Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1880 — Sickness in the Farm-House. [ARTICLE]

Sickness in the Farm-House.

Dr. Godd&r, of Massachusetts, was once asked, and answered, the following question: “ Have you see« sickness produced by decaying vegetables in the cellars of farm-houses?” “Think I have. For instance, the case of a farmer of means, his wife, and five children. Four sickened in September of typhoid fever, and three died. In the cellar were found half-decayed cabbages and other vegetables, hSlf a barrel of old fish-brine, and filth generally, so that the smell was noticeable rods from the house, when cleared out by the doctor’s direction.” Through that cellar, typhoid fever sneaked intp the house. A writer in the New York Timet says, “ Miasm is the most subtle foe of the farmer's home. It is generated in his barnyard, cess-pool/ cellar; soaks into his well, and appears on his table ,in the form of limpid water; enter* hts bedr poisons the very And all this from the want of a little intelligence and a little painstaking. Or a mathematical work written by the venerable Prof. Pierce, of Harvard College, he says that there is only one man living beside himself who can read and understand it; and of another work he says that only one man beside himself has read it and understood it* A mathematician, the Professor says, is not really known while he is alive: he must wait for history to do him justice and establish his real worth and scientific position. Prof. Pierce is said to consider Prof. Sylvester, of Johns Hopkins University, os perhaps the greatest of contemporary matkematidans- *