The effect of new drugs on diseases is most vividly illustrated in the hospital morgues, Dr. W. K. Mathews, pathologist of the Shreveport Charity hospital, said in delivering the second annual Edgar Hull Lectureship Wednesday night at Charity hospital.
Dr. Mathews reviewed the fight against tuberculosis by analyzing the material gained through the morgue. He showed that in the period from 1929 to 1937, the Shreveport Charity hospital had autopsied 241 deaths from, tuberculosis, whereas in the seven-year period beginning in 1946 there were but 114 deaths from this disease...The Hull Lectureship was established by the Beta Pi Chapter of Alpha Kappa Kappa, national medical fraternity at Louisiana State university school of medicine, in honor of Dr. Hull, who is professor and head of the department of medicine at the Medical Center.
