Figures quoted a French professor 2t the British Medical Association Conference at Glasgow recently of the high percentages of teulty diagnosis will be read with is¢ by ihe ordinary public, a Homo paper.
The subject under discussion was tuberculosis. Professor Enst, of Paris, said failures to diagnose correctly lung tuberculosis as dis_ tinct from other respiratory diseases 1 forced upon the profession all over the civilized world the recognition of the urgent need for remodelling diagnostic method:.
Proceeding to quote his experience while serving in the war, the professor said that in the sumner and autumn of 1918, at the Laennee Hospital for troops stationed in Paris of 382 men who had been sent as suffering from the disease Only 37, or 10 per cent. had lung, tuberculosis, and 283 were certainly not tuberculous.
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