Show NOT dr kendall emerson has writ i ten a very deiy informative article on the causes of tuberculosis in a late issue of 0 life and health magazine lie ile endeavors to answer some of tile the leading questions which often remain a mystery to tile the average person no matter how poor run down overworked or badly housed you may be you will not have tuberculosis unless the germ gains entrance to your body he says sas it Is the tubercle bacillus alone that causes tuberculosis cu losis and the only way to prevent the disease from developing Is to eradicate these germs from the world tuberculosis Is eminently a family disease obviously the reason for this is that bis being an all infectious disease is most likely to pass from one member of the tha family to others with whom he be la is la in intimate contact the old belief that tuberculosis runs lung in families and Is ie hereditary has long since been exploded it if we look on the germ ol of tuberculosis as afi the seed and the human lungs as the soil boll we may say bay that the soil varies in its fertility tor for the growth of the get genii from person pel son to person thus there may be some family lack of ability to inhibit this growth or to lo kill 1111 ott off even a small gumbei in of 0 invaders the lesson from this 13 that those in whose families tuberculosis has been prevalent pie valent for some generations are under special obligation to watch their health and to avoid contact with known cases of the disease dr di emerson points out that keeping physically tit fit Is important in combating tuberculosis and that being run down channels for foi the entrance tiance en ot of disease precisely as the holes boles in worn out shoes allow moisture to enter it if ou suffer from that tired thed feeling or have other symptoms indicating a physical maladjustment see your oui doctor at once it la Is to the credit ot of the medical prof esMon that it Is as much in terestea tei ested in preventing disease as it Is in effecting cures when disease has been coniti contracted acted |