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These results of the treatment of surgical tuberculosis at seashore 

 sanatoria are much more favorable than in the case of pulmonary 

 tuberculosis, in adults, in corresponding localities (see pp. 71-73). 



Nevertheless, the Department of Public Charities of the City of 

 New York has just built and equipped at an expense of $3,500,000, 

 a new hospital for adults having- pulmonary tuberculosis in the sec- 

 ond or third stage. The site selected is on the highest point of Staten 

 Island in New York Bay, 400 feet above tide and only five miles from 



^ See R. Russell, M. D. : Glandular Tabes, or the Use of Sea Water in 

 Diseases of the Glands. London, 1750. 



Ehenezer Gilchrist, M. D. : The Use of Sea Voyages in Medicine. Lon- 

 don, 177L 



Albert L. Gihon, M. D., U. S. N. : The Therapy of Ocean Climate (Trans. 

 Amer. Climat. Ass., 1889, p. 50). 



M. Charteris, M. D. : Ocean Climate (Trans. Amer. Climat. Ass., 1890, p. 

 278). 



Wm. Ewart, M. D., F. R. C. P. : The Present Position of the Treatment 

 of Tuberculosis by Marine Climates (Journ. Balneology and Climatology, 

 July, 1907). 



W. S. Wilson: The Ocean as a Health Resort, London, 1880. 



J. V. Shoemaker, M. D. : Ocean Travel for Health and Disease (The Lancet, 

 July 23, 30, 1892). 



Hughes Bennett, M. D. : Life at Sea Medically Considered (Medical Times 

 and Gazette, Vol. i, 1884, p. 244). 



Thomas B. Peacock, M. D. : Beneficial Influence of Sea Voyages in Some 

 Forms of Disease (Medical Times and Gazette. Vol. 2, 1873, p. 687). 



John L. Adams : Report of 17 cases of Surgical Tuberculosis in Children 

 (Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, 1906, Vol. 154, p. 17). 



A. Crosbee Dixey, M. R. C. P. : Edinb. Lancet, Vol. 2, 1888, p. 264. 



Boardman Reed : Effects of Sea Air Upon Diseases of the Respiratory 

 Organs (Trans. Amer. Climat. Ass., Vol. t, 1884, p. 51). 



D'Espine, of Geneva. International Congress on Tuberculosis, Paris, Octo- 

 ber, 1905. 



Armaingaud, of Bordeaux : International Congress on Tuberculosis, Paris, 

 1905. 



Guy Hinsdale, M. D. : Treatment of Surgical Tuberculosis at the French 

 Marine Hospitals and Alpine Sanatoria (Interstate Medical Journal, St. Louis, 

 March, 1914). 



Trans. Congres de L' Association Internationale de Thalassotherapie, 

 Cannes, April, 1914. 



See also Willy Meyer: Open-Air and Hyperdermic Treatment as Pow- 

 erful Aids in the Management of Complicated Surgical Tuberculosis in 

 Adults (Trans. Sixth International Congress on Tuberculosis, Washington, 

 1908, Vol. 2, twenty illustrations). 



See also " Open Air Treatment of Tuberculosis," by the late Dr. DeForest 

 Willard, ibid., page 257. Also Trans. Amer. Orthopedic Ass.. 1898. Shacks, 

 bungalows, sleeping tents, sanatoria and day camps are discusssd. 



