| Show i T TAll LK Of CURES TUBERCULOSIS CONGRESS IS IN SESSION AT NEW YORK 1 Western Doctors Elected Officers Pa Papers porn pers ad on the Treatment of the Disease New York Feb 22 The congress ot of tuberculosis l sA at Ute the Motel Hotel St It Andrews A which Is 18 being held under u the au auspices ees 3 of at the society opened to today today today day with a small attendance A per permanent permanent manent organisation was waa effected by bythe bythe the selection of o the following officers Honorary president H M it Ball Brook Brooklyn Brooklyn lyn president pre Charles Den Denver Dener Denver ver er vice presidents dent Dr Henry B Baker secretary of ot the state tte hoard board of health Michigan Chief Surgeon C K Cole Coie Helena Bel Mont Colonel C B E Chancellor St Louts Louis T D Crothers Hartford Conn Coon Philadelphia F A A Leusen Chicago D Dwight wight S Moore Jamestown N D DA DA DA A EL E Osborne Glen Ellen Cal Cat J S C CAneon Wilson Philadelphia PhI O 0 B B 13 Win ate Milwaukee Thomas Tho nt y Chicago W S New York Robert Barklow Philadelphia and J 3 Mott XoU Dwyer of New York i Several papers on tuberculosis and the various methods of treating submitted but hut were not read ad seal they had already been published in the con congress conI grass gress bulletin The first paper was by Dr W J 3 Roseman RO D of or Washington I who told of ot the consumption in New N w Mexico and the methods of treating It the papers was wa one by Dr Karl von Ruck Buck of N C on the methods of treating the disease dise se He said that to pronounce a patient entirely cured he must mu t have here pa d at least a number of months during which the physical examination in the ab absence settee sence of oC cough and expectoration jus justified us tided such an assumption as Under climatic treatment alone wone quite a number of years were often required for tor the complete and ob oh obliteration obliteration of the present lesions Ions and before this was accomplished incidental I inflammations in hi the I from front colds might ml bt change chauga e the latent process into one OM of ot ulcerative phthisis The subject was discussed further by never several Heven members of the society chief chiefa aIg a whom were Dr Thomas Bas Baa Bassert Bassett sert sett Keyes of Chicago and asid Dr C Deni Denison Denison son lIOn of or Denver Dr von Ruck also 81 submitted a paper on the question of change of ot climate in consumptive cases case which he held was wan not a necessity sity atty but that it was advantageous as II asan IIan anan an aid to lo the general care and man management to other treatment and that climatic treatment under strict super supervision supervision vision deserved better consideration at the hands bands of the profession than it had bad received ed Dr von Rucks paper was wad by a number of the members of the society Dr Clark lark Bell BeU president pre of the Medico society under uDder whose auspices aUl the was called announced that more than thaD doctors nan has enrolled and qualified as members of ot the con congress congress gress |
