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[SUPPLEMENT TO THE CLEVELAND MEDICAL JOURNAL, JANUARY, 1907]

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JUL 19 1907

LIBRARY

The Cleveland

Medical Journal

VOL V

JANUARY, 1906

No 1

The Paris Congress of Tuberculosis, 1905 ORGANIZATION, BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS, EARLY DIAGNOSIS, ISOLATION, DISPENSARIES.

BY JOHN H. LOWMAN, M. D.

Professor of Medicine, Western Reserve University, Cleveland, O.

The Paris Congress was an expression of the sentiment of the world concerning tuberculosis. Of no disease has so much been written and so much said as of this great chronic epidemic. The information concerning it is in hospital, government and municipal reports, in the medical and lay press, in the proceedings of scientific societies and in numerous communications from physicians, architects, engineers, health officers, actuaries, vetenarians and scientific and philanthropic men. To comprehend all this vast material is beyond the grasp of any one person. It will require the combined effort of a commission of experts to digest and report on the material now accessible. I shall content myself with a rapid survey of the work of the last congress, its plan of organization and its place in the tuberculosis conflict and then consider in greater detail two or three of the more important subjects which engaged the interest of the members.

The congress was divided into four sections. viz: Medicine, Surgical Pathology, Preservation of Children and Protection of the Adult. Under these four heads were discussed all the various stages and forms of the disease. Innumerable varieties of opinion were expressed and it seemed at times as if there was direct antagonism between the members, but in every instance a common ground was found for all and the final conclusions were as a rule unanimous.

Les Rapports du Congres have been freely used in this paper.

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