The Berlin Tuberculosis Congress (1899).¹ II

Abstract

(Section IV. Therapeutics. Section V. Sanatorium Treatment.)THE fact that 2000 doctors met together and discussed for two days the treatment, using this term in its broadest sense, of phthisis will, to the observant layman, be of evil omen. When a number of remedies or methods o of cure for one disease are all guaranteed by their advocates as being efficacious, the attitude that one at once adopts is one of scepticism. How many doctors would meet together to discuss the treatment of primary syphilis, a disease which can be cured, and how long would it take them to do so if they did? In a multitude of counsellors there may be wisdom, but in a multitude of treatments there is rarely a cure.