The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-10
A new Use FOR LYMPH.
High Hopes Are Entertained for the
Result When Injected Into
Cattle.
Efforts to Prevent Consumption by
Freeing the Bovine Family
From It.
Plans to be Pursued at the University OF
Pennsylvania Explained to Assem-
bled Physicians.

The problem of how to eradicate tuber'
sulosis from the human race was attacked
under entirely new circumstances yester'
day by the lymph commission of the veter'
mary department Of the university of Penn
sylvania, who began the test of their theory
by treating three COWS to as many injec-
tions Of DR.. Koch's lymph. says the Phlla-
delphia Record. 1t is intended to eradicate
consumption from the bovine family, and
thus remove the creative power of tubercul-
osis in mankind, on the theory that cows
milk induces the disease.
The operations began at l O'Clock in the
lecture room of the veterinary department,
and in the presence Of a score OF visitors
and the second and third year students of
the department. Two emaciated fawn-
colored Jersey COWS were brought in
to the room, and the members of
the commission gathered around DIR.
Lands carrying a pair of horse-clippers,
DR.. Marshall carefully guarding a half ounce
bottle of the brownish mysterious liquid IN
one hand and carrying a glass syringe In
the other, while DIR. Zuill was empty
handed, but ROBBED in his white demonstrat-
ing apron.
On a table lay the lungs Of a COW that
had died of tuberculosis, exhibiting masses
of the deadly tuberoules. While an attend
ant held the coughing animals by the horns.
DR.. Zuill prefaced the operations by . lew
explanatory remarks. 1T is a proven TACT,
he said, shat wherever the bovine family
is not domesticated by man, consumption
is unknown, and it is certainly true that
wherever any members of this family have
been domesticated n their products used
CONSUMPTION, follows on: and, furthermore,
where a community that is free from tuber-
cnlosis. and that once begins the use of
dairy products, is speedily attacked by con-
sSratistics show that the prevalence of
consumption is directly proportionate to
the number of cattle IN a community, ana
instances of this are abundant. Inc
rrerate large numbers of cattle, and it is a
fact that tho ravapes Of consum ption are
devastating the race. The Jersey COW, to
be true, must be of a conventional color,
the fawn; this requires lnbreedlnR 1or a
long time, and the breed has become con
stitutionally weak n subject TO tuoercu-
losis.
The ravaQes of consumption among tribes
on the coast of Africa are terrible, while in
the interior, where the presence OF a ny, the
~tse-tse, whose bite is fatel to all cattle, pre-
vents the domestication OF cows, the
scourge is unknown. In where
there ID one COW to every one and one-thlrd
men, three people in every thousand die OF
CONSUMPTION. In Iceland, where the COW
is seldom used, GU, of BAT cases of constl-
~tutional chest disease, but three were oW-
ing to tuberculosis. When, however, Ice
landers immigrate to Denmark, they are no
longer free from the disease.
1T is estimated that 80 per cent. of the
causes of consumption originate from the
use of dairy products. Our plan is to free
the human race from the scourge by re-
moving it's cause. We propose to investi-
gate the value of the lymph in three lines
as a curative agent. as a diagnosing agent,
and as an agent to secure immunity from
disease. We have here two COWS that un-
doubtedly have consumption, and one IN
which no signs of tuberculosis can be
found, either by auscultation or by percus-
sion, but which shows visible signs OF the
disease. In the first two the test Will be OF
the curative power of the lymph; in the
third case we wish to test its value as an
agent of diagnosis, and afterwards as an
agent of immunity. Temperatures will be
hourly taken and injections made on the
dav following each reaction"
DR.. Lands then clipped the hair from a
directly in front of the spatula. This be-
ing a great center of curative tissue, it was
thought to be the most favorable place for
the Injection. The bare spot WAS then
washed with an antiseptic solution, During
his operation DIR. Marshall had half filed
a dropping tube with the lymph and count
ed five drops into a vessel, after which it
was diluted With a thousand times its bulk
of carbolized water.
The solution was then ready for injection
and, after it was drawn into the ~syringe,
DR.. Zuill applied the nozzle to the bare
spot on the cows neck. There was a quar-
ter minute struggle and the injection was
complete.
The other animals were then similarly
treated. No reaction is expected before
early this morning, and it will take several
months to determine the value of the ex-
pertinent. The amount of lymph was 100
times that used for man.