The Preferable Climate for Phthisis

Note on Darjeeling Climate in the Treatment of Phthisis

cases do not do well, if there has been much lung destruction. They find considerable difficulty in breathing, and complain of discomfort aud a sense of uneasiness. From the beginning of June till the middle of October there are heavy rains with mist and absolute saturation of the air with moisture. There is not much sunshine and exercise out of doors is curtailed. To keep out the mist and damp...

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 ...

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