Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-09-30
100000 People. Face
|: Consumptive's Death
Unless Something Is Al Once
Done 10 Prevent Il.
Prof. Irving Fisher Of Yale Makes
That Startling Statement.


neonlc now living in the United States
are doomed to fill corsumptives graves
nnless something is done to prevent II.
was the sta rtling declaration OF Profess
sor irving Fisher of Yale University i'll
an address on 1.-The, Cost of Tuberculo-
Sis before the International Congress on
Tuberculosis today. Professor flsner
address. which was the feature Of the day,
created sensation among the hundreds
who listened to his statements
Prof Fisher further declared that the
1873 900 persons who die of consumption
annually in this country cost. in hard
cash, over one billion dollars year
In section /, in which it is expected the
most o. the scientific discussions and dis
coveries will develop, there was. q discus
sion of great Importance to the congress
at this. mornings session, when Professor
Calmett of Lille, France, director Oh the
Pasteur~ Institution, advanced the theory
that tubercle baccill are taken into the
system by swallowing. Heretofore inhala-
ton has been considered the principal
method of contracting consumption. In
lection by inhalation was warmly defend
ed by Professor Tendeloo of Holland.
Washington, Sept 29-The second days
session of the International Congress on
tuberculosis opened at $50 O'Clock this
morning. The entire morning was devot-
| ed to the work of Section 1, with DR.. Will
liam H. WEIGH of Baltimore presiding.
Participating in the discussions, which
dealt principally with such phases of tu-
berculosis as channels of Infection. latent
Infection, predisposition and heredity.
were many distinguished medical scien-
lists from abroad. Surgeon General ST.
mon Won Unteberger of St Petersburg.
Russia, honorary physician at the Cars
court contributed his views Of "Heredity
in tuberculosis
| "AlI tendency to disease that appears in
any Individual" asserted DR.. Untermeyer,
SIS to be regarded as heredity whether
or not the corresponding disease can be
Traced back each time to parents or an
cestors. The tendency to consumption is
| inherited and may be developed by va
lrious agencies. Numerous autopsies show
| that every man over 30 years of age has
Old remains of q tuberctllous infection.
THESE facts show how comparatively east
lily the human organism can overcome the
| tuhercle bacilli and give us the indica-
ton for our treatment, the Strengthening
of the organism by hysienc and dietic
means"
DR. Julius Bartel of Vienna, discussing
the routes of infection, said:
"The infection from pharnyx, stomach
and intcstines is far more frequent, par
ticularly during early life, than has been
generally considered. DR.. Carl Hart of
Berlin in his views on the subject of pre-
disposition of the apices of the lungs to
pulmonary tuberculosis declared that
aside from the infection, the cause of
pulmonary tuberculosis in youthful indi-
viduals is to be sought in an individual
predispoSition due to anatomic and func-
tional disturbances Of the normal condi-
tons around the superior aperture of the
IthoraX."
DR.. Samuel Bernheim Of Paris, quoting
from clinical facts and experiments on an
mals. drew the conclusion that tuberculo-
sis is chiefly transmitted by aerial germs
and by way of the respiratory tract, al
though sometimes acquired through the
| skin.
| After recess Sections l and of the
congress held a joint session this after
noon, converting at 80 o'clock. The prin-
cipal subjects discussed were "ConJunc-
tival and Cutaneous Tuberculn Reac.
tions,' "Opsonic Index" and Serum Di-
agnosis."