Abstract
THE treatment of phthisis, as Dr. Wingfield points out in his preface, has been so largely taken over by special hospitals that the medical student at a general hospital has little opportunity for studying the disease. A brief course of instruction at a special institution is essential, and to assist the student in taking full advantage of it, this text-book has been produced. It gives sufficient attention to detail without being too long and exhaustive for easy study. The subject of treatment naturally fills a large section of the book; the student and general practitioner tend too frequently to consider this a matter entirely for the specialist, and to neglect the fact that the mode of life prescribed and learned at the sanatorium has to be carried out later under the supervision of the family doctor. It is of interest to observe that treatment by gold compounds has not been so entirely abandoned as was once thought, and that sanoerysin does seem to have a limited sphere of usefulness. The book is very well illustrated by radiographs and temperature charts.
A Text-Book of Pulmonary Tuberculosis: for Students.
R. C.
Wingfield
By. Pp. xvi + 401. (London: Constable and Co., Ltd., 1929.) 31s. 6d. net.
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A Text-Book of Pulmonary Tuberculosis: for Students . Nature 124, 790 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124790c0
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