Arizona republican., 1891-07-16
TRANSMITTED DISEASES.
Cow's MIR a Common Medirm for Many
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the COW should have fresh pure food and water for the reason that she is liable when thirsty to drink. from the vilest of cesspools and stagnant water full of poi. sonous germs. There is no doubt but that these germs are at times transmit ted by the milk or butter to the person using it.
 There are hundreds of instances on record where the most deadly diseases have been transmitted to whole neigh borhood by COWS drinking contaminated water One case in New Hampshire will be remembered where typhoid fever broke out and nearly everyone in the vicinity was sick with it. It was exceed ingly fatal and every effort was made to ascertain the cause of the contagion. It was in hilly country, with the best of drainage and no stagnant water any where. The drinking water seemed of the best. All the cows of the neighbor- hood drank from clear mountain stream. The brook was low and the water was thought to be pure. Yet nearly everyone who used milk from COWS which drank from that brook was stricken down with typhoid fever. At last dry COW was missed. A search re- vealed her carcass in the brook near its source where it had been polluting the water for six weeks or two months.
 Cows milk is very peculiar, unstable thing. It is half way between vegetable and animal matter. It is compound made up of many different ingredients in which many low microscopic forms or germs of both animal and vegetable life can live and multiply. Their spores are transmitted to the milk from impure water drank by the COW. Milk is one of the most palatable, nutritious foods that we use uncooked. Thorough cooking of food destroys nearly every form of dis ease germ. We all know that that dread disease trichina spiralis is from the pig in raw pork. Pork carrying trichina if thoroughly cooked may be eaten without danger. The Germans are fond of raw pork and many die of trichinosis. Other people rarely do. Hence the Germans make great ado, over this one feature of pork as food.
 The American hog. is kept out of Ger many from fear that the peasants will eat it raw and die. Yet hundreds of thousands of Germans in this country eat all the raw pork they wish and the result is that about thousandth part of per cent. of them die annually from trichinosis.
 Any scientific physician who is posted in the matter will say that the product of the COW kills as many people perhaps as all other diseases combined. The thousands of children between birth and the age of 10 years that die annually are three fourths of them killed by cows milk. The great mortality of children of cities over that of the country is due to impure milk. It is not so much the foul air they breathe as the actual con. tamination of the food and water which they are fed. It has been proven that foul air is not nearly so deadly as foul food. The evidence sustaining this point is beyond controversy, There is one division of Paris where all the dead rats, cats, dogs, cattle, horses and other filth is worked over, boiled, manufac- tured, yet that is the healthiest part of the city. Much proof could be given to show that the stomach is not so well de- tended against deadly germs as the lungs. It is generally conceded by men of science that both typhoid fever and consumption have their origin in the COW. Consumption is also hereditary. But that does not disprove the milk ar- gument. Here is an illustrations
 A Nebraska stock raiser had "fresh" COW whose milk smelled bad and he did not wish to use it and he turned her out with her calf. She gave more milk than her calf could take and he gave her an- other. The COW died in about ten months from lung disease. One calf died of lung disease when two years old. The other lived to have five calves and then died with consumption. All her calves eventually died of consumption. All of them gave large amounts of milk until near death. If such milk is used it is sure to inoculate the user with the germs of consumption. Dairymen should be careful not to use the milk of diseased cows. The effects of impure milk may not appear in the human system in a generation or two. Unfortunately natures defenses are often torn down and weakened in many ways, leaving the system susceptible to the ravages of disease germs. A man might drink con- taminated milk all his life and his system might be in a condition to resist the disease germs.
 The question arises wherein lies the remedy2 Preventionis the remedy, and it is the only one. veterinary surgeon can determine whether or not COW is in- fected with lung disease, and all such cows should be killed On the other hand we could make sure generally that cows have not access to impure water, and that cows from which the milk is sold in our cities are not fed on rotten slops from distilleries and other un- wholesome food. That cows and human beings have infectious diseases in com mon is proven by the baccilus of small pox being transferable from one to tho other. That most mysterious and fatal disease known as milk sickness, prev alent in some places in the prairie states in early days, was certainly taken into the human system through the medium of cows milk, and 1t is reasonable to suppose that it was taken into the sys- tenn of the COW from drinking stagnant poisonous water rather than by eating certain plant as was popularly thought.
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