Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1912 — Cause Of Many Contagious Diseases [ARTICLE]

Cause Of Many Contagious Diseases

By L. M. DRUMMOND, M. D.

Diphtheria and other contagious and almost all infectious diseases are caused from fermenting of the stomach, which extends to the bowels. These epidemics result from a change in the atmosphere, which results in a partial closing of the seven million pores of the body. It is estimated that there are 3 1 /> ounces of effete and worn-out matter and gases from the body of an adult each day, and from children iy proportion. *V hen the skin contracts by chilly winds these poisonous impurities are returned and

taken up by the circulation and in eight minutes the entire blood is contaminated. W hen these epidemics begin e\en in warm weather fires should be built in school houses and residences wherever the disease exists, so as to change the atmosphere to a normal condition, as well as to keep adults and children warm. Children should be well dressed early and not have their little limbs bare to their knees till winter. These and other hygienic measures followed, there would probably l>e far less epidemics, less anxiety and alarm, and very much less “stamping out of disease and a very great financial relief to communities.