Pulmonary tuberculosis; its modern prophylaxis and the treatment in special institutions and at home : Alvarenga prize essay of the College of physicians of Philadelphia for the year 1898.

  • Knopf, S. Adolphus (Sigard Adolphus), 1857-1940.
Date:
1899
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    predisposition to the disease, but he disbelieved in the possibility of contagion/^r^6\ He and his contemporary, the distinguished Schonlein (1793-1864) were, however, strong advocates of climatic treatment.^ Schonlein particularly thought to have observed immunity from this disease among the people who had lived their entire life m mountainous regions. One of the most interesting figures in medicine at the beginning of this century, and whose works are of particular interest to phthisio-therapeutists, was doubtlessly Rene Theophile Hyacinthe I.aennec (1781-1826). In pathology he established the unity of all tuberculous diseases, and in clinical work he taught us how to auscultate the diseased chest. He believed in the curability of the disease, but it is difficult to say whether or not he believed tuber- culosis to be contagious. The fact remains that he died of the ultimate results brought about by an inoculation during an autopsy on a tuberculous subject. Therapeutically, he ascribed to ocean air the best effects in phthisis. He was so convinced of this that during the latter stage of his disease he had the sea air produced artificially in his bedroom. At the end of the last century (1791) May endeavored to demonstrate that the dietetic treatment was all that was necessary for a successful issue in the treatment of phthisis pulmonalis. Curchot and Carriere placed their faith in buttermilk and in the grape cure. One of the next most important events in the history of tuber- culosis was Villemin's communication to the Academy of Medicine of Paris on December 5, 1865, wherein he demonstrated the inocula- bility of tuberculosis and the necessity of classifying this affection under virulent diseases. These experiments have since been veri- fied by many observers, foremost among them Cornet, Cohnheim, Tappeiner, of Germany; Grancher, Cornil, Straus, Verneuil, Chauveau, and Herard, of France; Williams, Clarke, and Wilson Fox, of England; Welsh, Biggs, Loomis, Prudden, Hodenpyl, and Klebs, of the United States. On the 24th of March, 1882, Koch announced to the world his memorable discovery of the bacillus tuberculosis—a discovery which shed a new ligfht on tuberculosis as a disease due to a dis- J. L. Schonlein's Allgemeine und specielle Pathologic und Therapie.