Modern medicine : its theory and practice, in original contributions by American and foreign authors . de since that time. The effect upon the moderately advanced patients,Fig. 15, is less apparent, but the increase of those discharged with arrestis much greater since 1892, which is possibly due to the greater restrictionsput upon those with active disease. In other words, the rest cure has beenmore rigorously enforced. In Figs. 16, 17 and 18 the percentages of livingand dead are graphically shown; the dotted line is approximately the normaldeath-rate curve. In Fig. 16 the ultimate results for
Modern medicine : its theory and practice, in original contributions by American and foreign authors . de since that time. The effect upon the moderately advanced patients,Fig. 15, is less apparent, but the increase of those discharged with arrestis much greater since 1892, which is possibly due to the greater restrictionsput upon those with active disease. In other words, the rest cure has beenmore rigorously enforced. In Figs. 16, 17 and 18 the percentages of livingand dead are graphically shown; the dotted line is approximately the normaldeath-rate curve. In Fig. 16 the ultimate results for all patients are the whole, the death rate for the apparently cured patients may be saidto be double the general death rate. For patients discharged with arresteddisease the death rate may be said to be eight times the general death rate. 430 INFECTIOUS DISEASES The patients who were neither apparently cured nor arrested on dischargemay be said to have on the whole a death rate twenty-eight times the generaldeath rate. In Fig. 17 all patients with active disease on discharge have Fig. 13. Conditions on admission, expressed proportionately, of patients discharged each yearfrom the Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium. Fig. 14
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