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The tubercular or wasting diseases exceeded in
number the deaths from the zymotics. Young children
who escape zymotic disease often fall victims to
the tubercular. "They have a mortgage on life, with
certain early foreclosure," says an American writer on
Sanitary subjects.
This class of disease is far too little understood:
it ought to be known that close rooms—re-breathing
bad air—leads to the deposit of a foreign matter either
in the lungs or other delicate tissues of the body: if it
cause disease in the joints or bones, or attacks the
glands, it is often termed scrofula; if tubercular
deposits take place in the lungs, it leads to blood-spitting,
ulceration and consumption; if in the glands of the
bowels, messenteric disease and atrophy; if the membranes
of the brain are attacked, tubercular meningitis,
hydrocephalus, convulsions, water or serum on the
brain—are the consequences. These diseases are preventive,
in some measure, by sanitary precautions.