CURE OF DISEASE.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14975, 23 May 1914, Page 12

CURE OF DISEASE.

• ~—*~~~~ : '^€3!tf "LAST WORD OP SCIEKGiIftS PIUCriGAI. IXSTRUCTIOK ATpii PANAMA EXPOSITION U^s ITROM A CORRESPONDENT.) ;^§f§s SAX FRAXCISCO, April 'SfSSI Physicians and surgeons of ail tionalities will be greatly the United States Government's" play at the Panama-Pacific tional ExjKisition, showing in which infection takes place ; : means of treating and contagious diseases and epideniiqt^W These exhibits will occupy of the space allotted to the depjui:#p ment of social economy in the'!P*U^!'!.- ;- of Education. The hygiene is the result of surveys conducted' ]&> tho Government, and will visible form the last word of upon tho prevention of 'disease. t^jirv^S-

The General Electric Ck>mpaay^sß New York has arranged for the^eoi^ffl struction by Doctor L. Phillip .'Hai^j^|Sl of Stuttgart, Germany, of a thoisaollS poutidf eye. which is to be pwt^fllS their £5000 human welfare .exhibit? in the Palace of Social Economy :^;Sf§The model of the human «iye^foßs|f. feet by six feet in .size, will be eqm"ppeijl|!f with lenses, retina, and muscled,'"aa^^r will reflect tho images of a large 'ineileifi^' factory erected in iront of it, sH^«r^S ing tho various effects upon tWretiiij&j!; of light, too dim, or. too glaring lights:?!!' and the consequent sudden contraction!?!? or expansion v; the papn and ofjti^M muscles of the eye, tho object being^^||? show the bad effect of .badly-ligat^ssSf rooms upon the nervous eystem,*'^^^: digestion and the general constitat»KS|i of factory employees, and to dejnoa?|§|i Ktrate that it pays financially to. Ug^t^ factories, offices and workrooms■.•■JiifoM||j£ perly. This exhibit mil cbntai#|f^ models of factories which are propssJy;J|S ; and improperly lighted, and_ mddle^§| r>f eyes and other organs which-; hmjfi? becomo diseased in various ''w>j£-§l| through the effects of poor lighting^i|tj Public nurses will find much to"ih*^?] I terest them in tho exhibit. planaed'kyifal i the Steel Corporation, on the proj*cl^" j housing of workmen and 6anitafc»o|l|f' ami vej.tofatiiin of workmen's '-«jt§fj|f I tages, which are also to be executed;|^|i-<J 1 T>r. Raver. Tho American Museum;pfe§ Safety will have a special exhibit ill^kS| trating safety appliances in factor^St 1 machine and railway shops, and of yaJrl^^ ous methods of preventing occupational l :,:;^ diseases. These exhibits will be>d^!Es| signed by Dr. Anderson, of the »|? and executed by Dr. ilauor and^Juv^ -forces. ■. ',':■-', . ■ ""■.:^r>%^ Typhoid fever, cholera, /"Rod^^l Mountain spotted" fever, malaTU,£!f! tuberculosis, yeilow ' fever, paUagiSjt^i? bubonic plague, rabies, Malta fever^li:|, diphtheria, leprosy, - smallpox, hookworm, tetanusj antbjmXj syphilis, Bttd.|ii tracoma, will each receive the fullest illustrative treatment, 'showing k°^;|f each disease is spread, hiw to treat tbe/||l; infected patient, and how to raise baj^|g; riers against infection. v ': : These models will be- extremely\.&eh|fs? like, and many of them will be so a^:£® structed as to show lifelike actionu;il^|^ is ; intended that one elance vdU be eof-31^ ficierit to cause the'spectator ; io ];gfrr&:f*^. his! whole- attention to.- wha^ver;'is,-.to;'|j||; be impartod. For; instance,"f initlieh'3*l*33l low" fever exhibit, ws:;be^;ißpdep6f y ~$M the female yellow fever mosquito]'.(edttrXflf colopus); six feet high^showing- : ':tte'.rj^ bill, with its kit of ;the;;|| lanoesi' saws, drills, e^ction'^ptifflpfl."■;, ' y M and injection -tubes ;-at:'work -v^^eny, α-r^is highly-magnified section of \, , -In the 'illustration of • the nieanel;*?;^ infection, most models .will be in action.'le In- the typhoid exhibit '.there- will^bg]^» electric display • apparatus, "t; ehowinel^ first, «'M»ry." in bed/eick-with"typbojlg feverj .'iSlaryf' *in an l vapioehair^tjii^ porch ;'■ convalescent;,' 'Mary , '-: entennfc^^ the door of a .milk depot .where.; , shepS goea,-;to»;work; "MaryjJ eervjng, a; Child|J» customer of tno shop,; pouring milk'intoi^lg . a pail;, the child customer in bed /.Tli^ScM typhoid; and last, a "door Irati^aßpefM on it, and the legend belpTrj.f' , Ma^^tM is a chronic typhoid baciUusjcarrier.'^J^ The'huge animated models;'pf t haciflolfiS carrying parasites, such as ticks, ; btigei|» house ana' stable flies, "will-shpy?"how|^ these insects become infected,; andiWwfi|§ they carry the infection to human fpod^^ or directly to the blood channels-off the^^i hiiman' body. Each exhibit of ■CTchjjjM models will be followed by "exhibitejul^ lustrating the methods of fighting inf(|g| ■fection- from , these sources, r .Buch* a*x^ tnodels of oxterminatini; vernnni '.andvM§ proper screening and rat-proofing of flM -houses.- .-.. •■ . .-.■■■.. /.:'■ :' ! '<Ji\ ::• ■.'>;>.-_,' -j'^jm