Weekly journal-miner., 1910-02-09
INFORMATION ON TUBERCULOSIS
 SOCIETY Local Organization Is Combating The
 Disease Only Costs a Dollar To Help the Good
 Cause
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Since the organization of the Yava- pal County Society for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, two questions have frequently been asked: First, how can I become a member; and second, what are the purposes of this society,"
 Through the courtesy of the Ar zona Journal-Miner, in allowing us the use of their valuable columns, we are permitted this reply to the public, whom we seek to interest in this san itary and philanthropic movement. We desire to reach every section of our county with a society, whose lab ors shall represent the best humani- tarian effort through the cooperation of all, regardless of religious belief, sect or political faith
 "Annual members are those persons who pay annually to the society the annual dues of one dollar" Send to the treasurer, M. B. Hazeltine, your name and address, and one dollar dues for 1910, and you will be furn- ished with a membership card and thereafter will be advised of the meetings and work of the society for the year.
 Now, the purposes of this society are many, varied and practically un- limited in extent, but they have been summed up in our constitution under six heads, only one of which, the first, we are to discuss at this time, namely, "The study and dissemination of knowledge concerning the causes, treatment and prevention of tubercu losis, particularly as it should be of interest to the citizens of this eoun- ty.
 Hippocrates in the fifth century, B. C., announced that "Phthisis (con- sumption) taken early, can be eured," and we may consider that the study of tuberculosis or consump- tion has been going on from that day to this, the progress as you may sur mise, has been painfully slow. Twen- ty-two centuries elapsed, and the world knew scarcely more than did Hippocrates concerning tuberculosis.
 About the year 1883, Leeuwenhoek, the skilled Dutch Tense maker, gave to science the primitive microscope, and its revealed secrets, the discov- cry of "animalculae," or as we say today, bacteria. Beyond mentioning their existence, however, his obser- vations told little or nothing. Nor can much more be said of the studies which followed during the next one hundred and fifty years. During this long period many a microscope was turned to the observation of minute organisms, but the majority of Ob- servers were content with simply see ing them, marveling at their minute ness and uttering many exclamations of astonishment at the wonders of nature.
 It remained for Lewis Pasteur, about 1870, to show the characterist- ics of some of these little vegetable organisms. He proved that the sour ing of milk, the fermentation of fruit juices and food stuffs was no longer ''spontaneous" but due to certain specific species or families of these microscopic bodies. It was Pas teur who first succeeded in demon strating that certain species of these microscopic organisms are the cause of certain diseases and in suggesting certain methods of avoiding them.
 Knowledge concerning disease is be- ing acquired rapidly. Another decade, and Robert Koch, the now world famed bacteriologist, announced in 1882 the discovery of the germ or bacillus which causes tuberculosis, by means of the microscope and the use of certain analine dyes or stains to bring out the shape of these tiny particles.
 Further study soon demonstrated the methods of the dissemination of tuberculosis, and today we know that tuberculosis is an infectious, commun- ieable, preventable and curable dis ease.
 We know that millions of the germs of consumption are thrown off with the sputum that is eoughed up from the lungs during each twenty-four