A Review of the Medical Methods of Treatment of Tuberculosis

culin treatment for three months each have not been included. The accompanying charts show the percentage of patients treated in each of the three ways who were fit for work after two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, and ten years from the time when they were first seen, Chart I relating to T.G. 1 and 2 cases, and Chart II to T.G. 3 cases. The superiority as regards working power of the tuberculin-treated patients over both the sanatorium-treated ones and the others is very striking, especially in Chart I. In order to be able to give the results of tracing survivors for ten years, no cases that came under observation later than 1922 have been used in compiling the figures embodied in the charts. Thus the sanatorium-treated cases had only what is called simple sanatorium treatment, i.e., fresh air, good food, and graduated rest and exercise. At one of the sanatoria tuberculin was used for a time, but it was given by a rule of thumb method, the same series of doses being given to all patients. None of these patients had artificial pneumothorax or sanocrysin, which have been introduced subsequently. When sufficient time has elapsed for these newer methods to produce their full effect, the sanatorium-treated cases should make a better showing. But they have a lot of leeway to make up before they equal the tuberculin-treated cases.