A Campaign against Consumption

Table of Contents

• 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.
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