The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-05-10

dren in the bowels and their glands;
and upon the brain coverings, produce
ing meningitis"
Sir William Broadbent said: I've
learn from the returnH of the Registrar
General. that nearly $4,000 deaths are
registered every year as due to Iuber-
culosis, in England and Wales alone,
and to this number may be added a
considerable percentage of the deaths
set down to acute affections OF the
lungs in which tub@rcle has played an
unrecognized part"
10000 VICTIMS YEARLY:
Stop and think of that fact mo-
ment. In little country like England.
including Wales, a country which could
be swallowed up in its entirety by one
single state out of the 4j States or
the Union, there are more than 10000
people die every year of tuberculous
disease. Nothing can speak for the
deadlinesS and insidiousness of that
disease like those plain figures. If
sixty thousand persons died each year
of cholera in an area no larger than
that Of the State of Illinois, there
would be an entire eXodos from the
state. If every year, unfailingly and
unchangingly yellow fever claimed co.
900 victims in a similar area, that ter
ritory would be utterly forsaken.
But the death tribute 20 this mon
strous disease in the United States is
no less appalling. One-siXth of the
deaths annually occurring in this coun-
try are attributed to consumption. 1t
is the one disease which has seemed
to bid defiance TO doctors. and which
continues its raVaSeS in the very glare
OF the white light Of scientific Enowl-
edge. In commenting upon the work
of other nations in the effort to light
consumption, Sir William Broadbent
said addressing the chairman, the
Prince of Wales Your Royal High
ness may therefore we'll reproach us
for tagging behind Germany in mat
ter Of so much importance. America
also is in advance Of this country"
AMERICA AHEAD.
The tribute paid TO this country by
the eminent lecturer is deserved. The
deadly character of consumption, the
widespread area covered by the dis
ease. the number of its victims, the
perploxing problems connected with its
cause and cure, have drawn the atten-
tion Of the kcenest scientific minds OF
the medical profession to the tubercle
bacillus. OF all those who have given
laborious days and nights To the ques-
tions involved in the treatment Of the
causes of consumption, no one has
achieved more remarkable success than
Or. r. V. Pierce, chief consulting phys
ican TO the Invalids Hotel and Surg
ical Institute, Buffalo, n. Y In an ex-
perience of more than thirty years,
assisted by an associate staff of nearly
a score of specialists, he has demon
strated that in cases of weak lungs"
splitting of blood, bleeding of the lungs,
bronchitis, obstinate lingering coughs,
and conditions which if neglected or
! unskillfully treated lead TO Consump-
| ton, there is help and healing in all
most every case by the use OF DIR.
| Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery.
| How uniform the action of this medi-
| cine Is found to be may be inferred
! from the fact that i'm all the thousands
| of cases treated and recorded, ninety
eight out of every hundred have been
perfectly and permanently cured by the
use OF the discovery" and the other
two have acknowledged the help re-
ceved from the medicine.