Tuberculosis in Mexicans: learning from the past to provide lessons for the present.

摘要

Benjamin goldberg, a dedicated physician working at the Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium of Chicago, Illinois, and a member of the Department of Pathology at the University of Illinois College of Medicine, was a pioneer in introducing early accounts of the public health challenges imposed by a new racial "type": Mexicans. His 1929 Journal article, excerpted here, was originally read before the American Public I lealth Association's Vital Statistics Section at the association's 57th annual meeting, held in Chicago, Illinois, on October 18, 1928.