Evening star., 1904-06-10
DISEASES DISCUSSED
PAPERS READ AT MEETINGS OF
MEDICOS AT ATLANTIC CITY.
Treatment Of Consumption - Ravages
OF Pneumonia in Many Cities but
Washington-Typhoid Fever.

oispatch from Atlantic City N. j.,
says: On Wednesday the treatment of
consumption with anti-tonic serum was
.he subject OF an interesting paper read
before the section of materia meiica
pharmacy and therapeutics of the Amer
| lean Medical Association by Dr. Ed
ward Baldwin of Saranac Lake N Y Dr.
Baldwins topic was rational application
and value Of specific treatment for tuber-
culosis. He said In part:
1t should be evident that all the forms
OF acute tuberculosis are to be excluded
from treatment with tuberculin. both on
account OF the danger of increasing the
load OF the already poisoned cells and the
pressure of the disease either from in
creased Inflammation or from decreased
power of resistance.
Advanced or chronic cases with good
power of resistance have been very success
fully treated with tuberculin. As a rule
however, Ii cannot be recommended on ra-
tlonal grounds for such cases. The results
In simple sanitarium regime are so good in
cases IN patients who are favorable from
the beginning that | should question the
wisdom or desirabiliry of tuberculin for a
routine in such cases, although there is
evidence that relapses are somew hat less
common after its use
Il think physicians who have much conf
dence In health resorts and santariums
recognize what may be described as ar
rested uncomplicated cases when physi-
cal signs do not indicate extensive uieera-
tnhercuiin sear,,s t sa. .ne use oi
safe.
Pneumonia q Menace
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much a,,o.. ,,.,, ,,. -.
- -.e't VS. uo'.on ses'ei uay, Aiiohs
'hoSe VIM pdF Fticipdteu III tfe u scnSSlon
former
DR.. George Dock of Ann Arbor Mich: DR.
Solomon Soils Cohen of Philadelphia Dr
Nathan S. Davis jr of Chicago DR. j
NJ. Anders of Philadelphia DR. George NJ
Kober of WASHINGTON. DIR. ]. s Fulton OF
Baltimore and many other distinguished
physicians
Dr. Wells said that the prevalence Of
pneumonia is remarkably on the increase
He quoted thirty cases of communicshre
virulency He recommended the use of
moistened cloths before the face and nose
when sneezing and coughing He stated
that the pneumococcus was present in the
throat and nose of MANY persons and
that il NAV be communica fed nv coughing
or sneezing
Dr. Sternberg, who is the discoverer Of
the pneumococcus or pneumonia germ
doubted the .practicability of any method
of fumigating or steriliz;ng a room in
which the germs might happen 10 he He
discovered the germ In himself in 1850 and
went to PhiladelpIIia to complete his ex
periments and verified them In E,urope
LESS Theuniohla IN washington.
DR. George NJ Koher of Washington said
that Washington was the only city not
showing an increase in pneumonia He
said that alcoholism invites the disease.
and that the negroes. OF whom there are
many In Washington, are not heavy drink
ers, TO which fact he attributed the pro-
portloha'eiF small NUMBER OF pneumonia
Tha su,,ros,,,r,, ,,-os ,o,5 g., ,
A.. e. 49, q " " @ @ -. ~" III an ehuearof
s,,n.ho.;. - o "a us q Pp. SPsoI.e, ei.iet
~ vi net sri UNI, lpL lhe ueatiheht OF
.is 49, - ne speahels p s'ateu ~ IN inost
eases that Wn;ie pneumonia was no. on
lIe increase. me nortahty had nor peen
reduced. HaVlng discovered the germ,
iioweNsi, .iIe mIeuicsi pio,essIoh mas pet
.ei uiioel s,diiuihs ot .ne sease, ana oene-
hoiai ieSuits III i'S treatment are a'ltici-
pateu.
DI; Mlyashlfia OF the inperiai Japanese
instituIe Tor the investigation or lnfec-
tious Diseases, in Tokyo who has bee1
Jouis exnosifion delivered an address on
malaria. He said that he had investigated
malaria IN Japan and Formosa, and had
olscovereo tnaI theFe rs mosqulto which
noaiaria and This is The raI,gnant tS,n y.
The doctors of this country have aIwavs
held the theory that all mosquitoes carry
the parasite of all varieties of malaria.
w liiiaii is. n W eice, OF baItihore stated
anese Doctor was of great ir,,,ortS,nn s a.
opened up a new line of Observation and
study in malaria.
The Rasnonsib;I;fv of Inebr;ates
A paper by DR.. I. ID. Crothers OF Hart
ford, Conn. entitled Should Inebriates Be
Punished nv Death for Crime9" aroDsaJ
considerable interest DR. Crotbers saia in
80. N' -
part
ut is evident that the legal theory that
inebriety is no excuse for crime and the
punishment based on this theory as a de-
terrent and remedy is a stupid blunder In
alconoi come INTO recosnisIon, ,la the eHoIts ,,
increase the disease but make the victim