Diseases measure against these diseases, with the result that not only were foreign pestilences5 prevented, but the whole brood of domestic diseases was greatly reduced in number, and the severity of cases that did occur was greatly diminished in virulence6.
But during the fourth quarter of the last century186 the question arose among scientists, “Why is filth—that is, decomposing7 matter—the prolific8 cause of disease?” The answer came from the famous Pasteur of Paris, and Lister of Edinburgh. “Filth is dangerous, because it is filled with germ life. The mere9 removal of filth from one locality to another does not render it harmless, except to those who are no longer in personal contact with it.” So-called filth was indeed harmless if the germs it contained were killed.
The whole scheme of sanitation10 was at once changed: agents that would kill germs were eagerly sought by many scientists, and germicides were found in abundance. Cremation11 was most effectful, and was available in the destruction of masses of The Scheme of
Sanitation Changed filth; but there was a phase of the question that required other methods.
Lister announced that these disease-producing germs entered wounds and prevented healing, and that a germicide was required which would kill the germ in the wound and would not injure the living, healthy tissue. Further investigations12 showed that these dangerous germs were not confined to dust heaps, but existed in the unclean recesses13 of the human body.
187 Sternberg startled the world with the announcement that an unclean human mouth contained germs of the most poisonous character.
An eminent15 German surgeon declared that germs of a dangerous character existed in the folds of the skin of the palms of the hand which no amount of washing with soap and water could remove, and could be destroyed only by some agent directly applied16.
Sanitation of the body as well as of the dust heap now became the paramount17 question and especially did this apply to the practice of surgery.
How infection affects the body was the supreme18 mystery that the scientists of the past strove in vain to penetrate19. By no devices of their laboratories could they detect the agents that caused the epidemic. There was only one satisfactory explanation The Mystery
of Infection of the origin and spread of the devastating20 plagues, which seemed to fall from the heavens on the people, and that was that epidemics21 were “a visitation of God” on account of the sins of the people. Of course, the only preventive and curative measure available and effectual was “repentance, prayer, and humiliation22.”
It is a cause of devout23 thankfulness that while these things were hidden from the “wise and188 prudent” of former times, they have in these latter days been revealed unto “babes.” No event in human history would have more greatly taxed the credulity of the most learned and experienced physician of half a century ago than the prophecy that in the early years of the twentieth century school children would be taught by simple and easily understood object lessons how to prevent and how to cure consumption, the Asiatic cholera24, yellow fever, and other epidemics that have devastated25 cities, destroyed armies, and swept from the earth whole tribes of primitive26 people.
But that prophecy has been literally27 fulfilled. During the last summer there has been a traveling object lesson that visited the different sections of the State of New York and taught the people, especially the children, all the essential facts as to the nature of the infection of tuberculosis28, its effects on the body, and the methods of prevention and cure.
As infective diseases cause the vast majority of cases of severe and crippling affections and of deaths in every community, the value of a knowledge of the nature of infection and how it affects the body, by the people of all How Infection
Works ranks, ages, and conditions, cannot be estimated in its influence on the future of the human race. Already we learn that within the period referred to the sickness and death-rates of communities189 where the people have been most thoroughly29 instructed as to the nature of infective diseases, and how they affect the body, have greatly diminished, and the average human life has been markedly lengthened30. Indeed, it now seems possible to restore the patriarchal age when a man may live to be “an hundred and twenty years old ... his eye ... not dim, nor his natural force abated31.”
To understand how infection affects the body involves an inquiry32 as to the nature of infection, its mode of entrance into the body, and its operation on its organs and tissues. The terms “infection” and “contagion33” are often used as synonymous; but a strict definition according to the medical significance of each limits the former to “the transmission of disease by actual contact of the diseased part with a healthy absorbent or abraded34 surface,” and the latter to “transmission through the atmosphere by floating germs.” But in the final analysis the cause of disease in both infection and contagion is so similar in its action that the medical profession has adopted the term “communicable disease” in all cases where the disease is communicated from one person to another by means of a germ, whatever may be its method of attack on the body. The common characteristic of “communicable diseases” is their germ origin.
