THE BIOLOGY OF EPIDEMICS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4657, 24 February 1894, Page 3

THE BIOLOGY OF EPIDEMICS.

Epidbmio diseases, naturally enough, ooout almost always among peoples whose; environment ate partially civilized, that ia, civilized in regard to their fixity of abode, aadbnrhatoua as to their ideas of sanitation, Tho batbarian in nearly every cubo is a nomad, whose wandering habits are his solvation. Living among the pri« mitive drainage regulations of most savage triboa, along stay in one pi ice would almost certainly oreate an epidemic, and this lie eaoapes by constantly shifting his oamp elsewhere. The early civilizations, and indeed the civilization of the present, abandoned the nomadio life while retaining the insanitary surroundings, which made wandering an nbsoliite^nßces,.Banitai!y attention W<3 gi?o our dwell; , ing places in tho present day, aod underperfeot eanitarj conditions would • have ketvuvevented nltogpther. Tho ever leSßlig Btrength of latter opi* ' demies proves that-beyond contra- . diction. It is a imatuko to suppose! that cities alone are fever beda—l under existing circumstances every , bush hamlet, ovcry etagn>nt pool, every spot on which, man the de» stroyer sets his foot, is a ,congeiiial. Lome for the disease Mhich, in revenge, destroys the destroyer. Strict health rules are not! coufined to cleanliness of surrountiogs nor cle.anno?s of the' exterior body, (jleanliness' 01. the[ worki g parts of the system is n'n jndi-pen-sibility of health, How few there in a thonsand who yield tt'ji tribute to Hygeia? of diet, disregard of natural laws Tvo doily orimes, they aro crimes j because they are Buicidal, The rjourrent dyspepsia, the seemingly stomachic disorders, the genejtl functional derangements are —that is a orimo. One thai hurts not only the man himself tut his fellows also, for an unliealtlir man is a menace to the health ut the , community lrn belongs to. The\ first duty we owe Society ia to Ivoid hurting it, and can wb hurt Society moro than by threatening its bidily health 1 And how aggravated dcesthe crime become if we have absoute curatives within reach and negleel to use them I Those curatives t'e Earner's Safe Kpinedies, medic.ls which have stood the teat for yeJI, - and have been proved to be infallit specifics for the diseases to which tlf.l respectively) apply. I