The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-03-13
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maps. 1uliy understood, In the state
ment that tuberculin was not now
used. Ii should have been added. in
the therapeutic treatment Of tubercu-
losis or consumption: il is now almost
entirely used as a diagnoStic test: T.
n. milford company of Philadelphia,
who have. perhaps. the best equipped
laboratories in the world for the max
ing of 'Biologicals." as the hacteriolog-
ic products are called. and there are a
number of them, from booklet We
quote as follows:
Tuberculins are used in the treat
ment of:
l. Strictly localized tubercular af-
fections. Ia Lupus and tubercular
alterations of the skin and subcutane-
! Gus beneath the skim tissues
,b) Tuberculous joints
&C, Tubercular Admits janeoidsl
| i'd Tubercular cystitis inflamma-
ton OF the bladder.
! tel Tubercular epididimitis
! IL Tubercular iritis inflammation
of colored part of eye
! 'g) Tubercular laryngitis inflam-
nation of the larynxl
thl TuberCular nephritis Chronic
inflammation of the kidneysl
/ III Tubercular peritonitis ,so-called
inflammation OF the bowels
! This firm also makes all the differ
ent forms of tuberculin test as quoted
in my last article from Park. Davis X
/ Co. Tuberculin is also used in some
cases for the treatment of lung tuber-
cntnSiS or oy,si Inn
cautiously used only by conscientious
and very eminent specialists in diff
| ferent chronic diseases: and as We
quoted in the last article from the en-
| inent French physician. Trudeau. and
which is deemed worthy to here re
peat. partly at least. as follows: Il
would not urge any physician who
prizes his peace of mind to embark on
the treatment of tuberculosis by this
method unless he is prepared to begin
with minute doses and increase with
the utmost caution" and il may be
appropriately added and unless he has
from youth up cultivated a quicken
| ing conscience
1t is an omen secret that in the med
! ical profession, similar to politics.
there are ''standpatters." and also in
surgents:" the interests and the
commoners:" or what Doctor Shaw of
London, English member OF the Royal
College of Surgeons, England: lately
member of the Royal College London.
Follow and late vice president of the
British Chronological Society. &c.
&c, calls The Medical Oligarchy," and
there are what may be properly called
the democratic side of medicine which
We are pleased to say is by far the
largest part of the profession. who are
self-sacrificing medical nobleman. who
stand for humanity's veal: and with
whom the patient and his ailment are
paramount above every other consider
alton. Now, pray. do not misunder-
stand this statement. or the spirit i'm
which it is made: the writer is firm
believer in a medical hierarchy for the
PRONUNCIATION and popular free teach
ing of right living. sanitation. public
and individual. physical culture. pOpu-
lar knowledge and practice of physio-
logic laws. and the framing an enforce
ing the same: he also knows that the
officers of the present system of health
| boards. county, state and national.
with very few exceptions are eminent.
earnest and honest medical men who
have thoroughly at heart the very best
interests, health and happiness of the
general public.
What follows therefore must be I'M
derstood as purely in the interests of
the same medical pioneering, progress
siveness and advancement to a higher
! plane of scientific effectiveness. that
| has rescued medicine from prehistoric
crudity, priestcraft and superstition.
and placed it today a definite science
the grandest and noblest profession of
this age of marvels.
Nevertheless, a stern and inevitable
law that We dare not ignore without re-
ceiving ultimately reward from out
ragged nature.-the relentless law Of he.
redity,-that memorable paymaster-
| ITO pangs of nature. sins of will.
Defects of doubt and taints of blood
| In other words, the medical man
who values his peace of mind" must
pause to seriously consider the re-
mote. to say nothing of the present
affects of injecting into the system OF
mich cows a toxin OF such tremend
Gus potency which in so infinitesimal
dose as the one five-thousandth of a
milligram of the solid substance con.
tanned in koch's Bacillin Emulsion.
may produce typical and marked con.
stitutional disturbance" in the animal
and then when we remember that the
milk of the COW is physiologically
classed with the excretions or depura-
tive eliminations of the animal. Ger
tainly it requires but little gray mat
ter and common sense reasoning to
arrive at the conclusion that to feed
our babies. whose systems are pecu,
liarly susceptible to constitutional