The actual position of the tuberculosis problem today : being [an] address delivered by request at the Conference of the National Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis at Birmingham, July, 1923 / by Robert Philip.

  • Robert William Philip
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[1923]
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Credit: The actual position of the tuberculosis problem today : being [an] address delivered by request at the Conference of the National Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis at Birmingham, July, 1923 / by Robert Philip. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    —T a TUBERCLE-FREE MILK SUPPLY. In view of the considerable relationship of tuberculosis with milk supply, the Trust have turned their attention .to the establishment of a Model Dairy Farm. One hundred acres of land have been acquired. An up-to-date equipment has been installed. The Dairy is now in operation and offers, in addition to tubercle-free milk to its immediate clientele, an object lesson to the University students of medicine, and, more widely, to the general community. IMMEDIATE TREATMENT. A few words regarding present outlook on the curative treat- ment of tuberculosis. What as to the immediate cure of the sick man? What promise does medicine offer that disease-in-pro- gress can be arrested ? If science hesitates to accept any of the short cuts which have been announced, the prospect is none the less full of hope. Nature herself points the road. Nature cures tuberculosis every day. The majority of us are illustrations of such arrest. Individual resistance and satisfactory environment have won the day. The return of medicine within the past half century to Nature’s method of aero-therapy and helio-therapy has radi- cally changed the outlook. The realization of Nature’s environ- mental standard of air and light has brought the sanatorium, the open-air school, and like institutions, and vitalized the ever recurring question of housing. Old-world science and philosophy, which enjoined that ‘‘air is more necessary than food”’ and that “‘where the sun goes the doctor does not,’’ have been adopted in the modern claim for healthful environment for every citizen. By the acceptance of Nature’s methods the prevention and treatment of tuberculosis have been revolutionized. The health of the individual and of the nation—and, in particular, resistance to tuberculosis—will be enhanced in proportion as the dependence of human life on air and light is admitted in practice. New RemepDIEs: “‘ CONSUMPTION CURES.”’ The other side of treatment concerns the invading bacillus more directly. It is impossible within the limits of the present
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