Excerpt from The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, 1920, Vol. 183 It is a serious matter, moreover, to pronounce a man tuberculous, for in the present state of public Opinion, the disease is considered far more contagious than we, as physicians, know it is, and if a man is once diagnosed as tuber oulous he is seriously handicapped in earn ing his living and indeed in his social relations, for with many laymen it is, Once tuberculous, always tuberculous. While trying, therefore, to avoid the mistakes of a wrong diagnosis ...
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Excerpt from The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, 1920, Vol. 183 It is a serious matter, moreover, to pronounce a man tuberculous, for in the present state of public Opinion, the disease is considered far more contagious than we, as physicians, know it is, and if a man is once diagnosed as tuber oulous he is seriously handicapped in earn ing his living and indeed in his social relations, for with many laymen it is, Once tuberculous, always tuberculous. While trying, therefore, to avoid the mistakes of a wrong diagnosis of tuberculosis when it does not exist, we must bear in mind that the tendency is in the other direction, that is, to fail to detect the presence and activity of the infection when it does ex ist. The sins of omission are far more than those of commission. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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