Reprints of three editorials regarding the priority in demonstrating the toxic effect of matter accompanying the tubercle baccillus and its nidus.

  • Samuel Gibson Dixon
Date:
1890-1891
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Credit: Reprints of three editorials regarding the priority in demonstrating the toxic effect of matter accompanying the tubercle baccillus and its nidus. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    where elimination of the products could be performed most thoroughly and with least severity to the organism ; nevertheless, in the mad hurry, cases of advanced degrees of the disease and cases marked by generali- zation of the malady have been permitted the treatment, only to swell the death list which has been heaping discredit upon the measure. Where tubercular foci are numer- ous and widely distributed, if each focus is to be the scene ot rapid necrotic processes, each followed by a local focus of reactive inflammation, what is to be expected but the effects of an intense toxaemia and fever, which are the necessary attendants of such a condition ? Where the lungs are riddled with the tubercular changes of late chronic phthisis, what is to be expected if this new therapeu- tic agent accomplish the best possible results, and yet leave a great mass of cica- tricial results to block up and hamper the pulmonary tissue ? Moreover, what of that great mass of patients, from whom, the treatment having failed to produce notable external changes, the lymph was with- drawn and death followed—are there posi- tive evidences of no palpable changes in the internal tubercular localities in the line of change indicated ? How is it possible
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