The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-07-25
TUBERCULOSIS Durable
SUCH Is THE OPINION OF PROF.
BROURDEL, OF PARIS,
who Declines to Accept KOch's The
DRY that TubcrcIes Cannot BE Pro-
pagated from Meat and Milk.

LONDON. July 2i-The principal paper
before the British congress on tuberculosis
to-day was read by Professor Brouardel.
of Paris. who urged international legisla-
ton in regard to the notification of the au-
thorities of the existence of tuberculosis
and the disinfection and salubrity of hotels.
railroad cars and steamboats,. thus pre-
venting the spread of tuberculosis. Pro-
fessor Brouardel, who is dean of the medi-
cal faculty Of Paris, maintained that the
disease was durable. He said any measures
tending TO limit the ravages of alcoholism
would diminish the mortality from con-
sumption. and referred to the great danger
in hawking pieces of meat in public places
and in the sale Of milk which had not been
examined. Professor Brouardel believed
these dangers could be remedied by legisla-
ton. Professo. Brouardel compiimented
the United States on it's quick realization
of the dangers of expectoration and on its
legislation in the matter. Professor Brouar-
del declines to accept Professor Koch's
theory that tubercules cannot be propa-
gated by the meat and milk of affected
cattle, and has said he thought ii easy 10
protect the population from the contarni-
nation by legislation.
In an important paper on the use of
tubercuin, DR.. O. a. Heron. Of London,
pau a vain IAO0AC IL tic researches Ol
Professor Koch. He said that the predju-
dice against tuberculin arose from the ig-
norance OF those who had attempted to use
II while disregardfng the explicit injuEc-
TONS or the dlscoverer, particularly in eff
forts 10 apply ii in unsuitable cases. He
pointed out that a very frequent mistake
was TO administer an overdose and 10 fail
to reduce or suspend the application when
the temperature rose above normal. The
only chance TO cure consumption, DR.. Her
ron asserted, was TO begin in the early
stages. The surest method OF diagnosis
was by the application of tubercuiin. He
expressed himself as entirely confident that
this could not be done with absolute safe
ty. Had tuberculin served no other pur-
pose than diagnosis" he said, 1T would
be worthy of the highest praise and appre-
ciatiOn."
Professor Koch, who was present, was
warmly cheered. He spoke briefly. indors-
ing DR.. Herron's observations a. TO tie
necessity of caution in. the use of tuber-
culin.
The Daily Mail publishes an interview
With Lord Lister, in the course of which he
is represented as having said that he was
absolutely unable to believe the statement
of Prof. Koch that human beings could
not get consumption through drinking the
mix OF diseased cows, the evidence to the
contrary being far too overwhelming. Sir
William BrOaGbent declined to say how far
Prof. kCch's statement might be correct,
ia view of the fact that tuberculosis, while
generally decreasing, was on the increase
Davis-Platz. one of the Swiss delegates,
said that Prof. Koch was already prepared
to meet the objections of Lord Lister.
AT a anque given tonight to Prof.
Koch, Sir James c. Richton-Browne an
nounced that the British authorities had ap-
pointed a commission to inquire into the
relation between human and bovine tuber-
culosis.