Etiology of tubercle, with comments on Doctor Robert Kochs bacilli / by Henry Mac Cormac.

  • M'Cormac, Henry, 1800-1886.
Date:
1882
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Credit: Etiology of tubercle, with comments on Doctor Robert Kochs bacilli / by Henry Mac Cormac. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    jPr* Ma°Cok“acs theory has much to sustain it. The practical proofs merit the deepest consideration.”—Virchow, Archiv, xi. ‘ This is the very latest English work on the subject, and we hazard little pl° be^‘ S° m,u,cl1 medical loSic and common sense are rarely met with. —Reese, American Medical Gazette. •p . We hesitate to accept the Mac Cormac Law in its absolute exclusiveness. Eut it would be an immense step if his honest, vehement outspeaking could be Gazette t0 eVei7 master aud mistress in these Islands.”—Medical Times f “Positive good must arise from the diffusion of his doctrines in every clime, and among aU ranks of mankind. The chapter on Prevention is so ad- mirably calculated to do positive good, that we earnestly urge it on the attention of our readers. In fine, the work is most able, exhaustive and convincing.”— Medical Press § Circular. 5 “ We commend the translation of this important work to the best attention of German practitioners. The chapter on the Cause and Prevention of the malady is of the utmost moment.”—Virchow, Arcliiv, xv. (Second Notice.) a tbeoJ.y s?ua<^> consumption may be always prevented, often cured, the decimation of infants reduced one-half, and the general mortality one-fourth by the annihilation of this great scourge of the human race.”— Boston Medical and Surgical Journal. ~ rp , doctrine B'iv.es necessity the right to a discovery of the true cause of lubercular Consumption, and of the only rational treatment of the malady ” —Gaz. des Hopitaux. 1 “ These and many other facts prove the soundness of the practice for the enthusiastic advocacy of which both the profession and the public are greatly indebted to Dr. Mac Cormac.” . . “ A philanthropic disposition no less than vast erudition is reflected from every page of his Book, and we commend it to the careful perusal of the profession.”— Dublin Medical Quarterly. “Tubercle, Dr. Mac Cormac explains, consists of non-oxidised carbon- aceous matters as owing to the respiration of a corrupt atmosphere. Perfect ventilation he esteems the surest prophylactic. This view is sustained by statistical evidence and the history of cases. The work abounds with numerous citations and evinces deep research. We commend it to the attention of practi- tioners. Zeitschrift fur Praktische Heilkunde, 1866, Hi. Heft. The Authors strenuous conviction that Consumption and Scrofula are oc- casioned by the respiration of foul air and averted by the respiration of pure an-, has induced me to make Dr. Mac Cormacs work known not onlv to the medical but the general public of our Fatherland.”—Preface to Hoffmanns German lranslation. Erlangen. Dr. Mac Cormac sustains a theory which physiology and micro-chemical research, we trust shall speedily establish throughout Holland.”—Preface to Praegers Dutch Translation. S’Gravenhage.