TUBERCULOSIS 



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TUCSON 



and sleeping rooms, excessive indulgence in 

 liquor, and other forms of dissipation, overwork 

 and worn- are some of these weakening habits 

 and conditions. 



Symptoms. Two general types of consump- 

 tion have been noted; these are called quick, 

 or galloping, and chronic. The latter is by far 

 the more prevalent. The first symptoms of 

 quick consumption are fever, pain in the side, 

 labored breathing and lung congestion, and 

 these gradually increase in severity until the 

 patient dies. There is no cure. The other 

 form begins with a dry cough, slight rise of 

 temperature toward evening, declining appetite 

 and a feeling of lassitude. If the disease is not 

 checked the cough becomes chronic and very 

 annoying, and a yellowish or whitish sputum is 

 raised. This is sometimes colored with blood. 

 Other symptoms are night sweating, pain in 

 the lungs, constant fever, which is especially 

 high late in the day, and emaciation. Some- 

 times quantities of blood are raised from the 

 lungs during a spell of coughing. Death may 

 occur unexpectedly from hemorrhage or ex- 

 haustion. 



Treatment and Prevention. Though no spe- 

 cific has as yet been discovered for the cure of 

 tuberculosis of" the lungs, much can be done 

 through treatment along hygienic lines. Many 

 cures have been effected by removal of the 



A TENT COLONY 



Air and sunshine are depended upon to cure tu- 

 berculosis in this Adirondack Mountains colony. 



patient to a dry, bracing climate, where the 

 temperature is even and sunny days are numer- 

 ous. Much emphasis is placed by modern 

 authorities on the value of sleeping and living 

 in the open and of eating nourishing food. The 

 ideal place for a tubercular victim is a sanato- 

 rium in a healthful locality. 



In regard to prevention it hiay be said that 

 each person who lives hygienically and takes 

 good care of his health is building up a resist- 

 ing power that will greatly lessen his liability 

 to this disease. City authorities are aiding in 

 the preventive work by passing laws against spit- 

 ting and by making other sanitary regulations. 

 In Victoria, Australia, tuberculosis has been 



controlled by a sj'stem of reporting and regis- 

 tering suspected cases. Ample provision is 

 made for taking care of victims too poor to 

 pay for nursing and medical attention, and in- 

 spectors see to it that every one conforms to 

 rules of hygiene and sanitation. A similar plan 

 was inaugurated in 1917 in Framingham, Ma>>., 

 under the auspices of the National Tuberculosis 

 Society. 



Consult Vallow's The Care and After Care of 

 Consumption; Sylvan's Consumption and Its Cure 

 by Physical Exercises; Ransome's Cai;wi/7>i 

 against Tuberculosis. 



Related Subject*. The reader is referred to 

 the following articles in these volumes : 

 Education, subtitle Health Habits 



Hygiene of Education Life Extension 



TUBEROSE, tube'rohz, a garden or hot- 

 house plant of the amaryllis family, which has 

 been described as "a lump of cloying sweet- 

 ness." It is not related to the rose, the name 

 being a corruption of the adjective tuberous. 

 At one time the 

 flower was ex- 

 tremely fashion- 

 able, but because 

 of its heavy, 

 almost sickening 

 odor, it is now 

 less frequently 

 used. The slen- 

 der stem, often 

 three feet in 

 height, springs 

 from a tuberous 

 rootstock and 

 bears clusters of 

 funnel - shaped, 



waxen-white blos- 



THE TUBEROSE 



soms at the top, and at the base, six or eight 

 sword-shaped leaves. A native of tropical 

 America and Asia, the flower is now cultivated 

 extensively in France, Italy and Switzerland, 

 and in North Carolina and New Jersey, for per- 

 fumes and toilet preparations. In the factories 

 at Grasse, France, 80,000 pounds of tuberoses 

 are used annually for this purpose. See PER- 

 FUME. 



TUCSON, toosahn', ARIZ., the largest city of 

 the state and the county seat of Pima County, 

 is located seventy-six miles north of Nogales, 

 which is on the international boundary line be- 

 tween the United States and Mexico, and 135 

 miles southeast of Phoenix. Transportation is 

 provided by the Southern Pacific and by the 

 El Paso & Southwestern railroads. The city 



