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appendix. 147 rilAKLES WARDELL STILES—BENEFACTOR OF THE SOUTH. '*Tiie blood is the life." It is an elementary truth that the very essence of lusty and vigorous life is an abundant supply of pure and rich blood. It is the power that runs the vital machinery, and when deficient in quality and quantity the machine slows down and its functions are imperfectly performed. In its weakened state obstacles that to a machine running under a full head of steam would scarcely make an impression, stop it altogether. Those peculiar principles which constitute the basis of innuunity or protection against disease, whatsoever they may be, all are agreed, exist in the blood. When deficient, diseases of various kinds gain a foothold in the body and in too many cases overcome it. Every one knows that the best preventive of disease is vigorous health, the bed-rock foundation of which is the blood. Anjeniia, which does not mean infected or contaminated blood, but simply insufficiency in quantity and inferiority in quality, is, therefore, responsible for many of our most serious ills. Sapping the vitality it dulls the mind, weakens the spirit or energy, largely destroys the incentive to action and thereby prevents the proper and full performance of the manual labor necessary to the provision of a comfortable and sufficient support, and by this lack exaggerates the original cause. Moreover, if occurring in childhood, it prevents the normal growth and development, and by diminishing the vital resistance shortens the natural length of life, renders its subjects more susceptible to and more easily overcome by the many diseases to which man is liable, and thus increases the death rate. But it is unnecessary to say more about the evils and dangers of aniemia; they are already known to every intelligent and well-informed man, whether physician or layman. That anjemia, more or less pronounced, is widely prevalent among the ''poor whites" of the South no observant man who has come in frequent contact with that element of our population can successfully deny. Prior to the discovery in 1902, by Stiles, of a species of hookworm, indigenous to the warmer sections of the United States, as well as to other subtropical or tropical regions of America, his working out of its life history^ in which he showed it to be a bloodsucking parasite, and his demonstration of its widespread distribution, we attributed the anpemia to other causes. In the sandy coastal plain, where malaria is abundant, we ascribed it to that poison, while in the hill country and in the mountains, we charged it up to fried meat and soda biscuit. Malaria and a bad dietary, no doubt, play an important part in causing anjemia, but in the light thrown upon the subject by Stiles there is no doubt in our mind that the hookworm is at the bottom of a large majority of cases. It should
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Document Title | Biennial Report of the North Carolina Board of Heath [1879-1908] |
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Subject Topical | Public health -- North Carolina -- Statistics -- Periodicals. |
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Document Title | Biennial Report of the North Carolina Board of Heath [1879-1908] |
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Full Text | appendix. 147 rilAKLES WARDELL STILES—BENEFACTOR OF THE SOUTH. '*Tiie blood is the life." It is an elementary truth that the very essence of lusty and vigorous life is an abundant supply of pure and rich blood. It is the power that runs the vital machinery, and when deficient in quality and quantity the machine slows down and its functions are imperfectly performed. In its weakened state obstacles that to a machine running under a full head of steam would scarcely make an impression, stop it altogether. Those peculiar principles which constitute the basis of innuunity or protection against disease, whatsoever they may be, all are agreed, exist in the blood. When deficient, diseases of various kinds gain a foothold in the body and in too many cases overcome it. Every one knows that the best preventive of disease is vigorous health, the bed-rock foundation of which is the blood. Anjeniia, which does not mean infected or contaminated blood, but simply insufficiency in quantity and inferiority in quality, is, therefore, responsible for many of our most serious ills. Sapping the vitality it dulls the mind, weakens the spirit or energy, largely destroys the incentive to action and thereby prevents the proper and full performance of the manual labor necessary to the provision of a comfortable and sufficient support, and by this lack exaggerates the original cause. Moreover, if occurring in childhood, it prevents the normal growth and development, and by diminishing the vital resistance shortens the natural length of life, renders its subjects more susceptible to and more easily overcome by the many diseases to which man is liable, and thus increases the death rate. But it is unnecessary to say more about the evils and dangers of aniemia; they are already known to every intelligent and well-informed man, whether physician or layman. That anjemia, more or less pronounced, is widely prevalent among the ''poor whites" of the South no observant man who has come in frequent contact with that element of our population can successfully deny. Prior to the discovery in 1902, by Stiles, of a species of hookworm, indigenous to the warmer sections of the United States, as well as to other subtropical or tropical regions of America, his working out of its life history^ in which he showed it to be a bloodsucking parasite, and his demonstration of its widespread distribution, we attributed the anpemia to other causes. In the sandy coastal plain, where malaria is abundant, we ascribed it to that poison, while in the hill country and in the mountains, we charged it up to fried meat and soda biscuit. Malaria and a bad dietary, no doubt, play an important part in causing anjemia, but in the light thrown upon the subject by Stiles there is no doubt in our mind that the hookworm is at the bottom of a large majority of cases. It should |
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