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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 Excerpt:... of the Marine Hospital Sanatorium at Fort Stanton, N. Мех., shows that since it was opened, in 1899, 56 deaths from pulmonary hemorrhage have occurred there. All of the subjects were under treatment for tuberculosis of the lungs, and together they constitute a little more than 10 per cent of the total mortality from that disease. The histories of all cases, where the hemorrhage was not immediately fatal, were passed upon by three medical officers before being admitted to this series, the facts in each case being considered sufficient to place hemorrhage in a causal relation to death. Instances where hemorrhage may have sown a new crop of tubercles throughout the lung, death occurring several weeks later from a rapid extension of disease, have not been included, nor has death been ascribed to hemorrhage in any instance simply because it was a sequence of that accident. Two fatalities from ruptured aortic aneurism occurring in tuberculous patients are also omitted. Age. All patients at Fort Stanton are adult males, the great majority between the ages of 20 and 50 years. Referring to the table above it will be seen that variation in the frequency of deaths from hemorrhage corresponds fairly closely with that of the total number of deaths from tuberculosis of the lungs in each age period. 115 (1399) Fourteen per cent of all patients gave a history of syphilis, although the disease rarely appears in active form here. The preliminary observation to which they are subjected in the local marine-hospitals before being transferred is helpful in eliminating nontuberculous complications. Fifteen per cent of all those who died and 16 per cent of all those who had pulmonary hemorrhages were syphilitic, from which we may conduele that a previous infecti...