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Early
Diagnosis of Tuberculosis
Q. How may tuberculosis be known at the outset?
A. Since consumption is so difficult of cure in its
advanced stages it is important to know if there is any means by which the
disease may be discovered in its incipiency. The physical diagnosis has been so
far perfected that it is now possible for well trained experts to discover the
very beginnings of the tubercular disease even in the absence of cough,
emaciation and other prominent symptoms which characterize the more advanced
stages of this grave malady. Such experts are, however, comparatively few in
number, but the recent advances in the methods of x-ray examinations have made
it possible for a good roentgenologist to discover the earliest beginnings of
the disease and also to discover evidences of old diseased processes which
have passed through their various stages and finally healed.