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Mr. Burton: I wish to say just a few words. These things are 

 closing up the meeting of the Horticultural Society, and here we have met 

 people that we do not meet everywhere. This is an ideal meeting place. 

 This is the biggest meeting we have ever had in the summer; we have 

 never had such treatment. What other place will be willing to under- 

 take this? Where will we get and have Amos Garretson to take us every 

 few minutes to and from the cars? Where will we get this kind of enter- 

 tainment again? You had better look to what j^ou are going to do, Mr. 

 President. 



President Stevens: This is entirely out of order. We will now pro- 

 ceed with the program. The first thing is the Medicinal Value of Fruit, 

 by Dr. Charles. 



Mr. Flick: Ladies and Gentlemen— I think it only fair that there 

 should be a word of explanation given here. The committee gave out the 

 subjects' to the persons Avho were chosen to present them without con- 

 sulting the parties. We gave this subject to Dr. Etta Charles of Summit- 

 ville without consulting her. She is willing to handle this subject at 

 some future time, but today she thinks siie has something which she can 

 present to us not only as horticulturists, but as a common people, which 

 is of more importance to us today. I hope that she will have the assist- 

 ance of Dr. Hurty of Indianapolis in discussing this question. Her 

 subject is "Tubeixi-ulosis." 



TUBERCULOSIS. 



It was with a sense of keenest pleasure, 1 received your invitation to 

 meet with you today. I said it will be a fitting time to tell you about 

 that ^x-ead disease, that is known as the "great white plague." A dis- 

 ease so terrible in its I'avages that in the United States it destroys an 

 army every year, so insidious in its onset that the doomed victim rarely 

 has knowledge of his infection luitil his hour of help is passed, so deceiv- 

 ing in its destructive work tnat the patient never ceases to believe he will 

 be better tomorrow and well as soon as "the doctor can find something 

 to make his breathing easy." These hopeful periods last until the Grim 

 Reaper completes the work, and with tears and prayers and fears for 

 those who live you consign the emaciated body to its grave. 



Tuberculosis spares no age — the infant in the first hours of its exist- 

 ence, and the centenarian alike wither under its touch. The queen in her 

 palace, the Bushman in the African jungles yield up their lives to satisfy 

 this king of diseases. No tissue of the body is exempt, it foecis on all, 

 and the world is its pasture. If you were to constlt a medical dictionary 

 as to the meaning of the word "tuberculosis." it will tell you that it is an 



