Pulmonary tuberculosis; its modern and specialized treatment : with a brief account of the methods of study and treatment at the Henry Phipps Institute of Philadelphia.

  • Francine, Albert Philip, 1873-1924.
Date:
[1906], [©1906]
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Credit: Pulmonary tuberculosis; its modern and specialized treatment : with a brief account of the methods of study and treatment at the Henry Phipps Institute of Philadelphia. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    later fall into the hands of those with expert knowledge and expert experience. The general practitioner, as he sets himself up in his views on this disease to-day, cannot treat tuberculosis with success, because he is not qualified to do so. He is too busy, too hurried; he cannot or does not give these cases the special attention which they re- quire. Supposing that he is master of the factors entering into the diagnosis and prognosis of this disease, it is not a question of ability only, so much as of experience, time and unremitting attention. It is for this reason that the disease in its early stages is so often overlooked. Too often it is want of detailed study of the chest by the family physician. The family physician of the future, the internal clinician, will come to recognize his responsibility in this regard, and at once a long step in the direction of prevention will be accom- plished. Too often colds and bad throats and grippes are treated to-day with but a scant exam- ination of the chest, and without the ever-present possibility of latent tuberculosis being in mind. It is a bad mistake and an irrational refinement of diagnosis to suppose that every person who is thin and run down has tuberculosis. Much harm and much discredit is put on expert work in the eyes of the profession at large, and the laity as well, by this unhappy and misdirected enthusiasm. But when the disease is once established, even in its earlier stages, it is easily recognized by careful