The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1908-06-19
4 FINE LECTURE
ON TUBERCULOSIS
Or. E. L. McGehee Entertains
Interested Audience With
a Splendid Address.


League of New Orleans, adj
dressed a fine audience at the
opera house last Friday night,
his hearers being largely COM
pnsed of the teachers who are
attending the summer normal at
winnfeld. They gave him their
Undivided attention and evinced
the deepest interest in his lucid
explanation of this insidious foe
of the human race.
He was introduced by Super
intendent A. M. Hendon in ap-
proprlate remarks bearing on the
Importance of such information
10 the public schools of the State.
A mere outline of this excellent
lecture, emphasized with an array
of statistical figures and accepted
facts, will neither convey 1.-THE
of its force nor portray its con-
yincing arguments.
He began by paving a handsome
tribute to the wide influence of
teachers on the public pulse. He
termed them live wires sent out
oil over the country to enihuse
the public mind with their teach
ings and the truths they propa-
gated. This question, as one of
the SCIENCES to be inculcated in
the minds of the children, met
the approval of Superintendent
Aswell and other leading in
structors of the State.
tuberculosis, which was but
premature death, was not q new
disease. 1t was recognized in
1861. ard even existed i'm the
time of Moses long before the
Christian era. In 1882 Naples
published DEGREES to suppress it.
lie spoke of the remedies used
fer its destruction. In 1880 cases
were diagnosed, and In 1882
Germany discovered tie cause of
this insidious disease.
To one years time the disease
spread all over the earth. There
we're l,095, 900 victims claimed by
it every year, and 100000 ja the
United States alone and it claimed
rs many victims as all the other
deadly diseases combined. He
thus gave statistical information
of its deadly work by the year,
day and second. 1t cost this
country untold treasure. One IN
seven were its daily victims in the
world, one-fourth between the
ages of 80 and 40 years and one
in ten of all the children under
Ii years of age, unless steps are
taken to govern it and stamp il
out.
He showed that the older a
person becomes the slower the
DEATH from this disease. 1t was
not an inherited germ. 1t was
caused by germs under particular
conditions. These were created
or umbIhed ia the human system by
one of three methods, inoculation,
swallowing it or breathing it in
the dust and inhaling it down the
hroncial tubes. He asserted that
$50. 900 ger ms were contained in
each expectoration. lie explained
1t some length the methods by
which these germs were dissem
mated; dust in the sweepings OF
carpets, splitting saliva TN the
hoors, by flies lighting ON il and
carrying to the sugar bowl or
food exposed to their visitations.
He spoke of the specifics and
remedies that rad been discov-
cred, the use of bi-chlorides,
hopping the floors and thus
poisoning the bugs. Those who
live in the open air do not have
this disease because of their
healthy surroundings and pure
atmosphere.
He said in former times ply
sicians were afraid to tell its
victims the nature of the disease
10 ITS last stages, but now they do
4. The fight waged against il
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