Pulmonary consumption; its etiology, pathology and treatment : with an analysis of 1000 cases to exemplify its duration and modes of arrest / by C. J. B. Williams and Charles Theodore Williams.

  • Williams, Charles J. B. (Charles James Blasius), 1805-1889.
Date:
1887
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Credit: Pulmonary consumption; its etiology, pathology and treatment : with an analysis of 1000 cases to exemplify its duration and modes of arrest / by C. J. B. Williams and Charles Theodore Williams. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    The rest of the work has been carefully revised, and eight coloured plates drawn principally from Dr. Percy Kidd's and my own preparations introduced, and my best thanks are due to that gentleman for kindly superintending their execution. Ten woodcuts have also been added, and it is hoped that these additions will increase the interest of the work. My present view of the treatment of Consumption is, that while we enter upon a life and death struggle with our enemy, the tubercle bacillus, to destroy him in the nest he has made for himself and to eject him from the living patient, we must never omit prophylactic and anti-phthisical measures, which may render his attack harmless, or, if he has effected a lodgment, may confine him to the outwork and prevent his entry into the citadel; and as proof that this can be done, we may point to the remarkable success which has attended such measures, and specially the so-called 'mountain cure.' The outlook of the future of Consumption is decidedly hopeful, for there is little doubt that much of the disease is due to preventable causes, which the coming reign of hygiene will sweep away, and that in many cases the disease will be nipped in the bud by a combination of anti-phthisical and bacillicide treatment, while in more advanced cases life will be prolonged even beyond its present lengthened duration. My best thanks are due to kind friends who have assisted me with their suggestions, and many apologies to my readers for the defects and shortcomings of the work. C. THEODOEE WILLIAMS. 2 Upper Bhook STnEET, June 1887.