Wisconsin medical recorder . is: Shall we tell him the truth? Most certainly: If he be curable. The profession is today almost unan-imous in the belief that it is impera-tive for a patient, if he be a curableone, to know his condition, and that itis a remnant of the Dark Ages to keep 206 WISCONSIN MEDICAL EECORDER this knowledge from bim with the mis-taken QOtion that it .-pares his feeliand increases his of recovery. his true condilion maykill him. We can easily imagine that, whenconsumption was considered incurable,such a plan, as ignorance of his condi-tion, might have been besl ;
Wisconsin medical recorder . is: Shall we tell him the truth? Most certainly: If he be curable. The profession is today almost unan-imous in the belief that it is impera-tive for a patient, if he be a curableone, to know his condition, and that itis a remnant of the Dark Ages to keep 206 WISCONSIN MEDICAL EECORDER this knowledge from bim with the mis-taken QOtion that it .-pares his feeliand increases his of recovery. his true condilion maykill him. We can easily imagine that, whenconsumption was considered incurable,such a plan, as ignorance of his condi-tion, might have been besl ; but todaywe know that the disease is curable^ not make you anv more tubercular. It is generally understood, and goodsense should teach us, that the earlierthe trouble is discovered, the morechances one has of cure. Before the ad-vent of the micro8ope in diagnosing thedisease, it is no wonder that many mis-takes were made as the physical Bignsin the chest in the earlier stages of thedisease are often misleading, or so slight. Farm House in Ireland providing we appeal to the intelligenceof the individual and gain his as- Patients not having been told theircondil ion, do nol see the necessity of ar-ranging their affairs so thai they can er in! the campaign against the in- To be told that ryou have consumption increases your chances for recovery many fold, for you will then take liM :md do something; and it does as to escape detection. Today, with theaid of the microscope, a positive diag-nosis can be made. If bacilli are found,you have consumption and Bhould knowit : it they are not there, you have notthe disease, and it may please you toknow as much. Let all know of the prevalence of thespecific infecting medium of consump-t ion : let them look at the dust in thepath of a sunbeam; let them put two WISCONSIN MEDICAL RECORDER 207 and two together and presume all suchdust infected; let any inheriting aweakness avoid all trades in whichmuch dust is produced (especially me-chanical sa
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