New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-25
DIR. Werelius Talks of Sur
gery's Miracles to Med
ical Association.
MILLION CHILDREN
HAVE TUBERCULOSIS
Woman Physician Makes Start
ling Report at Atlantic City
-Radium Cure Scored.
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Atlantic City, June 2l.-Surgery mas
made IL impossible 20 regard as nope-
less anv injury or any ailment OF tne
vital organs of the human body, even
the heart and lungs, according 10 the
assertion made here to-day by Ut
Axel Werelus, Chicago surgeon, N
addressing the members Of the Aneri-
can Aedicsl Association.
"When ordinary medical aid tails IN
case of heart or lung ailments, nc nc
said. "turn to surgery. No injury Oh
tho heart, no matter how violent
should be accepted as hopeless. Inc
removal Of the entire heart causes
practically no disturbance, and new
ones can be manufactured from tissues
covering the intestines.
DR.. Mary f.. Lamham, Of North caro-
lima, declared: "There are 2O,OOO,OOV
school children in the United States,
and 200. oOD of them have tubercu-
losis. Generally speaking, every child
in this country is infected with tuber--
culosos by the time it reaches matur-
ity."
Radium Treatment ScOrned.
Radium treatment as cure for can
! Ger was scorned by many speakers, who
said that many fakes had been toisted
on the public in the shape OF mis-
| leading reports OF cancer cures al
fected by radium. DR.. J. c. Blood
good. of Baltimore, said the appalling
mortality in cancer was due to ignor-
ance and fear of operations.
That the trend of thought among
members of the American Medical As
ISOLATION is increasingly in favor OF
\ tel lei n
health and disease was made plain by
many speakers to-day. DR.. S. {. Knopt,
Of the New York Bureau OF Health,
made perhaps the most radical recon-
mendation when he advocated obliga-
tory insurance for the sick and aged
such as is enforced in Germany, and
the establishment of industrial colonies
under state supervision.
UNLESS We Lave more humanity and
social justice tuberculosis will continue
to be the curse of poverty" he de-
clared.
DR.. Hurry, of Indianapolis, main
tanned that poverty was caused by sins
and that the normal person never sank
to it. The eradication of sin and dis
ease means the eradication OF poverty
he contended.
Protests Against Incubators.
DR.. t. Chaplin, of New York, urged
the house Of delegates to declare
against the use of infant incubators.
! Out of $50 personal experiences with
the incubator, he said, he could not re-
port single satisfactory result. Death
followed in the great majority Of cases
he declared.
Carnotite ore. one of the main sources
of radium, DR.. Samuel r. Earle, of Bal
timore, declared. is an excellent pal
liative for an obstinate skin disease,
and when used in powdered form
showed better results than any known
treatment.
A resolution calling upon Congress TO
create a national institution for the
, care Of lepers in the United States was
adopted after an address by DR.. W. c.
Rucker. in which he told of the spread
ing of lcprosy. DR.. n. E. Campbell, Of
Chicago, urged that all railroads be
forced 10 employ a sanitary engineer
and all large corporations a health off,
GER.
Drs. William s. Gottheil and David l.
Sstenstein, of New York, told of re-
markable results accomplished by the
use of intravenous autoserum injections
in cases Of stubborn skin diseases.