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What is this communicable germ or agent? A bacterium35—a little stick, staff—so called from the rodlike shape it assumes in the process of growth. The individual bacterium (plural, bacteria) is an organism representing a low form of vegetable What the
Germ Is life; resembles mold; in size the smallest living thing that can be seen with the microscope; in masses forming the films floating on foul36 fluids or covering decomposing animal or vegetable matter. It consists of a single cell, and its mode of increase when placed under proper conditions of growth is by division of the cell body; the two cells formed out of the first being divided into four before complete separation has taken place; the four dividing into eight, the eight into sixteen, the sixteen into thirty-two, and so on indefinitely.
Now, as it requires only thirty minutes for one cell to divide, it has been estimated that a single bacterium will in twenty-four hours increase to the number of over sixteen million five hundred thousand, and in forty-eight hours to two hundred and eighty-one million five hundred thousand. At this rate of increase, in three days there would be a mass of bacteria weighing about sixteen million pounds. As the multiplication37 of bacteria depends upon conditions that soon interfere38 with or interrupt their growth, as the want of food, their own secretions,191 and certain natural forces operating against them, these stupendous figures are useful only as an illustration of the enormous fertility of these organisms, and their destructive energy when they attack a susceptible39 living body.
What is the function of bacteria in the economy of nature? It would be surprising if such a menace to human life as some species of bacteria have proved themselves to be had no other place among the forces of nature than to prevent the The Function of
Bacteria too rapid increase of the human race on this earth, as our forefathers40 believed. It is gratifying, and quite satisfying to a revengeful spirit, to learn from the modern laboratory that the special and only function of the bacterium is to perform the duties of a universal scavenger41. It is always seeking to decompose42 animal and vegetable matter. It lives on filth, riots in it, and dies when deprived of it. It enters the human body only in search of filth, and if it finds none it does the person no harm, and dies either from the want of food or by starvation, or escapes from the body, or secretes43 itself where it may safely await the creation of decomposing matter, when it will begin its life-work.
Thus, there may be and doubtless is at all192 times a great variety of bacteria of a virulent44 type, quiescent45 in our bodies only for the time that they find no decaying matter adapted to their special tastes or wants.
It is a most interesting fact, therefore, that this most deadly foe46 of man becomes dangerous only when the latter is harboring in his body waste or decomposing matters that are slowly poisoning him. It is in the process of digesting this material that the bacterium excretes poisons—toxins48—of the most virulent nature, which are absorbed into the blood of the human victim, creating the condition popularly known as blood poisoning.
Bacteria perform a most important function in the economy of nature, viz., the conversion49 of decaying and dead matter into food for plants. Biologists assert that without bacteria plant life on the earth would be scanty50 or entirely52 wanting; they are the natural intermediaries between plants and animal in point of food production. They are therefore called scavengers, because they live on decomposing matter; but in the very act of digesting such waste they convert it into products essential to plant life (carbon dioxide and ammonia) and by their excretions restore to vegetation its chief supply of food.
It appears on the same authorities that bacteria not only assist materially in maintaining vegetable and animal life on this planet, but193 “in the arts and industries they are as essential to modern economic life as are the ingenious mechanical inventions of men. Many secret processes now in use in the arts and manufactures are but devices to harness these natural forces. Thus in the manufacture of linen53, hemp54, and sponges, in the butter, cheese, and vinegar industries, in tobacco-curing, etc., bacteria play an important r?le.”
It naturally occurs that to meet the various conditions under which decomposing matter exists in nature there is a great variety of species of bacteria, each species being adapted to a special field of operations. These species are distinguished55 from one Bacteria for
Every Condition another by the shapes they assume during their growth, some being rod shaped (the bacillus), others spherical56 (the coccus), and others spiral (the spirillum). Under one of these divisions the various species are classified.
In these latter days of popular knowledge of scientific progress, but without precise information of details, bacteria are associated in the public mind with disease, especially of the epidemic form. While this prejudice is useful in stimulating57 the people to adopt and enforce preventive measures against conditions that tend to promote bacterial58 life in their homes and in their own persons, yet it should be understood194 that comparatively few of the great number and variety of bacteria are pathogenic, or disease producing, in man.
So throughout the animal kingdom we find that few are susceptible to a common disease; or, in other words, that the same species of bacteria attack in equal force several varieties of animals.
