PHTHISIS IN THE METROPOLIS.

Laryngeal Phthisis

? graph has been brought out, enlarged and ?rewritten, by Mr. Harold Bar well, owing to Mr. -Lake having given up the practice of Laryngology to pursue that of Otologj'. It is based upon an experience of G50 cases of the disease observed principally at the Mount Vernon Hospital for consumption in London. The etiology, patholog}7, symptoms, differential diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of the ...

The Prevention of Pulmonary Phthisis

The Compulsory Notification of Phthisis

I AM one of the practitioners of medicine in Edinburgh who believe that in the causation of phthisis, infection is a factor of such relatively small importance that the compulsory notification of this disease as an infectious disease is, in the majority of cases, quite unnecessary. I am, further, one of those who hold that its compulsory notification in all cases would be mischievous, as divert...

The Dyspepsia of Phthisis

Phthisis in Famine

In 459 consecutive autopsies made during the Madras Famine of 1877-78, tubercular deposit was found in one or both lungs in thirty men, 13*3 per cent., twenty women, 12*8 per cent., and in one child. The deposit was present in both lungs in eighteen of the men aud in sixteen of the women, was confined to the right lung in three of the men, the child, and three of the women, and to the left lung...