RT Journal
A1 A. L. G.
T1 SAnitation the keynote of the berlin congress.
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1899
FD June 24
VO XXXII
IS 25
SP 1431
OP 1431
DO 10.1001/jama.1899.02450520029003
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1899.02450520029003
AB Paris, June 4, 1899.To the Editor: 
    —The recent international tuberculosis congress at Berlin, while it announced no discovery of new remedies, new therapeutic processes or new antagonists to the "white fiend," so called, was not without beneficial results in diverting attention from the quest of drugs and antitoxics to the bountiful provisions which nature herself offers the human race for its protection, and the separation, more or less complete, of the victims of their own imprudence or their culpable contamination by their fellows.The belief that consumption is an inheritance from sinful ancestors to the third and fourth generation back, whom unhappily we can only curse and die, need no longer banish hope and hang like the pall of death over the young, so often exceptionally gifted. Hereditary predisposition can not be gainsaid, but the child of the tuberculous parent has a chance to reconstruct with fair promise of