The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-01-10

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and getting them easy of access to
those who are doing field duty in the
worlds sanitarium. Giving to the
world this valuable diagnostic, mallein
has caused many deaths in laboratories.
Hog Cholera.
We have instances on record where
hog cholera was apparently transmitted
to man and developed as a fever akin
to typhoid. I know of so called out
breaks of typhoid fever which appeared
to be traceable to a proceeding scourge
of hog cholera, swine plague in the
immediate vicinity. I will omit hog
cholera from this paper, as you will get
it from DIR. Niles tonight.
Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (consumptiou) is con-
tagious and Infectious disease of ami
mails as we'll as of the human family.
1t is one of the Oldest diseases of which
we have any record. 1t is often called
"the great white plague" and surely
it is a plagnc when we know thatit
causes more deaths in the human fami-
ly than any other disease. The thought
of Asiatic cholera, yellow fever, small
pox, and other plaques terrorize us and
still when we inquire we learn that a
greater percentage of persons affected
with these diseases recover than those
affected with tuberculosis. Still we do
not fear this disease because OF the fact
that it deals gently with the victim I'M
til he is fully within its grasp and there
is no remedy. tuberculosis is the same
wherever we find it, whether of the OK,
fish or bird, excepting the slight
changes due to the environments
thrown around the bacillus. That it is
transmissable from one animal to an
other through the ordinary means of
spreading contagion is established be-
you'd doubt. We also know it is trans
mltted from man to animal, and conse-
quently from animal to man. 1t is
alarming to note with what rapidity it
is transmitted from the COW. through
her milk, to other animals, especially
hogs. Within the last few years we
have seen some striking examples of
the contagiousness of tuberculosis and
confronted with the fact, we naturally
turn our attention to seeking out a pre-
ventive. An effectual preventive to
the spread of tuberculosis must needs
be universal something which will
reach every family dwelling, every COW
barn and every pasture. 1t must also
permiate the air and sink into the
depths of the sea, for 10! the plague is
everywhere. To meet such a demand
principles as we'll as things must be in
volved. In our domestic ANNALS we
see proof of the fact that too rapid ev0-
lutionary methods have been exercised
in demonstrating them, and as a result
we find the hardwood of Dame Nature
displaced by a sort of house plant ten
'derness which leaves the animal an
easy prey to the germs which exist in
such large numbers. Especially does
this seem true when dealing with this
disease. The ordinary man has little
or no idea of what smothering chest
his COW barn really is. The natural
COW, inhaling natural amount of pure
air, is a tower Of strength when con-
fronted by even the tubercule bacillus,
and in such state and condition only
half of one per cent of the cattle are
found to be tuberculous, while in con-
nection with our ninteeth century
methods of keeping and raising cattle
twenty per cent isa reasonable proper
ton to find tuberculous. LIDO not con-
:, denim our present taste for improved
feeding and breeding, but advocate
carrying on these great Improvements
in properly constructed barns and
premises. | have found COW barns
without a ventilator of any description,
and when filled with cattle on a cold
night the frost would gather over every
crack and crevice, and before morning
twenty or thirty cows are Theoretically
sealed up in box, so to speak, and
forced to breathe the same air times
without number until morning when
! they are hurried out into the cold to
suffer because their blood is poisoned
= and system vitlated; the result of the
above mentioned conditions. And so
it goes on day and night until every
animal thus kept is sure to become af-
fected with some disease. These CON
l ditions exist in both dairy and breed
ing herds, and from such herds the
e tubercullin test has condemned fityf
r per cent aud over, while where the con-
' ditions are such as initiate to the
t health of the animals but small per-
Q centage of diseased animals are found.
$ Then one great preventive of tubercul-
osis is the proper construction of COW
i barns with plenty of good air supply at
S all times. The old open mouthed shed
2 with plenty of bedding beats the ma
!, jorlty of COW barnsfrom the standpoint
!, of health and strength for The cattle
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