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Show Wliat Tuberculosis Is. Dn't It about time for the general publl. to the i Imow what tuberculoels consumpUoa real - Taps. he tubercle bacillus Is the cauae. an) the But disease Is Infectious, that is. can bo ron ere 1 fan directly or Indlretlv from one Individual t.. hlght another. It Invades .very organ and tissue of El th.- t-My und ,-on be acquired at any porlod of tf el life. Infanta arc very susceptible, to it, but In anm ih-m th. lungs usually escape while .-.the mmC parts lUccumb. Old i-rieons are comparative. T "s l.v Immune F.arly alult life offers the greatest great-est danger hut It U stated by Invest Igatora Whi havo examined human dead bodies with A J modern methods, that i-Ach one of us has at Bon' some earlier age been attacked In some struc- und ture. although only a healed scar Is left to lorio bar wltneaa to this universality of the dlB- lecor ease. ThU healed fear also demonstrates that 1T.V) tuherculosls can bo cured. Cjm When the dlaeasa shows Itself In the adult. kmnn the lungs most frequently suffer and then It le dt,nJ called . onsuruptl.:n Tuberculosis Is the cauo Ki' , of ov.-r ana-eighth of the deaths In the United LT States In ih.- JCiusi the proportion has been M slowly Increasing. keeping stop with the I growUi and overcrowding of our large cities m Hut still there Is th lanvent that consump- W Hon runs In tho family! This Is not eo? To U Hire there may be a dell. -ate constitution yet the germ Is not Inherited; It Is the Iniquity ot the environment that runs In the famlK Far better Siava the tendency to COOSUBWtJpn and live In the open than be of robuat conslltn tkn and be ..hilled to absorb the Irnpurltlen tn ni the saturation ..f a tenement-house. A1-Dl A1-Dl 1 1 Hale in the Reader. |