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Show CaCscs ami riii.mnoi op COVSUMITION. In Wooda' Medh.l and Rurglcal Monograph', for April, 1801, there li an exhauntlvo mil Instructive. nrtlclo ou "The Caud and Prevention of l'hlhlila," by Arthur lt.ruome, M, D. He eaya that tubercle, lu itavarloue formi, at the present day, carrlea oft .great hwt of ienona nnnnally, Una. half of tho proplo who die between fifteen and thirty-five, and onr-thlrd of tlioae who die between llfteen and forty-live are carried oh" by tubercle In the form of phlhl-L or, m It la commonly com-monly called, conauinpllon. It la only . ahort time ago tine. till. Ilieiw wm conaldt red Incurable. Hlr Thomu WaUou aalds "tubercular ill-aean ill-aean when entabtlihed, la beyond our Iiower." ThU theory no longer liolda good. Tho medical profe-alon now regard re-gard It both curable and preventable. In the past M )mn tho dlnoaio hna dlmlnlihityone third In England iu cording to tho annual death rate. l'rodwor Koch'a dlcovcry of the bacllluiorgtnlnmln .11 canea of con. tumpllou wm flnt made kuowu Sjeari ago, ThU discovery li now becoming recognltnl as n eclmtllto truth, and all tho olnervatlon) Mil runearchoi inaJoslncolSS2 only ton I toi.Ubll.h more firmly the Koch dlicovery. This organism It It demonstrated cornea from the nlr lu the mijorlty of caacs. "Tho disease Is found everywhere. In all illmatea, In the north, anl lu tho outh, nast and west. Howcor, various tho condition uuder which mm live, however much they may dllli r lu race, In diet and clothing, and In hablu of life, wherever human beings are congregated together, tin re hlhlala la to Ihi found," Dr. llinomo give a tablo hhowlug the proportion of those caused by con-aumptlou con-aumptlou out of low death In the various cilice of the world. In Vienna Ills lilghcet, lielng S03. In Itlo do Janeiro It Is 18d, In Allien 181, In I.lm.lTI, In Ixindou lSl.aiillnHonio 114, the low mt lu tho table. There I also another very Inlinit. Ing tablo allowing, by comparison, according ac-cording o altltiidlnal column, the distribution of comuniptlou at a rate per thousand among the Ihlug. In till, table Halt lake Ully latholownt otteVenty-tvio column representing to tinny pluof. on tho earth' nurfaco, limn, In Moravh, Is the hlghist ei-actlyleu ei-actlyleu tlima grinler than In Halt Lake City. Prague, Vienna an 1 Item. Kheldaie the neat highest. The region coninill ely f n e from con.iimi tlon nre ilesorli, moiiulalii region and arctla realm.. Dr. lUns.mio contend that Hits la owing to .parslly of pul.tlou. Ho holdithat as population lucnwoscou. wiinpllou will nppoar where at one lime It wo snlirily unknown. He admits that occuitlon ha much to (o v llh It liicruiiu) or decrease. The illmlnutlon of IhedUiasv lu Jingland he atlrlliutt rather to Improved veutl. I .lion ami drainage than lo advauct luinedlclni. Huthliilt that with tho riWan.be now bilug made, nnslleo-lualiuro nnslleo-lualiuro for the dlnanonlll In tlnui lioeirtctetl. The woiU from which thefongolng fact aro gleanwl Is j ubllthi d monthly by Wm, Wood & Co., New York. |
