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Thousands of TB patients sought out mountain air and were put on regimens of nutritious food. Chest X rays helped spot infected patches of lung. Finally, with the development of such drugs as streptomycin and isoniazid in the 1940s and 1950s, tuberculosis seemed on the way to being vanquished...
...While many of the Magic Mountain sanatoriums have closed and the Christmas Seal drives have turned mostly to other causes, TB still thrives. In the U.S., nearly 3,000 Americans died of the disease in 1977. Each year about 30,000 new cases are reported nationwide; last year 21 states noted a rise in cases. Almost 3 million more cases occur in the rest of the world. Says one concerned pulmonary specialist, Dr. Lee B. Reichman of the New Jersey Medical School in Newark: "It's a classic case of what happens when we eradicate a disease...
...international conference on TB in Orlando, Fla., last month, doctors noted that many carriers of the disease have no outward symptoms. Others suffer from fatigue, weight loss, night sweats or intermittent low-grade fever, which can signify any number of disorders. Only when the patient develops TB's brassy cough does the disease become contagious. Fortunately, the chances of catching TB are low. One study showed that it took as long as six months of daily exposure to become infected...
Unlike their 19th century predecessors, today's doctors rarely see the disease; medical schools do not stress it. A 1977 study at Scott Air Force Base revealed that of 130 patients referred there for TB, 73 had been misdiagnosed or given inadequate therapy by their original physician...
...firm jaw and the empty sentence. Any good comic writer can do you a Sam Ervin, but How ard Baker is a work of art." Examining the predicament of fiction writers in an age when all psychological twitches are resentlessly understood, he observes: "Since jealousy is now curable, like TB, we can't have people dying of it any more. A few rap sessions, some fearless touch ing, and a new sense of self-worth would have Othello and lago and Hamlet and Juliet back on their feet in no time...