“… It is now, however, the general opinion of all those who are acquainted with the actual state of our knowledge respecting the pathology of diseases that the tubercular affection, like cancer, is absolutely incurable, inasmuch as nature's efforts toward effecting a cure are injurious, and those of art are useless. …”—R.T.H. Laennec, 1821.
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