RT Journal
A1 Zwisohn LW
T1 TUberculosis or consumption?
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1909
FD April 24
VO LII
IS 17
SP 1347
OP 1347
DO 10.1001/jama.1909.02540430043015
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.02540430043015
AB To the Editor: 
    —The following advertisement appeared lately in the daily papers under the official emblem of the International Congress for the Prevention of Tuberculosis:"Join the fight against tuberculosis. The war is being led into the camp of the enemy by the Metropolitan Magazine, 200,000 people are killed each year in the U. S. alone, and 3,000,000 are afflicted with the disease. The April article is by Mr. O. F. Lewis of the New York Charity Organization. Other articles will follow by the leading specialists of the world."I desire to call attention to the advisability of conservatism in this matter. To overdo it will cause a reaction in the public mind. In 1902, we told the public that 100,000 people die every year from tuberculosis. In 1909, after seven years of hard fighting with all scientific achievements at our command, with all the vast sums expended, with all