The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-10-18
and with 1t, the shape and the voice.
 The Consumptives' Appeal.

lh6 COhSuIDpGlVeS ADlcal.
 And then the sounds of other voices filled the room. They were the voices of more than a million people They came from cabins on far away noun tain sides, from midland mansions, from crowded city tenements. from sanatoria, from hospitals, from the learned and the ignorant, from the rich and the poor. They were the voices of the consumptiYes of Amer ica. And all the million voices cried in chorus: Help! Help! Help us, o you doctors of tut" rcu1osis. We are try ing to do what you bade us do, but most of us are losing the fight What is the secret of the enemy's power? :? Learn 1t quickly. Arm us against it. Help us or we perish"
 At the beginning of the war, read. with interest, if not always with assent, the martial editorials in var ious medical journals, prophesying that one good, sure to come from the evil of the war, would be the solution of many medical problems, and par ticularly the problem of tuberculosis, because the thousands of doctors now being gathered into the army and navy, would be able to make, so to speak, mass attacks on the problem and they would not be wasting their time and energy on pitiful sniping from little laboratories. Well now, here we are after the war-the first New England Conference after the war-and face to face with the same tuberculosis problems as before the War. The war has not added one iota to our positive knowledge of tuberculosis. It has, perhaps. con- vinced the public that there is more active tuberculosis than had been supposed. But even the truth in that matter was recognized years ago. At the New England conferences at Springfield and New Haven, public bulletins asserted that every death <. a community from tuberculosis meant as an average ten active cases of tu- berculosis in that community.
 New Knowledge Needed.
 The war, it is true, has made clearer to us, the poverty of our equipment for fighting the tubercle bacillus. The war has caused the making of comparisons, sometime es jnvidious, between the insufffciencies in equipment, of states and countries. The war has taught many houndreds of young doctors the proper use of
 
 X-ray. The war has emphasized the need of hospital and sanatorium care for consumptives and the effective ness of good nursing and of health propa ganda. But beyond-nothing. Nothing concerning cause. Nothing concerning cure. Nothing concern ing such questions as-Does tubercu- losis always begin in childhood? Is it impossible for a human being who escaped infection in childhood to con- tract the disease in adult life? Why are there more tuberculosis men than women? Why does sunlight thera py usually cure bone and gIanduIar tu- berculosis and usually fail to cure pulmonary tuberculosis? What hap pens to a child's organs and tissues when undergoing the sunlight cure of bone and glandular tuberculosis? :? Are all tubercIe bacu born of other tubercle bacilH? What is the relation to the tubercle baci1I of such acid fast bacilE are found in dark barns, and as may be evolved from the spores of the ordinary beneficent bacili of leaves and grasses? How dangerous to adult human beings is theEl ilk of tubercuious cattle? Are tuberculous cattle always infected by other tuberculous cattle? What would happen if non -tuberculous cows were made to live year, knee deep in manure in new, but dark, badly ventilated barns, such as are found on poor farms everywhere |? What vaccinaung power against hu- man tuberculosis have the avian tu- bercle bacilli, the bovine tubercle ba- cilli, and the other acid fast or near nil ton between tuberculosis and cough, appendicitis. small pox, gon- Qlrhoea, and syphilis? What is the explanation of the immunity of cer- tain groups and individuals to tuber- culosis? What is the explanation of grinders and miners tubercoIisis :? And the tuberculosis of the operatives in cotton, woolen, and silk mills?
 In conclusion:
 l. The war has taught us that the breaks in our knowledge of the tu- bercle bacillus, prevent us from con- quering the tubercle bacillus.
 ?. The war has taught the need of further tuberculosis research, and by implication has indicated that we who have the direction of the large sums of pubic money and the enor- nous amount of public enthusiasm now engaged in the antituberculosis campaign, owe it to the public to de- velop a greater and more intensive campaign of research than we have hitherto attempted.
 3. The war has taught us that large medical military organizations are not capable of advancing our knowledge of tuberculosis, and that in the future as in the past, we must put our dependence for results on the enthusiastic workers in the small wards and Laboratories of hospitals and sanatoria and dispensaries, and on the observant physicians of pri- vate practice.
 The Framing ham Experiment..
 have the honor to be a member of the Committee in charge of the Birmingham experiment of which the director, Dr. Armstrong, has told you. Nobody can have greater ad- miration for Dr. Armstrong and the things he has accomplished than have. One sure result of tEe Tram ingham experiment will be the inn