People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-02-23
TuberculosIs I'm Cows.

IuC iuOSG NOluLuOu uIScdSt VI COWS
IS that known as tuberculosis, more
commonly recognized by the popular
term, consumption. This common
name is given to this disease from
the fact that the various vital organs
implicated are gradually consumed
BIZ q germ that lives at tho expense
of theaissue, and changes it into a
degraded. cheesy, dead mattsr,. which
being gathered i9to,small or dagger
knots or tphrcless gives reason for
the scientific name Of the disease
tuberculosis.
1t is a common belief that this dis
ease affects only. the lungs of an anil
NAL Or a person. The truth is quite
. otherwise. 1t may invade any part
OF the body; the lungs, or their
Serious covering, the pleurR. By
which not only tho lungs but the
whole cavity OF the chest is covered.
and which is frequent seat Of dis
ease; the membrane supporting the
bowels, (the me'entery), the coats
OF the bowels, the throat, the spleen.
the liver, the pancreas, the kidneys.
the ovaries, sometimes the muscles,
and frequently the soft ends of the
bones In female animals the NAM
mary glands. the udder. as it is com
monty known-is frequent seat OF
the disease.
Cattle are more subject TO this dis
ease than other animals, writes
Henry Stuart in COlman's Rural
World. Sheep and swine are the
next in order Of subsection, and
fowls follow after these, but these
last mentioned rarely suffer except
from infection by swallowing the
elected matter from the patients of
hospitals of persons diseased in pri.
vate houses that has been thrown
out where the fowls can pick itup.
The use of the milk Of tuberculOsed
cows, especially when the udder or
the ovaries are the scat of the dis
ease, has been the most effective
means OF communication. And it
has been observed with the utmost
interest by statis:icians and physi-
clans that the deaths OF infants by
consumption have been greatly in
creased since the more general adop-
ton of cows milk for their food.
There are some cows that seem to
have a natural predispOsition to tu-
berculosis. This is due, doubtless.
to inherited conditions, by which
these peculiar features have been
caused, such as the long legs, the
narrow chest, the thin, long neck.
narrow forehead, and the semi-trans-
lucent ears. with a silky softness of
the hair aud thinness of the skin, all
OF these denoting weakness OF cOnsti-
tuition And with these there is a
copious flow OF milk, thin and blush
in color and poor in fats. Such an
animal having any local Inflammation
set up from whatever cause becomes
the easy subject of attack and the
ready victim 20 the best This ma
ural predispOsiticn may be set in &C
tion by various causes that are com
mon to diaries either not we'll man.
aged or carried on under a method by
which the cows are over-stimulated
by high feeding to procure increased
product. The system gives way un.
der either condition, and the disease
attacks the herd in the most insid.
ious manner Thus the high-bred
COWS, bred too closely. so that weak
constitution is inherited, as well as
the town slOp fed herds, in their
wretched, noisome stables, fall vic.
tins to the disease.
The first symptoms OF the disease
are easily apparent Indeed, some
of the worst cases have occurred in
diaries where the owner could
scarcely be convinced OF the truth o.
the announcement of the veterinarian
until the post norton examination,
by which the diseased organs were
plainly corrobOrative Of the diagnosis.
The sick animals may be In the high.
est condition, as easily as in the
lowest The symptoms vary as the
seat OF the disease may. lie cough
and the peculiar mawkish odor OF
the breath, quite different from the
healthy respiration, and the dis
turbed breathing, disclose the fact
that the lungs are effected. The
profuse diarrhea, with general
emaciation, dizziness, large. ex.
ceedingly bright eyes, dryness OF the
nose. and apparent fever and rapid
pulse. indicate that the bowels are
the seat OF the disorder. VII n the
throat is affected the glands are
enlarged, and the dry cough slight,
and seldom noticed, except by the
watchful attendant, afford the testi.
mony to the fact The unnatural
desire for the company Of the
male indicates the disease to be
in the ovaries, in which
case the milk glands usually are in
volved and the milk is wholly unfit
for use. Sometimes the disease ap.
pears as swellings of the joints and
lameness But in all cases the ad.
vance Of the disease is accompanied
BY the most conspicuous manifesto
ton OF approaching death. The
eyes lose their brilliance. and sink in
their sockets; the cheeks fall in; the
nose is quite dry and pinehed in at
the nostrils; the breath is hurried,
and every inspiration produces heav-