Pulmonary Tuberculosis: Its Diagnosis and Treatment

This book written by Dr. Guy, the well-known tuberculosis officer for the city of Edinburgh, is a very valuable addition to the literature on this subject. The book contains 27 chapters. Of these the first 6 are taken up with introduction, epidemiology, description of the bacillus, the spread of infection, pathology and predisposition. The next 14 chapters are taken up with diagnosis, and the description of the disease. The 21st chapter is devoted to prognosis, the next 4 chapters to treatment, and the last 2 chapters deal with prophylaxis and tuberculosis in its public health aspect. Epidemiology is discussed very thoroughly and various housing, factory and public health acts are dealt with in their relationship to the decrease of the disease. " In 1870 the death-rate per 100,000 in Scotland from pulmonary tuberculosis was 280, and in the year 1919 it was 88. This represents an enormous saving in human life. During the. year 1919, 4.294 persons died in Scotland of pulmonary tuberculosis, but if the rate which prevailed in 1870 had continued, in 1919 the number would have been approximately 13,66V." The main