The Portland daily press., 1897-02-09
BACCILLI JARED HARD.
Academy Of Medicine and Science
Discuss tuberculosis.
VALUABLE AND COMPREHENSIVE
PAPER BY DIR. BAILEY.

Committee From Legislature Entertained
at Maine Eve and Ear Infirmary-
president Harris of State College One
of the Guests.
The 10th meeting of the Maine Aoade
my of Medicine and Science was held
last evening at the Eye and Ear mfr
mary. the special guests OF the associa-
lion being q COMMITTEES from 5he state
legislature together with large repre-
sentative of the mem bers of the legisla-
ture VINO had come to listen to the spec
;al nauer ON tuberculosis by DR.. George
n Bailey of the state board Of veterl
nary surgeons, and to consider the i'm
portance of taking vigorous legislative
action in the direction of preventing the
snread of this disease throughout this
commonwealth.
Among those present were Senators
.Wyman, Hinkley. Hargraves, Pile,
CbapsserIalu, ferguson and Heald, and
from the Representatives, the most
prominent men of that body were Speak
or Larrabee. Clerk ". S. Cotton and the
venerable Major Dickey of Fort Kent.
ATT O'Clock tine guests filed into the
barouet rooms where sumptuous feast
had been prepared. Over 200 Of the mem
hers of the academy with their friends,
were seated at the tables.
sumner over the company adjourned to
the audience room where the address of
che evening was to be given.
In the absence of the president, Col. F.
N. Dow presided. He extended the greet
ines of the association to the invited
guests.
The following were elected to member
shin: d.. H. L. Irish Of.Turner. DR..
Ralph W. Buchanan of Bryant's Pond,
W. e. Youland Of Biddeford and Alvin
3. Ricker of Poland, as fellows; Pro-
fessors L. G. Jordan. Hartshorn, VIM.
G, Strong, H. R. Purinton aud Addison
Small. all of Lewiston, honorary fell
lows.
AS DR.. Bailey was introduced, he was
greeted with applause.
DR.. Bailey, in opening his paper, spoke
of the nature of the tuberculin test and
Its operation. He then discussed at length
the damage to mankindfrom bovine tuber-
oulosis and the means to be employed in
counteracting that danger. in part, DR..
Bailey spoke as follows:
The iden THY of tuberculosis in mankind
and domestic animals being fully demon
strated as being highly infectious, we
now know that 1t is communicable from
animals to animals, from animals to man
kind, and from mankind to animals in Ie-
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we breathe and in the milk we drink, SO
that inhalation, ingestion, incubation and
heredtty, all contribute to disseminate the
malady. Man is also liable to receive from
the lower animals and to communicate to
them. other diseases, as hydrophobIa,
variola, CHAMBERS, syphilis and cholera
AS it would be trif1ing with time to discuss
the imminent danger of inhaling the dry
dust OF the sputa from consumptive men
and animals, pass at once to the consider
alton of the danger from milk, the great
food product of the human race. l assume
that the first thing that ever passed our lips
was milk; either derived from our good
mothers, OF the ''family cow and while
we shall always retain reverence for both,
(perhaps not equally divided) they will al
ways remain associated with our rock-a-
bye baby days, while life will be far too
short TO eversefface from our memories the
nursery story of the 'cow that jumped over
the moon which acrobatic performance
still remains the "best on record. The
ordinary inspection of milk brought into our
city, demands that its average composition
shall be water 81 per cent and solids 10 per
cent, the solids including fat casein, milk
sugar. albumen and ash; the casein and
albu1nen containing nitrogen, of special value
in cheese making and the fat for butter.
The water contains most everything from
pollywogs to bacteria, which immediately
after milking may vary from zero to over
10, 10000 in single cubic inch of milk; de-
pending almost entirely upon the tempera
ture at which the mix is kept. The fnf1u-
ence of temperature the growth of bac-
terra is well known, and all milk should be
kept below 30 degrees f. until steriliZed or
consumed. Judging from tests thus far made
abroad, city milk which contains not more
than three or tour millions bacteria per
cubic centimeter may be regarded as excep-
tfonally good for European cities; while con-
siderably over two hundred distinct types of