CURABILITY OF PHTHISIS.

The Curability and Treatment of Pulmonary Phthisis

This book, written by one of the best authorities on the subject, contains the substance of lectures delivered in December, 1880, and January, 188.1, before the discovery of the tubercle bacillus by Dr. Robert Koch in 1882. At the meeting of the International Congress in Copenhagen, in 1884, it was asserted by Dr. Jaccoud, in elegant and forcible language, that the discovery of the bacillus had...

Laryngeal Phthisis

? graph has been brought out, enlarged and ?rewritten, by Mr. Harold Bar well, owing to Mr. -Lake having given up the practice of Laryngology to pursue that of Otologj'. It is based upon an experience of G50 cases of the disease observed principally at the Mount Vernon Hospital for consumption in London. The etiology, patholog}7, symptoms, differential diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of the ...

An Epidemic of Phthisis

Curability of Multiple Myeloma

Among 792 patients with multiple myeloma treated from 1987 to 2010 and assessed after 18 months, there were 167 patients with complete remission. For those 60 patients treated between 1987-1998 and with long followup, the latest relapse occurred after 11.8 years, so that 13 patients have remained in sustained complete remission for longer than 12 years (range 12-22 years). These results suggest...

On the Curability of Leprosy

piti, is generally looked npon as quite incurable. This I think, is the universal opinion of the natives of this country, and that it is generally shared in by European practitioners, seems sufficiently shown by the Leprosy-Report of 1867. Some time ago it occurred to me to try the effects of that invaluable medicinal agent, carbolic acid, and the results have been so favorable, that I think I ...