The Treatment of Phthisis Author:Arthur Ransome General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1896 Original Publisher: Smith, Elder Subjects: Tubercolosis Pulmonary Tuberculosis Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Literary Collections / General Literary Criticism / General Medical / Infectious Diseases Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of t... more »he original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III ON THE LIMITS OF INFECTION IN PHTHISIS Contagionist doctrines -- Koch, Cornet, Tyndall -- The consumption-scare -- Limits of infection in phthisis -- Direct and indirect infection -- Conditions of infection -- History of contagionist doctrines -- In South of Europe -- Gueneau de Mussy, Villemin, William Budd, Weber -- Collective investigation record -- Fallacious reasoning -- Evidence against direct infection -- In favour of indirect infection in houses,« less