It is to the parasites of tuberculosis and cancers that I devote myself, and for seven years, that is, since I was house-surgeon, my comrades have called me the cancer topic.
The uncured cases became chronic and led straight to tuberculosis in its various forms.
The death-rate from tuberculosis is almost three times that among the whites.
There is danger of the spread of tuberculosis and trachoma from the Indian to other races.
Much harm has been done by placing children in an advanced stage of tuberculosis in the same dormitory with healthy youngsters.
Tuberculosis among Indians is greatly in excess of that estimated for the white population.
Tuberculosis and insanity, for instance, take their greatest toll in the period of adolescence between fifteen and twenty-five years, just as crime does, and the percentage of both begins falling off rapidly after thirty.
A change of even the slightest factor of environment might have saved the victim from hanging, so that he could die a respectable and peaceful death from tuberculosis or cancer.
It is not many years since physicians and communities believed that tuberculosiswas inherited.
It required the sacrifice of many lives and the careful investigation of scientists to discover that tuberculosis was the result of germs, generally accompanied by an impoverished system.
The same is very possibly true of the case of tuberculosis of the bowels (peritoneum), though the diagnosis is not certain.
However, he positively had no use for burned stumps, and when it came to passing a campfire, Tuberculosis absolutely declined.
Certainly Tuberculosis had his idiosyncrasies, and that fact often spelled trouble for both himself and his masters.
Tuberculosis in the parent leaves the child's system in such condition that it is likely to suffer from the disease.
Where do we find most of thetuberculosis and much of the other disease which is aggravated by pregnancy?
The national waste involved in illness and deaths from tuberculosis runs up into the billions.
The only certain method of recognizing tuberculosis is by this test.
The abattoir reports of Europe and the United States show that tuberculosis is on the increase among domestic animals.
This cow was, to all appearances, in good health, but showed generalized tuberculosis on post-mortem examination.
If any of the animals are affected with an infectious disease, such as tuberculosis or glanders, the moisture and dust may act as carriers of the disease-producing germs.
The same methods of treatment as recommended in tuberculosis of other domestic animals may be used in eliminating the disease from the premises and flock.
The common method of introducing tuberculosis into the herd is through the purchase of animals having the disease.
The secondary form of the disease usually occurs in connection with other diseases such as influenza, tuberculosis and acute pharyngitis, or as a result of wound infection.
In countries where dairying is an important industry, tuberculosis is a common disease of cattle and hogs.
Animals that, have advanced or open tuberculosis may disseminate the germ of the disease in the discharge from the mouth, nostrils, genital organs, in the intestinal excreta and milk.
Poultry usually contract tuberculosisby contact with a tubercular bird, and not from other domestic animals and man.
Tuberculosis is a contagious an and domestic animals, affecting any the lymphatic glands and lungs, change in the tissues is the formation tubercle or nodule.
The best method of controlling tuberculosis in hogs is to slaughter all reactors, disinfect yards and houses and move the herd.
The direct cause oftuberculosis is Koch's Bacillus tuberculosis.
There is no one symptom by which we may recognize tuberculosis in cattle and hogs.
They recognized the contagiousness of leprosy, and though it was probably as widespread as tuberculosis is at the present time, they succeeded not only in controlling but in eventually obliterating it throughout Europe.
He was one of the victims that tuberculosis claimed among physicians in the midst of their work.
For example, indigestion and overwork are matters of personal hygiene, while tuberculosis and typhoid are problems of public hygiene because the individual case leads through infection to disease of others.
A great specialist in tuberculosis who entered the discussion of Dr.
Tuberculosis is prevalent amongst the workpeople living under such unsanitary conditions.
With no exercise and a rich stimulating diet they produce more milk; but it is no matter for surprise that tuberculosis is common amongst them.
The lessons being so clearly taught in the treatment of tuberculosis should be heeded in forming the general living habits of the people.
The presence of scurvy or syphilis causes the child to cry out sharply as if in acute pain, while in older children tuberculosis of the spine or hip is attended by a sharp, painful crying out during sleep.
There are other forms of spinal paralysis which, associated with tuberculosis of the spine and other spinal diseases, result in loss of power to one or more groups of muscles.
In the absence of the modern sanitary dairy, we would suggest that the milk supply be improved by giving attention to the following: The cattle should be tested for tuberculosis every three months.
Our milk should come from healthy cows which have been tested for tuberculosis at least every three months.
It is needless to say she should be free from tuberculosis and other diseases.
Tuberculosis is strictly a house disease, hence the little tubercular patient must seek outdoor life.
Tuberculosis of the lungs not infrequently follows in the wake of measles.
As tuberculosis has been called the White Plague, the diseases spread by vice are now called the Black Plagues.
The sterilization of milk suspected of containing the bacilli of tuberculosis has been during the year very thoroughly explained in a leaflet by Dr.
Much tuberculin and mallein have been furnished to State authorities for use in the agricultural colleges and experiment stations for the treatment of tuberculosis and glanders.
Tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by the bacillus, tuberculosis, and characterized by the formation of nodules or diffuse masses of new tissue.
These subside or effusion may set in and this usually occurs with acute rheumatism, tuberculosis and septicemia.
Tuberculosis may exist in almost every part of the body and we have many forms.
The cure of tuberculosis is a question of nutrition; digestion and assimilation control the situation; make a patient grow fat, and the local disease may be left to take care of itself.
Food may contain the specific organisms of disease, as of tuberculosis or trichinosis; milk and other foods may become infected with typhoid bacilli, and so convey the disease.
A mother with pulmonary tuberculosisshould not nurse her child.
There are fewer deaths from tuberculosis in those localities where sanatoria are established for the care of tuberculous persons.
It is best not to stand near a person suffering with tuberculosis who is coughing, because in this act finely divided droplets of saliva are thrown from the mouth, and may be carried for a distance of three feet.
An infant born of tuberculosis parents or of a family in which consumption prevails, should be brought up with the greatest care and guarded most particularly against catarrhal affections of all kinds.
The all-important thing to do to prevent tuberculosis from spreading from one person to another, and from one part of the body to another, is immediately to destroy all discharges from the body of a person who has tuberculosis.
The spontaneous healing of local tuberculosis is an every-day affair.
This affection which is also known as acute hydrocephalus (meaning water on the brain), is essentially an acute tuberculosis in which the membranes of the brain, sometimes of the cord bear the brunt of the attack.
A general tuberculosis tendency or history of syphilis will help to make the diagnosis.
The frequency with which tuberculosis is transmitted to children through milk should justify this action.
This is one of the means by which tuberculosis is spread.
The doctors have diagnosed tuberculosis in the upper part of the lungs, and have ordered me to change my manner of life.
Tuberculosis and trachoma prevail among the many tribes and are increasing at an alarming rate, owing to the utter lack of sanitation in the villages.
Lieutenant Emmons, who is one of the highest authorities on the natives of Alaska and their customs, has frequently reported the deplorable condition of the Eskimo, and the prevalence of tuberculosis and other dread diseases among them.
If a new disease attacks any group of people, it causes terrible decimation, and tuberculosis and venereal diseases, the white man's plagues, have proved terribly destructive to the black man.
That tuberculosis is particularly fatal to the Negro race is well known.
Not tuberculosis alone, but small-pox, measles, alcohol and a dozen other importations of the conquerors, found in the aborigines of the New World a stock which had never been selected against these diseases.
The white man kills the Negro with tuberculosis and typhoid fever.
Among the most careful contributions to the problem of tuberculosis are those of Charles Goring (On the Inheritance of the Diathesis of Phthisis and Insanity, London, 1910), Ernest G.
There are fewer delicate children, and in a most marked way cases of tuberculosis and epilepsy are less frequent than among the children of sober parents.
In the first place it must be shown that the morbidity from tuberculosis is largely due to heredity--a point on which most medical men are still uninformed.
The evidence is absolutely conclusive that actually as well as relatively, the mortality from tuberculosisin what is the most intensely industrial area of America has progressively diminished during the last 40 years.
Assortative mating is a well-established fact, and there is every reason to believe that much of the resemblance between husband and wife as regards tuberculosis is due to this fact, and not to infection.
Tuberculosis is, as everyone knows, a disease caused directly by a bacillus; and a disease to which immunity can not be acquired by any process of vaccination or inoculation yet known.
It is alleged that the white plague may be stamped out, if the open cases of tuberculosis are isolated and the rest of the population is taught how to live properly.
There is no escape, then, from the conclusion that in any individual, death from tuberculosis is largely a matter of natural selection.
Of a group of men picked at random from the population, why will some eventually die of tuberculosis and the others resist infection?
Tuberculosis and many other new diseases, and, most of all, alcohol, began to operate on the aborigines, who were attracted to the settlements of the whites.
In spite of the isolation of the microbe, we are obliged to admit that no positive result has been gained up till now as to the treatment of the affected individual--the analogy with cholera and even tuberculosis can, alas!
Not infrequently a young girl contracts tuberculosis and dies before one realizes that she is ill.
This library, with a pretty complete tuberculosis exhibit, is sent around, and is shown by the local clubs of each town.
One interesting special library is circulated in Massachusetts and Rhode Island in behalf of the anti-tuberculosis movement.
The vision of a sunken cheeked, tuberculosisridden pauper would always rise between me and the beauty of the sunset.
I could see no adequate connection between his kindly words to the bereaved and the hideous dragon of tuberculosis which stalked through the crowded district.
Tall and thin, gnarled and twisted like a vine-stock, he rested his hands on the tribune as if to support his bent figure, and his speech was often interrupted by the little dry cough which came from the tuberculosis that was burning him.
Cured of tuberculosis by the Blessed Virgin, a first time, seven years previously, she had subsequently given birth to four children, and had then again fallen into consumption.
