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Excerpt from Physician's Note Book on the Early Diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis In the early stages of tuberculosis, when the disease is not extremely acute, there is often present a symptom complex which is not at all dissimilar to malaria. There is the same lassitude and loss of ambition, headache, tendency to tire easily, a feverishness, especially in the afternoon, and, in many cases chilliness or even definite chills. When the chill and fever occurring in the after noon are followed by sweating at night the diagnosis is even more obscured. The lack of the presence of plasmodia in the blood, the failure of the symptoms to clear up under quinine treatment, and the careful taking of a history and a painstaking examination should enable us to rule out malaria and reach the proper decision if the patient is tuberculous. 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.