The open-air treatment of phthisis : two lectures delivered before the Royal British Nurses' Association / by W. Bezly Thorne.

  • Thorne, W. Bezly (William Bezly), -1917.
Date:
1899
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Credit: The open-air treatment of phthisis : two lectures delivered before the Royal British Nurses' Association / by W. Bezly Thorne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ment, which it would be beyond the powers of the human mind ever to estimate or appreciate. Let me add one more word on a subject on which I feel strongly. In September, 1894, and again a few weeks ago, in the columns of the Times, as well as on two occasions in the Medical Section of the annual meetings of the British Medical Association, I have called attention to the fact that the cure of tuberculosis can only be ensured by early recognition and early treatment. Both are at the present time,, for the great masses of the people, beyond the possibility of attainment. For the first it is necessary to have bacteriological laboratories, supported from the public funds, to which busy medical practitioners, and especially those employed among the poor, can send the sputa of patients- for gratuitous bacteriological examination. For the second there must be sanatoria to which patients in the early stages of the malady can be committed until a cure has been effected. I will venture to say that in the majority of cases the time required