Evening star., 1949-05-20
tuberculosis Increasing
AS Middle AGE Disease
surrey >ho~s Change tn FAtssv~
~ Death. From AA.is Flasas
81 T.es~as e. Hrwry

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as eccaEyasrg srae FwAs-pk = 3 s4axAs~ - ssssas
A6s
Tats ShaUEs ~ tasr pAttHsa X tAx - -
plague - svt.aAss ~ ~ Ree~ss ; Araas-.
xon shart - ths t4eesxa asaA4s sfssnsae s..
Ire p4esgc hw&3sh S~enaee
The esrs, a. arssh sa&s sFen tae zaAsas*
5 oeS.1n4rS Each wa gtss tk att GRATIS IS,
ls$T 3sss yraf fes aasEsG csygrpaets s&At4ss4-s
afw avalsnss :rgssvsrrte>s F~t esul Sc.
ej4nr truTa ;hs vvsr a~sass Test nsewtasatw
now - ieSs thaa a'th thAi greasara ass
1909
bat ssys - Andersen LIZ psugNsst8ess HE
eeAths sygGn Ia fc,4AAsaA aEzegsk pe-ceas evyF
- IS seadIls snrsv&ASaS Fgz rsAto Nss:s
wt aAvt aees acegss4oFAr1 - ih&EE a Il 3,
a G1seAsr primarily nj yoans aaGs}s 5As
majority ot tAo~c u kLIles wefe hwt@rva tAr
AEes et IS and ts-aeoa3e LII lhs r. .rse g.
life vase sarnsrs parents & yogsns eaA.
cFsn. Ane pcopls fuss ssAgitng tse1 G!s
wofk
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In 1900 tos example - peF esat e.
al tAe reported tuberculosis deAghs tp>E
place in The la-A Age gycap onsy e
p<F cent q thcse Who dAea atgr ossg a.
BY Iasa these pfopogtaanA hAa changed,
F!!iy~ thtor pef cent 6! the tuberculosis
eeAths stsA tooE place anong E~ople nc-
'hoss over a. had tl~en 10 a. pes eral @.
the tesal hen more ma3ked = TIE ss3n
apparent between Isae and lsST H. tar
latter wear 50 pet crul az al ~ho a&ed q
tuberculosis acre over e.
This Is partly due ~ Anoe}s soe SAY, 10
the prevalent belief that tuberculosis . a
daSease Of youth and that elder prrsanS
have some immunity 10 Il Ihess Is = tend.
encs 10 consider thr aangeJ pasl and -
RFG GtFr4 AsXSfr 49,
aee sroup Is about ~ susceptible a. anothsg,
These elder people hr retnts CAT are ~,
coming nis1os source a infections In the
population
The most potent Nltamln 10 eAlstence has
been identified In milk
II Is Yitamtn Bi3 nyki isolated LAT NeAr
less than hiillonth nf an ounce Of when
is able 10 arrest the progress Of pernieteN4s
Rnemia
For neatly 20 years II has eeea knoWn
that milk-not cFeam-eontA4ned in eA-
uemels minute amounts some substance
essential 10 normal growth which waA not
the same as any ot the kno~n V3tam!nA II
VAS called nutrient X -
Without IL younG rats greN very slowly.
They usually died quickly /! then diet con-
tanned a large percentaEe - protriRs the
nitrogen Containing food substances which
are the building stones Of body tissue and
are essential 10 life The substance hoS~
ever, Was very elusive and could no. ee eN-
uArted In pure form
About = year ago the ne@ Ntamlh uHs
found In liver, The effect Of mcfoscopleA!ly
minute doses on Anemia victims sAs Rs-
founding 1t also apparently ~as essential
10 growth.
Absolute Essential In Ims.
Nov DIS c Cary and A II Hartman
Of the Agriculture Department have deter
mined that nutrient X and Bi7 are precisely
The same substances Apparently this IA
essential for the utilization ot proteins -
building materials by the body
ParadoNiealIy. milk has never proved II
any value In treatment OF ahemia Only
liver has prolonged the life Of victims, Pre-
sumabiy there Is some peculiartty In their
constitutions which makes II impossible Tor
them 10 utilize the vitamin in any other
food.
There arw no traces Of the elusive Sub
stance in plant foods
Completely unknown until year aEo and
existing in such tiny quantities that IL can
be detected only by the most refined oi
chemical methods IT apparently Il an ABB
solute essential OF bird and mammal life.
without It the ceaseless building and re.
building OF the bodys structure cannot so