CURE OF DISEASES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 29 May 1914, Page 8

CURE OF DISEASES

"LtAST WORD OF SCIENCE." SAX FRANCISCO, April 27. Physicians and surgeons of ail nationalities will be greatly interested m the United State* Government s International Exposition, showing the ways in which' infection takes place, the means of treating arid .prevention o contagious diseases and epidemics. These exhibits will occupy one-third of the space allotted t-o the department cf social economy in the Palace of Education. The hygiene exhibit is the result of survevs conducted by the. Government, and will embody in visible fcrrm the last ■word of science tspon the prevention of The General Electric Company of New York has arranged €or the construction by Dr. L. Phillip R-auer, of Sfuttgart, Germany, of a thousand pound eye, ■which is to be part of their £SOOO human welfare exhibit in the Palace of Social Economy. .The model of the human eye, four feet by six feet in size, will be equipped • with lenses, retina, and muscles, and, will reflect the images of a large model factory erected in front of it, showing the various effects upon the retina of light, too dim or too glaiing lights, and the consequent sudden contraction or expansion of the pupil and of the muscles of the eye, the object Ibeing to show the bad effect of badlylighted rooms upon the nervous sy stem, the digestion, and the general constitution of factory employees, and to demonstrate that it pays financially" to licrht factories, offices, and workrooms properly. This exhibit will contain model 3 of factories which are properly and improperly lighted, and models of eyes and other organs which have "become diseased in various _ way s through the effects ct poor lighting.^ Public nurses will find much to interest- them in the exhibit planned by the Steel Corporation, on the_ proper housing of workmen and sanitation ventilation of workmen's cottages, which are also to be executed Dr. Rauer. ihe American Museum of Safety will have a special exhibit illustrating safety appliances in factories, machine and railway shoos, and of various methods ofpreventing occupational diseases. These exhibits will be designed by Dr. Anderson, of the Museum, and executed b\ Dr Rauer and his forces. Typhoid fever, cholera. "Rocky Mountain spotted" fever, malaria, tuberculosis, yellow -fever, pallagra. bubonic (plague, ra.bies, Malta fever, diphtheria, leprosy, smallpox, hookworm, tetanus, anthrax, syphilis, and tracoma will each receive the fullest illustrative treatment, showing how each disease is spread, how to treat the infected patient, and how to raise barriesr ag?.inst infection. These models will be extremely lifelike, and many of them will be constructed as to show lifelike action. It is intended that one glance will be sufficient to cause the spectator to give his whole attention to whatever is to be ■imparted; For instance, in the yellow fever exhibit, will be a model of the female ellow feve*" mosquitoes (aedes eclqpus), six feet high, showing the bill, with its kit of .various tools, the lances, saws,- drills, suction pumps, and injection tubes at work upon a highly-magni-fied- section of skin. In the illustration of thie means - of infection, most models will be in action. In the tyoboid exhibit there will be electric display -apparatus, showing first, "iMary" • in bed, side with typhoid ■fever ; "Mary" in an armchair on the porch, convalescent; '"Mary" entering the door of a milk depot where she goes to wotk'; "iMary" serviiv* a child customer of the stiop, pouring milk into a •pail; the .child customer in bed with typhoid ; and last, a dcor with crepe on it, arid the legend below, "Ma ry" , is a chronic typhoid bacillus carrier.' The huge animated models of bacillus carrying parasites, such as ticks, bugs, house and st".b!e flies, will shew how these inserts become iiifeotr.H. and how they carry tin- infection to bum-m food, or directly to the'blood chinnels of the human liodv. Each exhibit of such models will I>c followed l>v exhibits illustrating the methods of infection from these sources, cm-h as models of exterminating veiviiin. and the iimper and rat proofing of houses.

The Chinese invented papei* 170 B.C. ; i The usual crop of jurors applying for exeivption from service paraded b-et'ore his Honour Mr Justice Deiiniston at this Christchurch Supreme Court the other dav, and all pleaded inconvenience in i some form or other. A dairyman ur;_,od ; that if he served 011 the jury his dairy . cattle would not be milked. "And vou have made no arrangements lor assistance?" said his Honour. "If I do not excuse von your cows will be unhapp\. The juror admitted that he concurred in the view taken by his Honour, who remarked that it seemed as if the juror had not taken any trouble to prepare : for service, but had been content to come to Court and level a pistol at him in the shape of the prospective unhappiness of his cows. Exemption was granted. but his Honour advised the dairyman to prepare cn another occasion. Storekeepers, warehousemen and wine and spirit merchants also pleaded nei'R3sitv for attention to business, which his Honour translated into "inconvenience," and were exempted, though the Judge -added as an after-thought Vviien the sixth had gone away. " ihls "'''J have to stop somewhere, or 1 shall find n vs<?lf with only half a panel, and that half will accuse me of doing it an m- ] justice." !