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Prepared and edited by the VA Department of Medicine and Surgery, Central Office, Washington, D.C., and the St. Louis area Medical Office. Price, not given. Pp. 479, with many tables and figures. U.S. Veterans Administration, Department of Medicine and Surgery, Washington 25, D.C., 1959.

Charles W. Gray, M.D., Reviewer

AMA Arch Intern Med. 1959;104(6):1052.

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The Veterans Administration Department of Medicine and Surgery, the three Armed Forces, and several other organizations have engaged in a well-coordinated cooperative study of the chemotherapy of tuberculosis since the close of World War II. The 18th Conference was held in St. Louis, in February, 1959. This paper-bound volume is a complete transcript of fifty papers presented there along with spontaneous discussions and comments—sometimes of more worth than the formal presentations—thirty-one papers read by title, and committee reports which deal largely with future study plans. This conference had world-wide representation and can be expected to continue to exert a major influence in tuberculosis practice.

The Transactions are devoted chiefly to drug therapy for tuberculosis—primarily pulmonary, of course—but they touch on several extra-thoracic forms of the disease as well. Other modalities of treatment, especially resectional surgery, receive attention. Several good papers are devoted to laboratory methods and the bacteriology of the . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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