Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1898 — The Locality Of Disease. [ARTICLE]

The Locality Of Disease.

aurln an. inteneßthig article on the area*' off disease rim London Saturday Review* remarks upon the consensus of medieal that diseases In general have their local habitations-r-some, like.tropical qnlmals and plants, living only in the tropics; some, like- consumption, gradually spreading over the whole •feffrih, whije others, like leprosy and sffiallpox, ,are by degrees becoming : limited-to -their distribution, possibly ifendlng, "it kffay be, toward extinction. .Qn the regions to which diseases have, never for Instance, on the summits ' off high mountain ranges and, in the circumpolar snowfields the earth and 'dlFand water are as barren of the midiobes of disease as they are off animal The writer in the Review admits, that in country like Britain, thjekiy. -populated for many centuries, and with -the. freest circulation of population, it cannot be doubted that every yard of surface contains the germs of the more common diseases, and the native of some newer land, brought over to Britain’s shores, falls a victim to its plaguestricken *611; tint by generations of a mftslructlve elimination Britons have vfcßcttne highly resistant to their native 1 isßsAtses—yet' not fully so/tof tfancei; two ; 6| tpe* most comr *»p«i«conrgfS, sway-