The explanation of this peculiarity60 is found in the variations of the quality or intimate nature of the tissues and organs of different species of animals. The same may be said of our own bodies—the several organs vary greatly in their susceptibility to the attacks of the different kinds of bacteria; hence the latter are classified as specific and nonspecific, according as they cause specific or nonspecific disease.
The distribution of bacteria is limited only by the existence of plants and animals; that is, the existence of decomposing vegetable and animal matter. Though they are more abundant in the earth where such matter is found most abundantly, yet they abound61 in the air, the water, on plants, animals, and insects, on our own bodies, and in every cavity leading to the exterior62. As bacteria are always searching for food, the number present is a sure indication of the degree of cleanliness of the thing, individual, or locality where they are found.
The movements of bacteria from one point to another are through the medium of some195 other mode of conveyance63 than their own bodies afford. Thus they are borne by the water, by vegetation, by animals of every kind, especially insects, by the air on particles of dust. The typhoid bacillus, borne in water and milk, has caused innumerable epidemics of that dreaded64 disease.
The tubercle bacillus is borne on the air through the medium of particles of dust, and in cities where the victims of tuberculosis scatter65 these germs profusely66 in the streets, public conveyances67, churches, and places of resort, in the act of The Deadly
Tubercle Bacillus coughing, sneezing, and spitting, the dust borne on the winds is a constant and most fertile source of infection of tuberculosis. In a city like New York thousands are annually68 infected by the dust-borne tubercle bacilli, not only by inhaling69 them in the street, but even more certainly in the quiet of their homes, where the germ-bearing dust accumulates in clothing, bedding, carpets, rugs, and upholstered furniture, and is daily forced into the air of the living rooms by broom and duster.
Foul as is the air of the unventilated tenements70 of the poor, it has been demonstrated that the dust which saturates71 the furniture, carpets, rugs, and hangings of residences of the wealthy contains sixty per cent of street filth.
196 An authority says, “The most widely distributed pathogenic micro?rganism (disease-causing bacterium) in the air is the tubercle bacillus, the cause of consumption and a large variety of other ailments72, such as hipjoint disease, caries of the spine73, etc. Over one hundred thousand persons die annually from consumption alone in the United States, and it is estimated that there are over two million people afflicted74 with the disease in one form or another. All of these sufferers are expectorating billions of tubercle bacilli daily.”
Considering the second inquiry as to how infection affects the body, we must constantly bear in mind that a bacterium, though a scavenger, is a conservator of nature. Its real function in the orderly processes of animal and vegetable life is How Bacteria
Affect the Body to utilize75 waste for the preservation76 and promotion77 of animal and vegetable life on this planet where the conditions are so favorable to both.
Therefore, wherever we find bacteria in the active processes of growth, that is, multiplication, we may be assured that they have found matter that should be rescued from waste and converted into useful food for plants. It follows that when we find a bacterium actively78 growing in any part of our bodies, it has found some197 form of decaying matter that is not only no longer useful to our bodies, but is in fact harmful and should be removed.
It is also important to understand that waste matter is found under a great variety of conditions, and that for its proper conversion into useful food for plants there must be a correspondingly large number of species of bacteria each having its special field of operation. It is due to this variety of bacteria that there are so many infective diseases; for each species of bacteria creates its own individual form of disease.
This statement requires the following explanation, viz., a bacterium in a quiescent state is harmless; everyone has within his body innumerable bacteria, as the tubercle and typhoid bacilli; but they are inert79, and hence innocuous. It is only when they find their proper food, decaying matter, that they begin to multiply, and in that act they secret a poison, toxin47, which is absorbed, and, entering the circulation, causes in the individual a special class of symptoms peculiar59 to that toxin, or poison.
These symptoms constitute a disease, the technical name of which is usually fanciful, depending on some feature of the symptoms, but explaining nothing as to its essential nature.
For example, the typhoid bacillus finds its food in certain minute glands80 of the small bowels81. If these glands are in a perfectly198 healthy state when the bacillus enters the digestive tract83, the germ will pass over them and disappear from the body perfectly82 harmless. But if the bacillus finds its appropriate food—dead or decomposing matter—in the glands, it at once takes up its abode84 in them and “begins housekeeping;” that is, it begins to multiply according to the method of fission85 of its cell and rate of multiplication, already described. During this process the multiplying cells excrete a toxin, which, being absorbed, creates a fever, the result of a true blood poisoning. This fever is called typhoid, because its prominent symptom, stupor86, resembles that of typhus fever. The name, therefore, signifies nothing as to the nature of the disease.
