Show T tass ilas HAS lost its ils dread dread pre ia re F eminence is 19 no longer capt ain of the men lien of death it la is surpassed today by dwalt disease pneumonia enneper cerebral hemorrhage renal dis als eare and accidents dents heredity ns as the cause of tube tuberculosis ru losis died hard for had not all ob sero ting persons seen families wiped out by it and according to their point of view was not heredity the only plausible explanation in issa koch announced his discovery of the tubercle lin bacillus cillus lis as the causative factor of the disease and since then a strict regimen of living hns has meant prevention and cure dr F it writing for magazine comments on the particularly disturbing factor that tuberculosis attacks the two sexes sees at different age periods the death rate amons among females Is greater than among males up to the age of twenty or twenty five flore then that for females drops and that for males mounts the greater amount of tuberculosis in girls if the teen age is probably due either to the blo biologic differences of the sexes or to environment viron ment or both the growing grov ting boy Is undoubtedly hustler bushier than the girl ile he spends more of his time in outdoor sports he eats cats more food and probably takes tabes life less seriously |