Show true trachoma easily transmitted at a recent meeting of the hie american medical association dr john sic militia surgeon U S public health service started a lively debate in them he section on preventive medicine by reading a piper paper in which kiil h he asser teil that much of the so called trachoma which afflicted the eyes of american children is not trachoma nod not contagious tag ious lous the original cause of this alon of the eyell eyelids ds Is 19 unknown but it Is 19 known with certainty that it I 1 it transmitted with ease from one ee e p to another there Is another type callei called follic ulilis which able Is not contag loll and can easily be cured while title the true trachoma necessitates a slight surgical operation and careful treatment and even with this it Is h by r no means certain that it is ever permanently manent ly cured |