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The two texts reproduced below were written at a time when tuberculosis figured among the great deadly scourges, sparking a scientific literature that was probably even more prolific for medicines near powerlessness in fighting them. The texts were each written by identically matched pairs of tuberculosis specialists: on the English side, German Sims Woodhead, professor of pathology at Cambridge University, and his former assistant, Pendrill Varrier-Jones, at the time responsible for combating tuberculosis in Cambridgeshire; on the French side, Dumarest and Vigné are respectively head physician and former house physician at the Hauteville sanatorium in the administrative department of Ain. Woodhead and Varrier-Jones's volume gathers several articles they had written as far back as 1917. The text quoted here came from a paper that initially appeared in The Lancet, a weekly scientific journal, like Paris Médical, which printed Dumarest and Vigné’s contribution ( Fig. 1), but older and more prestigious. (RA)
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