Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-09-26
TUBERCULOSIS.

| the DOlu sLdJlbJlCS bJdnu IN IrOnL Oh
one From Kentucky comes the re-
port from the State Board Of Health
for three years preceding January
l, 1914, which shows that one out Of
every three deaths occurring in that
state during those years was from
tuberculosis. This is certainly an
awful record, and appears to be out of
proportion with the rest of the coun-
try, The report of the Census Office
of the number of deaths in a regis
tration area for 1909 shows that about
one-tenth were from tuberculosis, and
that this disease led all others in the
number of its victims.
Sir William Osler, professor of medi
cine at Oxford University, recently
told his London audience that 80 per
cent Of those present possessed small
focus or area of tuberculosis. Such a
statement would, Of course, have to
be taken with some explanation. In
vestigations have shown in a multi
tude of cases that where person
died in apparently perfect health, so
far as his lungs are concerned, evil
dence existed that at some time there
had been tuberculous areas, but they
had healed because of improved health
conditions, and had had no permanent
effect upon the health. These evil
dences of healing show what may be
done if the matter be taken hold of at
the early appearance of the disease.
There is abundant evidence that tuber
culosis is durable, but it must be
done by diet and by such treatment
of the body as will put all the forces
of nature at work for. health.
| Here is where the doctors disagree.
The drug doctors will treat such cases
with what is called preventive medi-
cine, serums, antitoxins, etc, thus fill
ing the body with material that must
combine with elements already exist
ing in the blood, or be repudiated and
be eliminated through the lungs, the
kidneys and the bowels. In any event
an extra load is placed upon an al
ready weakened system. The drug
less healers go at the situation in an
opposite manner. They place no lead
upon the system. Their methods show
that no tubercle ever is developed in
the lungs until after an inflamed or
catarrhal condition has been developed
as a result of an interference with
the supply of vital force passing from
the brain to the lungs. At the point
where this interference exists is found
the nerve pressure which is the ex-
citing cause of tuberculosis. In every |
case Of serious lung trouble this point !
of interference will be found by any
person who knows anything about
spinal diagnosis in the upper dorsal
region. This interference with the
nerve supply permits cold to settle
at the point Of inflammation, which
may be succeeded by catarrhal con
dition, and then by the formation of
tubercles, degeneration of the lung
tissues and settled tuberculosis. The
drugless healer starts at the point of
interference, and by relieving the
situation there permits the vital force
to reach the diseased spot. Careful
attention to the diet, promotion of
the general nerve condition of the en-
tire body, improved circulation of the
blood, proper breathing and suitable
exercise will effect cure unless the
disease has become too far advanced
before the case was presented. More
cures will result from the drugless
method Of treatment than from any
thing else that has been presented by
the medical profession.
The number of agencies established
in this country for fighting tubereu-
losis is evidence that the day Of talk
has passed and the time for action has
arrived. That tuberculosis, taken In
its early stages, can be cured has been i
a matter Of common knowledge for I
many years, but until comparatively I
recent times the sanatoria have been {
under private management, with linn {
tied facilities, and with terms 70 pa |
tents that have been practically pro- J
hibitory to a very large proportion of l