p. 16 | Tuberculosis by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jul 22, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 28.

Tuberculosis

By Editor

Tuberculosis. — The National Association for the study and prevention of tuberculosis, in a special circular issued, declared that fake consumption cures make millions of profit; that there are over 500 fraudulent remedies that cheat people annually out of $15,000,000; that during the last five years the exploiters of these nostrums have reaped a clear profit of not less than $50,000,000. The first fraud is classed under the institute fraud, with a pseudo hospital or dispensary, where a wily doctor or professor administers treatment, and carries on a mail order business. The second class is the drug group, containing over a hundred different kinds of drugs and patent devices, any of which may be purchased at a drug store, but for which the consumptive is charged from $1.00 to $5.00 for what the patient could make up himself in the same form for from one to five cents. The third group of cures is home-made remedies which certain deluded individuals may be made to think will cure tuberculosis, — such things as onions, lemons, coal smoke, pig’s blood, alcohol, dog oil, teas of various kinds, goat’s meat, and a score of other articles. Pitiful! especially in the light of the fact that the consumptive is the most hopeful individual, as this bulletin remarks, when the question of a cure is suggested. There is no specific cure for tuberculosis discovered, except the well-tried, hygienic, dietetic method of fresh air, rest, and good food. As the Signs has remarked for years, just sufficient exercise, and abundance of fresh air, night and day, and a superabundance of good food.