RT Journal
T1 SPread of tuberculosis by means of sputum and fine droplets expelled during coughing.
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1899
FD April 15
VO XXXII
IS 15
SP 827
OP 828
DO 10.1001/jama.1899.02450420035003
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1899.02450420035003
AB About a year and a half ago Flügge1 of Breslau called attention to the fact that our knowledge concerning the dangers of infection connected with the sputum of tuberculous patients needed many additions. In the first place, it could not be said that it was definitely established that dried sputum can cause tuberculosis from inhalation of the resulting dust. Secondly, he had shown that the fine droplets which are expelled during coughing by tuberculous patients play a certain rôle in the spread of the disease.Recently a number of experimental studies bearing upon the manner in which tuberculosis is spread have been published from Flügge's laboratory.2Flügge himself gives a short summary of the principal facts which these experimental studies have established. Some of these studies deal with the dangers of the dried tuberculous sputum, and after having considered all the facts in the case, Flügge concludes that