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Excerpt from Medicine and Disease in Philippines
Barcones is very severe in his condemnation of the inhuman spirit of speculation, which introduced alco hol and opium to the natives. The evil has borne its fruit and the inhabitants of these remote lands have adopted our. Vices, adding them to those possessed from time immemorial, and producing the physical and moral impoverishment of a race already of itself weak and miserable. He declares it is no exaggeration to say that the use of alcohol in hot countries is the constant promoter of almost all the diseases known in them. The clinician and the hygienist, as well as the moralist, must recognize it as the fount and origin of diseases, both acute and chronic, of tissue degeneration and cirrhosis, of insanity and of crime. The practice of drinking a bracer during the morning fast was Copied by the natives from the Spaniards, and is now almost universal. The latter take their aguardiente, and the former their tuba - wine of coca. The custom is even more injurious than the use of alcohol at meals.
The opium intoxication was introduced by the Chinese, and is largely practiced by them. Their dens were licensed by the Spanish government.
Tobacco intoxication or nicotinism, which is a fright ful abuse found among the Filipino men and women, is the cause of laryngeal, bronchial and gastric troubles.
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This subject should be treated by some one who has personal information, but our army and navy medical officers have doubtless been too much occupied by their duties to indulge in study or composition. The medical department at Washington has as yet issued no reports, while standard works on geographic pathology give but little attention to the Philippines, and original ones by Filipino or Spanish authors are not accessible to many American readers. Yet the Philippine Islands, with their teeming millions of inhabitants, are on our hands and we must face our duty toward them. All this is my apology for presenting this paper, which contains in condensed and systematized shape all the data that I have gathered from a number of authorities, whose titles are given in the bibliographic index at the end of the article.
Modern medicine bases its classification of diseases on etiology; and with the aid of bacteriology is rapidly studying and cataloguing the etiologic factors of disease. Still we have not yet advanced far enough to dispense with the old views as to the influence, causal or conditional, of physical environment, such as climate, temperature, food, etc. These factors must still remain, if not as causes, at least as conditions. They may be the tertium quid, the copula between the microbe and its victim, increasing or inhibiting its potency or virulence, and hence it is necessary to mention briefly the climatic conditions of the islands.
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