Medicine: Tuberculosis at Bay

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Propaganda Department of the American Medical Association, which has done valuable work in exposing quackery. While not definitely condemning, it finds that Nolan's " fibriform" treatment is essentially secret in composition, is put forward on a basis of inadequate tests, and is being commercially exploited in connection with an instrument sold only by the promoter.

Dr. H. J. Corper, of the National Jewish Hospital for Consumptives, Denver, has shown experimentally that carbon dioxide (carbonic acid gas) has an inhibitory effect on the growth of tubercle bacilli.