Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-07-27
ANTI-TTBERCULOsIS EXHIBIT,
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riondacs in 1885 to die of consumption.
He still lives and the sanitarium
which he has since established there
is modelland an inspiration to all.
One chart illustrates that in 1908
there were distributed among the
different consumptives' sanitariums
in this country total of 14,0l4 beds.
In number of glass jars are shown
a number of diseased organs of hum
ans, in which tuberculosis has be-
come deep seated. One shows that of
the lung of coal miner. In this
lung nearly every portion of it is dis
eased and it shows plainly the collec-
tions OF coal dust. A portion of
human spine is shown illustrating
how tuberculosis germs contract the
cartilage and cause what is commonly
known as hump back.
A booklet given out by the society
gives the early symptoms of the dis
ease as follows:
Light cough lasting month or
longer; loss of weight; Slight fever
each afternoons; bleeding from the
lungs; tired feeling.
The booklet also prescribes rules of
living to be followed where case is
evident in family.
The exhibit was in charge of w. O.
Gloyer of Madison, who gave lectures
and was at all times pleased to take yisi-
tors around the room and explain all
the features of the exhibit. In his
lectures he told many things which
have heretofore appeared in these col
umns, regarding the death rate from
the disease, etc. He said that no
medicines would cure consumption,
but that an afflicted person must get
back to nature, plenty of fresh air,
sunshine, good food and clear quarters
being necessary.
On Wednesday evening DIR. III. l..
Rosenberg made an address, telling
of how the disease was contracted and
spread through the system. When
the millions of germs have destroyed
the organ in which they thrive, death
results Medicines are of no use, he
said, for any drug which will kill the
germs will kill the patient. He adj
yocated staying at home, instead OF
going to the southwestern states, for,
he said, when one is cured of con-
sumption in one of those states he in
variably again contracts the disease
when he returns to this rigorous eli
mate. When one is cured here, he
said, he stays cured. The south
western states, he said are passing
stringent laws to protect their people
against the dangers of having north
ern consumptives in their midst.
On Thursday evening DIR. ID. Sauer-
herring made an address in German.
He laid particular stress upon the
fact that tuberculosis may be COM
municated from the use of milk of
tubercular affected cows, and he urged
that ordinances be passed in this city
providing for milk and meat inspec-
ton. Consumptive germs, unlike the
germs of other contagious diseases,
multiply slowly, and therefore usually
little attention is paid to the disease
until it has made such inroads on the
patients health that his recovery is
not possible. 1t has been customary
for the state to sell the carcasseS of
tubercular cattle killed, unless they
are badly infected. The doctor said
that in cooking such meat some por-
ton of it might not be sufficiently
heated to kill all the bacilli, and that
therefore such meat is unfit for food.
He urged that an ordinance be passed
compelling dairymen TO have their
herds tested before they can continue
selling milk in the city.
Each evening Mr.. Cover gave lee
ture followed by questions from the
audience. These questions brought
out much information from him re-
garding the different forms of tuber-
culosis, its sanitary treatment, fumi-
cation, etc.
On Friday evening, DIR, Thos. H.
Hay, superintendent of the River
Pines Sanitarium of Stevens Point
made an address in the opera house
before large aSsemblage. DIR. Hay
confined most of his talk to the dan
gerous habit of splitting, saying that
about 1900 600 bacilli is coaghed up
by q consumptiye at one time. 1t was
this splitting which transmitted the
disease from the white man tc the
Indian, he said, and the same cause
had transmitted the disease from
northern consumptiyes TO the people
of Arizona and Colorado. A Guinea
pig placed three feet away from. the
mouth OF conSumptive will contract
the disease. because the latter's breath
carries of bacilli. The doctor did not
favor sending patients 10 high alti-
tude, for he said patients have been
cured of the disease in all levels.
While Mr.. Goyer was in the city he
gave lectures before the employees of
the Marathon Granite Co., the Wau-
Sau Sandpaper Co. and the Wausau
Quartz Co. Men working in occupa-
tions where stone is handled are very
susceptible OF contracting the disease
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