WRONG DIAGNOSIS

Evening Star, Issue 18032, 28 July 1922, Page 4

WRONG DIAGNOSIS

MEDICAL MEN’S ERRORS.

FRENCH PROFESSOR’S ASSERTIONS,

Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright.

LONDON, July 27. (Received July 28, at 11.40 a.m.) Professor Hist, of Paris, speaking before the British Medical Association at, Glasgow, said that when he was consultant to the French army 382 men were sent to him allegedly suffering from lung tuberculosis. At a matter of fact only thirtyeeven had the disease. Twenty-two cases could not be diagnosed, and 238 certainly had not tuberculosis. ■

I The discrepancies illustrated in these I figures, said Professor Rist, were univeri gal. Many non-consumptives were committed to" grave expense by improper treatment. If a doctor could not find the bacilli he should search for another ! disease to account for the symptoms. ! Wrong diagnosis was a feature of medical i work all over the world.—A. and N.Z. Cable.