The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-26
Climate Here Leads In Curative :.
Value For tuberculosis High Oh School
Students Told By DR.. Woodcock

our drinking water according to
/ weekly tests rates the best.
| Water is drinkable with as many
ais 700 or more bacteria to the
Ice. our water never shows more
than two or three and frequ-
emily none. There are climates
better suited for some cases Ter
short while. In the higher ell
mates there is much stimulation
and if there are heart Lessons,
death is usually fastened:
The patients cured in western
North Carolina are not forced to
stay in his climate the remand
err of their lives, like those TAX
ing the cure in some climates; A
patient who has tuberculosis
/ should by all means go under
the care of a physician. Now
adays a patient is considered bet
ter off in most any climate .un-
der the care of good physician,
than in the best of climates with
out medical care. -, =,
Murphy in 1894 did the flrst
pneumotharap. This expelled the
air from the cavity side, and gave
the affected lung much better
chance to heal. He prevented
the healing from tearing apart
on breathing. Pirquet in 1907
developed the Tuberculin test for
oL;Idran The tuberculin test a
chemical substance which does
not obtain any dead or live
germs. 1t is entirely harmless
but will tell whether OF not the
patient has any live germs.
Infection does not necessarily
mean tuberculosis. The diagno-
sis of tuberculosis must be made
in children if the skin test does
not reveal it, by the X-ray, then
we know if it is tuberculosis in
lection.
4 In childhood tuberculosis if the
test from the tuberculin is posi-
tive there will be a mild local
but not general reaction. X-ray
will if there is any tuberculosis
in the chest and if the disease
is present it will show whether
it is of the adult type, lesion
large. likely a cavity in process
of formation. or the childhood
TYPE usually located at the root
of the lung and about the size
of a pea or bean.
No.. ,,n tho oI,, II
type a child should be taken from
school at once and if there is
any temperature put to bed i'm
mediately. If it shows up a
childhood infection only, it is not
considered contagious but in my
opinion it should be stopped from
school for a few months and
watched carefully and special at
tention paid to its diet and sleep
and not allowed to over exercise.
A childhood form of tuberculosis
is not considered contagious by
some men doing tubecular work,
but in my opinion a child with
childhood tuberculosis should be
excluded from school for while
and every attention given to it
for the reason that a childhood
form of tuberculosis due to a
primary infection may merge in
to the adult form at any time
due to a secondary infection. So
you see a child may have either
the childhood form of the disease
or the adult type and likewise
the adult may have either kind,
but the adult type is far more
serious for either. A few of
symptoms of adult tuberculosis.
Loss of weight, loss of strength,
loss of endurance. loss of appe-
tite. feeling irritable and cross
especially in the afternoons, US,
ually subnormal temperature
in the mornings with slight fever
in the afternoons of 90 or more,
Some times the reverse obtains
| A persistent cought lasting fol
three or four times continuously