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November 25, 1899, Vol XXXIII, No. 22 >
ARTICLE | November 25, 1899

THE TUBERCULIN TEST.

JAMA. 1899;XXXIII(22):1367-1368. doi:10.1001/jama.1899.02450740055016.
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The present antituberculosis agitation seems likely to bring up some questions of medical casuistry, one of which is: Is it justifiable in all cases to use, as a diagnostic method, any measure that may arouse to pernicious activity a latent or quiescent morbid condition? Can we use the tuberculin test with a free hand until we are sure that the results may not be disastrous in certain cases? According to a recent advocate, this possibility is a recommendation rather than an objection. "The patient with tuberculosis active or passive," he says, "is living over a veritable sleeping Vesuvius apt to become active at any time and produce the most fatal results. The test is most valuable which finds the disease earliest." But people do live many years with latent or encysted foci of the disease, suffering nothing from it and spreading no contagion, and may even live out their natural

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