Arizona republican., 1892-12-18

tention to physical exercise, and sub ject to influences which impair the physical status, invites as it were this or any other disease, and when the system is in state of receptivity development of the disease is very toikely occur.
 On the other hand it might with much force be said that if consumption were courageous the disease would be even much more common than it now is. From statistics compiled in the British Medical Journal referring to extended observations made at the Brompton hospital, (for consumptives), England, !, it has been shown that of the many nurses and others engaged in that in- stitution during twenty-one years but one servant and one nurse died of con sumption. Especial care seems to have been taken in the Brompton hospital in regard to ventilation and other hygien- ic conditions.
 % In most cases where consumption seems to have been developed by way of contact the person sickenIng with the disease has been weeks or months in the same apartment during the night and large part of the day. The room has been poorly ventilated and there has been breathing of vitiated air In reference to the communicability of the disease by eating the flesh of tuber- cular animals, the writer would call at- tention to the late report of MT. Law, of Cornell university, to the National board of health which is as follows: "Phthis- ical (consumptive) cows are often eaten without causing obvious disease in the consumers. have known large dairies of tuberculous COWS in the hands of wig orous and healthy looking owners, who consumed the milk freely. It may be freely concluded that large number of individuals while in the enjoyment of robust health will withstand the influ- ence of tubercle taken in by the stom- sch, but it must be otherwise with the weak and young, those with poor feed ing and orse air, those living in damp, sunless localities, and subjected to much exposure. In case that re- gently came under my notice in Brook lyn, N. Y., a family COW was found in an advanced state Of tuberculosis and the owner and his wife were rapidly sinking with the same malady. In an other case reported to me, family COW supposed to be suffering from lung plague was found to be afflicted with tuberculosis instead, and the owners wife, Ca consumptive), who had been making free use of the milk, warm from the COW, was persuaded to give it up, and underwent an immediate and de- cided improvement. It is for infants and adults who are somewhat infirm or out of health, or whose surroundings are not of the most saluhrious kind that the danger is the greatest, but this embraces such an extended class that the moral interests involved are almost illimitable. The destruction of infancy and the wasting of manhood from this cause is unQuestionably far greater than has hitherto been realized" From what has been written the reader doubtless will anticipate the writer's conclusions upon this al-important subject, They may be briefly stated ss follows.
 Consumption in the strictest sense is not contagious disease and is not lis- ble to be communicated so long as care ful and systematic ventilation is en- forced, and while such ventilation is maintained the danger of communica. tion is slight, if at all. At the snme time. it is fully believed that inhaling the breath of confirmed consumptives in poorly ventilated rooms and continu- ously breathing vitiated air, has and will develop the disease even in a per. son in good health. Hence. in all cases where healthy person occupies the same room as a sick one. great care should be taken to have good air, and the best and completest ventilation should be had in such cases. This thought should be constantly in mind that whatever tends to depress the vital forces will favor the growth and deposit of tubercle. It will therefore be readily seen by the most casual observer that living or sleeping in badly ventilated apartments vitiates the blood and in- vites disease of the lungs.