Tuberculosis (international congress) : copy of report of Sir Herbert Maxwell and P.H. Pye-Smith ... / presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty.

  • Maxwell, Herbert Eustace, 1845-1937.
Date:
1899
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Credit: Tuberculosis (international congress) : copy of report of Sir Herbert Maxwell and P.H. Pye-Smith ... / presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Vcarious members of the German Government. Wc desire especially to record our obligations to the President of the Congress, bis Serene Highness the Herzog von Ratibor. Jt was a general feeling among the delegates tliat they owed to his constant attendance and personal exertions the satisfactory and agreeable result of the proceedings. We remain, My Loud Duke, Your obedient humble servants. (Signed) ( HERBERT MAXWELL. I P. H. PYE-SMITH. The Lord President of the Council. MEMORANDUM BY DR. PYE-SMITH. It was clear from the great number of members (nearly 2,000), from the character of the lectures delivered, and from the necessary absence of discussion, that the object of the Con- gress was to interest and instruct—tirst, medical practitioners, secondly, the official and political classes, and, thirdly, the mass of the people of the German Empire, in the ascertained results of researches into the origin, nature, prevention, and general methods of treatment of tuberculosis. The addresses were expository and hortative. Their aim was to call attention to well-established conclusions, and to enforce their practical bearing on the endeavour to prevent the spread of tuberculous diseases, and to treat them Avhen present with success. The most important conclusions were those already recognised by pathologists in this country and elsewhere, and may be thus briefly stated in untechnical language. 1. That consumption, and all other tuberculous diseases, arc caused by the presence and multiplication of the specific bacillus discovered by Professor Koch, of Berlm; although other micro- scopical plants of allied though distinct character arc often present in addition to the constant and essential Bacillus tuberculosis, and ])roduce modifying and generally injurious effects. (Pfeiffer of Berlin, 2nd day of the Congress, on the Mixed Infections of Phthisis.)