Diagnostic value of the eye reaction of Wolf-Eisner and Calmette with tubercle

A timely diagnosis of the developing pulmonary tubercle is one of the first conditions for a successful fight against this disease. Pulmonary consumption, this scourge of humanity, which annually takes away hundreds of thousands of human lives, is not such an incurable disease and gives a significant percentage of recovery if, under the condition of early recognition, it is possible to put the patient in the appropriate hygienic conditions, as well as in the most hygienic possible. Therefore, this constant aspiration of doctors is quite understandable - on the basis of negligible pathological changes in the body, to be able to diagnose tuberculosis in the very initial stage of its development. But all the methods of determining these so-called early signs of tuberculosis, starting with the finest physical methods and ending with sero- and X-ray diagnostics, do not always enable the doctor to recognize the disease with complete confidence. And to possess this confidence seems to be absolutely necessary for the doctor, since on the basis of his diagnosis the patient often has to bear not only great material costs for the purpose of treatment, but also change the whole way of life of his and his family, change profession, residence, etc.