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Show PREDICTS ABOLITION OF WHITE PLAGUE PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 23. Dr. Jefferson Jeffer-son D. Gibson of Denver, president of the American Association of Clinical Research, Re-search, declared in an address at the Hahneman Medical college here today that within ten years medical science will probably have succeeded In all but eliminating death from tuberculosis from vital statistics. Dr. Gibson, whose address opened the seventh annual meeting of the association, said that recent discoveries by which the presence uf tubercular tendencies can be detected oven before the germs appear in the sputum, together with a later and higher development of the X-ray. will in a short time remove tuberculosis from the list of necessarily fatal diseases. |