The 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...

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 ...

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...

The Dyspepsia of Phthisis