Transactions of the National Eclectic Medical Association of the United States of America for the Years (Volume 24)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897. Excerpt: ... SECTION II. June 18, 1896. Clinical Medicine and Pathology. Chairman, T. W. Miles, M. D, Denver, Colorado; Vice-Chairman, W. B. Church, M. D., San Francisco, California; Secretary, H. Michener, M. D., Halsey, Oregon. The Section was duly organized on Thursday afternoon; all the officers present except the Secretary; the Vice-Chairman, W. B. Church, acted as Secretary. The following papers were presented: PAPERS PRESENTED. A TREATMENT FOR CONSUMPTION. By M. H. Logan, M. D., San Francisco, California. Victor C. Vaughn, M. D., Ann Arbor, Mich., in the Medical News, states: Of the 63,000,000 people living to-day in the United States, 9,000,000 or more will, unless something be done to prevent it, die of tuberculosis. In the census year of 1890, 102,199 deaths are reported as due to pulmonary tuberculosis or consumption. To the reported deaths, not less than 30 per cent. should be added in order to arrive at the actual number. When this computation is made it will be found that the annual number of deaths in this country from pulmonary tuberculosis amounts to nearly 133,000; add to this the deaths from tuberculosis of other portions of the body, and, without exaggeration, we may state that the tubercle bacillus is responsible directly or indirectly for not less than 150,000 deaths in this country each year. This great bane of civilization is annually responsible for twosevenths of the mortality of the world; and the higher in the scale of intelligence a people are, the greater is the death rate from this cause. The great cities, ' the seats of learning and culture, give more cases in proportion than thinly populated country places, or more than a people of less refinement and culture. It would seem that the remedy might be readily found in these environments o...