The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-23

ture above normal. June 20 the same
dose, 4.5 degrees rise; Nov. 5, 81 &C.
2.S degrees rise; Nov. 10, &C., no rise
whatever. On Jan. rs, 1895, two &C. were
given without results; on Feb. %, 1895
3 &C., with no reaction; post-mortemed
In the post-mortem of this COW there
was wonderful hope for mankind, odd
though it may be to put it so. The con-
sumption bacillus in animals and in hui
man beings is identical. You may take
an active bacillus from the diseased
tissue OF consumptive patient and
with it innoculate an animal with con-
sumption, and you may make human
beings tuberculous by the introduction
into their system of the consumption
bacillus of COW. Under the microscope
colored with an aniline pigment, which
is particularly affinitive for the bacil-
lus. the same tiny deadly rod appears,
no matter where it comes from. When
the last-named cow was Dost-mor-
tened after nearly year of treatment,
no active tuberculosis was found, and
neither did the microscope show any
evidence of active tuberculosis in the
particles OF tissue examined, and the
only reasonable conclusion that Pro-
lessor REYNOLDS can come to in his
bulletin is that the COW had recovered.
which had been there in the scars of
the LESSONS, variety of these scars be-
ing found in the membrane lining of
the chest. in the lungs and in other
places, the scars showing the appear
ance of having been healed
A number of college professors and
some prominent physicians and veter-
inarians were present at this post-mor-
tenn. and so confident were they that
the animal had been cured of all active
tuberculosis. that they each took home
with them. had cooked and ate from
1t portions of the meat of the cow
1t Will be of interest to give one more
example among the many mentioned.
which shows the curative work of the
treatment.
Rose, a short-horn grade COW, years
old, weighing l, 100 pounds, a perfect
animal in appearance and showing no
possible trace Of disease, was given her
first test on May 4. 1894. receiving two
cubic centimeters of tuberculin. The
temperature rose two degrees above
normal, showing. Enthusiastically, that
tuberculosis was present. Thereafter,
with no reaction following, injections
We're given as follows:
July 3, Zee: Nov. 5, acc; Nov. 10,
Gee; Dec. 3, 3.5cc; Jan. Ii, 1895, Ace;
Feb. IA, Acc.
The dose was steadily increased, and
after the first one the temperature
did not rise, showing that some change
had taken place. When the COW was
post mortemed on the third day after
the last named test, it was shown that
she had been tuberculous to a limited
extent, the diseased portions, now
healed since the use of the tuberculin,
appearing in the diaphragm and in one
small lobe of the lung.
But there is still another hopeful
phase of the subject. 1t is now practi-
cally assured that it is impossible for
a person or an animal to have con-
without in some way con-
tracing it It is as impossible for a
child to inherit consumption as it is
for it to inherit typhoid fever. The
conditions. the constitution. the gen
eral disposition of the child of a tu
berculous parent may favor consump-
ton, but, so those who have made
deep study of the problem maintain,
unless the actual bacillus comes into
the system of the child, consumption
must stay out. So it has been thought
to isolate the calves from
the tuberculous mothers-those which
showed Enthusiastically by their re-
Spouse to the tuberculin test that they
were constructive. and who, after the
birth of their calves, were killed and
found tuberculouS-andC then rear those
calves. Seventeen such calves, some
Of them now "yearlings," have been
so isolated from their mothers at birth
and are now undergoing the most
careful scrutiny. The point is to keep
these calves away from the consump-
tive influence of their mothers. AS a
result only one out of the whole II
has so far shown any sign of tuber
culosis, only one instance, with all the
injections that have been made, which.
we're tuberculosis present, would be
sure to cause the rise in temperature,
Indicating that tuberculosis was pres
ent.
1t has thus been demonstrated that
calves from tuberculouS mothers need ,
not be killed, but that they may be
reared in perfect immunity from the
disease. The question, which is going
to be more and more vast in its i'm
Dortance as the work of the tuberculin
comes more and more into action
among the herds of America, What
Are we going to do with our tubercu
osis cattle? seems to have had a par
ial and most satisfactory answer in
he act of the physicians and profess
sors who ate from the meat of the
COW which had been cured of tuber
,ulosis.
Professor Reynolds in his bulletin
maintains that tuberculin as a dag
lostic agent in human practice ought
o come into use, for the reason that
{ will as truly act upon the tubercu-
osis patient human as upon the tu-
1erculosis patient bovine. He main
aims that it is thus a physician may
diagnose a case of consumption long
before he could make any sufficient
investigation, and it ap-
BEARS, from the results in curative
work which have been attained at this
station, that the most dreaded disease
# all the centuries must sooner or later
uccumb to the assaults of science. If
he work which Professor Reynolds
las been carrying on so patiently and
10 conservatively shall result in a
PRACTICAL demonstration that not only
attic, but human beings, in the earlier |
tages may be cured of the most dead
V disease of the race, one of the most |
magnificent victories in the history of |
he human family will have been |
His work so far is certainly |
f unusual and valuable significance.
w. S. HARDWOOD.
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