Twentieth century practice v 20 1900 Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: TUBERCULOSIS. (DIAGNOSIS, PROGNOSIS, PROPHYLAXIS, AND TREATMENT.) Introduction. The word tuberculosis probably has its origin in the writings of Baillie... more »,1 who was certainly the first (1793) to describe the tubercle as a special pathological production in phthisis pulmonalis. The pathological unity of all tuberculous diseases was discovered by Laennec1 at the beginning of the nineteenth century. In 1865 Villemin3 demonstrated the inoculability of tuberculosis and the necessity of classifying this affection under virulent diseases. Lastly, Koch's great discovery in 1882 ' gave us the absolute proof of the specificity of tuberculosis by demonstrating the presence of a distinct microorganism. All double as to the truth of Laennec's teachings were thus dispelled. It is now known that there is but one tuberculosis, though it may manifest itself iu various forms, attacking the visceral, bony, muscular, or cutaneous structure ; but its specific pathological factor is always the bacillus tuberculosis. In the present article, dealing with the methods now in vogue to combat tuberculosis successfully, the subject will be discussed under the following heads : 1, Sources of infection and individual prophylaxis; 2, general public prophylaxis; 3, special proplw Iaxis of tuberculosis in childhood; 4, prevention of tuberculosis in cattle and other domestic animals ; 5, predisposition and preventive treatment ; 6, early diagnosis of tuberculous diseases ; 7, the hygienic treatment in sanatoria, special hospitals, and at home (with a description of a model sanatorium) ; 8, aërotherapy and the pneumatic cabinet ; 9, solar theraphy ; 10, dress and personal hygiene ; 11, hydrotherapy ; 12, dietetic treatment ; 13, medicinal and symptomatic treatment ; 14, the treatment of complications in phthi...« less