On Tuberculosis as an Endemic Disease. Inaugural Address of Session 1892-93
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I have felt some difficulty in selecting any topic for my remarks to-night, which I could hope to present in a manner at all worthy of your hearing; but I hope that the subject of tubercular disease will not be regarded as foreign to the aim and scope of this Society. Our aim, as I find it defined in earlier addresses from this chair, has always been the investigation of the origin, propagation, mitigation, and treatment of epidemic diseases. The word epidemic has not, however, been understood to exclude the considera-
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