Thoracic Surgery

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TuberculosisThe past four years, the first of the streptomycin era, have seen great changes in the surgical treatment of tuberculosis. Many of these undoubtedly represent progress. As a general rule, they have been along the lines of widening indications and reducing hazards of resection. A brake to enthusiasm, however, is provided by the words of Morriston Davies,103 speaking before the Thoracic Society of Great Britain in 1948:There always has been and will be the feeling of necessity to show one's erudition by doing something. In the past it was incantations and the brewing of loathsome concoctions: then venesection: . . .