Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Clinical Tuberculosis, Vol. 1: With a Chapter on Laboratory Methods, Pathological Anatomy, Pathological Physiology, Diagnosis, and Prognosis, With One Hundred and Five Text Illustrations and Charts, and Six Plates in Colors
During recent years medical literature has abounded in papers and books treating of the subject, tuberculosis. Many of these contributions have been excellent. The majority of them, how ever, have been written from a viewpoint which is entirely too narrow. If we are to make advances in our knowledge of tuber culosis we must take a broader View than that expressed by the prevalent idea, that tuberculosis is a disease due to the tubercle bacillus, which produces a group of tubercles in the lung, and that its cure comes about as a result Of good food and Open air. We must look upon it as being an infectious disease producing inflammatory processes in some organ, or organs, of the body, but, indirectly influencing every organ and cell of the body; and prior to the time that a specific cure has been found, we must look upon treatment as being the application of a sufficient number of remedies and measures to raise the patient 's defensive powers sufficiently high to destroy the tubercle bacilli and to furnish the focal stimulation necessary to hasten scar formation. It is-from this standpoint that I have approached my subject. Anatomy and physiology, both normal and pathological, have been made the basis of my studies; and visceral neurology has received unusual attention. I have endeavored to approach the study of tuberculosis from the standpoint of internal medicine in its broadest sense. I am endeavoring to present in this monograph a record of the Observations which I have made during twenty years of clin ical study. The studies, for the most part, have been made on patients in the Pottenger Sanatorium for Diseases of the Lungs and Throat, Monrovia, California. My patients have represented all stages and phases of the disease. For the most part, they have been suffering from advanced widespread lesions. They have been of an unusually intelligent class, and this has added greatly to the Opportunity for careful study. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
