Show Daily Health Service Health Service Sanitarium Care Held Best in Tuberculosis By Dy DR MORRIS FISHBEIN Tuberculosis is a disease of long duration In in mo most moat cases and the con dillon of the patient Is constantly changing It Is therefore difficult to determine the he value o of any new form of treatment and before any conclusions are drawn 3 as to the value oti of ot a anew new method it must be compared with the well established value of treatment in a sanitarium Some years ago it was reported that the direct application of sunlIght sun sun- sunlight light or of artificial ultraviolet rays to io the larynx when tuberculosis of the throat occurs occur is an exceedingly valuable method This condition long has hns been aired as being one of great seriousness serious ness and cure of even ven one-fourth one of the cases was considered to be an excellent ex ex- accomplishment For the last six or or- seven years the use we of dir direct t sunlight in the treatment of at tub I losis is of the larynx has been the accepted accepted accepted ac ac- ac- ac method Now Sir St St. Clair Thomson one of th the leading authorities authorities' in diseases of the throat in irs England has made available the records of C cases studied in a tuberculosis sanitarium with which he is associated from froni 1926 1026 to 1929 I Moreover the records of the patients pa pa- since 1929 have been followed to find out how they have gotten along after niter the treatment was dis dis- continued In the year three-year period covered covered by the study sixteen m men n and sixteen women with tuberculosis of the thc larynx were treated by this method I Frankly the British authority Js is disappointed with the results of ultraviolet ultraviolet ultra ultra- violet light in the cases which he studied He does not believe that the healing of t the condition was Wa hastened or that thi this method of treatment brought about any better belter results than were found in ill cases Case treated merely by being kept In irs the sanitarium and having the lesions of ot th the vocal cords removed by the use of ot the actual or heat heal He Is is convinced that the whole pic pie ture of tuberculosis is 3 so remarkably changed for lor the better under proper treatment in a sanitarium that man many remedies which appear to be beneficial bene bene- when patients are treated under the ordinary h hospital or home condi condl are arc found really to add nothing at jail all to the In Improvement ment that Is Ls brought about when whee the patient is properly taken care of In a 41 He emphasizes the fact that In an occasional case th the me we of artificial ultraviolet rays for tuberculosis tuberculosis' in m iii the throat seems ems to work marvels marvetS but the study of the entire condition leads him to believe belleve that in the vast ma u of ot cases case old f fashioned mi methods methods' of treatment do just about t. t as u well provided the patient Is properly taken care of in a good institution w v- v |