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.
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1899
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    Reported bv. Boudet, of Pkris, . . . . Beaux, of Paris, .... Bennet, of Menton, . . . Baudet, of Paris Marsiiii, of Basel, . . Bollinger, of Munich, . . . Heitler, of Vienna, ... Cliiari, of Prague, . . Flint, of New York Loomis,! of New York, . . Letulle, of Paris F. P. Weber, of London, Ormeroth, of London, . . . Vilbert, of Paris, Fowler, of London, . . Martin, of London, . . . Jos. Coats, of Glasgow, . . Rogee, of Paris, ... Standacher, Thomas Harris, of London, Fiirbringer, of Berlin, . . . Renvers, of Berlin, . . . Bugge, of Christiania, . . Osier, of Baltimore, . . . Walker, of Chicago, .... H. M. Biggs, of New York, Number OF Autopsies. 166 73 197 228 400 [6,562 701 670 763 189 131 1,943 445 103 Number ok Cases WHERE Autopsy Revealed Healed Pulmonary Tuberculous Lesions. 116 157 28 10 89 69 789 78 75 71 92 29 50 17 177 42 25 51 27 39 10 30 27 7-5 4 30 per cent. ' Loomis, H. P., A Study of the Processes which Result in the Arrest or Cure of Phthisis. Medical Record, Jan. 9, 1892. tomie generale, vol. iv, page 538, declares tuberculosis a de- cidedly curable disease, and so does Charcot/ in his Traite de Medecine, by saying: Phthisis is susceptible to be cured completely and definitely even at the period of cavities. Gran- cher, in his Lecons cliniques sur les Maladies de I'Appareil respiratoire, 1880, page 245, says: We affirm the curability of the tubercle; we affirm that, instead of being a miserable neoplasm incapable of organization, the tubercle tends naturally to fibrous formation. Jaccoud even maintains that pulmonary phthisis is curable in all its stages. Herard and Cornil'^ are of the same opinion. Professor Bouchard, of Paris, concluded his lectures on phthisis in the year 1888 by the following comforting words : ' Charcot, Traite de ^ledecine de Charcot et Bouchard; article, Phtisie pulmon- 2 Jaccoud, Curability de la Phtisie pulmonaire, 1888. 3 Herard, Cornil et Planot, La Phtisie pulmonaire, li