Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 243, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1914 — An Omnipresent Infection. [ARTICLE]

An Omnipresent Infection.

There is a German medical proverb to the effect that every man has bad at least one tubercle, eome time in his life. Every thoughtful physician knows the truth of this saying and has known it for years. Then a few days ago Sir William Osier repeated the statement in slightly altered application to the audience before him, and the whole world was roused into shocked attention. Which was a very good thing for the world. If we could be made to realize that the tubercle bacillus Is omnipresent, and that every human being is touched at some time with this infection there would result not only a more active war on the germ, but a more intelligent effort to build up and maintain the health and resisting power of the people.