| Show Your Health Tuberculosis Still Big Killer Despite Fight by Scientists 1 By James W. W V. V Barton IM M. D D. D Although tuberculosis of the I lungs still causes man many deaths the general public r reads ds and hears I so much about about q mm how the battle battle N l t against losis is is being won w t i that they do not f. f I 1 know that tuber- tuber r i is still f common S SI I I have spoken about visiting a a. friend in a sanitarium sanitarium sanitarium san san- as a ahe he heavyweight a n v y w e c i 1 g h t box boxer e r was Dr Barton wheeled into an adjoining bed I The latter explained that he had disregarded a severe cold tuberculosis tuberculosis tuber tuber- had developed and Me Ito was now prepared to rest for two years to obtain a cure It is the long rest necessary to bring about a cure that prompted specialists in tuberculosis to try to obtain rest for the affected lung by means of surgery If the lung can be rested the natural resistance resistance resistance resist resist- ance of the body is usually sufficient sufficient sufficient to fight fig or kill off the or or- causing the tuberculosis In Hy cla the health magazine magazine magazine maga maga- zine published b by the American Medical Association Dr Louis Carp states that the aims alms of the various methods of treating treating- the lung by artificial means means surgical ca cal and others others are arc to rest the lung and prevent or greatly de decrease decrease decrease de- de crease the movement mo in the affected affected affected af af- af- af lung when hen the patient breathes As cavities in the lung keep the tubercle organisms alive and busy anything that closes doses or partly closes or decreases the size of these cavities by pressure pressur help to cure tuberculosis By closing dosing I the tube taking air to the affected I lung air cannot get in or out and so the walls of the cavity ca gradually close As this happens the tubercle germs cannot live in which air Is Injected thus halting or slowing up the progress of tuberculosis Among the methods of causing pressure against the walls of the cavity or hole in the tho lung is around the lung so that it is pushed farther away from the chest wall wan and thus becomes small small- er Because it is squeezed smaller the walls of the cavity get closer and closer together Tho The effect of this collapse or shrinking of theung the lung Jung ung gives the lung rest and rest is the cure of at tuberculosis of the lung While Is used more extensively than other mechanical mechanical mechanical me me- method of collapsing the affected lung o 0 other t the h e r surgical methods such as breaking up ad- ad and removing several sc ribs are used |
