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THE Congress, which has just brought its proceedings to a close, was not, as has been frequently stated in the medical and lay press, an International Congress; it was a German Congress to which foreign delegates and communications were invited. The mass of communications were made in German, this being the official language of the Congress; a few, some half-dozen, in English and French. The necessity, or at any rate advisability, of discoursing in German, may account for the very meagre manner in which English medicine was represented either privately or officially. It seemed somewhat anomalous that the staff of only one London con sumption hospital (the North London) was represented at the Congress. Further, the English doctors practising at foreign health resorts, who probably have unrivalled opportunities for observing the different phases of consumption, and the influence of treatment upon them amongst better class patients, were for the most part conspicuous by their absence. This nonchalance is to be regretted, especially as the hygienic treatment of phthisis, a relatively, at any rate in its systematic form, new development, occupied some 50 per cent, of the whole time of the Congress.
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TUNNICLIFFE, F. The Berlin Tuberculosis Congress (1899). Nature 60, 108–109 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/060108a0
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