Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Harvard Medical Students

Abstract

DESPITE the marked fall in recent years in the morbidity and mortality due to pulmonary tuberculosis and despite advances in its early diagnosis and treatment, tuberculous infection of the lung remains the most serious medical problem that confronts the medical student. Although for more than a century European clinicians had been aware of an apparent high incidence of pulmonary tuberculosis among medical students, it was not until 1930 that Steidl¹ called to the attention of American clinicians the fact that a similar high incidence was being overlooked in American medical schools. Stimulated by Steidl's report, Hetherington and his co-workers² conducted . . .