St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-25
SAYS DIR. KARL Won RUCK, WHICH
CAUSE MUCH OF THE CON-
SUMPTION.
NOTED BERLIN SCIENTIST,
WHO ASSISTED DIR. KOCH, WRITES
DIR. PRICE CONCERNING THE
BACTERIA.
TUBERcULIN TEST SOLE HOPE.
OF Protecting MIX Users From Coz.
taminatiOn by Tuberculosis in
Cows, 1t Seems,

DR.. Price, the live stock inspector of
The health department, received let
ter yesterday from one of the most
noted authorities on tuberculosis in
the world-Dr. Karl Won Ruck. Dur
ing the past four months DR.. Price has
been devoting much of his time to the
investigation of tuberculosis in cat
tie and swine with a view first of
aScertaining to what extent the dis
ease affects the meat and renders
it unfit for human consumption, and,
secondly, whether it is communicated
to the cows milk.
DR.. Won Ruck was formerly the as
sistant TO Prof Koch, of Berlin, the
discoverer of the famous Koch lymph,
and is now associated with the cele-
brated DR.. Edwin Klebs, as medical
director of 1.-The Vinegar Sanitarium''
for diseases of the lungs and throat,
which is established at Asheville N.
c. DR.. Klebs is the discoverer Of the
bacillus Of diphtheria.
That portion of DR.. ven Ruck's let
ter to DR.. Price which is of interest
to the public generally and of special
import to the medical profession, is as
follows:
Now as to the question of danger
from the use of food products which
are derived from tubercular animals.
There can be no manner Of doubt that
the evidence is going strongly to prove
that human tuberculosis does not, as a
rule, spread through the inhalation Of
germs, but that it is conveyed to the
victim through the a1imentary canal
1.-The chief sources Of danger would
undoubtedly be through milk, butter,
and perhaps cheese, but also from the
kidneys, liver and other glandular
structures of the animals. 1t is not
necessary that they should contain
large tubercular masses which can be
diagnosed by touch. Tubercle bacilli
may enter the secretions, especially
milk, through lymph glands and milk
ducts when no external or palpable ap-
pearance of tuberculosis exists. If ever
an appreciate advance is to be made in
the eradication Of tuberculosis in the
human family it must be through pre-
Vention, and this prevention started
primarily through inspection of ami
mails, especially COWS and swine In
such inspection we must not confine
ourselves to the ocular LESSONS which we
may find in cursory examination of
the butchered meat, but having on the
whole, very reliable test in tubercu-
lin, 1t should be applied whenever the
circumstances permit, and before the
animals are delivered to the abattoir.
Il sincerely hope that you will be
able to arouse enough interest in your
communityso as to eventually make the
tuberculin test, for at least the bovine
species, obligatory. You have, on the
other hand, now large field in order to
determine If those animals need be sac
rificed, or you may now follow very
inexpensive method Of treatment by
sa1,4 L.
DR.. Won Ruck then offers to supply
enough of his specially prepared tuber-
culin, such as is used for the cure Of
consumptive persons at his institute,
for the purpose of experimenting on
cows-to ascertain If a cure can be eff
fected in them. He further adds:
Milk from all tubercular animals
contains toXines and the toxines cause
disturbances in the persons who use it,
These toXines are not destroyed by boil
Ing. and we have no possible means of
protecting ourselves, except the tuber-
culin test. Such toXines cause CASTRO
intestinal arrangements, malaise and
fever, especially in infants and young
children; therefore such milk is not
fit food product, though it may not at
the time contain the bacillus Of tuber-
culoss''
DR.. Price said to the G l o report
er yesterday: Or. Salmon, chief of
the bureau of animal industry at
Washington states: About 10000
people die every year in the United
States from consumption. The ten
dency is to look upon dairy products,
especially milk, with ever-increasing
suspicion. The New York Sun some
time ago reported a case of death in
tamily cows. The four-year-old grand
son of Col. Henry B. Beecher of North
Broadway, Yonkers, died of tubercular
meningitis. Both parents were free
from tuberculosis, and there were no
hereditary tendencies to the disease.
The family physician was at loss to
account for it's presence. There being
no doubt as to the diagnosis of the
boys ailment, the physician called in
the aid of veterinary surgeon to eX-
anime the family cows-two fine ami
mails. An ordinary examination fail
ed to discover any symptoms of dis
ease in them, so it was decided to re
sort to the tuberculin test, which re-
vealed the presence of tuberculosis
without and doubt in both beasts"
The following is a list of dairies in
st. Paul which have had the tubercu-
lin test properly applied, and received
certificates from Health Commissioner
Stone:
Moser Bros. West st. Paul; P. Hen
erickson, Lillydale; o. Feltheim, Edg-
erton street; J. A. Johnson. Lincoln
avenue; G. A. Damberg, Edgerton
street; John Olson, De Soto street;
Fred Mund, Rice street; H. Schroeder,
Rice street; FIR. Tschida, Rice street;
c. w. French, st. Clair street; Gus
Schmidt, Reserve; I. N. Booth, Port
land avenue; FIR. Baer, Rose street;
Charles Scharmo, Phalen avenue; G.
F. McCarron, McCarron's lake; G. c.
Sattler, Hamline avenue; NJ F. Luby.
Montreal avenue; James Lottenbach.
Manchester; Hugh Montgomery, Ark
wright street; John w. Smith, West
Seventh street; J. E. Suther, West Sew
enth street; McMenemy Bros, Lex
1ngton avenue; M. Eberhart, Sherburne
avenue; G. Bailey, Edgerton street; c.