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Excerpt from The Journal of Tuberculosis, 1899 The evolution of specific medication for infectious diseases has made enough progress, at this time, to justify the serious and thoughtful attention of medical men, and supplies a most interesting and gratifying chapter in the history of medicine of the closing century. In Tuberculosis this is only less apparent to those who lose sight of the limitations that all remedies must have in their power of removing pathological processes which frequently attain a degree from which recovery or even im provement is absolutely impossible. The pathological changes of tubercle are no exception to this general truth, as we recognize it for instance, in syphilis, where stages are often reached in which specific medication is absolutely useless. During the life of the patient it may be difficult and at times impossible to determine the exact pathological changes present, and so it comes, that in practical medicine we often attempt the accomplishment of that, which a ful knowledge Of the true pathology in the particular case would show us to be useless. 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.