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INFECTION AND IMMUNITY 



" WHEREAS, The advertisements of some of these cures have 

 made such reference to the Tuberculosis Committee of the Char- 

 ity Organisation Society, or to some of its members, as to create 

 the inference that this Committee, or its members, recommend 

 or advocate the use of many such so-called specifics or special 

 methods of cure for pulmonary tuberculosis, or consumption, 

 and 



" WHEREAS, There is no specific medicine for this disease 

 known, and the so-called cures and specifics and special methods 

 of treatment widely advertised in the daily papers are in the 

 opinion of the Committee without special value, and do not at 

 all justify the extravagant claims made for them, and serve 

 chiefly to enrich the promoters at the expense of the poor and 

 frequently ignorant or credulous consumptives, therefore, 



" RESOLVED, That a public announcement be made that it is the 

 unanimous opinion of the members of this Committee that there 

 exists no specific medicine for the treatment of pulmonary tuber- 

 culosis, and that no cure can be expected from any kind of 

 medicine or method except the regularly accepted treatment 

 which relies mainly upon pure air and nourishing food. 



CHARLES F. Cox, Chairman 

 OTTO T. BANNARD 

 HERMANN M. BIGGS, M.D. 

 HERBERT S. BROWN 

 JOSEPH D. BRYANT, M.D. 

 Miss ELLA MABKL CLARK 

 ROBERT W. DE FOREST 

 EDWARD T. DEVINE 

 HOMER FOLKS 

 FRANKLIN H. GIDDINGS 

 HENRY HERBERT, M.D. 

 J. H. HUDDLESTON, M.D. 

 ROBERT HUNTER 

 A. JACOBI, M.D. 

 WALTER B. JAMES, M.D. 

 E. G. J ANEW AY, M.D. 



CHARLES H. JOHNSON, Secretary. 

 105 East 22d Street." 



Miss A. B. JENNINGS 



S. A. KNOPE, M.D. 



ALEXANDER LAMBERT, M.D. 



ERNEST J. LEDERLE 



Mrs. FREDERIC S. LEE 



EGBERT LE FEVRE, M.D. 



HENRY P. LOOMIS, M.D. 



Mrs. JAMF.S E. NEWCOMB 



EUGENE A. PHILBIN 



T. MITCHELL PRUDDEN, M.D. 



ANDREW H. SMITH, M.D. 



W. G. THOMPSON, M.D. 



E. L. TRUDEAU, M.D. 



FREDERICK L. WACHENHEIM, M.D. 



R. C. W. WADSWORTH 



Miss LILLIAN D. WALD 



