. Transactions of the sixth International congress on tuberculosis. Washington, September 28 to October 5, 1908. O rt .i,X 2fe. s is! PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF TUBERCULOUS SINUSES.—BECK. 235 treatment. If the rapid diminution and disintegration of tubercle bacillinoted in these two cases is not accidental, this disclosure is certainly of far-reaching importance. If, after the day of his first injection, fever, cough,and sweats disappear, patient regains appetite, sleep, is able to resume work,and continues to gain weight at the rate of 2h pounds a week for five consecu-tive weeks, as patient
. Transactions of the sixth International congress on tuberculosis. Washington, September 28 to October 5, 1908. O rt .i,X 2fe. s is! PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF TUBERCULOUS SINUSES.—BECK. 235 treatment. If the rapid diminution and disintegration of tubercle bacillinoted in these two cases is not accidental, this disclosure is certainly of far-reaching importance. If, after the day of his first injection, fever, cough,and sweats disappear, patient regains appetite, sleep, is able to resume work,and continues to gain weight at the rate of 2h pounds a week for five consecu-tive weeks, as patient did in the second case cited, it certainly is too strikinga change to be accidental. Whether the bismuth destroys the bacilli by its chemical action, orwhether its presence acts as a chemotactic, we have not yet determined,although the evidence predominates that its chemotactic property accountsfor the destruction of the microorganisms. Tubercle bacilli are not often found in the pus from tuberculous sinuses;more often, however, in tuberculous empyema. They lodge in the granula-tions and walls of sinuses and abscess ca
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