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first place, the physician can now say 

 positively by finding the bacilli in the material 

 discharged from the lungs, in many cases 

 even in very early stages, that the lung is 

 out of order. 



We now know that consumption is by no 

 means a hopeless disease, especially if it be 

 detected in its early stages. We know that 

 the cells of the body, if they are in a properly 

 active and vigorous condition, have a ten- 

 dency to destroy the germs. In a large pro- 

 portion of cases if the disease be early 

 discovered, the wise physician, by recommend- 

 ing life in the open air, improved conditions of 

 hygiene, proper exercise and food, along the 

 lines which Trudeau has spent so many in- 

 spiring and fruitful years in developing, may 

 hold out to his patient a good hope of ultimate 

 recovery or of prolonged and comfortable 

 life. Patent medicines and advertised cures 

 for consumptives are one and all futile, 

 fraudulent, and pernicious. 



We battle to-day with a known and com- 

 prehensible foe, and no longer grope in the 

 dark after a mysterious and unknown enemy. 



