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HomeMy WebLinkAboutLucknow Sentinel, 1892-02-05, Page 71•0 • THE BUSY BACILLUS. ,I=.001..••••••••••• Something Abot the Grip That Pre- ceded the Black Death. THE WORLD HAS SNEEZED BEFORE: De Solar and Terrestrial Disturbances Pro - dace Favorable Conditions for it ?- Deficiency of Oxygen in the .A.ir- ,, Ancient Theories -Cultivating Bacilli- ) lood Corpuscles ;aid Germs -Parallel Disturbances -A Suggestion. The preponderance of • opinion in the medical profession places la grippe in the .list of diseasse explicable only by the science of bacteriology. Bacteria as destroyers of blood tissue are daily being made to ac- count for more of the diseases which have to a greater or lees extent baffled medical skill. The fact that influenza in its course .. cannot be traced uninterruptedly has misled many investigators, but it is to be borne in mind that the bacteria, always exist and that the requirements for an epidemic out- break are (1) conditions favorable to their vaultiflication, and (2) subjects whose debilitated blood corpuscles invite attack. The victims of the grip are those whose blood affords the conditions necessary to the propogation of the bacillus. Although iatent bacilli cannot, in the normal condi- . on of the atmosphere, be propagated in such quantities as to endanger the lives of healthy persons. Naegeli contends that the bleed corpuscles themselves, when in a healthy condition, prevent the, propagation of fungi, which is being con- stantly brought into context with them by medium of the lungs. But whenever the blood corpuscles become broken down, unsound, danger may be feared. SCIENCE CANNOT AFFORD TO DOGMATISE; the only certain way t� fix bacilli as causing a disease is to separate the microbes from other matter and cultivate by innoeulation under favorable conditions for propagation. This, in the case of the grip, or influenza, bacillus, has already been accomplished by Prof. Pfeiffer, of Berlin, and by two Amer- ican physicians, Dr. Gentry, of Chicago, sand Dr. Watkins. Grip may be safely classed as a germ dis- ease, its outbreak being dependent upon favorable atmospheric conditions, which predispose to its attacks while facilitating reproduction of the bacilli; and its victims -as in the case of other germ diseases - will be found in greatest numbers among those whose receptivity has been increased by a, low vitality and abnormal condition of the blood corpuscles, affording a breeding ground and food for the influenza microbe. .........FORMER GRIP EPIDEMICS. • To form any idea as to the conditions . fa- vorable to the spread of the disease we must study its history, for it is not a new visitation. Hippocrates was aequainted with it ; Dioderus Siculus describes an epi- demic, now believed to have been the grip, which caused great suffering to the Athen- nian army in Sicily in the year 415, B. C. In A. D., 827, it broke out in Europe again, -accompanied with a violent cough. In 876 it spread from Italy over Europe, and in ahnost every century, notably before the outbreak of the black deicth, in 1348, it vis- ited Europe, and at one time or another it has afflicted every habitable country on the globe. It has spread over all Europe in two months, but at times its progress is slower.. In ,1831 it afflicted Paris for nearly ten months. In the Caroline Islands it appears twice a year. The theory that it is the result of solar and terrestrial disturbances whose effects on the atmosphere are favorable to the propa- gation of the disease germs finds many seientific defenders. It is noted that nearly ' all the great outbreaks of which we have any authentic accounts were subsequent to 'IMPORTANT SOLAR OR TELLURIC DISTURB- - ANCES. The visitation of influenza in the 14th century (prior to the plague outbreak) was preceded by great convulsions of the earth, droughts, storms, floods, that have come down in the history of the times. In China, At' 1333, fifteee years before the plague out- , eak, 400,000 people perished in the great lioods. In 1334drought and disease sweptoff 5,000,000 people. A few months afterwarda great earthquake followed, the mountains of Ki-ining-chan fell in and a lake more than 100 leagues in circumference Was formed. In 1336 frequent winter thunderstorms ' alarmed the French, and Mount Etna burst ineo eruption'the only one of the century. In 1337 about 4,000,000 Chinese perished by • famine in the Kiang district. Deluges, earthquakes, droughts afflicted Europe'. In 1343 Hong-tchang mountain fell in and caned a deluge. In that year a three months' rain fell in Pien-tcheou and , Leang.tcheou, destroying seven cities. Earthquakes shook Egyeit, Syria and Turkey. • On Jan. 25th, 1348, an unexampled earthquake shook Greece, Rely and sur- rounding countries, destroying cities and • villages and ' killing many thousands; mountains were moved from their positions, the waters beiled, and ,great rents were • opened in the earth from which deadly gaSes exhaled. For 26 years there had been a succession of terrestrial disturbances; , then came the , GRIP OF THE 14T11 CENTURY, to be succeeded by the plague which deso- lated so many cities of the world. The science of medicine was in a crude state at that time, and, unfortunately, we have few writings of medical men of the time to refer to ; but such as there are in- cline us to the belief that the disease was duo to atmospheric conditions brought about by the solar and terrestrial disturbances which preceded the outbreak. As in the case of the present • visitation, the influenza, which preceded the Black Death, and the plague itself, sme,de its way from east to west. It was botli" epidemic and contagious; it affected the pulmonally weak most seriously; it was complicated with pneumonia in e fatal • degree in many cases and its after-effects were markedly debilitating. The accounts which come awn to us regarding the plague itself are meagre, and even those of medical men exhibit such an admixture of