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Tuberculosis in Aging Adults
Author(s) -
Yoshikawa Thomas T.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
journal of the american geriatrics society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.992
H-Index - 232
eISSN - 1532-5415
pISSN - 0002-8614
DOI - 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1992.tb01941.x
Subject(s) - medicine , tuberculosis , affection , cancer , gerontology , pathology , epistemology , philosophy
“… It is now, however, the general opinion of all those who are acquainted with the actual state of our knowledge respecting the pathology of diseases that the tubercular affection, like cancer, is absolutely incurable, inasmuch as nature's efforts toward effecting a cure are injurious, and those of art are useless. …”—R.T.H. Laennec, 1821. 1