Word: fishberg
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Dates: during 1928-1928
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That the National Tuberculosis Association will ever have its Christmas stickers barred from the U. S. mails is unlikely. Yet Dr. Maurice Fishberg, of Montefiore Hospital, New York City, in the leading article in the February American Mercury, asserted that the Tuberculosis Association had used the income from the seals for unsound and unscientific purposes. This income has totaled $47,500,000 between 1907 and 1927. Dr. Fishberg's point was that the money was used largely to educate the public to prevent tuberculous infection. But it is well known that 90% of the U. S. urban pop- ulation...
Concluded Dr. Fishberg: "Why do most of those infected with tubercle bacilli get along very well for the rest of their lives while a comparatively few develop a disabling or fatal form of the disease? The day we find the reasons for this fact we may be on the way to eradicating tuberculosis...
...Tuberculosis Association wondered whether Dr. Fishberg's article was worthy of a public reply. Professor Eugene Lindsay Opie, director of the Henry Phipps Institute at Philadelphia, which is devoted almost entirely to tuberculosis research, is a greater authority on the immunology of tuberculosis than is Dr. Fishberg. After following diseased individuals and couples for years, he opposes Dr. Fishberg and believes that tubercular reinfection is possible...