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Excerpt from A Clinical System of Tuberculosis, Describing All Forms of the Disease There are various distinct advantages in the method adopted by Drs. Bandelier and Roepke of considering all forms of tuberculosis together in one volume. The distinction formerly drawn between "medical" and "surgical" forms of the disease is steadily becoming obscured; specific treatment, various forms of rays, and oilier conservative measures are being increasingly used for tubercular glands, bones, and joints, while many forms of abdominal tuberculosis are now frequently submitted to operation, and active measures, designed to produce compression, are being taken even against phthisis. Many of the modern biological methods of diagnosis are the same, too. in all forms of the disease. Some forms of tuberculosis ran be better studied in one organ, some in another. The action of tuberculin on tubercular tissue can be more easily and directly observed in the eye than in an internal organ like the lungs; just as many of the changes produced by inflammation were worked out in the eye, the results thus obtained being afterwards applied to the more inaccessible organs. This consideration of tuberculosis as a pathological entity is certainly logical; that it also meets the requirements of the practitioner is shown by the fact that a new edition of the German work was called for in a little more than a year. In the belief that it should be equally useful to the English-speaking medical public the whole work has been translated, with the exception of parts of certain sections dealing with German sanatoriums, health resorts, and colonies, and the legal regulations in connection with public health and the German Insurance Act; also certain directions as to the technique of animal experiments have been abbreviated. Wherever desirable the metric system has been converted into the English, and the Centigrade scalp into Fahrenheit. The doses of tuberculin in the original were given in fractions of the cubic centimetre: these have been changed to the cubic millimetre. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.