International Congress on Tuberculosis
- International Congress on Tuberculosis
The International Congresses on Tuberculosis are a series of international medical conferences on the communicable disease tuberculosis,
6th
The Sixth International Congress on Tuberculosis was a held in Washington, D. C. in the United States from September 28th to October 5th, 1908. It was planned, fundraised, and coordinated by the American National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis.[citation]
last1 = Knopf
first1 = Sigard Adolphus
authorlink1 = Sigard Adolphus Knopf
title = A History of the National Tuberculosis Association: The Anti-Tuberculosis Movement in the United States
publisher = The National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis
year = 1922
location = New York
pages = 505
page = 141
url = http://books.google.com/books?id=ldw9MrxLjUIC&printsec=titlepage#PPA141,M1
oclc = 3172774] Events at the congress were chronicled in the "Transactions of the Sixth International Congress on Tuberculosis", now in the public domain. Some volumes are available on Google Books:
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=Ypxi4uzj2m8C Volume I, Part I]
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=4T0xuJnmkGsC Volume I, Part II]
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=KL7sMbBJHVEC Volume III]
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=t_D2Jxq9exIC Volume VI, Part I]
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=YuBQrtvig0MC Volume VI, Part II]
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=Q172LrbFuH8C Public Lectures: Specially Prepared for the Sixth Internat1onal Congress on Tuberculosis] The American National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis identified this congress as a pivotal event in the founding history of the Association.
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