Excerpt from Edinburgh Medical Journal: With Which Is Incorporated the Scottish Medical and Surgical Journal Practically, the study of the primary sore in tuberculosis is more difficult than in syphilis because it seldom occurs on a skin surface. Through a mucous surface the tb. Passes more readily and causes less reactive disturbance. The mucous surfaces being largely hid from View, attention has hitherto been little directed to the point. Much time and effort have been expended on an attempt to show by what channel the tb. Primarily enters the system. An unnecessarily sharp line has been drawn between inoculation by way of inhalation and inoculation by way of ingestion. The outcome of collective observation seems to be that inoculation of the human subject occurs by varying channels in different cases. While this is so, the great vulnerability of the tonsillar region, including the posterior nares and the fauces, is worthy of special note. The most Significant tonsil in the introduction of tuberculosis is not necessarily that which presents most obvious change. In childhood such mucous surfaces are especially absorbent and succulent, and hence doubtless the greater frequency of infection in childhood. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.