Show CANNOT CATCH DISEASE that tuberculosis Is not contagious has been ovedIe proved Pr in promoted Promo ird byi byl conditions the word tuberculosis Is derived from tuber a latin word meaning a huep a knob or bulbous growth in tho the vegetable vege tabla mofid orld tho the word tuber la is applied to 1 which are bulbous outgrowth fla tl a from tho the roots and to some sonic other plant growths of elm sim liar formation from tuber tome 1 tubercle little tuber or hump and from that tuberculosis the tile technical namo name of a disease which Is character izod by tho the formation of tubercles in different parts of the body ns tile lungs bones the Inter interstices stines tho alvr etc what la Is now ilow to echo fists as tho the tubercle bacillus ros not discovered until about forty yean wro and previous to that of OP the linga nas called or tuberculosis of tho the bogli aris scrofula iula and calior foi fairn m h had ad other names now tuberculosis cm braces all forms of the tile disease alch la Is cl by tho tile loizu flon of tubercles tub ercles tuberculosis Is not I 1 lio no redl redi lary tary in the sense of in fa families millos or being transmitted from parents to children it I 1 miLry asa as largely due to hared itys but at tho the berlin congress on tuberculosis in 1899 1890 virchow a very high authority tho rity sal said d 1 I heredity absolu absolutely tel an and d ho he gave convincing reasons f for r hie his belief anither Is the disease contagious lii ill the tria sense of being catching catch lne it Is duo to the op orations ore tlona of the tubercle bacillus as developed and promoted by conditions |