Ka Hoku o Hawaii, Volume XXXIII, Number 32, 7 Kekemapa 1938 — Men From Four Countries Have Been Leaders in Fight Against Tuberculosis [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]
Men From Four Countries Have Been Leaders in Fight Against Tuberculosis
The age-old battle against tuberculosis is half won, medical authorities agree. Four men from four different countries have made valuable contributions toward eradicating this disease Dr Rene Laennec (top left) young French physician invented the stethoscope in 1819. In 1882 great great impetus was given to efforts to combat tuberculosis when Dr. Robert Koch (top right) a German, discovered that the disease was caused by the tubercle bacillus. In 1885, Dr. Edward L. Trudeau
(lower left) opened the first permanent sanatorium at Saranac Lake N. Y. Christmas Seals as a means of raising money to conduct programs in the diagnosis, prevention and cure of tuberculosis were first sold in Denmark in 1904 by Einar Holboll (lower right), Copenhagen postal clerk. The first Christmas Seal sold in the United States was in 1907, when 179 out of every 100,000 people were dying from tuberculosis. Today 55.7 out to every 100,000 living die from this disease.