The Care of Advanced Cases of Pulmonary Tuberculosis: A Plea for Scientific, Practical, and Humane Methods of Eradicating the White Plague


 

Publication Date: January 1907

Publisher:

Author(s): C.D. Spivak

Research Area: Culture and religion; Health; Social conditions

Keywords: social services; health; Jewish texts

Type: Other

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

The author refers to biblical texts in arguing for the role of isolation of patients with advanced tuberculosis as equally fundamental to the eradication of tuberculosis as the treatment of less advanced, curable cases.

In Proceedings of the 4th National Conference of Jewish Charities, 1906, Kohn & Pollack, Inc.