CERTAIN ASPECTS OF NATURAL AND ACQUIRED RESISTANCE TO TUBERCULOSIS

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In choosing so shopworn a subject as tuberculosis, I have before me the fact that the progress of scientific theory and practice is dependent less on rapidity than on direction of movement; less on the quantitative accumulation of information than on the proper interpretation and correlation of what is actually in hand. Of the information which has been brought together concerning tuberculosis, much is contradictory; much lacks coordination with other data; not a little has been the product of commercial stimulus. The task before the lecturer is best fulfilled by indicating existing gaps, rectifying misinterpretations, pointing out the inadequate support by science to many accepted doctrines, rather than by rehearsing what is either well known or accessible in the literature of the subject. In dealing with so intricate a theme, on which so much has been written and which has been approached experimentally and clinically from so many different angles,

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