| Show CAUSES AND prevention OF consumption IN woods medical and surgical monographs for april 1891 there to is an exhaustive and instructive article on the causes causee 1 and prevention of by arthur ransome Ra M D he says that tubercle in its forms forma at the present day carries carriee off IL a great boat of persons persona annually one half of the people who die between fifteen and thirty five and one third of those who die between fifteen and forty five are carried off by tubercle in the form of phthisis or as it to ie commonly called consumption it la Is only a short abort time ago since a nee this disease was considered incurable sir thomas watson said tubercular disease when established to la beyond our power this theory no longer holds good the medical profession now re garde it both curable and preventable pable in the past 80 years the disease has diminished ly by one third in england sc according cording to the annual death rate professor Pro kochs kohls of the bacillus organism in all oases cases of consumption was first made known 8 years ago this discovery to is now beconi becoming na recognized as a scientific truth and all the observations and researches made since 1882 only tend to establish mora more firmly the koch discovery this organism it is demonstrated comes from the air in the majority of cases the disease is found everywhere in all climates in the north and in the south east and west however various the conditions under which men live however much they may differ in ram race in diet and clothing and in habits of life wherever human beings are congregated together there phthisis isis to is to be found 11 dr ramsome gives a table showing the proportion of those caused by consumption sumP tiou out of 1000 deaths in the various cities of the world in vienna bit bills is highest being in rio bio do de janeiro it to is in athens in IB lima in loridon london and in rome borne the lowest in the table there is also another very interesting table showing by comparison according to altitudinal columns the distribution of consumption at a rate per thousand among the living in this table salt lake city is the lowest or of seventy two columns representing so many places on the earths surface brun brud in moravia is the highest exactly ten times greater than in salt lake city prague vienna wi aul remscheid are the next highest the regions comparatively free from consumption are deserts mountain regions and arctic realms dr Ran contends that this is owing to of population he holds that as population increases con will appear where at one time it was entirely unknown he admits that occupation has baa much to do with its increase or decrease the diminution of the disease in england he attributes rather to improved ventilation and drainage than to advances in medicine he thinks that with the researches now being made an effectual cure for the disease will in time be effected the work from which the foregoing facts facto are gleaned to published monthly by wm win wood aco A co new york |
