The Prevention of Pulmonary Phthisis

A Campaign against Consumption

Dr. A. Ransome is the author of several wellknown books on the Causes and Prevention of Phthisis and on the open-air treatment. The present volume is a collection of papers written at various periods during a fifty years' campaign against consumption. Many of the articles deal with the subject from a public health point of view, and others are on more scientific aspects of the problem. The subj...

Early use of 'open-air' treatment for 'pulmonary phthisis' at the Dreadnought Hospital, Greenwich, 1900-1905.

The use of open-air treatment for tuberculosis ('pulmonary phthisis') at the Dreadnought Hospital, Greenwich from 1900 to 1905 is reviewed. A marked reduction in mean mortality rate compared to 'orthodox' management was observed.

Is the Gurkha Predisposed to Pulmonary Phthisis?

An Epidemic of Phthisis

Treatment of Phthisis by Iodide of Potassium