Cochise review., 1900-09-17
CONSUMPTION CURES.
Observations Made at the Naples
 Medical College.
Means suEGested for the Prevention of Spread of the Disease-Ques- ton of ContaKiOn in Public
 Places.

Some very novel suggestions in re- gard to consumption were made at the medical congress which met the other day at Naples. The physicians were unanimously of opinion that the various governments ought to take some steps to ward of the evil, says the New York Herald, ana Dr. Calli- vokos, of Athens, even maintained that no one should be employed in a public or private capacity who was not absolutely free from the disease, and that any persons who are now employed and who have in their sys- temS the germs of consumption should at once be dismissed. The ex- act physical condition of each em- ploye, he pointed out, could be read fly ascertained by making . thor ough medical examination, which should be compulsory. ..s s.
 Dr. Aussel, of Lille, said that it would be well if every house owner were obliged, before he rented his property, to make a full statement, not only in regard to its sanitary con dition, but also in regard to all cases of infectious diseases which may have occurred in it as well as the number of times that it was necessary to dis infect it. He also maintained that the laws of hygiene should be clearly taught both to children and to sol diers.
 Attention was then called to the fact that in several government off, ces in Italy consumptive employees are now assigned to work which does not bring them into contact with the pub lie, and that the women employed in the national cigar factories are now regularly examined by government physicians, with the result that those among them who are found to be con- sumptives are discharged, but receive a small pension for life. The question of contagion on railroad carriages was also discussed, and ur. Sanarelli said that the evil would doubtless be much lessened if the companies would only substitute inoleum for the cus- tomary carpets in the carriages, and if, instead of the velvet and other heavy stuffs on the seats and cush- ions, they would use some light ma terial, which could be easily washed.
 At present, he pointed out. tuber- culosis is not officially classified among the infectious diseases, and, therefore, railroad companies are not bound to disinfect the carriages in which consumptives have travelled. In any case, on account of the tapes try, curtains, velvet and decorations of such carriages, it would be very difficult to disinfect them thorough ly. Finally, Dr. Saranelli maintained that on every railroad there should be special carriages for consumptives. but he did not explain now consump- tive passengers could be cajoled or coerced into occupying these car riages during their journeys. That they would occupy them of their own volition, and thus publicly exploit themselves as the victims of a con- tagious disease, is not likely.
 "The Influence of Climate on the Evolution of Consumption" was the title of paper by Dr. Sannelongue, in which he described a curious ex- pertinent recently made by him. Se- lecting 150 healthy guinea pigs, he inoculated them on the same day with the culture of Koch's bacillus of con sumption, and then he divided them into three equal lots, one of which he sent to the seacoast, another to the mountainous region of Haute-Loire, while the third lot he placed in the cellar of his laboratory. In due time he examined the animals and found that those which he had placed in the cellar were the strongest and health fest. He accounts for this strange re- suit on the ground that there was an equal temperature in the cellar. He adds, however, that what may benefit guinea pigs may prove prejudicial to human beings, and thus tacitly ad- mits that the air of the seashore or mountains is likely to prove more beneficial to consumptives than that of cellar.