The poisoning of the body by the excreted toxin of the multiplying cells, which is simply plant food, occurs because it is removed only in part by the digestive organs, the circulation that conveys it to the other eliminating organs being efficient for that The Toxin
Secreted87 purpose. Could all of this toxin be removed as fast as it is excreted, and not enter the circulation, there would be no fever.
The termination of this process must be either the death of the colony from exhaustion88 of the food supply in the glands, or the exhaustion of the patient by the excess of toxins that accumulate199 in the body. As the activity of the bacillus depends upon the food supplied, the severity and length of the fever varies in different individuals. Some are immune, because the glands that furnish the food of the typhoid bacillus are in a state of high health; others have a brief and mild attack, because the food supply is scant51 owing to a slight impairment of the integrity of the glands; but with a considerable number in every epidemic the food is ample to sustain the creation of an immense colony of bacilli which destroys the victim by an overdose of poison.
The final disposition89 of the typhoid bacilli, after a course of fever, was believed to be by their elimination90 from the body through the various organs devoted91 to the discharge of waste products; but recent investigations have proved that the typhoid bacillus may remain in the body for long periods without apparently92 affecting the health of the person, but when communicated to another, it will cause an attack of fever of the most virulent type. In one instance an outbreak of typhoid fever was traced to a woman who had fever upward of fifty years ago. It was found that the excretions of her body contained immense quantities of living typhoid bacilli. She was a cook by trade, and it was found on tracing her history that wherever she had worked there had been epidemics of typhoid.
200 A still more remarkable93 feature of the life history of the typhoid bacillus has recently been made public. A typhoid epidemic was traced to a nurse who had attended cases of typhoid fever, but had never suffered from an attack of that disease, and yet was discharging large quantities of the bacilli. These cases can be explained only on the theory that these micro?rganisms find some place, possibly, as has been suggested, in the gall94 bladder, where they find food sufficient to keep them in an active state of multiplication, but where the conditions prevent the absorption of the toxins they excrete.
How far these curious incidents in the life of the typhoid bacilli are common to other bacilli is not known; but if it is true of other infectious diseases, the fact will explain the origin of those obscure and mysterious cases that occur without any known exposure to the infection.
In concluding this inquiry as to the nature of infection and its effects on the body, the following statement of a biologist as to the bacterium seems justified95: “When it enters a living body, it aims directly at the destruction of the Bacteria Aim to
Destroy the Body latter. It multiplies rapidly, tends to scatter its broods throughout the tissues, and all the while gives off the most powerful poisons. This agent is wickedly implacable, neither giving nor asking201 quarter. The battle that it wages with the body can terminate only by the destruction of one of the combatants.”
Viewed in the light of the past history of infectious diseases, this is not an overdrawn96 picture. If we estimate the deaths from smallpox97 in ancient times, from cholera in modern times, and from tuberculosis (consumption) throughout all time, the destruction of human life by bacteria cannot be overstated. The bacterium has been a wickedly implacable foe to the human race in the past. Invisible, intangible, everywhere present, it has proved omnipotent98 in its destructive attacks upon communities.
But our century opens with a far brighter outlook for the race. Elementary forces which, through ignorance of their true functions in the economy and conservation of nature, were permitted in the past to expend99 their energy in the destruction of life, have been revealed by science to be man’s most helpful agents in the promotion of comfort, health, and longevity100. Electricity was for ages only a thunderbolt, an object of terror, and an agent of destruction, visiting the human residence only to kill its owner and burn the structure.
To-day the same natural force is man’s most obedient and humble101 servant, quietly visiting his home to furnish him heat and light, annihilating202 time in the transactions of business, and transporting him from place to place as on the lightning’s wings.
