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Show health O Test for tuberculosis made easier with new ointment procedure. I By Dr. James W. Barton ' SINCE 1907 research workers work-ers in tuberculosis have been trying to get a skin or patch test for tuberculosis that would be easier on patient pa-tient and physician than the present method of injecting old tuberculin. Dr. Ernest Wolff, San Francisco, Fran-cisco, in the American Journal Jour-nal of Diseases of Children, about three years ago reported re-ported his results with the use of the tuberculin ointment oint-ment patch test in 800 cases. More recently, in the Journal of the American Amer-ican Medical Associ- ation Doctor Wolff and Dr. Samuel Hurwitz report 1,000 new patients treated by this method; that is a total of 1,800 cases. In order that the true value of the test could be learned two ointments were made up in exactly I Dr. Barton the same manner, one ointment con-I con-I taining tubercule organisms ar.d one without the organisms, j "The ointment is applied to the ! inner surface of the upper arm or j the skin of the chest walL The skin I is cleansed with benzine or ether and dried. A pea-sized drop cf the tuberculin ointment is applied on 1 the right side and a similar sized j drop cf the control ointment (without (with-out tuberculin) is placed on the left s.de. Each cf these drops is cov-i cov-i ercd tightly v..:h a one ar.d a' half 1 inch square of ordinary adhesive j p!.-iter. which is removed in 43 j hours. j Test Results Analyird. ' "Positive reactions (tuberculosis i i resent in the patient) shows as i follows: a weak test light case cf tuberculosis shows a few single small papuVs or pimples cf a pale ' r se color, a rr.cd.um reaction ecn-sii-'.s of many v.vidly red rimples with redr.csj cf the surround. ng , s-:.n. while a marked fes tive reac-t: reac-t: n sh ws the parulcs with red-ess and hardening cf the whole surface cf the skin covered by the patch; '.hat is at . .it r.c ar.d a half inches square." As this te.t Is sb-.-ul &3 per cent correct ai c rrpired w.th the :n;ec-t :n;ec-t on if tuberculin rr.c'.hxi. it makes : a very simple method cf testing Pr lul.ercu'.os:s "The case and speed i f aj ; lica'.u n lend the patch test to general use in fr.va'.c practice and public health work. It over-ci over-ci tv.cs the objection cf the mental shock and pain by the use of the ! hypodermic needle. Body Training ' Pays Big Dividends! In the B- s'.on marathon race a few years ago research workers of Harvard university examined ti c 1 blood cf the runners immediately after the race. They found that the Mood of those who finished well up in the race and these in go.x1 condition condi-tion at the finish was rich in sugar and in those who finished near the end of the last, er were in poor con lii'.un at the finish, the bio 1 was poor in sugar. It was suggested to those who I'.r.-.shed low down on the list or were in poor condition a! the finish that they use more sugar during dur-ing their training the following year ntui that during the race itself f ,- cat some sugar. Without exception these ru-.r.ers finished farther up In the race and were in better condition h sicallv at the end of the race than they had been the year before. i In Europe a research worker. Ovc Boje. found that the height of the blood sugar level remains about the fame or falls but slightly in trained individuals during one hour of aver age work, while an increase ,( so j per cent in the amount of work Joee causes marked increase in the nmount of sugar in the Mood In i untrained individuals there i? nearly near-ly always a decrease of blood sugar during woik nnd Die amount be , comes still less as the woik in ureases; but this decrease disappears disap-pears after n few months' training (ibuKtone Wm I5l(li. In fact, instead of the sugar in the Mood decreasing it nctuallv increases, in-creases, whereas in nn individual not "shape" ,.r not in tt.nninc. the blood sugar Is soon rhau--ted and he cannot continue to woik be-cau-.e of lack of energy. Bu . v,,t this is a log point for ,,11 ,,f "Ibis decrease in blood sugar ( . famed Individuals don,, ,,.,,, , ,,f,,.r a few months' training ' Just think then of the wondc, f idled of ov'ioisc In t!,., f(.w month.,' t,-ininK- will ,,, n, .lvr,.. l'"lthy individual t .,, phvsical condition that bis ,,, , sugar will not dcceaM- but ,ema, at n uoi in;i level. Tlllly. (;h,d,toe .e.,l,.-,.d ,.,i9 "ben he said that "All ,mr .,,, rf. '"ll spent i t. aii, ig ,r t,,h- n In I ger i ;i1r ,tf I,,!,.. ' 1 t lli.in mir other lll edoient " 4 "! N.i.Ui,,,!.. N1, s,,,,,,. |