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| Description | This film deals with the problems of pulmonary tuberculosis among Hispanic-Americans. In one family, the mother dies of tuberculosis. A young adult daughter becomes ill with fatigue and coughing. Her father urges her to see a doctor, but she denies she is ill, claiming she has just been working too hard. Eventually, she can no longer deny her illness and asks her parish priest to pray for her. The priest strongly advises her to see a physician, accept treatment, and not use patent medicines. The physician takes her medical history and takes a chest X-ray, which indicates pulmonary tuberculosis. The doctor advocates chest X-rays for all young people. The girl's father bemoans the fact that his people are wary of doctors and although there are public health workers trying to teach them about tuberculosis, the community is not paying attention. The physician reviews the girl's X-ray with her father and explains the mode of transmission of tuberculosis with the aid of a picture bo |
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| Source | collections.nlm.nih.gov |
| Author | Kleinschmidt, H. E. (Harry Edwin), 1884-, National Tuberculosis Association. |
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Attribution: Kleinschmidt, H. E. (Harry Edwin), 1884-, National Tuberculosis Association.