The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-03-29


of the lungs and is known as ccnsumP-
ton.
In most of the hunchback children.
and those with stiff hips, the trouble
can be traced to this germ.
A censunlptive may cough up and
expectorate billions OF these germs IN
day.
These germs cannot live any length
of time in the sunlight. but put them
in a dark, damp room and they VIII
live for years.
HOW THE DISEASE SPREADS.
One consumptive can infect hundreds
of other people, and still have none the
less of the disease for the giving.
If the sputunn which comes from
consumptive's lungs is not properly dis
posed OF, 1t may enter the body OF some
other person, through the air he
breathes, the food he eats, or even
through some open wound.
TUBERCULOSIS NOT Inherited.
There was q time, when 1t was
thought and taught that children in
herited the disease from one or both
parents.
This is now known to be untrue.
The child of a tuberculous parent may
not be as strong as the child Of
perfectly healthy parent, its power OF
resistance may be lessened, and owing
to this weakened resistance, it may
contract tuberculosis or any other dis
ease more readily than 1T would, did 1t
come OF perfectly healthy stock. but
get this fact fixed in your mind: Every
case of tuberculosis comes from some
other case of tuberculosis, the direct
cause being through discharges Of pre-
vieusly infected persons or animals,
carried by contact. food or air.
SYMPTOMS.
Coughs, loss Of weight, fever in the
afternoon and evenings, night sweats,
and hemorrhages should call for an ex-
animation, by a competent physician.
I say a competent physician. because
in the advanced stages, anyone can di-
agnose it, but in the early stages (and
then is the time you want the diagnosis
made), it Is not always an easy matter
to make a positive statement that this
patient has or has not the disease.
There are certain changes produced in
the sounds normally heard over a
healthy lung. The sounds made by
"pe~cussfng' the chest, as a carpenter
would strike a wall, in order to locate
a joist, all are significant to the trained
ear.
The microscope tells the tale, for
when the sputum (the substance
coughcd up from the iungs) is exam
ined and shows the germs, the dag
nosis is absolutely certain.
The state board of health at it's
three laboratories located in Pensacola,
Tampa and Jacksonville examine speci-
mems free of cost.
THE CURE.
The money wasted, thrown away, on
fake consumptive cures, would pave a
street so feet wide. around the world.
five or six times.
There has never been a drug dis
covered which would cure consumption.
Up to the present day, while certain
serums have been thought to benefit,
there has beer discovered nc positive
specific.
Sunlight, fresh air, good nourishing
food, rest, and patience will effect
cure in great majority of those cases
in which an early diagnosis was posi-
Die.
In our southern climate, free from
The extreme winters of the north, a |
patient should be able to |
i've out of doors the year round.
No patient was ever cured in the |
Jour walls OF a room. A tent in the |
Yard, or a screened sleeping porch can |
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in the south.
A certain amount of rest is essential |
n order that the patient may not waste |