Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-12

turn are AFFILIATED with and supervised by
the National Association. of which such
leading medical men as DR.. Hermann Biggs
of New York, DR.. William Osler. George M.
Sternberg, formerly surgeon general of the
United States army, and DR.. Lawrence F.
Flick, medical director of the Phtpps 1nsti-
tute in Philadelphia, are members. Among
the prominent laymen Of the National AS
ISOLATION Is Henry Phipps.
The primary object of the National Asso-
citation and its affiliated bodies is to prevent
and cure tuberculosis by interesting the
laity generally in the task. and this 1t Is
doing by putting the situation before the
public in a popular manner.
Not only have public-spirited persons
been induced to enlist in the fight and lit
erature distributed broadcast; through the
efforts of the various associations railroad
and street railway companies have been led
10 diSlnfect their cars, and many or the
dust-producing trades, all of which are ex-
tenstvely conducive to the development OF
tuberculosis, have been made to realize that
with proper precautions the inroads OF the
disease can be checked in large measure.
In November of this year the National AS
ISOLATION will hold an American tubercu-
losis exhibition in New York city. Charts.
illustrat tons, models and sample sanitary
appliances will show how the disease is be-
ing fought successfully; but. more impor-
tant still, an effort is to be made by means
of popular lectures, to secure the co-opera-
ton of the labor unions and other bodies OF
workers in the fight by pointing out how a
few simple precautions on their part will
lessen the death rate among their member
ship.
Car of Instruction.
Following the example of the Depart
ment of Agriculture in sending a special
ly equipped car into the farming regions
to give instruction in the latest methods
of agriculture. the National Association is
planning to send out a car for the in
struction of small towns and cities in the
prevention and cure of tuberculosis. This
car will be equipped with charts show
ing the decrease of tuberculosis in com
munities where it is scientifically com
bated; it will carry the most approved
sanitary appliances used in the treatment
OF the disease and models of openair
shacks and consumptives' tents; litera-
ture, written in a popular vein by emf
ncnt authorities. will be distributed. and
those in charge of the car will deliver
lectures whenever practical BILE.
While making this novel attack on the
enemy. the National Association will en-
emphasize especially the point on which it
Is continually laying stress-that tubercu1o-
sis is preventable and cura ble-tflat II Is not
a hopeless disease, but which can
be prevented and combated successfully. If
only common sense Is used. and both he
who is free of the disease and he who
Is an incipient patient will but seek the
open air a all times and live on such
Notwithstanding foods as milk, eggs and
the more nutritious meats, all of which are
easily procurable by the great majority of
the people.
How tuberculosis Will Be Vanquished.
The universal dissemination of this mes
sage of hope and the putting Of 1t into
universal practice the two weapons
which will ultimately vanquish the enemy.
or lead to its control. just as smallpox and
diphtheria are controlled today SO declare
many OF the leading generals in the fight.
None Of US may live to see that day, but
that 1t ts coming no better proof can be
found than that many of us who once
looked upon tuberculosis a hopeless dis
ease have lived TO see the day when it Is
being slowly but none the less surely
driven back by the warriors fighting under
the united banners of Hope and Common
Sense.