Book excerpt: Excerpt from Rational Treatment Pulmonary Tuberculosis T o the physician the terms pulmonary tuberculosis and pulmonary phthisis are synonymous, tuberculosis being the cause of phthisis. Among the laity, however, a shade of difference. In the meanings of these two expressions is still recognized. The phthisical subject or consumptive is one whose tuberculous condition is plainly apparent even to the uninitiated, while the tuberculous subject is a patient who is as yet phthisical only to the medical man. As the lay man is accustomed to believing in the existence of phthisis only when the disease is apparent to every one, he will not always allow himself to be convinced of the gravity of the case when a physician diagnosticates pulmonary disease in. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.