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Show XZRAY REGARDED AS TUBERCULOSIS CURE Dr. Jefferson D. Gibson Says Process Will Prove Human Hu-man Emancipator. PRTfjADKLPHTA, Sept. 25. Phyni-:ians Phyni-:ians wbo have spirit yearn in the study of ttroeTrnloaiH declared today at the cloning session of the seventh annual meeting of the American Association of Clinical Research at the Hahnemann Medical college that the eure evolved by Dr. Jefferson P, Gibson of Denver, Colo., retiring president of the association, associa-tion, is one that in ten years ought to place tuberculosis among the relatively nonfatal diseases. Dr. Gibson mentioned the cure.? in his address opening the meeting on Thursday Thurs-day and described it in detail in a paper at today's session. It provides a cure by adding X-rays, o.oneaud static, electricity to the climatic, am! dietetic treatment now common in UiberculosiB hospitals. Hy this method, be claims, the presen.ee of the disease can be detected de-tected in healthy, robust persons, even before the weJI-knovrn Hymptoms begin Lo form, and cures can be effected in advanced cases in remarkagly short time. In his paper today Dr. Ginaon said: It might seem that I have allowed al-lowed my enthusiasm to run awav with me in studying this cure; but I think a feeling of gratification, at least, is justified when t say that out of 7o7 cases thus treated there have been only sixty-ono deaths. I wish to state now with emphasis that the X ray will finally bring about, the emancipation of the "human "hu-man race from this dreadful scourge. In a few years, when the method is better developed, it will be a disgrace for a physician to allow a case of tuberculosis of any kind to progress to an advanced stage, because the X-ravs even now find the incipient tendencies even before the symptoms form. The following officers were elected: President, Dr. Coleman, Now York; first vice -president, Dr. William B. Snow, New York; second vice president, pres-ident, Dr. Loon T. Ashcraftt Philadelphia. Philadel-phia. Dr. Krauss of Boston is the permanent per-manent secretary. |