Focal Infection *A paper read before the Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Society on Wednesday, 14th March, 1934.
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It would seem advisable, as a first step, to define what I mean by focal infection. However desirable this may be, I find it difficult to do so, as the more one considers the subject the less capable of definition does it appear to be. As a basis, however, for these remarks I suggest that by focal infection I mean chronic disease in organs or tissues of the body directly resulting from a centre or centres of infection situated at a distance. This definition, no doubt, lacks scientific precision, but so does our knowledge. That much chronic disease is due to focal infection I firmly believe, but my purpose to-night is not to attempt to convert the unbeliever. Instead, I propose to place before you, by briefly relating illustrative cases, what I believe to be
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