The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-21


 tuberculosis will declare that mankind is entitled to be free from the thraii- dom of tubercular disease. and will open wide the door of hope to millions or people who. for countless generations have known no freedom from US gaii- ing yoke The great war against tne White Plague will gather new momeh- tum, and the Washington congress is destained to prove q turning point m the crusade.
 This crusade started when Koch. the eminent German scientist, pro claimed to the nations that he had dis- covered the elusive little oacchius
 which has been responsible for so much woe and misery in the world and 1t has been gathering as II goes reaping results which abundantiy in- spire the hope of those who proush. If about. England has cut in half her death rate from tuberculosis and the United States has done almost as We'll Thousands of cases that once were re- garded as hopeless have yielded 70 treatment. and the medical fraternity is ready to back up its assertions ths, if mankind will follow the rules " la vs down. there will not only be cures effected in growing ratio. but Una. the disease will be prevented. ,s
 Well might the people of the worio haconas aroused and thoroughly In
 earnest. Who of them has not had dear ones taken by ravages oI
 the disease? Who has not been
 exposed to the danger Of contamina
 tion from 1t? Let a case or ieporss
 come among the people and they are excited to a high degree. SmahpoN'
 typhoid fever. and dozen otheI ns
 ladies hold us in terror. let luo
 culosis lays low It's thousahus
 s.IrA of hftndfa0As
 Trberculosis is the most widespreao
 If al diseases, knowing no geograpny.
 no race, and no condition. It car,ies
 off one person out of every seven tha'
 dies more by far than any other hu
 man ailment, more even than War
 self. During the ninteenth century t GOO. 900 lives were offered up on s
 altar of Mars. But durins the sae
 lime so. .0eo, ,o00 people died rom .uo- erculosis in the countries "hieh '~p ported these wars. .,.
 According to the best statistie@.sns @ ,hare are .oo0 900 deaths year rom tubarculosis. In the United states one aa,,I, out of every four who dies meets
 h,s and from tuberculosis, making s
 tot., of 15o.ooo victims of that disease in this country every year The eov homie loss which results from i.s ages, to say nothing or the .s ths o rlA SnrT0W z =.
 ano o.,,,a,,s f6tai of sso,o0o.oo0 year
 or more than ss.o00,ooo,ooo every de. oads Did we but spend ten pereen. oe thia amount for the stamping ou.
 s san.umntIon. it is figured that SronId he taken from the list or ois- sa ses showing a high death rate. England has found that one eiess .a1n of ali her poverty. costing the .,.a.sJv | nearly $7o.000,00o Q year, s trat l ona. fourth of all her people net"e.n tha aras of fifteen and hfty-nVe, oIs ss .ha disease. With such an array or a1rres ia 1t any wonder that phhah .hront.ta statesmen, economists anu nnedical men In England are pehu,ns ps | every energy to the task or cu..' cur.a.s 2 it's rayages? But with decIeasns ,, | death rate from year 10 ys rS | ars heartened and encouraged anu
 sasantIv look forward to the nna' l ooaAScation of the white plagus | M.r haa long looked upon hmseiA tha iord of creation, on his pvSp.e ,ss tha world mastering and unlvesse- | ccsnnellinr race. But Tor coun.lsss | Senerations he has had 10 acAnom ,s ieoRe the thralldom or iniectiou5 aase. most especially tuoerSuiVess Tltss .ffIiction waged relentlese
 r,srfare Ii was an invisible army .-,,ad yyith noiseless guns and smoAs. sI.. ,s.wdar Man knew not whence "
 as,a nor inc point of attack. Then | Dr Koch reasoned that IL was in so blood. with an exquisitely nlsn py~ | CT microscope he went sa ,as | ont this. mans ancient ana inosh ea '. | ,srous enemy. At last he founo " Gt 1,sa onIy ten thousandth or an | ta.h ,n length and a fifty-thousanoth of an inch in diameter. yet the conpei, ling power of vast numbers Haoe " | lord over mankind. When koch pro | claimed hia message to the wH us world 1t was the most sade If | human procurement ever maoe: onaned A new horizon of meoicai tbonsht. and gave the scientitlc | rvorId hone that, having at last ais-
 covered the insidious foe, they cooId
 some day bring 1t to It's ultima.e es feat. And this in spite or the tac. tna. | the average consumptive coughs up
 sav.rai Million baciili every twenty
 Since that day the warfare has been | on The germ army relics on ignor- ance. the lack of pure air and or sun light. Lurking amid the dark runs | of poverty. its members make con,
 stant forays as eushwnacxers gnu ~uerriilas. never attacking the organ | izad body of men, but the individual. l T2ut mans crusade hes never been ser | iously checked. Gathering strength with the passing years. enltsting new | and loyal soldiers under its banners from all parts of the world. 1t has | been going steadily forward. increas- ing it's efforts, expanding its activi- | ties. multiplying it's energies, anu spreading the infection of it's zeal. Nations. states, churches, associa- | tions, societies, and individuals have been giving time and money toward | helping the crusade along. Money has | been freely expended to relieve those who are afflicted and so prevent me | spread of the disease to others. New | England has led in the work. There 1t has been found that it Is cheaper | to stamp out tuberculosis than to al- low it to run It's course. New York l has followed suit Two million dol lars was raised for a magnificent hos pltal on Staten Island for combating the disease. Profiting by the exam ple of the thrifty Yankees, other
 states have joined in the effort to stamp it out. Tons of educational
 matter are being sent out to the peo- pie Little by little public sentiment is being aroused. The masses are be- ing enlightened, and are learning that disease
 Heretofore the crusade has been
 largely one of experiment. Theories had to be proven and conclusions de- monstrated. But in the future 1t will
 bo one of education. Experience has
 demonstrated the correctness of the theories and proved the variety of the conclusions. Tn fact the work has
 reached that stage W ere so eminent
 an authority as Dr. Osler has found