TUBERCULOSIS AND FIGHT AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS IN THE EARLY YEARS OF THE REPUBLIC, WRITTEN BY DR. SERVER KÂMİL TOKGÖZ
DOKTOR SERVER KÂMİL TOKGÖZ’ÜN KALEMİNDEN CUMHURİYETİN İLK YILLARINDA VEREM VE VEREMLE MÜCADELE

Author : Nuran ÖZLÜK
Number of pages : 50-61

Abstract

Involving various organs but mostly known as the damage on the lungs, tuberculosis is one of the diseases that cause death of mankind throughout centuries. Tuberculosis is still maintaining its importance and fatal effect across the World and it appears in our literary work as a reflection of reality in the era and also used for educational/informative purposes in articles, booklets and sometimes written as a subject of the work itself. One of these works is Verem Hakkında Öğütlerim (My Advices about Tuberculosis) written by Bacteriology Specialist Dr.Server Kâmil Tokgöz -the founding chairman and chief physician of Heybeliada Sanatorium Chest Hospital and Chest Surgery Training and Research Hospital- which was written and distributed free of charge in 1928. The aim of this study is, to reveal the approach to tuberculosis in 1928 and bring it to the attention of specialists especially on chest diseases, infectious diseases and clinical microbiology in order to compare the scientific knowledge and experiences.

Keywords

Tuberculosis, Dr. Server Kâmil Tokgöz, chest diseases, infectious diseases and clinical microbiology

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