Medicine old and new : an introductory address delivered on the occasion of the opening of the winter session 1899-1900 at St George's Hospital Medical School on Oct. 2nd., 1899 / by W. Howship Dickinson.

  • William Howship Dickinson
Date:
1899
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Credit: Medicine old and new : an introductory address delivered on the occasion of the opening of the winter session 1899-1900 at St George's Hospital Medical School on Oct. 2nd., 1899 / by W. Howship Dickinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

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    ing our geography to our infirmities, and carrying a failing structure to a place where it is relieved of the stress or the tendency under which it has broken down? 'Hot and cold and moist and dry' are at our choice. The globe presents infinite variety, and, could it speak, might say with the Apostle, ' I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.' To touch upon tuberculosis, much as we have recently learned of the intimate nature of this disease, we can no more deal directly with the organisms on which it depends than we could before they were discovered. The bacillus has as yet defied germi- cides. It seems to be more resistant in structure and more tenacious of life than the tissues among which it
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