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

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f . . h.lf minute or longer. In the cases There, however, it is not so universal and
areemployed a,d tte speed s^p y
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;fa"?«e?rV.,, s,l.y sec„,.d app,.- .hi. ,o
J^^ ZS^l^^i^tS^^
cations. .
^^ g^^^jj charms, especially of blue beads,
Some Oriental Suggestions in Matters which are supposed to be an unfailing panoi
the Healing Art.-Sandler says, accord- acea against every possible ill.
ing to The London Medical Lancet, that
Bacteriologic and Serologic Invesllthe
Moslems are addicted to the queerest
gg.jons m scarlatina.-Schleissner( Fortpractices
for purposes of healmg or alleviatg^i,j.i(^e
tier Medizin) examined the blood.:
ing bodily pain. A Turk, for instance, in
.^^ ^ ^^^^^ number of cases, and came to the:
distress or suffering from some disease, how-
£oiio,^,i„g conclusions;
ever severe, knows of no better remedy than
^ ^^ appears that in those cases of scarto
fix a piece of his dress, torn off with true
j^^^j^^^ j,j which examination can be madel
Oriental equanimity, to an iron bar of some
^^^.^^ e„ough—before advent of anginasaint's
tomb, or to drink water from a tumj^j^jQgj
exclusively streptococci are found
bier into which he has previously put a
^^^^^ ^^^ tonsils, which on inoculation and,
sheet of paper with writings from the Koran,
^.^niy^tion upon beef serum develop in
Sometimes he will take a jar, the interior of
^^^^^^^, ^^^^ culture.
which has been written all over with strange -,^ -^^^ ^ ^^^^^ number of cases of scarlaformulee
and signs. He will then fill it with ^.^^"^ streptococci can be cultivated from the
water, wait till these formulae and signs
^^^^^^ without their presence in any way
have been thoroughly dissolved, and drink
jj^f^j-gagjug the seriousness of the prognosis,
the singular solution with an absolute faith
^ ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^ scarlatina patients in the
in its wonder working efficacy. Sheltered
^^^ ^^ ^^j^ ^^^gj. gj^.g ^yjtjj emulsions of
by the sombre cypresses of the great Ma-
J^^^^y streptococci cultivated from scarlahomedan
cemetery at Scutari (the ancient
^.^^^^ ^^^^^ fixation of complement: i. e.,
Chrysopolis, on the Asiatic coast of the
^^^^^ contain streptococci antibodies. These
Bosphorus) there stands in picturesque solibodies
do not appear to be present in the,
tude the tomb of a horse. Every Friday
gj-st week; in the sixth week they disappear
afternoon Turkish mothers carry to that
f^om the blood; the acme of their formation
tomb their crippled children to be submitted
^ppgars to be reached about the tenth day.
by a select "khodja" (priest) to^ an extra-
^
Differentiation of the various kinds of
ordinary course of treatment. These chilgfj-gp^cocci
can not with certainty be made
dren are dragged, with their diseased limbs , means of complement fixation,
dangling over the hillock, from one end ot
^ . .«
the tomb to the other and then back again Exophtlialmic Goitre, as a Sequel to
in the same fashion. The ocult influence Tubercular AMeetions.-Hufnagel (Munemanating
from this hillock is supposed to chener Med. Woch.) observed six patients,^
be an all efficient panacea. It is not diffi- all women, who presented tuberculous cacult
to trace in this case the crude, imper- tarrh of the pulmonary apices, besides t
feet association of ideas. The horse has fully developed exophthalmic p't/e, wit^
long been considered an emblem of vigor, uniformly distributed struma of soft, elastJ
tvnifving as Ruskiu says, "the flow and consistency, bilateral exophthalmus, n(
force of life" Hence the belief of the combined with retraction of pupils, sevei
Oriental, inherited, no doubt, from the persistent tachycardia, as well as nervoual
Greeks in the all conquering virtue and and neurasthenic disturbances, itie
influence of ocult and mysterious effluvia sociation of the two diseases is not so ve
which are supposed to emanate constantly uncommon, also in the case of childr"
from a horse's tomb. The wearing of a Among 1246 tuberculous children who ca
necklace of blue beads or of garlic as a under treatment during the past year the
potent means of keeping away disease or of were six affected with apex catarrh ar
warding off the evil eye is quite a universal exophthalmic goitre. One of these cliUdr
matter of sincere belief in the whole of presented the noteworthy findings that »
Turkey. This superstition is shared, as is former attack of measles had not alone ag-|
well known bv the lower classes of majiy gravated the tuberculous affection, but also^
a country 'in' civilized Western Europe, the exophthalmic goitre. To these cases