Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1894-09-19

slipped it down into his. had an argument afterwards with him about | getting in the stage. l wanted to go around the stage to get on. He wanted me to climb up on the side the driver sat. After arguing the point fully, he won his point. The donations were as follows: A. Doran, $50 and a $200 gold watch, chain and charm; Funston, between S35 and $40. He made talk for his watch and they let him keep it. Carl Hazeltine, $l6; Park, Sl1 and gold watch; Nickers, SLIGO; myself, S3.75 and gold watch. Vickers dropped his watch in the stage, as did also Carl"
 The Prevention of Consumption or
 Tuberculosis.
 lCommunicNted.l
 The Philadelphia Pathological Society, at a recent meeting, brought out a number of interesting facts in this connection, which | think, MT. Editor, are of such vast importance to the general public, that every one should be informed about the contagiousness of this disease, with a view to its prevention. The board of health of Philadelphia contem- plates the registration of each case of consumption in the city in order to aid, if possible, in stamping out this dread disease. When we con- sider the mortality of this affiiction { me death in every five from all diseases) the importance of the study of its prevention can not be over estimated. Other contagious diseases have been controlled. their death rate lessened, some of them have fallen from high preeminence t0 insigni6cance, but tuberculosis remains unchanged.
 The primary seat of entrance of the infection IS the mouth-that Is, the germ bacillus tuberculosis Is carried into the system through the mouth in almost every instance, but 1t dces not remain there. The structure of the mouth and the nazo pharynx is such that the germ rarely remains in contact with the mucous membrane, but is carried into the larynx, thence into the lungs which are, in most cases. the first part infected. and a soil found there for the luxuriant growth of the barilli. The great danger lies in the inhalation of air laden with bacilli. derived from dried and pull verized tuoerculous matter. This is why the disease has become so com mon and why so many cases originate that cannot be traced to any par ticular source. First the germ is expectorsted, becomes dried, then , becomes pulverized, then is carried into the air in dust, and then, by inhalation, enters the system. The first precaution is to keep the sputa moist. In all hospitals in the east now, the consumptives are required to expectorate into a cup containing water, so that it can be disinfected at once.
 Secondly - Houses where con sumptives have resided should be disinfected under intelligent super vision.
 Third - The clothing worn by them should be destroyed or thor oughly dislnfected.
 Fourth-A dust is SO intimately associated with the dissemination and transmission of dried tubercu- lous matter, perfect cleanliness of the streets would. aside from other advantages, be of material aid in the warfare against tuberculosis.
 The second principal mode of infection is by the alimentary canal. The stomach is very rarely the seat of tuberculosis, owing to the fact that the gastric juice has been proven to have a germicidal action on the bacilli; and only when an ulcer existed could the germ find its way through the mucous membrane; but that germs will enter the intes- tines, the glands and the peritorneum has been proven by experiments on animals.
 4 consumptive may infect himself by swallowing his saliva and thus cause alteration ln the intestines. And then ;he food and drink may contain the germs. The animal most liable to infection, which at the same time furnishes food to man, is the COW. It has been stated that in some parts of Germany h per cent of all cattle are tuberculosis. That bovine tuberculosis is commu- nicable to man has been proven. 4 5et,1a,N hF1 Enrraw while performing post mortem on a tuberculous COW, and a mass was formed under the skin at the 1 point of infection, which, upon | microscopical examination, was found to contain both tubercle and l bacilh. The milk from COWS with | tuberculous ulcers on the uider has been found to swarm with bacilli. | One observer inoculated rabbits with such ulcers and produced the disease on them in such a marked degree as to be unmistakable.
 4 COW with tuberculosis is usually lean. with the general appearance of i'll health, and consequently will not be offered for sale to a dealer in meat. Such COW may, however, for some time yield enough milk to pay for her keep. The danger in such a case would be in infection from the milk. From a series of interesting observations, it has been found that the virulence of tuber- culous milk is much lessened by dilution with healthy milk; there fore children are much less liable to tuberculosis from the mllk of number of cows, than when fed from the milk of a single COW.
 What conclusions then do we reach in regard to the use of meat and milk from tuberculous cowsl
 First-See that all meat is prop erly salted and cooked.
 Second-We cannot boil all the milk and butter and cheese cannot be treated in this way. It remains then only to inspect all cattle and milk to be used as food, and to destroy all that are suspected to be