On the Dissemination of the Tubercle Bacillus in Coughing

J. J. CURRY
1898 Boston Medical and Surgical Journal  
be correspondingly brighter, although usually there is much diminished acuity." Further on, Dr. Jones adds : " Sir Thomas Grainger Stewart writing to me on November 11, 1897, stated that he referred to this condition ten or twelve years ago in relation to giddiness, and he then regarded agoraphobia as co-related with cliff or tower giddiness, the patient having somehow learnt to depend for his special equilibration upon visual impressions of lateral objects, aud the absence of such impressions
more » ... roduces the symptoms." Westphal in 1872 described this condition and he characterized it as a neurosis allied to as twenty-seven and twenty-eight tubercle bacilli were found iu the larger drops. Of course, this is a very small number of cases, but the results correspoud to what we would expect to find. In the hard, open-mouth cough large-sized drops are thrown from the trachea up against the palate The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal as published by The New England Journal of Medicine. Downloaded from nejm.org at SAN DIEGO (UCSD) on July 3, 2016. For personal use only. No other uses without permission. From the NEJM Archive.
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