Thermotherapy in Experimental Tuberculosis
| Autor: | Emil Bogen |
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| Rok vydání: | 1937 |
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| Zdroj: | Experimental Biology and Medicine. 36:11-16 |
| ISSN: | 1535-3699 1535-3702 |
| DOI: | 10.3181/00379727-36-9097 |
| Popis: | The possible value of various meteorologic factors in the prevention and treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis cannot be determined with certainty from an analysis of the fluctuating morbidity and mortality rates, which are so much more responsive to other influences.1 Methods recently used in the attempt to explain the existing variations in the tuberculosis-rates in different parts of the United States on the basis of climatology would give quite different conclusions if applied to the figures of half a century ago.2An enormous clinical experience has yielded a similar diversity of conclusions. Davos and Saranac Lake, Florida and the Riviera, Asheville and Italy, Colorado and Egypt, offer every combination of altitude, humidity and temperature to the enthusiastic but inconsistent climatologist.3 Human experiments such as afforded by the group who inhabited Mammoth Cave in Kentucky4 or a similar group in Alaska5 have been likewise inconclusive. The effects of artificial hyperpyrexia6 in the treatment of pu... |
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