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Show MERCURY TREATMENT FOR ' TUBERCULOSIS A SUCCESS. Washington, May 10. One year has tdapsed since Surgeon B. L. Wright, 1 U. S. N., treated the first case of tuberculosis tub-erculosis at the naval hospital at Las Animas, Colorado, with the mercury treatment, the surgeon's own discov ery. Purine that time statistics of the hospital show that of those cases thowlng marked improvement 100 per cent took mercury treatment, and none took routine treatment solely. Of the fatal cases 31 per cent took the mercurial treatment and 68 per cent took tho routine, treatment only. From this favorable showing Surgcou Wright has recommended that mercury mer-cury be adoplel as the regular treatment treat-ment for tuberculosis at Las Animas?, making it compulsory at the- discretion of the hospital t-tatT. Of the 127 tuberculosis patients at ihe hospital -H present. 92 are voluntarily volun-tarily taklus U-.c mercury treatiutnL |