Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-02-21
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culoss has rapidly Increased in the me-
gro population, while the country herds
of cattle that never get under "A roof
are practically free from it. Inthe sta-
bled cows of New Orleans and other
southern cities, it is, If possible,
| worse than in those of our northern
cities. The Jersey and Guernsey cattle in
4 the genial climate of their native is
4 lands, where they practically live in
1 the open air, suffer much less than
| their Owners, but they enjoy no such
/ immunity when stabbed in England or
/ America.
4 We have been told that the absence
| OF tuberculosis from the Saranac SAM
/ rarium herd makes against the idcn-
1 tity OF the disease in man and OK but
1 this logic fails when we find that even
| to man the danger in a we'll conduct ted
! sanitari,im is less than in the private
/ house in the average community. The
| same report comes from all the great
CONSUMPTION hospitals. That the attend
! ants do not contract the disease, and
4 that tuberculosis decreases in the sur
| rounding community. Their education-
III value far outweighs their danger
from accommodating Infection. The same
] story is told of Saranae, Angeles. Sos
der, Talkenstein. Gcrbersdorf. Bromp-
/ ton. etc. Al lSrnnpton in thirty-six
years among 80 attendants but one
! contracted tuberculosis. Can any such
] record De found in any other city COM
.mnnity nnaas ,lie most favorable con-
ditions? And set the absence of the
infection of the cattle living far apart
4 from the inmates is advanced 70 prove
4 Il Il tfeiencea in germ.
Germ Variable in Nirulence u same
Race.--The bacillus tuberculosis not
only adapts itself 10 the animal sys,
I TEN in which il grows. but it varies IN
Pits virulence ut different times, tho pro-
pagated in man alone 81 IN OK alone
This is common 10 all disease germs.
4 The smallpox, which spread IN TINS
j state two years ago. Vas often sN-
1 streuely difficult 10 recognize as stIch:
yet in a specially susceptible subject i
was liapie at any moment TO assume
a great malignaney. Chambers on the
/ plans Rockies or sierras is usually
/ very mild, but brought by horses
/ shipped to New York ii becomes dcad-
4 ly SO with Texas fever; SO With rim
1 deepest in the east: So often ford tins
! With measles, ssarlitina. diphtheria or
/ grippe, after which they VIII again
merge into a malignant type. Tubercle
4 baGiiiis from man orox almost intalll-
bly, Kills guinea pigs in seventeen days,
/ yet after Sin Years culture in ARTIFICIAL
ln&iia 1t often fails 70 Kill them al all
ilTiudeauD The baeili from human OK
/ peetoration a first grow tardiy or
i weakly in ARTIFICIAL cultures. and in one
lease out of seven Theobad Smith failed
20 perpetuate them in This Way Again.
IN man the baciiii in the lymph glands
and bones tscrofuia) extend slowly ana
4 sometimes not AT all. while those loeat-
ed in the lungs. the bdo,nen OF the
A head are liable@to acquire a rapid and
general extension.
Even in cattle infected from each
4 other the rule is that the majority have
4 the ttibercles limitedin one part Of ihe
3 body and some survive for many years,
Land 4 proportion probably even re-
scoyer. And yet because some cattle IN
fSriea by human eXpectoration have
had such eircunscribed tubetele, We
q arc told that We must conclude that
tise germ IS Il different; one and that
lci,ttle cannot contract the disease from
man. nor III has been assumed) mar
from cattle.
me following IS from l'neobale
liSinitn. Who has been quoted freely (
l3prove ina the bacillus from man caf
lpf0auce only eiicumsvribed tubercle i
lcatlie He injected = cos in the cles'
l.essgiiy Mlth human spes Grafton, ais6
wnen she WIS Killed after tx, months
She showed numerous frinses OF imam
Is linai@rY oxidation hanging from tn,
Isinngs, togetheE with t,ibarcles 81 tlls
x lungs plaura and m-sdiastin.al sylnpf
I'll glands partly s9fienea lcaseated) aMs
-Icontaining bacilli. Here sye see an ex,
,sltsnsion Of the disease along the usua
!, Hines Gthe gnph vessels ANA GLANDS
s Instead OF its remaining eirelinaselibes
I'm the seat OF inoonia;ien lla'
4 Equsstlon is not one Of certain infection
,5f eyety exposed man or OK casual IN
Z feetion from man tornan. OF from Ok Z
FOX takes place onlg in u small minor
ity OF the Individuals. and under GOO
flyssienie conditions il is only q mrel
smaller minority tna have the tiiseas
lin ,apnly progressive or deadly form
y Most Infections Of men doubtiess corn
{ from infected men and Of Oxen from IN
fectet. cattle; yet in a lasee cpnsniuni',
s thala are Always eeftai9l number 9
specially susceptible in5ivIduals ana j
I Il large number. al infected animal
there are some that harbot t,seiiii tina
Z, nave acquired mobilization tina
Z adapts them 70 i've in an animal Of al
Z tth,-r race, and Ayaen these twa cenai
$ t!oas coincide, The disease may b
s ;fansferrec from one race TO another
Z and mag then b. pfoisga,ea indefinite
E Il5 "a The race % whien tlie new yictir
9 belongs The greatest dauge.' undoubt
; l...tiie comes from the infected animal Q