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With increasing consumption of tobacco the number of deaths caused by respiratory carcinoma is growing. There was, however, not found any shortening of the duration of life. Other neoplasms, heart and vascular diseases and all the other kinds of disease are distributed in the four groups of smokers without any evident influences of smoking.
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.
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