TUBERCULOSIS TREATMENT
igPEAKING at the congress of the Royal Institute of Public Health, Sir PendrilL Yarrier-Jones, founder and medical director of the Pap worth Village Settlement', and president of the section: discussing tuberculosis, criticised the system by which “paiehedup patients returning from the sanatorium” were “sent home to die” in the midst of “ under-nourished and poorly-housed families,” whose resistance to disease was low, and urged the value of “the family-unit solution which the almost self-supporting village settlement provides,”
Value of Family-Unit Scheme
Urging the meed of more research, he said it was that complex of biochemical factors which revealed itself as tovaemiai which really determined the course of the disease. The only factors which, really mattered were the action an'd inter-action of the tissue fluids and internal secretions, since it was they that determined the degree of resistance to the tuberculosis oxaemia. We know already that automatic healing could occur, and if we could discover why it did occur, who knew but what we might make an end of tuberculosis?
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Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 4 November 1933, Page 14
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170TUBERCULOSIS TREATMENT Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 4 November 1933, Page 14
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