Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Harvard Medical Students

Authors:
  • HBHenry P. Brean
    Henry P. Brean
  • LKLewis W. Kane
    Lewis W. Kane
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Abstract
DESPITE the marked fall in recent years in the morbidity and mortality due to pulmonary tuberculosis and despite advances in its early diagnosis and treatment, tuberculous infection of the lung remains the most serious medical problem that confronts the medical student. Although for more than a century European clinicians had been aware of an apparent high incidence of pulmonary tuberculosis among medical students, it was not until 1930 that Steidl1 called to the attention of American clinicians the fact that a similar high incidence was being overlooked in American medical schools. Stimulated by Steidl's report, Hetherington and his co-workers2 conducted . . .