Surgical Tuberculosis.
—In a series of lectures recently delivered by Mr. Howard Marsh at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, he gives the results of his own experience in the treatment of this disease:As regards the general group of tubercular diseases met with in surgery, when they are detected early and are adequately treated by prolonged rest, in not more than 10 per cent, do they develop to any formidable degree. It is a rule with but few exceptions in the lecturer's experience that when, for example, a knee or an elbow, which is the seat of tubercular disease of less than three months' duration, is enclosed in well-fitted splints and is kept at rest, the case gives no further real trouble, and improvement, though slow, goes on until the joint is apparently free from disease, while after a longer period of rest complete recovery is secured. The