International Congress on Tuberculosis

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

Sixth

The Sixth International Congress on Tuberculosis was a held in Washington, D. C. in the United States from 28 September to 5 October 1908. It was planned, fundraised, and coordinated by the 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 now the American Lung Association.

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]

References

1 2 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

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