The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-05-03

At Meeting Of Scientists at ashngon Today Dr. Knopf
on Great White Plague.

Washington. May 3.-on the second
day of the annual convention of the
National Association for the study and
prevention Of tuberculosis. one of the
principal speakers was DR.. S. Adolphus
Knopf of New York He spoke before
the clinical section this morning.
DIR. s. Adolphus Knopf of New York
does not believe in the exhibition OF
too much paternalism on the part of
the state to the INDECENT consumptive,
particularly il that paternalism be
manifest in the form of treatment
which has not yet received from the
medical profession universal recognf-
ton as to its efficiency Neither does
he believe in shutting the door in the
face OF a physician because he has con-
| sumption himself or has been closely
associated with consumptives. He be-
lieves in justice to all consumptives.
and presented his views in most en-
phatic language before the Clinical
Section of the National association for
the Study and Prevention of Tubercu-
! losis in a paper entitled State Phthisi-
ophilia and State Phthisiophobia.' In
| cidentally the legislature of Nebraska
and the state board of medical exami-
ners of Oklahoma were severely Gen.
sured for their attitude toward tuber-
culosis.
DR.. Knopf told how the legislature
of Nebraska had passed law at its
last session which requires that indi-
| fod Mt hn
pense of the several counties in hospit-
ais, selected by the state board of
health, must receive treatment by i'm
munization or vaccine therapy in adj
dition to open air and other sanitary
Methods This law, DIR. Knopf stat
| ed. had been passed at the instance of
DR.. J. H. Tyndale of Lincoln. Nebras-
ka. He declared that In his opinion 1t
was unjust to the INDECENT consump-
tive to compel him to undergo course
of treatment, the value of which had
never been universally attested. DIR.
Knopf stated that in this view he was
supported by the most eminent men In
| the medical profession in America
among whom he mentioned: Doctors
Edward L. Trudeau, Saranac Lake;
Prof William Osler. Oxford, England
Prof. Edw G. Janeway, New York
Prof. Frank Billings. Chicago: Prof
Hermann M. Biggs. New York: Simon
Flexner, New York; Prof. A. jacob
New York; Prof Edward O. Otis, Bos.
4 ton; Prof. Theodore C. Janeway, New
York; Herbert NJ. King. Liberty. New
York: Lewellys F.. Barker, Baltimore
Edward r. Baldwin, Saranac Lake. n
Y; Prof. Victor C. Vaughan. Ann Ar
Dor, Mich; Prof. A. Alexander Smith
New York: Howard s. Anders, Phila
deIphia; Sidney F. Blanchet.. Truedeau
4 New York: Sherman G. Bonney. Den
yer; p. NJ. Darlington. Fort Stanton. n
Mex; S. Soils Cohen, Philadelphia
Thomas D. Coleman, Augusta: Prof
George Dock. New Orleans: Prof. Hen
ry B. Favill. Chicago; Prof. Reginald
H. Fitz. Boston; D. Walter Holden
Denver; David r. Lyman, Wallingford
Conn: William Porter. st. Louis; F
M. Pottenger, Monrovia, Cal. !: Theodore
B. Sachs, Chicago; Surg. Gen. Georg'
M. Sternburg, Washington: Prof. Will
liam S. Thayer. Baltimore; Prof. T. M
Tyson, Philadelphia; H. B. Weaver
Asheville, N. c.: Gerald B. Webb. Colo
RADIO Springs; and Prof. VIM. H. WEIGH
Baltimore.
He then told how German writel
in recent article. on the anti-tuber
culosis movement in the U. S., had hell
up to ridicule the legislature OF Ne
braska and the Poole law, and how h
implied that there were In this coun
/ try many medical politicians who uset
office or political position for their owl
personal ends. q structure which DR.
Knopf Indignantly resented.
The second half of DR.. Knopfs pa