TY  - JOUR
T1  - "The climatic fallacy" in the treatment of tuberculosis
AU  - Peters LS
Y1  - 1909/01/30
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1909.02540310059018
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 399
EP  - 399
VL  - LII
IS  - 5
N2  - To the Editor: 
    —A curious error appears in your Current Medical Literature columns January 9, page 167. The note on my article in the Illinois Medical Journal of November on the "Climatic Fallacy" refers to an abstract in a preceding issue of The Journal. On turning to that issue, I find that the abstract there given is not that of my article, but of Dr. Pettit's paper, to which mine was a reply, as I hold views entirely different from those of Dr. Pettit. In that article, I have endeavored to show that Dr. Pettit is not justified in stigmatizing as a "fallacy" the assertion of the value of climate in tuberculosis. Permit me to quote the following words from my article:"I am a firm believer in climate. Coming west in a far advanced stage of the disease, and with a laryngeal complication which cost me my voice for
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1909.02540310059018
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.02540310059018
ER  -