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attend the national meetings, and at the various international 

 tuberculosis congresses and conferences abroad he has always 

 ably represented the Association. At the final session of the Paris 

 Congress in 1905, when Dr. Flick moved to invite the interna- 

 tional gathering to be the guest of the American nation in 1908, 

 Dr. Jacobs seconded the motion and arranged, by means of the 

 cable, through the assistance of Dr. Welch, to have President 

 Roosevelt confirm the invitation which then was accepted. 



Aside from Dr. Jacobs' valuable service as secretary of the 

 Association for the first sixteen years of its existence, he has con- 

 tributed a number of notable papers on the treatment, prevention, 

 and history of tuberculosis. His most important article is perhaps 

 the one entitled "A Farm Colony Experiment," which he pre- 

 sented at the Sixth International Tuberculosis Congress. Since 

 then a number of institutions have imitated with gratifying suc- 

 cess this farm colony system. The plan was first inaugurated at 

 the Eudowood Sanatorium near Baltimore during the superin- 

 tendency of Dr. Alexius M. Forster, who originated the idea, and 

 who with the cooperation of Dr. Jacobs, the president, made 

 every effort to demonstrate its usefulness in caring for conva- 

 lescent and arrested cases. 



On November 19, 1901, before the semi-annual meeting of the 

 Maryland State Medical Society, Dr. Jacobs read a paper on 

 "The Treatment of Consumption in Local Sanatoria," in which 

 he demonstrated from the results in Massachusetts that consump- 

 tion could be as successfully treated in eastern local sanatoria as 

 in western mountain resorts, and he made an earnest plea to the 

 members of the society to urge upon the Legislature of Maryland 

 the necessity of establishing a state sanatorium on the slopes of 

 the Blue Mountain chain. In this paper in 1901 Dr. Jacobs 

 was the first to advocate the Maryland State Sanatorium. He 

 followed up the plea at the annual meeting of the State Medical 

 Society April, 1903, by a paper "Maryland's Need of a Mountain 

 Sanatorium for Indigent Consumptives." Thus it was that the 

 voice of Dr. Jacobs was the first to be raised in Maryland for the 

 State Sanatorium, in the building of which later on he took so 

 much interest. He was influential in choosing its site and in 

 determining its type of buildings and its policy. Perhaps the 



