Hints about the prevention of consumption / [by J.B.R., i.e. James Burn Russell].

  • Russell, James Burn, 1837-1904.
Date:
[1896?]
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Credit: Hints about the prevention of consumption / [by J.B.R., i.e. James Burn Russell]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    HINTS THE PREVENTION OF CONSUMPTION. Tke Committee on Health of Glasgoiv hope that all citizens will read this Paper carefully, and observe the instructions zuhich it contains, and any others given by the Medical Attendant havi7ig the same e7id in view. Consumption is an acquired, not a hereditary, (disease. What a child may inherit is not the seed, but the good ground in which the seed will grow readily. This is known as a hereditary predisposition to Con- sumption. Special care ought to be taken to protect persons possessing it from any chance of catching the disease. Colds, sore throats, infectious diseases (especially Mea'sles, Whooping-cough, Scarlet and Enteric Fevers), intemper- ance, overcrowding, darkness, dampness, stale air—in short, whatever lowers health produces a predisposition to Con- sumption altogether apart from pedigree. Consumption of the Lungs is only one of many forms of disease caused by a minute living creature (germ or microbe)—the bacillus of tubercle. Every case of Con- sumption has received this bacillus, either from man or beast (milk, flesh), and may pass it on to man or beast. Good health, local and general, is like a coat of mail against the attacks of the bacillus, of tubercle.