A plea for the more general use of tuberculin by the profession : being the address given at the Annual Meeting of the Dermatological Society of Great Britain and Ireland, May 24th, 1905 / by Dr. McCall Anderson, Regius Professor of Medicine in the University of Glasgow.

  • Anderson, McCall, 1836-1908.
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1905
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    A Plea for the more general use of Tuberculin by the Profession. When the Council of this Society on a former occasion did me the honour of inviting me to give the address at their Annual Meeting, I was re- luctantly compelled, owing to the pressure of other work, to forego the pleasure of complying with their request. I am therefore very sensible of their kindness and consideration in again giving me an opportunity of doing so. For to me it is always a source of pleasure and satisfaction to meet my professional brethren, gathered together from different parts of the country, to discuss with them some of the knotty problems encountered in our daily work, and to learn from one another how these can best be solved. My own interest in Dermatology was first aroused in 1859, when, at Vienna, I sat at the feet of Hebra, who was at once one of the clearest, most interesting, and most attractive of clinical teachers, and one of the most genial of men. At that time the profession at large took little interest