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TUBERCULOSIS AND PNEUMONIA
Tuberculosis
The tubercle bacillus, the germ causing tuberculosis, usually attacks the lungs, although it sometimes invades other parts of the body.
Tuberculosis germs work slowly as compared with many other disease germs. That gives us valuable time to fight the disease before it does any permanent damage.
Some cases of tuberculosis are caused by unpasteurized milk and other dairy products that contain tuberculosis germs. Tuberculosis of the lungs is caused by germs that are transferred to healthy people from the lungs of a sick person in the sputum that he coughs up.
Unfortunately, the symptoms that most people associate with tuberculosis—cough, raising sputum, fever, loss of weight, and haemorrhage from the lungs—do not appear when the disease is still in its early, most easily curable stage. Often they do not occur until a year or more after the germs have started their attack. In its early stages, the disease can usually be detected only by an X-ray.
Tuberculosis is one of the most easily avoided of all the killers. The best precautions are: (1) keeping in good condition; (2) avoiding unnecessary exposure to tuberculosis germs; and (3) detecting tuberculosis in its earliest stages.
Pneumonia
Pneumonia is an infection of the lungs. When attacked by this disease, the normally spongy tissues of the lungs become solidified. The doctor, tapping the chest of a patient with pneumonia, will hear a solid, instead of a hollow, sound.
Pneumonia can be caused by the pneumococcus and certain other bacteria, or by viruses. Both types of pneumonia are infectious.
The symptoms of pneumonia are a cough, sharp chest pains, blood-streaked sputum, and a high fever that generally starts with a shaking chill. Anyone with these danger signals should get into bed immediately and remain there. The doctor should be called promptly. This is an emergency disease. Every moment counts in curing it. If treatment is started at once, the chances for recovery are excellent.
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