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308 "VENEREAL DISEASES." Venereal diseases are undoubtedly more prevalent now than in the days of Job, whom best authorities say had syphilis. It is quite certain also, that the future child will pronounce many bitter epithets against his parent for having begotten him during a state of infection from some venereal trouble. There should be no wonder that the race is growing weaker when we consider the condition of many of the forefathers of our total population taken together with the fact that the sins of the fathers are visited upon the offspring even to the fourth generation. There is cause for surprise, however, that a sound child should now come into the world. If a census were taken of our present population there would be a most startling percentage of our people who are stigmatized by some venereal infection, either by heredity or otherwise. If the theory of atavism be true, it will produce a two-fold effect upon offspring in that it tends to assume the characteristics of its ancestors, whether for good or evil. It seems reasonable that hereditary influences may in a measure, be accounted for in the theory of atavism. It would also appear to be a cause for congratulation that the atavistic tendencies may act as a kind of inhibitory apparatus; keeping the bad influences somewhat in check, and attenuated by Nature's strong inclination to revert to former types. If there were not some inexplainable influence at work in the processes of human nature that tend to counteract the bad, the race would soon become extinct. One who studies now, though, the influences of heredity and the wide-spread ravages of venereal diseases, cannot but look with an eye of pessimism upon the future of the race. There ought to be all the influences possible brought to bear in order that venereal diseases may be decreased. The physicians of every town and city, could by concert of action, become the most potent factor in this matter. He could teach his friends and patients cleanliness and how, in a large measure, to prevent the catching of such diseases. It is also the physician's duty to urge the immediate circumcision of every male child, that the future boy and man may at least have that much advantage over his previous condition. It would be the physician's province to teach his clientele the advantages of temperance at least, if not chastity. The physicians of the country are the capable ones for bettering the conditions that exist, and which must con- tinue to grow worse unless changed through the efforts of scientific men. THE PATHOLOGY OF TYPHOID FEVER. It was supposed when Eberth isolated the bacillus of typhoid fever that the path-ology of this disease was plain. The bacillus found its way into the intestine usually through the drinking water and there multiplied, producing toxines which were absorbed, and causing the inflammation and ulceration of Peyers patches. This was supposed to be the chief and all important lesion, other pathological findings being secondary. Sanarelli studying the disease, produced experimentally in animals, came to the conclusion that the seat of the disease is in the spleen and lymphatics ; and that there the bacilli multiply and produce their peculiar toxines. To the circulation and elimination of these he attributes the other phenomena of the disease. According to this view the intestinal lesions bear about the same relation to the disease as the eruption of the skin does to small-pox, measles, or scarlet fever. Sanarelli believes, however, that the unusual activity of the b. coli communis which he observed in these experimental cases, may account, in part at least, for the inflammation and ulceration of the intestinal glands. Barbacci's report of six cases of perforation of typhoid ulcer in which this organism alone was found in the peritoneal cavity would tend to confirm this view. Sanarelli's experiments are open to the objection that typhoid fever produced experimentally in animals does not run the same course and cannot be expected to produce the same lesions as in man. However, recent accurate observations have tended somewhat to strengthen his views. There are a number of cases of this disease reported in which the bacillus typhosus has been found in the spleen and other organs, and the intestinal mucous membrane was normal. The bacilli may be found in almost every organ of the body, but the cases are very rare in which they are not found in the spleen. Any of the important organs may bear the brunt of the disease. The accident of reception and distribution of the bacilli being responsible for their localization, rather than any selective action they may have for any particular organ. Neither clinically nor by macroscopic ex, amination can we exclude this disease, and- 1 as Prof. Welsh has said, we are justified in demanding a bacteriological examination of all the organs before excluding typhoid fever,
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Fixed Title * | NCHH-21: Charlotte Medical Journal [1892-1921] |
Document Title | Charlotte Medical Journal [1892-1921] |
Subject Topical | Medicine -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical Other | Medicine -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Description | Absorbed Carolina medical journal in 1908 and continued its vol. numbering with v. 58. Vol. 4, no. 3 (Mar. 1894) misnumbered as v. 4, no. 5. |
Publisher | Charlotte, N.C. : Blakey Print. House, 1892-1921. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
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Date | 1898 |
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Document Title | Charlotte Medical Journal [1892-1921] |
