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Medical science knows how to prevent tuberculosis, and it can cure most cases of the disease. But TB is still far from beaten. Surgeon General Luther L. Terry of the Public Health Service has just announced that in 1962 there was an actual increase, to almost 55,000, in the number of new cases of active TB reported in the U.S. The major problem remains the necessity for early diagnosis of hidden infection; treatment must be started early to keep the disease from becoming disabling, and to keep patients from unknowingly infecting others around them...
Last week the New Jersey coastal community of Toms River (pop. 7,000) opened what the state's Health Commissioner Roscoe P. Kandle called "a new front in an old war." It did so with a new weapon: a more efficient and more economical test for TB infection than any previously available. Developed by New York's Lederle Laboratories, the "tine test" uses no awesome and sometimes painful needle but a disposable gadget with four tiny prongs in its business end. The tines are coated with protein from dead TB bacilli. If the punctured area becomes inflamed within...
...Lepers. An experienced medical administrator, Dr. Hauberg swiftly disposed of mountains of tangled red tape as he converted a former male TB ward on the outskirts of Hanover into Abteilung...
Guts abound in almost any field. Yale's classic was "TB" (Tennyson and Browning), taught by the late William Lyons Phelps, who reportedly never gave anyone less than a B. Harvard's football players have an inexhaustible interest in Slavic folklore; when Slavic 146 was last offered in 1961, the entire team huddled for the first lecture. The University of Texas offers Pharmacy 340 ("Home Emergency Health Problems"), which is better known as "Band-Aids" for the probing depth of its exams: "Name ten items you would expect to find in a family medicine chest...
...Group. Perhaps because Americans are notorious joiners, group psychotherapy is the most distinctively American contribution to treatment of the mentally ill. The system had a false dawn as far back as 1905, when a tuberculosis specialist found that his patients benefited from regular meetings. But the emotional aspects of TB were not then understood, and a quarter-century passed before a few pioneers began to reason that some people get sick from their reactions to other people, and that when they get better they still have to live with other people. In the meantime, said the theorists, why not treat...