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Show TUBERCULOSIS GERM IN TIE BLOOD THIS 13 DI8COVERY OF DR. RAN DLE C. R08ENBERG. By Use of Antitoxin, Ho Think the Disease Can Soon Be Stamped Out. Philadelphia. Jan. 6. What is considered con-sidered by medical men to be the most important discovery ?u the war against tuberculosis since the finding of the tuberculosis baccllus by Koch. 16 contained con-tained In an announcement by Dr. Handle C. Rosenberg, of the chair of bacteriology at Jofferson Medical col-, lege. Dr. Rosenberg has declared that the tuberculosis germ can bo located In the blood before It reaches the lungs, and that In view of this, can be destroyed de-stroyed by very simple treatment. By upe of antl-toxlno. ho thinks, the disease dis-ease can eoon be stamped out. A paper of Dr. Rosenborg's researches re-searches 1k soon to appear In Medical journals, but the results, he says ho has obtained, were discussed yesterday yester-day before tho faculty of Jefferson college In view of professional ethics, however, how-ever, the doctor declined to talk about Mb researches outside of medical circles. cir-cles. If the theory that the tuberculosis perm first makes Its apj-earance In the blood of tho patient Is correct, it 13 believed that the Injection of antl-toxlno or virus would prevent them reaching the lungs, practically rendering the patient Immune. "If this Is all that is hoped for," said Dr. Lawrence Flick, president of Phillips Phil-lips Institute for Consumptives, last night, "the fight ' against the great white plague is won." |