The Story of Clinical Pulmonary Tuberculosis

ix, 411 pp. 8vo. A history of clinical pulmonary tuberculosis by one of the foremost American specialists, edited from his notes and published posthumously. Bibliography and index follow text. Garrison-Morton 3243. Heirs of Hippocrates 603.5 (describing Richard Morton's work on the subject): "In reviewing the development of knowledge, Lawrason Brown notes that by the closing years of the seventeenth century 'nothing was known concerning phthisis before the stage of ulceration… [and that the first noteworthy advance was made by] Richard Morton… who published in 1689 his famous Phthisiologia. In this work he described the evolution of the tubercle, stating that the ulceration proceeded from the tubercle which, he considered, arose from glands' (Story of clinical pulmonary tuberculosis, 11)."