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Article1 August 1936THE PRESENT STATUS OF THE TREATMENT OF PULMONARY TUBERCULOSISLAWRASON BROWN, M.D., F.A.C.P.LAWRASON BROWN, M.D., F.A.C.P.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-10-2-147 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptThe marked decrease in the mortality of pulmonary tuberculosis is undoubtedly due to many causes. It is not, many hold, a true measure of the decrease of the morbidity of the disease. Pulmonary tuberculosis is still a very menacing cause of death to both sexes during the period of greatest bodily and mental activity. The keen desire for a cure for tuberculosis, a true therapia magna sterilisans, so widely spread at the beginning of the century, is now less evident. Some foundations and laboratories consider tuberculosis an unpromising field of endeavor and have left it largely to the clinicians and... This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Saranac Lake, N. Y.*Presented at the Detroit meeting of the American College of Physicians, March 6, 1936. Nextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byTHE AMBULATORY TREATMENT OF PATIENTS HOSPITALIZED WITH PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS*JAMES A. WIER, ROBERT L. TAYLOR, RICHARD S. FRASER 1 August 1936Volume 10, Issue 2Page: 147-155KeywordsMorbidityMortality ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 August 1936 PDF downloadLoading ...
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