| Show In n 11 the tho current number of ot Medical He Ito cord an article on tuberculosIs Which Is especially In Interesting be because UMe the he conclusIons arrived nt at are baaed on observations o of a II series erla of or vases so of the tho of ot tho ho records record available The rho first point leala with the manner In which that dread disease o begins The writer 1 III Of Ot ono one hundred eases cases It was wan found Cound that In SO to o per jer c cent nt the tho first evidence of ot tuberculosis consisted In Iii either cither coughs or OP colds cold IS 48 S per lor cent run down low condition IS per cent or 01 pleurisy dry Iry or with lon 14 H per percent cent The Tho remaining 20 Q per cent was Wait about evenly divided 1 between grippe chIlls and fever malaria pneumonia recovery enlarged cervical und and In only 4 f per er tent lent of the ape noe hundred ease cases was Willi the first presumable evi evl evidence dance dence but In III 24 per Ier cent this symptom Ushered in the tho limit first demonstrable el evl deuce o Tho author believes that the lie great majority of ot patients who ap op apparently apparently develop pulmonary tuber otter the age nce of ot thirty hall had nn nil attack of ot tho the disease before The an nil clyde that three nn and n a half months month was 1111 the tho average time that elapsed front from the tho actual bc beginning of ot iho the ell disease to lo the appearance of ot tu to tubercle tubercle heroIc bacilli In lie The study of et the tho featured of or valise III In prognosis IH Is ba based ed on the Its records of patients ad nel admitted admitted mILled to treatment and shows hOWl among other things that tho the age heh between fit anti and thirty It is especially favorable and ond that the gen general general eral oral vitality and of or the pa patient heat tient and the state of itt the digestion are arc of ot importance whereas whether one olle lobe or more titan than on one Is Involved Is of liti significance than usually sup supposed posed Josell I Fever hemorrhages expectoration tion Lion or bacilli In hit sputum are of little value In the tho prognosis unless tho the case hll lute has be been n watched for tor a n long time line lineAn An of ot ARM sana sanatorium eases chow showed eel that tho the average ng age was wan high twentynine and that tho the am entry of the patients was a it point of Importance but bul 1 11 a family faintly history was wan of le Ices Import The rhe 1 average c length of ot life among the poor with no Ito ml All vantages or of rest rent or good goOl food tood Isn Is h ha isa a n little under tinder t two o years |
