Tuberculosis in Massachusetts . SPETAL PRISONFOR CONSUMPTIVES. w[-sT WEST RUTLAND, MASS. LAST DORMITORY DORMITORY. BRADFORD. 99 CHAPTER IX. THE TREATMENT OF SURGICAL TUBERCULOSIS INMASSACHUSETTS. Edward H. Bradford, In the publications of the various associations engaged in com-bating tuberculosis, as a rule more attention is paid to the attemptsto check the pulmonary form than to the surgical efforts againstit. This is to be explained by the fact that public attention hasbeen turned more especially to the medical rather than the surgi-cal features of tuberculosis, and also because the su
Tuberculosis in Massachusetts . SPETAL PRISONFOR CONSUMPTIVES. w[-sT WEST RUTLAND, MASS. LAST DORMITORY DORMITORY. BRADFORD. 99 CHAPTER IX. THE TREATMENT OF SURGICAL TUBERCULOSIS INMASSACHUSETTS. Edward H. Bradford, In the publications of the various associations engaged in com-bating tuberculosis, as a rule more attention is paid to the attemptsto check the pulmonary form than to the surgical efforts againstit. This is to be explained by the fact that public attention hasbeen turned more especially to the medical rather than the surgi-cal features of tuberculosis, and also because the surgical type isnot as threatening a source of contagion as that more commonform, — phthisis. Bone tuberculosis is in its most aggressiveform to be seen in childhood, and is usually cared for in the familyhome. In adult life the active phase of the disease has terminated,if not fatally, in some form of crippling deformity which may im-pair individual activity but does not endanger public health. Inthe severer cases cripples are objects of pity and charity but notof medical care, and are to be found either in
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