THE NECESSITY OF FIXED CRITERIA IN THE STUDY OF THE THERAPEUTICS OF TUBERCULOSIS.
LOUIS FAUGÈRES BISHOP · JAMA · 1897
There is nothing more trying in the search after truth in therapeutics than the absence of fixed criteria. Much as this is felt in every department of medicine, in the field of tuberculosis it becomes fairly disheartening. The therapeutics of tuberculosis has been so widely extended with really so few points at which it has been advanced, that we need above all things at the present time to study it in general, apart from its application to single cases. In other departments of human knowledge there are works that take up a subject itself apart from its relations. There is a grammar of grammars. There is a chemic philosophy. There are books on pure mathematics. Some one is needed who, abstracting himself from the advocacy of any particular method, will lay down a standard to which all methods can be brought for measurement. It is not intended at the present