title: [Prognosis and treatment of tuberculosis in the pre-chemotherapeutical era].
abstract: After discovery of the agent, treatment of tuberculosis was carried out in a variety of ways, the main forms of approach including: 1. Direct action on the bacterium-failed. 2. Influencing the organism by rest and irradiation therapy. 3. Surgical intervention for cavity destruction. 4. Improvement of social conditions. Before surgical intervention was practiced on a large scale prospects for bacteria-excreting patients were very poor, two thirds of them dying within the first 3 years. Where de-bacillization was successful, more than 75 per cent of patients survived 10 years. Nevertheless, none of the forms of treatment had any decisive influence on the tuberculosis situation as a whole.
mesh_terms: D004203:Disinfection / Q000266:history; D004654:Empyema, Tuberculous / Q000601:surgery; D005060:Europe; D006294:Health Resorts / Q000266:history; D006370:Heliotherapy; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D012924:Social Conditions; D013905:Thoracoplasty / Q000266:history; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000266:history / Q000628:therapy*; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000601:surgery
vernacular_title: Die Prognose und Behandlung der Tuberkulose in der vorchemotherapeutischen Ara.