Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-05-25
Board Of Control Adopts Simple
Plan to Determine Existence
of tuberculosis
EVERY PERSON CAN BE TESTED
Now Discovery is Simple and Consists
Of Dropping Serum in Eye-control
Board Convinced Disease Can Be
Treated as, Successfully in Iowa as
Elsewhere.
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Des AIoines. May 25.-Thru the oph-,
/ tl1almic test the state board OF con-
/ troll and Mr.. Kepford hope to make
great progress in the matter of stamp7
Ing out tuberculosis in Iowa One OF
thu difficulties In the past has peen
/ the testing of persons suspected OF
having tuberculosis. Now 1t has been
discovered that by dropping little OF
& The serum in a persons eye q test
h an 81 made at once that is quite per-
feet and harmless. If the person mas
tuberclllosis in the slightest degree the
eye VILE become andamed for q time. ~
!. the person does not have tuberculostst
the serum will cause no effect what
/ aver on the eye.
Hhere can he no possible damage TO
che eye from the incubation by serum.
Il serum lis made by q process in when
I tho tuberculosis germs are boiled ana
"a. 81 course, killed, and an extract
IN then taken which is the serum
There Is no possible way by which 9
sper,on can be given tuberculosis by
{lronpinx the serum in the eye, but It
{ haa been discovered that by so doing
4 = sure and simple test Is had Whether
or not a person has tuberculosis.
plans are now being worked out to
carry this test on extensive lines. by
testing people everywhere Tor tuper-E
i culosis it can soon be ascertained just
how extensive the disease Is and per-
sons having the trouble will then be
1 instructed on how to treat themselves
80 as quickly ito recover from the as
I ease It is claimed by those who are
competent to make the assertion that
sstl,e cure Of tuberculosis is easy and
!. simple if the disease Is discovered ~
4 time. In years gone by there has been
q dread on the part of persons sus-
/. pecting that they have tuberculosis at
( the thought Of discovering the truth.
They have allowed the disease to creep
slpon them and progress to the last
stages before doing anything to com,
] hat III because of the feeling that noth-
/ ing could be done anyway and because
! Of the unwillingness to be persuaded
that they actually had 1t.
SOs~f
WINGED that tuberculosis can be cured
]. In Iowa as well as anywhere and can
he cured by the patient himself in his
own home by the open air treatment
and by the use Of proper food and
& proper care of the body. When dis
covered in the early stages of the dis
ssease this treatment readily effects
/. perfect cure, but with people troubled
fAf. t., %I,o xr,o1l layyn
form living in large cities and spread
ing the disease by splitting on the side
walks and in cars and public build
,ings the disease can never be eliminat-
ssed completely.
Now that the ophthalmic test has
been discovered every person In the
!, state can be tested and those having
at In tho early stages can be cured
bspefore the disease has progressed past
the stage at which DIT can be cured.
h Those having 1t In the advanced stages
can be isolated and thus keep the dis
ease from spreading. Those who are
deeply interested in the work of COM
batting the disease are coming more
and more to believe that there must
be cooperation in the work so that 1t
I WILL not be confined to treating the
disease in humans only, but will ex-
tend to animals as well. The state
J, board OF agriculture is now investi-
eating the extent Of the disease among
cattle and hogs. But until the dis
ease is stamped out among animals 1t
can never be stamped out in the human
family Furthermore it is believed that
the work must be naTtion-wdde instead
of only state wide.
One-haH of the new, year book on
agriculture published each year by the
I Iowa department of agriculture has
been printed by the state printer and
the copy for the balance is in the hands
OF the state printer. Some of it isson
the presses. It will be completed and
ready for the state binder in a short
time.
The state auditors annual life insur-
Ance report is also on the presses, but
will soon be completed and ready for
distribution.
. Inform alton from Washington was to
the effect that llama Jim" Wilson ex-
poets to make two speeches in Iowa be-
fore the primary election, Both will be
in the interest of Congressman w. P.
Hepburn and will be made in the
Eighth district. It is stated that no
other speeches will be made by the
secretary.
Z 1T Us understood among politicians
that incidental to his speeches for Coll |
onel Hepburn, Secretary Wilson will
speak kindly of Senator Allison, but his
friends do not understand that he ex-
poets to assail Governor Cummins.
The statement as to Secretary Will
son coming to Iowa in the interest of
Colonel Hepburn was thru private
letter from him. The political man
ayers here appear to have had no COM
nunication with the secretary at all.
HOLDS UP REQUIslTioN.