do not deny the outward symptoms their importance, nor the medical examination its usefulness in diag-nosing the disease; but all these avail us in diagnosis only when the disease is in its advanced stages — that is, when cure has become impossible and the patient has become a source spreading the germs of infection. Our case is then like that of the "watchman" who arrives after the vineyard has been robbed, or like the firemen who come with their pump and their varied equipment to rescue a man whose house the flames are devouring — but after it is too late, after the fire has consumed every-thing around it, sparing nothing and leaving nothing.

The United States has recognized the importance of X-ray photog-raphy. In that country — where now, since the late war laid down its burdens, they are making earnest efforts against tuberculo-sis, for fear it may spread as it did after the First World War — yes, there it has been established by proofs that cannot be refuted that the most effective means of stamping out this disease is to make X-ray photography general and easy for all people; for by it the malady is uncovered with ease, while it is impossible to detect it by ordinary examination.

They tested this during the selection of volunteers for the battlefields at the start of this last war, when they made photography of the lungs obligatory for every-one who wished to enter military service; and the statistics came out showing that this method yielded results of the greatest importance. Among three-quarters of a million soldiers it was found that 1 1/3 percent were stricken with pulmonary tuberculosis; and, more important still, of the total number stricken (the 1 1/3), 62 percent were at the beginning of the disease, and there was no doubt of their cure; 31 percent were those whose disease had grown

chronic and whose recovery was difficult; and 7 percent had reached a degree of illness from which no cure could be hoped.

To radiography, then, belongs the upper hand in this happy stride medicine is taking forward. Without it, the malady of the 62 percent whose disease was still in its first beginnings would, remaining hidden, have dragged them down to destruction; for they would soon have come to the state of those in whom the

disease is so deep-rooted that escape from it is difficult.

It behooves us, then — after all that has been said — to act according to the principles which medicine has laid down and experiment has proved true. The foe is a fearsome, relentless enemy: let us hasten to lay siege to him, and strangle him in his cradle.

In the coming issue: how to destroy this fearsome enemy.

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