TY  - JOUR
T1  - TUberculosis or consumption?
AU  - Zwisohn LW
Y1  - 1909/04/24
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1909.02540430043015
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 1347
EP  - 1347
VL  - LII
IS  - 17
N2  - 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
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1909.02540430043015
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.02540430043015
ER  -