Vol. 60, 1909 - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

REVIEW OF SOUTHERN MEDICAL, LITERATURE. 169
Review of Southern Medical Literature Department of Public Health, officered by
the ablest men, and beyond the reach of
PoHtios,
Texas
and
Medical foiirnal fulv 1909
make an appropriation ade-
_ ., ,„ , t^"t^
quate to meet the requirements, however
Psychology o Drunkenness.-Dr. E expensive it may be. It will be true econ-
Shepherd says that every fruit, plant and omy in the end." This end,-the eliminavegetable
grown contains this vitalizing tio„ ^f the preventable and the cure of the
substance known as spirit; remembenng curable elements of race decav,-is the misalso
that this spirit constitutes its life, and sion of rational medicine, to which all "exits
life is its happiness, its hv.ng its divine ceptional men," the enlightened, should
J°/\ "'""^'^ drunkenness ^^
of the plant ^^}; address themselves. Duty requires it; true
life be? Wouldnotan undue portion, an philanthropv dictates it; policv suggests it,
excess of spirit or hfe-if It could be secured and it is demanded by every consideration
—cause thejjlant to lose its poise, its bal- of humanity and race integritv. Will Conance,
its sobriety or sanity? Imbibing alco- ^gss heed the warning?
nolle fluids sufficiently, men lose control of
mind and bodv, and we say "thev are ,,r ^ , ,/•-, j c- , ,
drunk." We have but to review the above ^^'"' ^'''''"'' and Surgical Journal,
'^^"^/'fj
stated facts, then observe t/'^J'- ^yOv.
that man'sgeiiius
has devised methods whereby to extract to ^ Clinical Study of the Serum Dlaadistil
this spirit from fruit and grains,
"•**'* *»* and
Typhoid Fever.— Dr. II. P.
under the delusion that an excess of such J^row" and Dr. J. II. Kuiter say that from
spirit taken into ^^'=^ '^^"'^>'
his system as drink, will
'^^ conclude, first, that a positive
make him happier, he proceeds agglutmation test
to intoxiwith
bacillus typhosus
cate his senses, lose his reason
'"dicates
and degrade
that the patient from whom the
his whole being through the
^^"^'^
identical
^^^^'^
prin-
"'^s taken has typhoid fever
"'^
ciple which thfe Creator uses to create and ^^^ ^^^ typhoid fever within a comparaexalt
and make "^'^'>'
perfect
'"^^ent
every creature of
period. Second, in the ab-
His hand. Because a thing
^^"'^^
is good "^ ^ positive agglutination test the
it
doesn't follow a man should make a swin-
S-Vmptoms are due to some other infection.
ish glutton
''^"'^*
of
^):ion\A
himself, debauch his bodv,
be diligently sought for. In
'
deface creation and shame the earth.
^^"^^ '^^^^s '* '^ possible that the agglutinins
Men lose their reason temporarily through
have not yet developed in sufficient quandrinking
intoxicating liquors:
t'tV "i the
they often
patient's blood to give a reaction
lose it forever from a false
'" ''^ dilution of
impression
one in forty.
or
Subsequent
idea that they are gaining enjoyment in the ^^^'^ '^""^^^ '=^^^'' "P ^^'^^ Vo\ni. Third, the
realm of sensualism. Descending
Persistent
to a plane
absence of the reaction even in
of utterly disiipating
the presence
the divinest
of clinical
forces exsymptoms
of typhoid
f^''^*"
tant in
'^'^"''^ '^^'l
nature, wasting their very life and "^ ^'' «'^'« ^ positive opindraining
their highest vitality in the form
'"" ^^'^^ ^^^ disease was not typhoid fever,
of
'^^^
sex-intoxication, as surely
'"^^^
destroys common infections which give a
the
body with tlie disease called insanity—
Anneal picture of typhoid fever are miliary
softening of the brain—as
tuberculosis and paratyphoid fever.
it is frequently No
termed for courtesy's sake, as that the
"^ ^^^ latter infection was encountered
light- 'i^^^
ning can blast the splendid tree but erst- "\ """^ t^\'° l»u"dred and fifty-two cases.
while waving its branches in the happy
That a tuberculous bactenemia may recover
breezes, expressive of its delights '^
in being. ^?'^ estabhshed by I.andouzy in a paper
read at the sixth International Congress on
Elements of Decay in American Civil-
"uberculosis.
ization.— Dr. I". Iv. Daniel believes that
what sanitary science has done in other Tuberculous Laryngitis.— Dr. R. B.
countries it can do in this. And this is the Ilowan believes that it is in tuberculosis of
task to which the Committee of One Hun- the larynx that the most satisfactory results
dred on Federal Legislation, in collabora- from the use of tuberculin is obtained for
tion with the Association for the Advance- the reason that the action of the remedy
ment of Science, now addresses itself, can be accurately controlled by the local
While we may never be "civilized" up to a reaction produced in the larynx, and the
scientific breeding of people < as we do our dosage should be governed entirely by the
stock), or totally eradicate disease, it uii- local findings, That amount of tuberculin
questionably lies within the power and should be administered which is necessary
scope of science to eliminate much that is to cause a slight stimulation of the local
evil, and bring about great improvement, process, which will show as a slight hypereven
in the next generation, in the physi- einia. The dose should not be repeated
cal, moral and intellectual status of society, until this hyperemia has disappeared, nor
To this end government should create a should it be increased until this amount