International Congress on Tuberculosis

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The International Congresses on Tuberculosis are a series of international medical conferences on the communicable disease tuberculosis,

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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.^[1] 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:

• Volume I, Part I
• Volume I, Part II
• Volume III
• Volume VI, Part I
• Volume VI, Part II
• 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.^[1]

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1. ^ ^{a b} Knopf, Sigard Adolphus (1922), A History of the National Tuberculosis Association: The Anti-Tuberculosis Movement in the United States, New York: The National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, p. 141, OCLC 3172774, <http://books.google.com/books?id=ldw9MrxLjUIC&printsec=titlepage#PPA141,M1>