Evidences of the communicability of consumption.

  • George Allan Heron
Date:
1890
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    EVIDENCES COMMUNICABILITY OF CONSUMPTION. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. The belief that consumption is a communicable dis- ease, has long been popularly accepted in many parts of southern Europe, and that popular belief has received the support of the majority of medical men in those countries. Amongst all civilised peoples, this view concerning consumption has, at all events in the last half-century, had its advocates in the medical profession. It was not, however, until 1882 that the belief in the communicability of this disease was established upon a firm foundation. In that year, Dr. Robert Koch demonstrated by observed facts, and by the results of his own experiments, that con- sumption, as well as every other form of tubercular disease, is caused by a living organism, now known by the name of Koch's bacillus of tubercle. As is usual when new and important truths are first brought into notice, this new teaching received a large amount of adverse criticism, and was met with strong opposition. Scepticism is a valuable help to
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