TY  - JOUR
T1  - SOme needs in the fight against tuberculosis
Y1  - 1909/02/20
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1909.02540340037006
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 639
EP  - 640
VL  - LII
IS  - 8
N2  - Even the most optimistic among us, and those who are most encouraged by the results so far obtained in the prevention of tuberculosis, realize that as yet we have invaded only the confines of the territory to be conquered. When one reads of antituberculosis societies, sanatoria, dispensaries, and classes, an impression of the magnitude of our armament in the struggle against tuberculosis is gained which is misleading to those who are not in actual contact with the work. It is certainly not realized as yet by the public, and probably not understood by many physicians, that in the average large city of to-day the patient with advanced tuberculosis is almost an outcast. The sanatoria, naturally enough, desire to receive only patients who have the disease in a stage early enough to permit of probable recovery. The general hospitals, on the other hand, properly object to placing patients with advanced tuberculosis
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1909.02540340037006
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.02540340037006
ER  -