A Campaign Against Consumption : A Collection of Papers Relating to Tuberculosis (Paperback)

Part I. General: 1. Consumption: its causes and its prevention; 2. On the prevention of consumption; 3. Consumption, a 'filth disease'; 4. A crusade against tuberculosis; 5. The need of a standard of efficient ventilation in all workplaces and places of public assembly; 6. Duties of the state in regard to tuberculosis; 7. The need of co-ordination of anti-tuberculosis measures; Part II. Conditions of Infection: 1. On the limits of infection by phthisis; 2. The susceptibility of tuberculosis under different conditions; 3. On certain bodily conditions resisting phthisis; Section III. Researches: 1. The influence of iodoform on the body-weight in phthisis; 2. On intrapulmonary injections; 3. Notes on the treatment of phthisis by pure oxygen and ozonised oxygen; 4. On certain conditions that modify the virulence of the bacillus of tubercle; 5. On re-infection in phthisis; 6. On certain media for the cultivation of the bacillus of tubercle; 7. The tubercle bacillus as a saprophyte; Section IV. Chiefly Statistical: 1. Some evidence respecting tubercular infective areas; 2. Tuberculosis and leprosy: a parallel and a prophecy; 3. The prospect of abolishing tuberculosis; 4. The public-house as a source of phthisis; 5. Phthisis-rates: their significance and their teaching; Appendix I; Appendix II; Index.