Danish works on tuberculosis since the days of Villemin / [Sophus Bang].

  • Bang, Sophus.
Date:
1908
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Credit: Danish works on tuberculosis since the days of Villemin / [Sophus Bang]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Frequency of Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Pnesto Diocese.] — On application to the physicians in the district (South-East ol Sealand) for reports on all the known cases of consumption, S. obtained information on 642 cases in a population of 103,300 individuals. In the towns 7.8, in the country 5.9 pro mille had tub. Table of the distribution according to age, stage of disease and parts of the diocese. The peninsula ofStevns showed a strikingly low frequency of tub. (1.6 pro mille in the town ol Storeheddinge, 1.9 pro mille in the surrounding 7 country parishes). 65 °/0 of all the cases were between 15 and 45 years. 30 °/0 ol the cases belonged to the class of small proprietors, a class which forms 27.7 % of the Danish population. 10 °/0 of all cases had been in sanatoria. STUDSGAARD, C.: Longitudinel Spaltning af Fod og Haand som Resektionsmetode. H. T. Vi89i- [Longitudinal Cleaving of Foot or Hand as a Method of Resection.] — Cases of tub. diseases of foot and hand treated according to the above-mentioned method. S0RENSEN, P.: Behandling af Lupus med Frysning. H. T. 24/i903. [Treatment of Lupus with Freezing.] — S. declares, on the basis of 2 cases, that if Finsen's method did not exist, Detlefsen’s must be qualified as a great progress. However, it has one defect, namely that the improvement which appears very distinctly at the beginning, is frequently checked when a certain point has been reached. S0RENSEN, S. P.: v. sub B. Bang. S0RENSEN, Th.: Den relative Dndelighed af Tuberkulose i Kjnbenhavn. U. f. L. 4’ R. 8’ Bd. 2-i/1883. [Relative Mortality from Tuberculosis in Copen- hagen.] — By statistic examinations of the total mortality from tuberculosis in Copenhagen S. found the results of Lehmann's in- vestigations confirmed, namely that the relative mortality from tub. is not, as generally supposed, greatest in youth. With regard to man, the rate of mortality (in proportion to the number of living persons in each class of age) increases at least up to the 45th year (the increase during the subsequent decennium does not sufficiently exceed the statistic margin for inaccuracies). As to women, all that can be said for certain is that the quotient is higher after than before the 25th year. (S. critically examined the death certificates themselves, whereas Lehmann worked with