The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-05-19
DIR. S. EDGAR BOND
ON CONSUMP TON
Tells Large Audience How 1t
Is Brought About and How
to Prevent it.
MUCH PRACTICAL ADVICE
SPEAKER URGES THAT STATE
HOSPITAL BE BUILT AND DR..
DAVIS SUGGESTS THAT Lo-
CAL SOCIETY BE FORMED

In paper read before the Tubercu-
losis Conference at the South Eighth
Street Friends Church last evening,
DIR. S. Edgar Bond, Well known ply
sician, who has made. an especial
study of lung Diseases. clearly de-
fined the disease. The Great White
Plague" as he calls it, and showed
plainly with the aid of the stereopti-
con how consumption can be dealt
with and cured. There was q large at
tendance. nearly every seat being oc-
cupied.
The disease was defined as one
caused by germs. 1t not only affects
the lungs but different parts of the
body, although the lungs are easily
reached hence there is more pulmon-
ary consumption than any other kind.
Sunshine Kills Germs.
Any kind of germ, and especially
those of tuberculosis, cannot live in
the open air and sunshine, DR.. Bond
stated, and in the prevention of the
disease, out of door living and exer-
else are important factors. He said,
1T is not the man who works out of
doors that contracts consumption
The victims of the disease are young
people just from the ball. who come
overheated into the open air. The
business man who puts in too many
hours at his desk, in a crowded office
contracts bad cough. ending in
consumption. The factory employee
in poorly ventilated shop ROOM the
seamstress in her narrow quarters or
the boy or girl, naturally weak. who
spends too much time studying In
crowded school rooms. These are the
victims of consumption and against
the conditions which bring about the
| disease to these people. is the fight
to be waged.
Consumption is not inherited. 1t
has been proven beyond doubt that
consumption cannot be inherited. al
though the weakness for this partic-
ular disease may be inherited. This
is an important point, as it has been
supposed that when the disease en-
ters a family, the children are liable
to contract it.
Consulting Physicians.
Another way to prevent consump-
tion is to consult a physician fire.
quently enough so that he can keep
knowledge of the patients condf-
ton, whether sick or well. Patent
medicines and old fashioned home
cures, consisting of a warm close
room for person suffering from cold
are taboed. The point that cures lies
in the open air was strongly brought
out
statistics show that nine out OF
every ten persons who contract the
disease recover, and the other one
dies The system is frequently able to
throw off the germ or reDel the raw
ages of ii in its early stages. Post
mortem examinations show this to be
fact.
Exercise Strongly Urged.
"Too much exercise. under proper
direction, is impossible. Food is also
| an important factor in preventing
and curing the disease. DoDed foods,
such as are turned out Of some OF
the factories aid the disease. The agi-
tation for pure food, now in the Con-
gress, will greatly help the fight
against consumption, IL the bill goes
through.
TOO much stress cannot be laid on
the necessity of proper ventilation in
the living and sleeping rooms of
| house, or any public or private build
ing / will guarantee that not one in
twenty persons in this audience to-
night allows one-twentieth enough
| fresh air into the sleeping rooms at
night Churches. public halls. thea
/ tre4 and factories should all guard
against foul air"
Plead Fer State Hospital.
In conclusion, DIR. Bond urged the
| people to make some efforts to in
duce the state to finish a hospital for
the poor consumptives who are not
able to combat the disease. lie said.
Here is a field for philanthropists.
lodges and various organizations to
work good to humanity
Following the paper by DIR. Bond,
DIR. George II. Grant opened discus
sion. He said that IL a cough hangs
on for longer than six weeks. it is
practically certain that the tubercu-
losis germ has a hold upon the sys-
| tenn. doctor should be consulted
and the sDeediest means resorted to
for the aid of the sufferer. He said
that the people are generally becom-
ing educated to the prevention Of con-
sumption and in ten years he expects
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