So the bacterium, once the terror of mankind as the invisible and apparently unknowable cause of devastating pestilences, proves to be the useful purveyor102 of the by-products of man’s digestion103 of waste matter which is thereby104 converted into food for plants. It visits man in the pursuit of its humble calling to obtain his contribution to the sum total of plant food. It searches every tissue, every organ, every recess14, however obscure, but so stealthily that its coming and going and its immediate105 presence are not known if absolute cleanliness of the body exists. It is only when dying tissues or organs, or accumulations of dead matter, are found that its presence becomes known. Even then it would prove harmless and its presence would be unrecognized if its excretions of plant food (toxins) were not necessarily absorbed and did not enter the circulation, thus poisoning the body it is relieving of dead matter.
Briefly106, what are man’s defenses against bacteria? Chiefly two, viz., first, killing107 it by depriving it of food; and, second, killing it directly by what are known as germicides. The first method is effected by cleanliness of Man’s
Defenses the person. It may be affirmed that cleanliness, without and within, absolutely protects every203 man, woman, and child from the most common disease-producing bacteria.
It is not sufficient to keep the skin clean by daily baths, while the mouth, nose, throat, and other internal surfaces and organs are covered or filled with effete108 matter. We must be every whit109 clean if we would escape the results of the scavenging processes of bacteria of some variety or species.
That condition can be secured and maintained in an organism that itself is constantly decaying in all of its tissues and organs only by strict compliance110 with the natural laws governing the operations of the body as an independent organism in which all of its forces tend to promote its health and conservation. Every tissue and every organ has its special means of renewal111 of its tissue by the removal of dead particles through the outlets112 and the reception of fresh material through the inlets of the body. Waste and supply are exactly balanced, as in the most precise and delicate machine. If the outlets become clogged113, so that all the waste cannot escape at that proper time, dead matter, the food of bacteria, begins to accumulate, and disease must result.
In the same manner, if the food is in excess of the demands, or of a quality not suited to the needs of the tissue or organ, waste begins to accumulate, bacteria swarm114 in the decomposing204 mass, and emit their toxins, which, absorbed into the circulation, cause a variety of physical disturbances115 according to the species of bacteria present, and the particular tissues the toxins affect, as the nervous system, stomach, heart, kidneys, etc.
That even the most feeble minded may be able to regulate their habits so as to secure an adequate supply of food both in quality and quantity, and the prompt removal of waste matter, so as to secure that degree of cleanliness of internal organs essential to escape from bacterial attacks, the mechanism116 of the body is endowed with instincts that make it automatic in its action. Such are appetite and taste for food and drinks; the desire for exercise, rest, and sleep; the impulse of the organs in an active state, etc. It is only when these natural monitors are interfered117 with that the mechanism begins to fail in its elimination of waste, and bacteria find the conditions favorable for their functional118 activity.
The second defensive119 measure is the destruction of the bacteria by means of agents that will destroy the micro?rganism before or after its entrance into the body, but without injuring the healthy tissues. There is a great variety Destroy the
Bacteria of these agents of more or less power, and they are used in the form of gases, liquids, and powders, according to conditions existing in individual205 cases. In general, it may be advised that, as bacteria are everywhere, germicides ought to be used far more extensively than they are for the purposes of securing not only the direct destruction of bacteria, but of removing or neutralizing120 dead matter, the food of bacteria. So minute are bacteria, and so adherent121 are they to material things, that mere bathing with water does not remove them, medicate it as we may with fancy soaps. There should be used in addition a more penetrating122 and destructive agent, which would not only destroy all forms of bacteria, but at the same time secure absolute cleanliness.
It would be impossible even to summarize, except in a volume, the vast number of so-called germicides that have been brought to the attention of the public for use; but in the practice of surgery the chief reliance is placed upon The Value of
Germicides those agents which simply oxidize organic matter, and thus destroy the germ without injuring living tissue, as do all forms of caustic123 preparations. The saving of life by these new measures far exceeds that effected by simply removing the material that contains the germ, without destroying the germ itself.
It is impossible to estimate the resources of206 science in its efforts to discover the ultimate conditions that govern the origin and spread of all the pestilential diseases; but its revelations during the last quarter of a century are a prophecy and a promise that the whole brood of domestic contagious124 and infectious diseases will disappear during the present century from the homes of English-speaking people; largely because the lessons of cleanliness are being learned, not only the lessons of cleanliness of the home, but also personal cleanliness—a form of cleanliness that is more than washing with soap and water,—that kind of cleanliness which kills germs, removes the substances in which they live, and disinfects and makes aseptic and healthy the surrounding tissues.
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