Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-10-19
MENACE TO MANY MILLIONS
tuberculosis Hangs Like q Pail Over 0ui
Great Cities
GREAT WHITE PLAGUE MAY BE CURED
HOmeOpaths Listen TO Interesting
Paper and Generally Take Part In
the Discussion that Follows
It's Reading.

Tuberculosis" was the subject for dis
cussion last night at the meeting OF the
Missouri Valley Homeopathic Medical assoc
citation. Two of the men who were TO have
appeared on the program, Dr. Lewis p.
Cruthers OF Kansas City and DR.. Charles
Shepard OF Ord, Neb., were absent. DR..
b. F. Bailey OF Lincoln was present with
his paper on Tuberculosis with Relation
to the Public" and 1t oecasioned such
thorough discussion that there scarcely
would have been time for other papers.
"If the United States looked after the
health Of her citizens instead of leaving
It with the states, where local political
influences are strong, the country would
not have so many tuberculosis patients"
said DR.. Bailey. The great white plague
does not move to public action, because
It does not affect commercial interests.
II It in any way stopped the wheels of
commerce and became a question of dollars
and cents, the public would be up in arms
and It would be wiped out. 1t can be
wiped out of existence by isolation of
patients and observance by the people of
proper sanitary conditions. Every state
ought to have a hospital for patients suf
fering from tuberculosis. This state ought
to have such sanitorium and l would
500 each for such an institution.
sunlight Fatal to BaciIIi.
Tuberculosis bacilli cannot live in the
sunlight Sun and air will kill them. Dark
rooms and Railways, narrow alleys and
dirty tenements harbor the germs and keep
the disease alive There is no excuse for
such places except that the owners wish
TO make money. They are murderers."
DR.. Bailey stated, thing which all peo-
nile do not know, that bacilli do not come
from the body of the infected person
through expiration, but that the sputum
is the common means of dissemination.
Tuberculosis causes the death of 100000
persons a year, 10000 of them in the Uni
ted States. according to DR.. Bailey. OF
the 100000 persons in the country, DIR.
Bailey predicts that 100000 will die of
the disease. In New York City alone are
| &c. 900 cases.
In the discussion following the paper, it
was stated generally that the disease is
durable This was emphasized especially
by Dr. Foote OF Omaha and DR.. H. c.
Allen of Chicago, one of the foremost
homeopaths of the country.
Cure Them at Home.
DR.. Allen said tuberculosis can be cured
and the remedy is light and pure air. Re-
ferring to the advice Of DR.. Foote TO send
patients to New Mexico and of another
physician to send them to Colorado, DR..
| Allen said he would keep them at home.
'They can be cured just as well on the
hills along the Missouri river as on the
plains around Albuquerque" he said. Get
them in the light and the fresh air."
The program for this morning, and the
one which ends the session, is as fol-
lows:
Materia Medica-Lewisa p. .Crutcher NJ.
Differentials"- Royal, M. D., Des
MOines,. Ia. THE Debt We, Owe the
se Matera Msdea u Y on GhS$Eo s
jahin F. Bailey, M. d. Lincoln. Neb
THE Whyfores of Our Failures"-Lewis
Mo. ~ II
Wednesday mornings session was de-
voted to the bureaus Of surgery and gyne-
cology. with several papers followed by
elaborate discussions.
The first paper was by DR.. q. F. Shears
of Chicago on the subject of Appendicitis
and Its Relation to Diseases OF the Ovaries
and Tubes" The paper treated of the ne
cessity OF attacking the disease in it's ear
lier stages, thus obviating the need of sur
gical operation at it's more critical stage
The discussions all favored the medical
treatment during the infammatory stage.
/
esis of Carcinoma and Conditions of Re-
currence," by DR.. James G. Gilchrist Of
Iowa City, Ia. He discussed the causatior
of cancer and advocated the theory of at
tacking it at its period as benign tumor
and thought 1t unwise not to do So Th'
paper was subjected to an elaborate discus
sion, participated in by Drs. H. c. Allen o.
Chicago, George Royal Of Des Moines anC
]. L. Hanchett of Sioux City.
The remainder of the forenoon was giver
over to the reading of papers on "Tht
Commonplace of Gyneoology," by DR.. J
l.. Hanchett of Sioux City; Surgical Gyne
cology" by DR.. William r. Welsh of Den
, yer; Uterine Fibro- Myoma," by Dr. j. F
Becker of Iowa City, and tuberculosis o
Uterine Adnexa," by DR.. d. A. Foote o
Omaha
The afternoon session began promptly a
80 with opthalmology, GEOLOGY. Laryng
= ology and obstetrics as the themes 70
learned and interesting papers DR.. JOSEPH
NJ. Patterson of Kansas City, Mo-. treate'
Of Care OF Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat il
. Exanthematous Diseases" DR.. e. L. Nam
| of st. Paul, Mimi, of Nasal Stenosis
Causes and Effects" DR.. Royal S. Copelan
of Ann Arbor. Mich, of "Fundus Occult Il
General Diseases" DR.. william L. BY
! water of Iowa City, THE Effects of AlcohC
and Tobacco on the Special Organs;" DI
David A. Strickler of Denver, on "Iritis an