MEDICAL ROUNDUP

By Dr. Walter C. Alvarez

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Man Who Has Had TB cards on the table. I get dozens of sad letters from young womA mother writes to say that en who say, "When I married she is distressed because her my husband he did not tell me daughter wants to marry a he was an alcoholic, or that man who has been in a tubertwice he had been in state's culosis sanatorium. She wonprison, or once he had been in ders if he will ever be safe the state mental hospital, or and will ever have good health. twice he had been in a tuberFrom what she says, my guess culosis sanatorium, or he was is that this particular man has a decided homosexual who was had an unusually severe form marrying me only to get a of the disease with much dehousekeeper." Women, also struction of his lungs and the will marry without telling operative removal of part of a some important facts about lung. their health.

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There are thousands of men walking around and working hard who once had tuberculosis and are now perfectly healthy. If I were the young man who wants to marry the girl, I would take her and her mother to the expert on tuberculosis who had treated me, and I would say, "Pull no punches; tell us three exactly what you think of my chances of staying well, working hard in my business and never giving tuberculosis to this girl if she marries me."

Incidentally, I wish all people who want to marry would be honest and would put their