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Excerpt from The Recognition of Pulmonary Tuberculosis My own experience caused me much chagrin, though it was salutary. After my year's service at the Toronto General Hospital in '95, I went to London. I carried with me that excellent opinion of myself and of my training that ox-house surgeons of that hospital were Wont to have, but I soon found that with the stethoscope as well as in other matters of medical education and training, I had much to learn, and a good deal to unlearn. As a matter of fact. I was hopelessly at sea on the chest, both in accuracy of observation and in interpretation, and since then I have been forced to realize that it is only consistent watchfulness that can prevent error or oversight in chest work. While the opportunities for clinical training in general are to-day much better than in the early '90's, it is probable that many young physicians since then have begun practice without more accurate ideas of chest work than I had at the end of the house surgeon's year, and that they have not had the same opportunity to have their errors corrected. It is not then surprising that many cases possible of recognition go undiagnosed until a relatively advanced stage is reached. In the earlv '90's we saw none but far advanced cases in the wards, and, since these were greatly used for clinical instruction, it was usual for the dra matic changes to be. Emphasized, and the recognition of cavity became the acme of diagnosis for students. I recollect one or two cases only in the out-patient's department in which early adven titious sounds were demonstrated. 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.