Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-05-27
mn. u,RpAUGm COMES BACK.
lie Makes IA Vigorous Rep'S y" w"
Card of DIR. Triton

To the Editor Of the Dispatch;
In vour Sundays issue is letter from
DIR Triton on the subject of tuoercu'oS's'
and as | am one OF the experimentets re-
ferred TO. | ask the privilege to reply 10
It through your columns
His definition of tubercles IS IN itseil
enough to prevent any tiInid person i'ol',
eating meat or drinking mix on dSeo .,l.'
of the fearful danger oil irdbi ,''et
~ cellular nuclei" but. for the Dehent
~ those who have no knowledge OF neu,-
cal science. I honestly assure you that ms
1ooni,ion does not define tuberclcs OF
anvthing else under the sun
TIis whole letter is composed OF cohtta.
dictions inconsistencies, and garpled
statements. which In no sense represents
veterinary or medical science or TINS uay'
but as he pleads for things TO go on as
they have done for centuries II ID pr
bable that his ideas are based on tne
manners of the barbarous ages WIZ"
human beings ate like beasts H.
E,,t one race OF people guarded us
,uhIic health centuries before Christ Al
! though the Jews did not understand the
nature and pathology OF tuoerculosis,
thev knew its post-mortem lessons, ana
forbade the use OF tuberculous nesh IS
food Centuries before Christ the jews
made laws which excluded from use the
meal of tuberculous animals as unnt Tor
| human food. and those laws were hdue
! a mart of their religion. and have been
more or less closely adhered 10 uoWh ~
| the present day. Only yesterday was
| i'm a slaughter-house ana observer
Jewish rabbi inspecting meat and stamp
Ino, the annroyed parts as safe TO be eaten
nv those OF his faith. and l was STRUCK
] huf what Is TlXntlN re-
iected by him as unfit for the orthodox
! Low Il sold 10 the Christian. Does THIS
show degeneration on the part or the
CHRISTIANS. or does II show criminal negh-
gence in regard 10 public healthF
The Jews are certainly right. as the
foundation of their laws in regard TO food
Inspection Is their inherent desire TO aVoiu
ALI things unclean, and what can De more
! unclean than diseaseE
COMMUNICATION OF DISEASE
Our critic says that the disease has been
proved to be infectious beyond a douD'
and communicable from man TO the lower
/ animals. and he then says that II Is only
| Nv conjecture communicable from th'
lower animals to man. Wen, In view Oh
the welI-established fact that the disease
is the same and due 70 the same cause Il
man or beast. all / can say is that any
person who takes into his or her system
any food. either milk or meat that con
tains the one and only cause OF TINS ui'
case Is very foolshly and voluntarily un
dereoing the same experiments by whicl
scientists incontestibly proved the com
municability Of the disease In the lowe
animals.
I NAV add that the thousands an
thousands OF experiments Of this Kind
which have made the evidence conclusive
render il entirely unnecessary for humai
beings to carry the experiments an
further.
Our critic asks at what stage or IN
disease do the bacilli get into the miih
and he saws he thinks only when IN
mammary gland is Affected know
that the bacllli may be i'm the milk wne
the mammary gland Is free from the dls
ease; hundreds OF Instances or this lac
are recorded, and the experiments or PIC
fessors Ernst, OF Harvard Hlshoergel
Rang. and many others should be studle
nv those who cannot experiment OF III
vestigate for themselves. But tupercuios'
~ the n,ammary gland is so common tha
$50 "a M necessity OF referring 10 m
fact that milk from a cow with the di'
ease in any organ Is dangerous. on
sourth Of the cows killed at Grantlan
Iost "Wednesday had tuberculosis OF n
/ yrannmary glands, and, OF course, IN
milk was mixed with the milk from "a
the other cows, and consequently "
> nroduct of the herd was contaminated
Another inconsistency OF our critic
,bat he in one place SAYS that tuberc'
Iosis ga an infectious disease produce
nv a snocial germ" and In another pla'
= he saws ''if cases OF such men are II
i auIred into we find II to be hereditary
. caused by exposure" IL is plainly eV
dent that our critic has not the least id'
q of what constitutes germ disease.
4 Every man who went into battle duriI
: the war was not killed, although M
9 fslI bv the side OF him, before him, al
!. hahind him. The same phenomenon a
e niles 10 our battles with disease II eve
e person who inhaled or swallowed q
a germs OF Tuberculosis Tor germs OF 9th
n contagious diseases) became affected WI
{ the disease. the world would soon be d
: populated. But because a large percsr
e age OF mankind possess an immuni'
Ia there IL no reason why those who "A
e susceptible should not be protected fro
Il every possible source OF contact wi
y the germs.
!, THE TEST ENTIRELY RELIABLE
- In one place our critic speaks OF {
"a great value Of tuberculosis as diagnos
r. agent. and In the next paragraph he n
a 10 discredit II; but he or no other m
10 can point to a single mistake made
u either one OF the three resident Virgil
i,J veterinarians who have been condemn
"a animals on the tubercuiin test In q