Spread of Consumption

Evening Star, Issue 15139, 22 March 1913, Page 4

Spread of Consumption

By Perspiration. Lecturing recently at the Academy of Medicine, Paris, Dr. Poncet stated that he and M. Miery, of Lyons, had found virulent tubercle bacilli in the perspiration of over 30 per cent, of the patients they had examined who were suffering from tuberculosis lesions of a surgical type. These, consisting as they did of cases of rheumatism and peritonitis, were either inactive or feebly active. In those cases where the disease was strong active bacilli were almost always present. In fact, the violent sweats of the consumptive may be regarded as one of Nature's means of getting rid of the poisonous microbes. The doctor insisted that it was necessary to disinfect all clothing and other object's that had been contaminated by the sweat of the tuberculous, aad that s«Darate beds should always be reserved for them. Recently Mi. F. H. Molesworth, F.C.S., F.G.S., of Sydney, had a pound of dust swept up from a wharf, and found it to contain the bacillus of tuberculosis. Having immersed this in a 10 per cent, solution of Lifebuoy Soap for 15 minutes, the tubercle bacilli (which were fairly numerous) were all destroyed. Household dust he treated in the same manner, with the same practical results, clearly demonstrating the strong germicidal powers of Lifebuoy Soap. It is a. very simple matter to destroy disease germs in the weekly wash, and there is no surer way of doing this than by using Lifebuoy Soap in the laundry, as well as for general household work. Lifebuoy Soap will not hurt the skin : in fact, it is very largely used as a bath soap, readily washing off perspiration, and at the same time destroying any disease germs that may be in the peismratioa*.

What, then, are his stories like? Thev concern all manner of subjects." Tho'v range, pays Mr Gross, round that anchorage of common. (--?nM\ He -was a highminded xiian even in a professional way as a lawyer, an witness thi* story : *•' Once ho was proseeutiug a civil'suil/.in the course of which evidence was introduced showing that his client was attempting a fraud" Lincoln rose and went. to.his hotel in 4sep disgust. The Judge sent for him ; he refused to come. 'Tell the Judge,' he said. - my hands are dirty ; I came over to wash them.'" Lincoln was going to a political convention, and one of his rivals, a li reran an, provided him with a, slow horse, hoping that, he would not reach his destination in time. Mr Lincoln got there, however, and when he returned with the horse lie said :• "You keep this horse for funerals, don't you? - ' "Oh, nc." replied the liveryman. "Well, I am glad of that, for if you did, you would ne.ver get a corpse to the grave iu time for tho Resurrection." —Wisdom Without Waitiug.— There was something of tho Eastern cadi, the Eastern Solomon, in Lincoln's treatment of a political question, especially when he had a deputation to handle. A number of people visited him whilo he was President and urged the emancipation of the negroes before ho was ready for that, iind before ho thought thev were ready to be emancipated. This talk followed:— " How many legs will a sheep have if von call the tail a leg?" They answered "Five." "You are mistaken," said Lincoln, " for calling the tail a leg dees not make it so,' and that 'exhibited the fallacy of the position more than 20 syllogisms. * General Sheridan, the great American cavalry soldier, was a littfe man, while, as wo know, the traditional cavalryman of the world is a big swaggering fellow of 6ft or more. AV'hen Lincoln first met Sheridan he patted him on the back and said : " I have, changed mv mind about a cavalryman: five feet four will do at a pinch." That was a delightful comnliment to Phil Sheridan, but a. lady who 'imperiously approached tho President on a military matter was '.'turned down," as the Americana say, with cold effect. She wanted, a. colonel's" commission for her son, saying that her grandfather fought at Lexington, that her uncle was tlie only man who did not run away at Bladens-

burp, that her father fonghfc at Xcw Orleans, and that her husband was killed at Monterey. "I guess, madam," said Lincoln, "your family has done onniHx for the country. JL is time to give somebody else a chance."