Pulmonary
tuberculosis or consumption of the lungs, is one of the most dreaded
of diseases, and is universally known as the “White Plague”
because of the colossal amount of mortality it has brought in its
train.
It is supposed to be due to infection by the tubercle bacillus,
and although many parts of the body may be affected, it is the lungs
which are the usual seat of the disease. Bad housing and wretched
conditions of works, lack of sun-shine and fresh air, the devitalizing
of the system through excess and abuse, overwork, defective nutrition
etc, are all given as predisposing factors in the development of
tuberculosis.
It is generally believed that tuberculosis is a disease due to germ
infection, yet it is also admitted that the disease will not take
root in any persons organism indiscriminately, but depends upon
a considerable devitalisation of the system which is the chief factor
concerned all the time, and not the germs, let it be borne in mind
that we are not only exposed to infection by the tubercle bacillus
at every time, but actually have these germs within our system all
the time without the slightest apparent harm in the great majority
of cases. Therefore, it is only where the vitality of the organism
has been brought to a low ebb, through various causes that the germs
begin to assert their way and tuberculosis is said to be beginning.
Well then it is the devitalisation that comes first always, and
the germs activity afterwards as a direct consequence.
The cost of the full course of one month
is US $40