superstition end igthey failednorance as teeeree ns pot to. cope successfully with the- scourge. • RMIAILOMMUMPNOW.MPV.VMOSiMieUMBillieSIMMIMMINWMVMMOONP Galeezso di Santo Sofia carefully dietin- guiehes between the plague proper, " pesti- lence," and epidemy and end.einy. He mints out that the influenza or cough, bad been observed in all climates while the pestilence he aeeumed to ,epme independent of telluric changes. Guy de Chau- liac held that the influence of the conjunction of the planets had much to do with yitiating the air and rendering it poisonous. Gentilis, of Foligno, who hitn- self fell a victim to the plague, ascribed it to atmospheric poisons, and advised the purification of the'air by burning large fires of odoriferous woods. SUPERSTITION AND PERSECUTION. Medical kill, however, was pitiably unfit to cope with the great mortality of the plague, and, sad to say, it was over• shadowed by superstition, and men, awed, dispossessed of reason by the great pesti- lence, failed to use the eneans at their com- mand, and instead resorted to religious rites, processions, flaggellations and various forms of peeance to appease a supposedly infuriated Deity; and as' a part of the sacrifice to be offered, a bloody persecution of the Jews (who are now being persecuted in Russia 0 was inaugurated, thousends being put to torture and executed, while mobs wreaked vengeance upon them with impunity in the most horrible manner. It is to be feared that in Europe supersti- tion made the plague results much more serious than need have been the case, as in Turkey, where reasonable methods of medical treatment were followed, very many attacked were saved. . Now, if we consider the phenomena noted before the grip of the 14th century, and be- fore the Great Plague we must concede that the solar and terrestrial changes going on were capable of producing variations in the atmospherical conditions upon which health or disease depends. Of course we have not the record, even were the demonstration possible, upon which to reach the conclusion that they and the disease which followed were cause and effect. But we have this data before us : The grip or influenze is BOTH EPIDEMIC AND INFECTIOUS; it is caused by a germ bacillus ; the bacillus, while always existent, requires certain con- ditions and soil for its propogation. Before the great outbreak which , preceded the plague in 1348 we read of great usolar and • terrestrial dis- turbances together with a, conjunc- tion of planets (supposed by the writers of that time to have caused these disturb- ances), and, we -have the epidemic taking a course similar to that taken by the grip in he spread -from east to west. •What have been the phenomena noted in the few years prior to the ("rip visitation ? Have they been similar? vies, to a degree. We have had solar and stellar disturbances; meteoric displays of peculiar grandeur. We have heard of great floods in China ;terrific earthquakes bringing destruction in their train ; wonderful voleanic_ activity ; droughts; &mines. The fact that, at in the 14th century, epidemic influenza fol- lows these manifestations • may not imply cause and effect; but the idea of connection is very suggestive. ATMOSPHERIC EQUILIBRIUM. That these great terrestrial disturbances have an important effect on the atmosphere is highly probable ; that the solar disttieb: ances exert a powerful influence on the air and earth seems a reasonable proposition. We have sufficient familiarity with the theoryof electro -polar disturbances to make the Oonhection easy. There is a certain normal condition of atmosphere Most favor- able to human life, least favorable to the multiplication of noxious germs. Any dis- turbance of that equilibrium involves danger to health. It has been found during severe cholera epidemics that no spark can be ob- tained with the Franklin appara,tus, show- ing that the condition, favorable to cholera is a DEFICIENCY OF' OXYGEN in the air. The absence of the elements of statical electricity is one •of the conditions favorable to the cholera bacillus; but it may not be the only one. Wet or dry weather does not seem to exert any great influence on the result. What causes this vitiation of the air ? What a,bstracts or, deatroys the oyygen ? And what are the other combinations existent in the atmos- phere in which the cholera bacillus thrives? That is the problem before our scientific investigators. If (and the facts lend color to it) the solar and telluric disturbances preceding the in- fluenzas of the 14th century were the cause of the conditions that gave rise to it, or rather developed it from the latent germs, is it not probable that similar Causes have cembined to bring about the grip plague of 1890-2? MASQUETTE. A Traveler Rejoicing. Summerside, P. E. I., Oct. 10th, 1888 : "Having used St. Jacob's Oil for a badly sprained knee, I can testify to its peculiarly curative properties, as less than one bottle completely cured the eprain."-GEOROE GREGG, Traveler few J. C. Ayer & Co. Hot Weather on the Neva. In May, June mid July the weather on the Neva is as hot as it is in summer time in Queensland, and the chief delights of the people whose official duties detain them in the capital is to be rowed about the Neva in the soft and mellow gloaming and to ex- perience the pleasurable sensation of being able to read the newspaper without the aid of artificial light at 11 p. m. u Russia's Platinm 'lines. Although Russia possesses almost inex- haustible mines of platinum, there aro only two laboratories in the country which pre- pare the precious metal for commerce. The raw material is sent from the Permian •,government, where it in found, to St. Petersburg, and thence, for the most part, to England, where it is refined. During 1888 only 31 pude, or 1,085 pounds, were refined in Russia. The price of platinum wont up between 1886 and 1890, from 3,000 to 12,000 roubles per pad, or from 84 to 336 roubles per pound. 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