1893-1894 - The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

APl'KXDIX. 181
died of consumption, and accordingly I always supposed
that I
had inherited tuberculosis of the !iip-joint from him,
but Dr. Sayre, who is a great expert, states that liip-joint
disease is not an inheritance of tuberculosis, but due to
injury. I always had believed that it was hereditary, but
now in the light of the present day I understand how it is.
I am one of the susceptible ones. Being a very active
child I
bruised my hip, and being susceptible to the disease
produced by the bruise, exactly the soil that the bacillus
would flourish in, so that, living in an infected house, and
the bacillus, being in my circulation, found that spot,
located and multiplied there, producing the
destruction of
the joint, and now you see how I am afflicted. I have
been cured, however, and am a very healthy man. But I
want to call your attention to the fact that if you have
cows you suspect of being tubercular you had better
the test made at once."
have
Dr. Battle: " Here is another (piestion, ladies and gentlemen,
tliat has been handed up, 'Should consumptives
marry?' Of course that (piestion can only be answered
one way. Consumptives should not marry. There is no
need of going into that question, but they should not
marry.
There has been a case reported where a man with
consumption had three wives who caught the disease from
him and died, and yet he lived. Certainly a consumptive
of that sort should not marry."
Dr. Lewis: "While we have a little lull I want to say
that we desire to excite 3'our interest and are anxious for
your support. We want the ladies, especially, to take hold
of the matter of sanitation and help us, as we know that
the care of the household is with the ladies. If we can get
them thoroughly scared as to these contagious diseases, and
if we can get them to take hold of their husbands and
sweethearts, instead of being the most unsatisfactory it will
be the most grateful work that man ever undertook."