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THE first step in the rational treatment of every malady is obviously the recognition of its cause, and it is this recognition which enables medical men to do battle against disease. It is a truism to say that as regards infectious maladies the knowledge of their cause is an essential step in preventing their spread and arresting their ravages. The malady known as tuberculosis, and generally characterised by constitutional disturbance associated with the production of minute nodular new-growths in the various organs, especially the lungs, spleen, lymphatic glands, serous membranes, the membranes of the brain, liver, &c.—[at first greyish and transparent, but afterwards becoming opac and degenerating into a yellowish-looking débris, and hereby implicating and destroying the organs in which they are located]—has been shown to be an infectious malady communicable from one human being to another, from man to animal, and from animal to animal.
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KLEIN, E. The Cause of Tuberculosis . Nature 26, 13–15 (1882). https://doi.org/10.1038/026013b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/026013b0