An inquiry into the curability of consumption, the prevention and the progress of improvement in the treatment / by James Turnbull.

  • Turnbull, James, 1818-1897.
Date:
1859
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Credit: An inquiry into the curability of consumption, the prevention and the progress of improvement in the treatment / by James Turnbull. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    This Edition has not only been revised and the greater part re-written, but the Author's extended experience has enabled him to enlarge and add to this pubhcation so considerably, that it may almost be regarded as a new work. It will be found that the principal causes of the disease have now been examined, and that the hght of recent statistical facts has been brought to bear upon this branch of our inquiries, so as to show that Con- sumption is a disease much more under the control of means, which we have the power of adopting for its prevention than is generally beheved. It will also be found that the Preventive Treatment has been examined in a new chapter, and that much additional matter has been added in regard to the Varieties of Consumption, and its Eelations to other diseases. In the chapter on Curabihty, a series of nineteen cases has been given, several of which have been previously published in the Second Edition, or in the Eeport, which subsequently appeared in 1853, On the Progress of Improvement in the Treat- ment of Consumption and other Pulmonary and Laryngeal Diseases. Additional cases have, however, been inserted in this Edition, and later particulars given of several of