. Dr. Evans' How to keep well; . ntin every sense was at one time or another accused of being the cause oferysipelas. At last with the development of the germ theory of disease therecame the discovery in 1883 that the cause of erysipelas was a coccus. When Justinian began his work in the Eoman forum no library waslarge enough to hold the Eoman law. When he left it the libraries wereuseless, for Eoman law was a matter of a single book. When Fehleisens dis-covery had been established it was in order to burn the shelves of books con-taining the speculations about erysipelas. What makes the differ
. Dr. Evans' How to keep well; . ntin every sense was at one time or another accused of being the cause oferysipelas. At last with the development of the germ theory of disease therecame the discovery in 1883 that the cause of erysipelas was a coccus. When Justinian began his work in the Eoman forum no library waslarge enough to hold the Eoman law. When he left it the libraries wereuseless, for Eoman law was a matter of a single book. When Fehleisens dis-covery had been established it was in order to burn the shelves of books con-taining the speculations about erysipelas. What makes the difference worth 260 CONTAGIOUS DISEASES while is the difference between the disease now and prior to 1883. Fifty yearsago erysipelas was one of the scourges. Now it is a disease of no special im-portance. In Hirschs Handbook there is a record of sixty-seven severe epidemicsof erysipelas in the United States between 1822 and 1880. In 1854 Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote: We suppose smallpox or cholera would not cause greater consternation. (Cross Section through Living Room.) Fig. 113.—Massachusetts Hospital School for Crippled Children. Cross section oftwo-story monitor roof cottage, showing false roof and ceiling ventilation transoms in bothstories, which prevent drafts and defy storms. (Reeves Care and Education of CrippleChildren.) in many neighborhoods than the appearance of that violent type of erysipelasknown from a prominent sign as black tongue, but even when unaccom-panied by this feature the disease is much dreaded in the western what we have seen and read and heard of it no part of the earth hassuffered more from epidemic erysipelas than Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, andparts of Tennessee and Iowa. It has raged with great violence on theplains on the route to California, has been very common and of grave typein Santa Fe, and in California it is a frequent and much dreaded says: Just as it has been met at all periods in the history ofmankind, erysip
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