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Originally published in 1915, this book gathers together a collection of papers on tuberculosis by the renowned British epidemiologist Arthur Ransome.
List of contents
Part I. General: 1. Consumption: its causes and its prevention; 2. On the prevention of consumption; 3. Consumption, a 'filth disease'; 4. A crusade against tuberculosis; 5. The need of a standard of efficient ventilation in all workplaces and places of public assembly; 6. Duties of the state in regard to tuberculosis; 7. The need of co-ordination of anti-tuberculosis measures; Part II. Conditions of Infection: 1. On the limits of infection by phthisis; 2. The susceptibility of tuberculosis under different conditions; 3. On certain bodily conditions resisting phthisis; Section III. Researches: 1. The influence of iodoform on the body-weight in phthisis; 2. On intrapulmonary injections; 3. Notes on the treatment of phthisis by pure oxygen and ozonised oxygen; 4. On certain conditions that modify the virulence of the bacillus of tubercle; 5. On re-infection in phthisis; 6. On certain media for the cultivation of the bacillus of tubercle; 7. The tubercle bacillus as a saprophyte; Section IV. Chiefly Statistical: 1. Some evidence respecting tubercular infective areas; 2. Tuberculosis and leprosy: a parallel and a prophecy; 3. The prospect of abolishing tuberculosis; 4. The public-house as a source of phthisis; 5. Phthisis-rates: their significance and their teaching; Appendix I; Appendix II; Index.
About the author
Arthur Michell Ransome (1884 - 1967) was an English author and journalist. He is best known for writing the Swallows and Amazons series of children's books about the school-holiday adventures of children, mostly in the Lake District and the Norfolk Broads. Many of the books involve sailing; fishing and camping are other common subjects. The books remain popular and "Swallows and Amazons" is the basis for a tourist industry around Windermere and Coniston Water, the two lakes Ransome adapted as his fictional North Country lake. He also wrote about the literary life of London and about Russia before, during and after the revolutions of 1917.
Summary
Originally published in 1915, this book gathers together a collection of papers on tuberculosis by the renowned British epidemiologist Arthur Ransome (1834–1922). The papers approach the subject from a number of different viewpoints, encompassing both scientific and public health perspectives, and draw on Ransome's experience of more than fifty years fighting tuberculosis.
