The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1909-04-09

who can aid the physician by fleeing
to better climates and carrying out
strict hygienic and dietetic measures.
But, alas! for the poor poverty strick-
en- individual of our city, who con-
tracts tuberculosis, it would be better,
by far, had he not been born; he is
doomed to dwell in the shadow of
death with this CHASTITY demon gnaw-
ing away, one by one, the ibres of
life; his lungs, his internal organs
and the very marrow of his bones,
are honeycOmbed and melt away, while
he waits patiently for the silvery cord
of life to be broken.
The people must know that this
dreaded disease can only be conquered
by proper living, cleanliness, pure air
and sunshine; our lawmakers must
know that tuberculosis must be iso-
lated and that tubercular men and
women have no CLAIM on matrimonial
life. Sanitaria must be established
for the poor, poverty-stricken tubercu-
lar patients as are asylums for the in
sane or poor houses for the pauper.
The United States government spent
enough money sending u naval flotil-
la around the world to establish a tu-
bercular sanitarium in every state in
the Union. The civilized nations have
spent enough money in war ships to
sweep tuberculosis from the face of
the earth.
The renowned Koch discovered the
specific cause of tuberculosis. The duty
devolves upon the profession to discov-
er a specific cure. There is no disease
to which the human family is heir,
but that its remedies are resting in
the bosom of science, could we but
fathom her depth and bring them to
light. Although the night is dark, al
ready the vanguard of medical science
heralds the dawn of a brighter day
when tuberculosis shall bow to the
magic wand of science, and go the way
of yellow fever and other scourges
that once perplexed the medical pro-
fession. Consumption is no longer re-
garded as the curse of the gods, a
hopelessly incurable disease shrouded
in mystery whose pathway leads to the
brink Of inevitable death, or simply
the result of catching cold. 1t is a
durable disease. But its durability is
dependent upon the intelligence of the
patient as well as upon the skill of
the physician. In its treatment two
theological factors must be considered.
Through prophylactic measures, the
germs must be excluded from the sys-
TEN; and the patients vitality must
be improved, his "Opsonic Index so
raised, that in the great warfare be-
tween germ and cell, the cell may
triumph and nature may effect a cure.
AS a means to this end he who seeks
relief from this disease must institute
proper living, hygienic surroundings
and cleanliness; and avail himself of
nutritious food, pure air, sunshine and
|congenial climate; he should seek
mountainous countries, which smile in
the eternal bliss of sunshine and pure
air, where health and vigor laugh in
the blossom of youth.
When the people are educated as to
the cause, nature and scope of this di-
sease, then, and only then can its ray
ages be abated.
Members of the faculty of Meharry
College, most worthy instructors:
1t has been your arduous task to
impress upon our minds the science
ond art of medicine; it has been your
duty to implant in each brain and
heart the germ of knowledge whose
perfect growth shall form lives of sue
cess and whose fruitage shall be a
life we'll spent. How well you have
discharged your duty the future alone
can tell. We tremble as we are about
to leave your feet to assume the re-
sponsibilities that confront us. We
have relied upon your wisdom and
guidance. Our life's work depends up
on how we'll we have assimulated your
counsel. We are about to launch our
little craft away from the %shipyard,
away from the master builders hand
we are about to venture upon the
great sea of life, where storms are
fierce and waves dash high. No long
err will you be our captain to guide
and to assist. Our own eyes must
watch the compass and scan the
chart; our own hands must hold the
rudder and adjust the ship to wind
and wave, and storm. But with con
idence in ourselves and implicit faith
in what you have taught, we launch
out. We bid you an affectionate fare.
well.
DR.. Hubbard, noble sir, it is the
pleasure of my life to extend to one
so eminent as you in the culture and
and uplift of my people the heart
felt gratitude of a race. 1t is in the
lives of noble men that we find oul
greatest inspiration. You have taught
us the lesson of a life devoted to
orond nurnooa q life of sacrifice a