Show PREVENTION Of TUBERCULOSIS POINT Dr ParK ParR Declares Disease Seldom Comes From Bovine Bovine Dovine Bo Do- vine Sources WASHINGTON May 3 Whether Whether tuberculosis is is caused by milk or meat mea infected from bovine sources and what may bo be the tho best lest employment for sufferers sul sui from Irom tuberculosis were tho the chief subjects discussed today at the session of the National A Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis Discus Discussion ion on tho the former topic was started by bJ Dr William H. H Park of Now New York and on the latter by Dr A. A M. M Porst Forster Forstr r of Louisville Ky Dr Park held that pulmonary tuberculosis amon among adults was not th the r result of impure im ha- pure pure mi milk k or foods Dr 8 S. Adolphus Knopf of or Now York attacked the tho Nebraska law laic which requires re roo quires indi indigent ent consumptives to submit submit sub mit to the tho serum treatment and also ho the tho action of the Oklahoma state board of medical examiners which forbids an any phys physician dnn to practice in the state if ic is or has b boon beon en afflicted with tuber culos B. B Dr J L. L F. F Barker of Johns Hopkins jit r 8 h of f the clinical R section tion and ana and Dr Theobald Smith of Boston pr presided si cd at t the pathological eal section Dr Park asserted that thaL but 2 per percent peri perc c cent i nl nt of all tuberculosis in in New Now York City CHr comes from i infected mil milk butter or r meat from bovine sources Moreover More More- over oer ver said Dr Park this small amaH percentage per- per is ill found mainly in in children In n other ither words pulmonary tuberculosis among mong adults is contracted solely from human boin beings and is not tho result ot of milk or foods Dr Dt Park supported throughout his bis paper tho the contention advanced b by Dr Robert lobert Koch of Berlin the disc discoverer of f the tuberculosis germ Jerm when he stood 1 practically alone in dec declaring arin that catle cattie cattle cat- cat tie tle le did not transmit pulmonary tuber- tuber to human beings Modify Lines of Fight The si significance of these theao con conclusions it was pointed out ont will bo be to direct allio aUtho all aU the tho io ener energy y of the campaign against tuberculosis tu tu- to the spread of f this disease among human beings by preventing spitting bad housing overwork overwork overwork over over- work and other conditions bad for the health Dr Parks Park's paper was followed by wido wide discussion Dr Marshall Fabyan of f Boston presented the thc story stor of or two cases ases of human tuberculosis in which the he bovine bovino type of ot bacillus was asso- asso Dr S. S Adolphus Knopf of Now York does doCS not believe in the tho exhibition of too 30 much paternalism on tho the part of or tho ho state t tB the indi indigent consumptive particularly if that paternalism be manifest manifest man- man fest in tho the form of a tr treatment which has not yet received ed front from the tho medical profession uni or universal al recognition as to tos Its s efficacy Neither d does eR he believe in tatting shutting tho the door in iii the tho face of ofa a physician because ho has hns cons consumption himself or has been closely associated with consumptives He lIe believes behaves in jus jus- tico ice to all consumptives B and presented his lis views in most emphatic Jan language ago before eforo the clinical se section tion Incidentally Incidentally Incident- Incident ally lly tho the Ie legislature of Nebraska and the he state board of medical examiners of f Oklahoma were severely censured for their their attitude toward tuberculosis Dr Knopf offered two resolutions to toba tobe too be ba o presented before the association deploring de de- the action of the Oklahoma state board of ot medical exam examiners nors and also ilso of tho the Nebraska legislature the tho theatter atter latter as premature turo unwise and tend tend- Jn into ny io to do injustice e to the poor F Following Dr Knopf's paper in the section Rochon Dr lr r. r Albert P. P Francino of f Philadelphia declared that all mcd mcd- cal ical S s1 should teach tuberculosis as s n a a special cial branch and Jive give it a per per- place in the curriculum |