IS THERE A SPECIFIC FOR CONSUMPTION!

It would be amusing, were it not so sad, to recount the many remedial measures employed against consumption. Their very number is a commentary upon the powerlessness of man to overcome this terrible foe. The very fact that they are all more or less successful in individual cases, emphasizes the impotence of any one remedy against the disease universally, and makes one doubt the likelihood of a specific ever being discovered. Only the prejudiced or ignorant would deny the incalculable service to humanity of Koch's discovery of the tubercle bacillus, since, by disclosing to the surgeon the real pathology of numerous affections, it has enabled him to deal with them the more successfully. But in the matter of finding a practical solution of the problem, how best to combat pulmonary tuberculosis, has it done much? It enables the physician to recognize the enemy he is fighting at an early stage,