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Excerpt from Tuberculosis of the Upper Air-Passages: Aetiology These proud legends were inscribed on the banner of the high contagionists. This is not the place to speak of the history of the researches into the activities of other disease germs than the tubercle bacillus, but suffice it to say that in that history also may be observed the downfall of the postulates. As regards the tubercle bacillus, it is now always present in tubercle, somewhat on account of similar tactics to those used by Mohammed with the moun tain. The old clinicians had been in the habit of calling many things tubercle, but the new bacteriologists ruled out all those pathological structures not due to the action of the bacillus. And this has proved a great gain in clinical classification, but, like all classifications in medicine, it has wrought some evil in crystallizing a certain order of mental process into a form of intellectual non-recep tivity which renders further advance in individual cases impossible. 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.