XII. 



TUBERCULOSIS.* 



MY views on the subject of tuberculosis are based on exami- 

 nations of two hundred corpses in which tuberculosis 

 existed. In a number of these cases death had resulted from 

 other diseases, and tuberculosis was a secondary condition.! A 

 recapitulation of the literature of this subject is found in the 

 excellent book of L. Waldenburg.| 



Nobody who, to-day, undertakes to discuss the question of the 

 formation of tubercle would be allowed to dwell only upon the 

 theory of tubercle. On the contrary, he would be bound to con- 

 sider the former views, and to present the anatomical facts, in 

 order to demonstrate the admissibility of separating the tuber- 

 culous granulation from tuberculous infiltration. This cannot be 

 accomplished simply by a description. Rokitansky has settled 

 the descriptive part in such a manner that scarcely anything is 

 left to be said. The views brought forward here are based 

 entirely upon my own observation j they, to some extent, must be 

 eclectic and polemical. An answer to the question what the 



* Translated from "Ueber Tuberkelbildung." Wiener Med. JahrMcher, 

 1874. 



tlwas able to perform the post-mortem examinations in the dead-house of 

 the Wieden-hospital in Vienna, thanks to the kindness of the curator, Dr. 

 Quiquerez. After the publication of my essay, I made one hundred more 

 examinations of tuberculous bodies, the sum total being, therefore, three 

 hundred. 



t u Die Tuberculose, die Lungenschwindsucht, und Scrofulose." Berlin, 

 1869. 



