Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-07-11
Paper BY DR.. Don. D. Grout Be-
fore Health officers Meeting.
HOW IT SHOULD BE TREATED
Tuberculin Test the Most Accurate
and safest Means OF Detecting It.
Healthy Appearance Of Diseased
Animals Explained-S Slaughter
House Evils.

One of the most interesting papers OF
| the session of the Vermont Health Ofhcers
held in this city was one read at the OPP
| ening of the afternoon meeting TUESDAY
| by lJr. Don ID. Grout of Waterbury. Ills
subject was THE Relation of Animal Dis
ease to Public Health" He said:
| The average physician takes pride in his
| ability to successfully treat disease Many
excel In diagnosis. too few are thoroughly
| posted in etioogy. and still smaller num-
Der ever trouble Themselves about the
source from which the cause of disease
emanates
whatever is capable OF damaging the
structure of any organ or tissue OF the
| body, or of interfering with its functions,
! may be the cause of the disease THIS
| definition implies that such causes are
| numerous, ana that of many science is
| ignorant.
| To give a succinct account Of them is
therefore difficult It is not with the prov
! ince of this paper to attempt anything
of the kind but to call your attention for
-, a few moments to prolific ana common
! cause of disease in the human family. the
Transmission of animal disease to man.
All civilized races of the glohe have sur
rounded themselves with domestic ami
mails. We have the COW. the horse, tnt
! pig the sheep. the goat, the dog, ana
| others, each and all Of them have diseases
! that are easily and frequently transmit
ted to mankind
i When we consider the intimate rela-
ticns sustained between man and our
domestic animals, the only wonder is that
we do not more frequently suffer disease
contracted from such sources.
Il OF all domestic animals known none are
SO intimately or closely related to the
i human race as the COW. We arc veritablc
parasites en- this animal. We milk her
as long as she will give milk. and drink
1t; then we will kill her and Clothe ours"lN' $
with her skin, we comb our hair with her
horns and fertiize the fields with her
dung. while her calf furnishes us witt
vaccine virus for the prevention Of small
pox The COW has redeemed us from tina
. dreadful scourge. But it is more than pcs
sible that greater scourGe is continued
to us by the same animal Strange II
would be indeed, if, under all these cir
cumstances, we did not acquire from hei
some malady.
|, subject is but little appreciated. it will b.
best introduced by stating in tabula'
form the diseases Of domestic animals tina
, are known to be communicable to man
We have:
LIST. Chambers and farcy in horses, etc.
End. Canine madness rabies In dogs
. cats, etc.
3rd Malignant anthrax in all domestic
animals.
, 4th. Tuberculosis in all animals.
! 5th. Malignant cholera in all animals.
9Th. Milk sickness in all animals.
I 18th. Smallpox in all animals and fowls
I Sth Diphtheria in animals.
9th. Scarlet fever in various animals
. 10Th Possibly typhoid fever in sucking
animals.
1lth The Plague which is disease s.
. common to man, monkeys. and rodents an
, Is so equally shared by them that no on
g knows whether II was primarily human
+ disease or rat pest,
To enter upon a consideration of tn
I pathology Of these diseases would reQIir
r more time than is at our disposal but it vii
Q be we'll to consider some of the ways Il
d which a few OF them are transmitted /
l. man.
d DR.. Law says that CHAMBERS and farcy
s which so remorselessly rsVaged the cavs.I
!. ry regiments and mule trains during tn
! war of the rebellion was. at the return O
= peace scattered widely over the continent
= I'm country districts We see it Contin
ually cropping out and whole studs falln
victims to its raVages, while in city cal
stables hundreds have not unfrequentl
Il been slaughtered to arrest the progress {
the disease. The subjects of slight chroni
!, attacks are frequently taken to a distanC
and sold as sound animals to 'insuSpectin
purchasers, whose health and lives ar
+ thus too often sacrificed to satisfy the Ct
,e IuCiity of an unscrupulous vender; for n
J. terrible malady is as painful loathsom
Z and fatal TO the human system as to tn
l. equine, and every veterinarian of eXtenSiN
II practice can adduce instances in whic
n men have persisted mserably from equir
III infections,
n "Hunan CHAMBERS has been recognize
y for nearly a century as one of the mo-
loathsome and fatal of diseases. 1t
IT usually contracted from the horse or mu
IL by accidental incubation in wounds. ar
ia consequently happens almost who'll
II among those who have the care of horse
Ut and is therefore most common in man
r. the countries where II is most prevalent
le horses. In Montana ana ether Rock
Mount ain States 1t has been epidemic,
Of MALIGNANT ANTHRAX
1e "Tn all forms of Malignant Anthrax
animals we find an injecting materi
g. which Is not only deadly to quadrrptd
e. birds, and even reptiles ana fishes, b.
we which may be successfully inoculat'
IN from any one of these upon the hums
it subject The malady when conveyed to Il
human being is a very deadly one, wheth
al It shows itself on the surface in the form
malignant pustle or internally, as "a
p luncular, sore throat or intestinal anthl a
nS In this country it prevails mostly amor
butchers tanners and workers in hair, b
1t also we'll known as the result of consur
ing the flesh of infected animals. 1nfe
Al ton from simple contact is by no mea
" uncommon.
Where the disease becomes widesprea
" the resulting mortality may he excessi,
as when in 1770, Is. COO men died in six wee
in San Domingo from eating the dise0s
-, beef. Cooking Is a very insufficient protf
80, tion as the spores have been shown
w. survive a boiling temperature and in pa
~ t!Cuar cases, even 800 degrees F. and
II, whole family were poisoned by beef III
:, had been boiled for hours, Further, a
49,. contrary to what holds with most otl
49, forms of virus, II Is not essential that I
y" skin should be broken in order to its a
-. sorption. Frost has no influence on
10 potency, and animals have been kno,
Az, to he fatally infected by licking the froz
"a blood from q stone-boat when the temper
-" ture was below zero
Infected pastures have been known
maintain their injecting qualities for
years in succession and to yield hay wifi
continued to infect animals when fed
rs: them at distance from such pastur
~ MILK SICKNESS. THE TREMBI. les
40; Our best veterinarians claim that
at great importance Of this disease has +;
ed to be recognized mainly because
source Ia to be found In certain ba okwot
rs districts rarely penetrated by those v
~ preside over our medical literature and
cause 1t gradually recedes before the
vance Of improved agriculture.
Many medical men indeed express gri
doubts as to It's very existence. Yet
hiatory NJ the rnalady Ia cfrcu oat n