A paper read before the Hunterian Society at a discussion upon the present methods of treating tuberculosis. Section 5. The surgical aspect / opened by W.K. Treves.

  • Treves, W. Knight (William Knight), 1843-1908.
Date:
1903
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Credit: A paper read before the Hunterian Society at a discussion upon the present methods of treating tuberculosis. Section 5. The surgical aspect / opened by W.K. Treves. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    go back to school. The child should be kept under the best conditions of climate and out-of-door life for at least a year, and perhaps longer. Or take an early case of joint disease, the symptoms may subside under good treat- ment and conditions in two or three months, but it is not safe to use the joint for at least a year. Time and continued treatment will in the m not hurry the disease. vast majority of cases bring about a good result in the end, but it is of no use trying to hurry surgical tubercular disease. It will run its own course and take its own time. Repeated operations do, I believe, nothing but harm, and unless there is some pressing reason for interference the patient should be given time before the local disease is attacked. Rest is the second essential. Rest. Rest of body, rest of mind, and local rest. Rest of body should vary with the stage of the disease and also of course with the part affected. In the early stage it should be complete for a limited time : the patient is ordered the open air treatment, he is not strong enough to walk or sit about all day, he should according to his disease and its stage, either lie in a room with the windows wide open, or on a couch in the open air, or