The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1899-11-03
GOAT MILK
Excellent For Children and Safe
From Tuberculosis.

From Tuberculosis.
Mr.. H. S. Homes Pegler, in the Lon
don Bazaar, quotes from an address
made by Sir William Broadbent before
the Technical college at Huddersfeld
as follows
"Until the last few years the idea
was that consumption was a disease
which was in the family, a constitu
tional tendency which could only be ac-
counted for by heredity and against
which it was in vain to strive, an in
evitable evil to be submitted to as
decree of inscrutable Providence. Added
to this was the impression that it was
incurable, and thus efforts to relieve
and cure it We're paralyzed But these
IDEAS l am thankful to say, are wrong.
Tubercle is not inherent in the consti-
tuition. Consumption is not an inevita-
BILE disaster inflicted by a mysterious
fate 1t is on the contrary, one of the
products of mems ignorance and care
lessness. We now know how it is
brought about and it is within the
power of man to prevent it, Consump-
ton is caught, to use a familiar ex-
preston, from a pre-existing case-not,
let me add at once, communicated di-
rectly from person to person by breath
ing the same air or ., IN sleeping in the
same room. The ,ent in the causation
and transmissiC / of the disease is the
tubercle bacillus, minute rodlike or
ganism which multiplies at an alarm
ing rate. After mentioning dust as
one of the means by which consumption
is spread the lecturer continues: "But
there is another way in which tubercu-
losis is disseminated, and that is by
means of milk Cows are very subject
to tuberculosis, and at a certain stage
of the disease tubercle bacili are pres
ent in the milk. 1t is through milk so
contaminated that children come to have
tuberculous disease. The disease of
bones and joints to which children are
subject are probably also traceable to
milk. Humpback, hip joint disease and
the diseases of knees, elbows, ETC.,
which cripple so many childrenAper-
haps so is lupus-and no doubt tdbercle
is often implanted by milk in early life,
which develops later into consump-
ton.
Sir William Broadbent subsequently
goes ON to say: "It is interesting to
note that asses and goats do not suffer
from tuberculosis and to bear in mind
that the shrewd physicians of past days
used to order asses and goats milk for
persons threatened with consumption. y
This statement, says Mr.. Pegler,
coming from medical authority of
such high standing, brings the claims
of the goat before the public in very
conspicuous manner and should give an
important flip to goat keeping. 1t is,
however no new discovery, haviiA,
been known to the scientific world for
many years, and yet in all the lectures
and treatises on tuberculosis how rare
ly do we find it mentioned2
From this cause to a large proportion
of the medical profession and to the
bulk of the general public the impor-
tant fact above mentioned is probably
quite unknown. In France this subject
has received more attention. Professor
Nocard stated some seven or eight years
since that out of 1870, 900 goats and kids
brought to Paris for slaughter at the
shambles of La Villette every spring the
meat inspectors of that city failed to
discover single case of tuberculosis.
He even added that incubation fails to
introduce the fatal bacillus into the
system of the goat, although / believe
the statement has since been question
ed. Anyway, have been told by vet
Urinary authorities in this country that
attempts made in England have failed.
Goats milk as a diet for children has
many advantages over cows milk, as
have often demonstrated. but this one
great virtue transcends all others, and
it is inconceivable that parents know
ing this and having the opportunities
and accommodation for goat keeping
should not avail themselves of so sim
pie and economical means of at once
providing their children with the most
easily digestible and most nourishing
Of food and safeguarding them from
one Of the greatest evils that civiliza-
ton of the present day is subject to.
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