
the  germs  directly  to  the  noses  and  lips 
of  young  children.  Dogs  and  cats,  and 
other  domestic  animals,  are  strongly  sus¬ 
pected  of  being  carriers  of  the  disease, 
though  the  evidence  against  them  is  not 
very  conclusive. 
The  death  rate  varies  from  five  to  20 
per  cei  .  the  average  being  rather  be- 
1oaat  10  pe;  cent.  Of  those  who  recover, 
a  few  are  permanently  crippled  by  par¬ 
alysis,  but  by  far  the  greater  number 
escape  permanent  injury  from  this  cause, 
though  it  may  take  months,  or  even 
years,  for  the  paralysis  to  disappear.  The 
disease  is  self-limited  and  tends  toward 
recovery.  There  is  no  known  medical  or 
surgical  cure,  though  much  may  be  done 
by  proper  care.  It  is  altogether  likely 
that  a  serum,  perhaps  similar  to  diph¬ 
theria  antitoxin,  Avill,  in  time,  be  devel¬ 
oped  for  the  prevention  and  cure  of  this 
disease. 
Possibly  because  of  less  familiarity 
with  it.  the  public  is  more  inclined  to 
panic  in  the  presence  of  an  epidemic  of 
infantile  paralysi.s*tlmu  in  those  of  scar¬ 
let  fever,  diphtheria  or  measles,  though 
the  danger  is  really  greater  in  these  lat¬ 
ter  diseases  because  of  the  far  greater 
susceptibility  of  children  to  them.  Tem¬ 
porary  isolation  of  the  sick  and  of  those 
who  must  come  into  close  contact  Avith 
them,  together  with  personal  cleanliness 
and  the  observance  of  the  Avell  understood 
rules  of  hygiene,  will  protect  the  public 
in  times  of  danger.  Infantile  paralysis 
makes  its  appearance  in  from  tAvo  to 
eight  days  from  the  time  of  exposure  and 
is  believed  in  practically  till  cases  to  lose 
its  infectmty  within  six  weeks.  This 
makes  the  period  of  necessary  isolation 
comparatively  short.  ir.  b.  d. 
Experience  With  Ivy  Poisoning 
Being  42  years  old,  and  having  been 
poisoned  Avith  poison  oak  from  one  to 
10  times  every  year  since  large  enough 
to  go  to  the  woods,  I  thought  a  few 
words  from  me  might  interest  you.  Many 
of  my  family  being  doctors,  I  have  tried 
every  remedy  known  to  the  profession  and 
every  remedy  I  have  seen  advocated  in 
your  paper.  My  observation  lias  been 
that  in  all  cases  except  Avhere  I  used 
iodine  the  disease  ran  its  course  and 
then  got  Avell.  Until  the  last  time  I 
have  always  gotten  the  greatest  relief 
by  covering  the  part  with  poAvdered  alum, 
then  a  cloth  and  keeping  same  wet  with 
cider  vinegar.  When  a  part  is  particu¬ 
larly  aggravating  I  have  taken  a  lump 
of  alum,  put  it  against  something  hot  to 
make  the  outside  melt  a  little,  then  quick¬ 
ly  smeared  the  part.  It  Avill  burn  a 
little,  but  that  with  me  is  preferable  to 
the  terrible  itching.  Three  or  four  days 
ago  I  got  one  arm  poisoned  badly,  and 
being  compelled  to  keep  at  my  farm 
work  the  perspiration  irritated  it.  It 
had  run  about  half  its  course.  I  saw  a 
bottle  of  iodine  in  the  cabinet  and  ou  it 
Avent.  It  raised  some  blisters  but  I  got 
rid  of  the  terrible  itching.  When  you 
have  been  exposed  use  alcohol  to  Avash 
exposed  parts,  and  then  have  au  immune 
person  take  off  your  shoes  for  you.  You 
bruise  the  plant  underfoot,  then  get  the 
full  strength  of  oil  on  the  person  Avheu 
retiring.  I  believe  my  wife  or  my  boy 
could  eat  the  Aveed  without  hurting  them 
so  I  have  no  trouble  iu  finding  volunteers. 
Farmersburg,  Ind.  F.  W.  W. 
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safety -razor ?”  The  Accused:  “Yes,  sir. 
That’s  Avliat  I  carry  to  balls  and  picnics 
for  my  personal  safety.” — Boston  Globe. 
