Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-09-15
CONSUMPTION CONGRESS,
Results of the Meeting Recently Held In
Paris

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From the special report for the Medica
f'seo'd We Gull the points Of general inter
est IN the proceedings of the first tire,
days; leaving three days more and the
summary OF conclusions for another mum
ber
M. Ferneuil referred to the Importance
OF the scientific cooperation of physician,
and veterinarians, as exemplifcd in this
meeting, and hoped that it would be bu:
the beginning of series of works in which
the two professions would be united in do
ing battle to number of diseases common
to man and the lower animals
| One of the most important facts which
have been proven by experiment IS that
the tubercle bacillus may penetrate-tb
unbroken mucous membrane. This had
been shown in the case of the lungs and OF
the intestinal tract
In view of the great difficulty in recog-
nlzing mammary tuberculosis in COWS. It
was safe to look upon all raw milk wish
suspicion, until rendered lnnocuous by boil
ing. With goats milk, however, no such
precaution was necessary, for tuberculous
goat was one of the rarest curiosities.
The temperature to which beef was ordi-
narlly exposed in the process of cooking has
been shown to be insufficient to DESTROY the
bacilli. Experiments made by feeding
diseased meat TO guinea-pigs show that 20
per cent. of the animals became tuber-
culous.
M. Butel believed that a large proper
ton of sufferers from phthisis acquired the
disease through the ingestion of infected
meat
Nj. Neyssiere had seized very fat and
apparently well-conditioned COW on &C
count of a local tuberculosis, and had in
jected some of the juice expressed from
the meat into two rabbits. Both animals
died, and an examination showed the pres
ence of tubercular alterations in the lungs
and liver.
NJ. Moule referred. to the danger of in
lection by eating the flesh of tuberculous
poultry. Domestic fowls were very fire.
quently the subject of tuberculosis. Pate
de-foie-gras was especially dangerous, being
In some cases almost pure culture of tu-
bercle bacilli
M. Villain said that the proportion of
tuberculous animals brought to the abat-
tors of Paris was about six in a thousand
head; yet (said NJ. Butel) only eleven had
been condemned out of 100000 slaughtered
in 1888.
A resolution was proposed to the effect
that, in the opinion of the Congress, all
animals affected in any degree with tuber-
culosis should be seized and condemned as
unfit for food. This resolution was carried
with only three dissenting votes.
NJ. Solles read paper on new micro
organism found in the lungs of phthisical
patients. When this organism was intro
duced into the circulation of rabbits, the
animals died with disease very distinct
from tuberculosis, but with constant and
characteristic LESSONS. This microbe could
also be propagated by cultures from the
blood of consumptive patients. 1t was dis
tinct from the tubercle bacillus of Koch,
as was shown by the fact that it did not
take up Ehrlich's stain.
Nj. Chantemesse presented the results of
experiments to determine the persistence
of tubercle bacilli in river water 1t was
found that the micro-organisms were still
present at the end of seven weeks. M.
Arloing also reported experiments of NM.
Galtier and Cadeac, wherein pieces of tu-
berculous tissues were placed IN the bot
tom of a flask in which was maintained a
stream of running water of a temperature
of about 60' L. 1t was found that the
heterogeneous were still active at the
end of six weeks. In stagnant water the
virulence was preserved for seventeen or
eighteen weeks.