MINER'S PHTHISIS.

A Century of Miners’ Phthisis on the South African Gold Mines. Any End in Sight?

Since its inception in 1886, high rates of occupational lung disease, particularly “miners’ phthisis” (silicosis and/or pulmonary tuberculosis) and accompanying racial disparities have been a feature of the South African gold mining industry. While mortality from silicosis and pulmonary tuberculosis fell among white miners during the first half of the 20th century, there was scanty information ...

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

The Prevention of Pulmonary Phthisis

The Compulsory Notification of Phthisis

I AM one of the practitioners of medicine in Edinburgh who believe that in the causation of phthisis, infection is a factor of such relatively small importance that the compulsory notification of this disease as an infectious disease is, in the majority of cases, quite unnecessary. I am, further, one of those who hold that its compulsory notification in all cases would be mischievous, as divert...