Medical communications of the Massachusetts Medical Society . e number of sanatoriums forthe treatment of tuberculosis, either by the State, cities ortowns, a step will have been taken towards its , as members of The Massachusetts Medical Society,you should recognize that it is not necessary that your patientssuffering from tuberculosis should be sent far from theirhomes, but that by erecting bed platforms, as Dr. Millet hasdone at the patients homes, they may be satisfactorily treatedin their own homes. The work which is being carried out byDr. Bowditch at the Sharon Sanatorium i
Medical communications of the Massachusetts Medical Society . e number of sanatoriums forthe treatment of tuberculosis, either by the State, cities ortowns, a step will have been taken towards its , as members of The Massachusetts Medical Society,you should recognize that it is not necessary that your patientssuffering from tuberculosis should be sent far from theirhomes, but that by erecting bed platforms, as Dr. Millet hasdone at the patients homes, they may be satisfactorily treatedin their own homes. The work which is being carried out byDr. Bowditch at the Sharon Sanatorium is worthy of thehighest commendation, but that is for a specially selectedclass of patients. The work which is done at Rutlandmust command our admiration, but it is to you, as the prac-titioners of this Commonwealth, who visit from time to timethe homes of the people, that I turn and beg that you willconsider the necessity, in tuberculosis, both medical and sur-gical, of treating patients by physiological rest, and givingthem the maximum of air and Fig. I.—A giant-cell showing tubercle bacilli betweenthe nuclei in the periphery of the cell. R. Koch: ^Etiologie der Tuberculose. Mitt, aus demKaiserlich. Gesund. Berlin, 1884. Band ii.
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