Subject Topical | Medicine -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical Other | Medicine -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Description | Absorbed Carolina medical journal in 1908 and continued its vol. numbering with v. 58. Vol. 4, no. 3 (Mar. 1894) misnumbered as v. 4, no. 5. |
Publisher | Charlotte, N.C. : Blakey Print. House, 1892-1921. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1898 |
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Language | English |
Rights | This item is part of the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Some materials in the Collection are protected by U.S. copyright law. This item is presented by the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research and educational purposes. It may not be republished or distributed without permission of the Health Sciences Library. |
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Volume Number | 13 |
Issue Number | 3 |
Page Number | 308 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
Full Text | 308 "VENEREAL DISEASES." Venereal diseases are undoubtedly more prevalent now than in the days of Job, whom best authorities say had syphilis. It is quite certain also, that the future child will pronounce many bitter epithets against his parent for having begotten him during a state of infection from some venereal trouble. There should be no wonder that the race is growing weaker when we consider the condition of many of the forefathers of our total population taken together with the fact that the sins of the fathers are visited upon the offspring even to the fourth generation. There is cause for surprise, however, that a sound child should now come into the world. If a census were taken of our present population there would be a most startling percentage of our people who are stigmatized by some venereal infection, either by heredity or otherwise. If the theory of atavism be true, it will produce a two-fold effect upon offspring in that it tends to assume the characteristics of its ancestors, whether for good or evil. It seems reasonable that hereditary influences may in a measure, be accounted for in the theory of atavism. It would also appear to be a cause for congratulation that the atavistic tendencies may act as a kind of inhibitory apparatus; keeping the bad influences somewhat in check, and attenuated by Nature's strong inclination to revert to former types. If there were not some inexplainable influence at work in the processes of human nature that tend to counteract the bad, the race would soon become extinct. One who studies now, though, the influences of heredity and the wide-spread ravages of venereal diseases, cannot but look with an eye of pessimism upon the future of the race. There ought to be all the influences possible brought to bear in order that venereal diseases may be decreased. The physicians of every town and city, could by concert of action, become the most potent factor in this matter. He could teach his friends and patients cleanliness and how, in a large measure, to prevent the catching of such diseases. It is also the physician's duty to urge the immediate circumcision of every male child, that the future boy and man may at least have that much advantage over his previous condition. It would be the physician's province to teach his clientele the advantages of temperance at least, if not chastity. The physicians of the country are the capable ones for bettering the conditions that exist, and which must con- tinue to grow worse unless changed through the efforts of scientific men. THE PATHOLOGY OF TYPHOID FEVER. It was supposed when Eberth isolated the bacillus of typhoid fever that the path-ology of this disease was plain. The bacillus found its way into the intestine usually through the drinking water and there multiplied, producing toxines which were absorbed, and causing the inflammation and ulceration of Peyers patches. This was supposed to be the chief and all important lesion, other pathological findings being secondary. Sanarelli studying the disease, produced experimentally in animals, came to the conclusion that the seat of the disease is in the spleen and lymphatics ; and that there the bacilli multiply and produce their peculiar toxines. To the circulation and elimination of these he attributes the other phenomena of the disease. According to this view the intestinal lesions bear about the same relation to the disease as the eruption of the skin does to small-pox, measles, or scarlet fever. Sanarelli believes, however, that the unusual activity of the b. coli communis which he observed in these experimental cases, may account, in part at least, for the inflammation and ulceration of the intestinal glands. Barbacci's report of six cases of perforation of typhoid ulcer in which this organism alone was found in the peritoneal cavity would tend to confirm this view. Sanarelli's experiments are open to the objection that typhoid fever produced experimentally in animals does not run the same course and cannot be expected to produce the same lesions as in man. However, recent accurate observations have tended somewhat to strengthen his views. There are a number of cases of this disease reported in which the bacillus typhosus has been found in the spleen and other organs, and the intestinal mucous membrane was normal. The bacilli may be found in almost every organ of the body, but the cases are very rare in which they are not found in the spleen. Any of the important organs may bear the brunt of the disease. The accident of reception and distribution of the bacilli being responsible for their localization, rather than any selective action they may have for any particular organ. Neither clinically nor by macroscopic ex, amination can we exclude this disease, and- 1 as Prof. Welsh has said, we are justified in demanding a bacteriological examination of all the organs before excluding typhoid fever, |
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