THE OPEN-AIR TREATMENT OF PHTHISIS. I

Early use of 'open-air' treatment for 'pulmonary phthisis' at the Dreadnought Hospital, Greenwich, 1900-1905.

The use of open-air treatment for tuberculosis ('pulmonary phthisis') at the Dreadnought Hospital, Greenwich from 1900 to 1905 is reviewed. A marked reduction in mean mortality rate compared to 'orthodox' management was observed.

The Curability and Treatment of Pulmonary Phthisis

This book, written by one of the best authorities on the subject, contains the substance of lectures delivered in December, 1880, and January, 188.1, before the discovery of the tubercle bacillus by Dr. Robert Koch in 1882. At the meeting of the International Congress in Copenhagen, in 1884, it was asserted by Dr. Jaccoud, in elegant and forcible language, that the discovery of the bacillus had...

The Open-Air Treatment of Pulmonary Tuberculosis

Treatment of Phthisis by Iodide of Potassium

The Open-Air-Treatment of Broncho-Pneumonia Complicating Whooping-Cough

Those who only see whooping-cough in good class practice do not perhaps realise how serious it is liable to be in the children of the poor. The mortality in Edinburgh for a period of five years ending 1900 was '48 per thousand persons living' in fact nearly one-third of the whole zymotic death-rate was caused by this disease. As the children of the better classes rarely succumb to whooping-coug...