The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1909-08-01

of Indianapolis, delivered a very com
prehenSiVe eSay before the Indians
Society of Homeopathic Physicians a
it's recent annual meeting in Indian
apolis. If the conclusions arrived a
by this well-known physician, afte
long study and observation, are COZ
rect, they are of vast interest to tn,
cattle industry and the dairy interest
After a running history of the dis
covery of the germ of tuberculosis
and of tuberculin and the "unwise
and too free" use of the latter AM
the health board power" connecte'
with it, DR.. Clarke described some o
the injury that had been done, espe
cialy by the indiscriminate slaughte
of tuberculin-tested cattle, "by which
in some instances, the richest bloot
of heredity had been forever lost
though it had cost lifetimes and for
tunes to obtain, and with no resultan
benefit to the human race" He ther
said
''That the human and bovine bacill
are coincidental only, independent O
each other, and each incapable O.
transmitting tuberculosis to the othe
race, is now the opinion of man.
skilled investigators working along
archaeological and microscopical lines
to say nothing of many practical cat
tlemen of great observation and ex
perience, who modestly pretend tt
know little of the science of the
thing, but do know and assert tina
cattle, meat or milk do not transmit
tuberculosis.
Darwin observed that man has Civ
en- rise to many races, some so differ
ent that they have been marked by
naturalists as distinct species, from
monkeys up; differing in constitution
and liability to certain diseases. BY
this same principle microorganismE
are modified by conditions, and so we
see that the bovine and the human
bacilli are microscopically and NOR
phologically much unlike.
"To illustrate, in description, the
human bacilli are twice as long as
the bovine, slenderer, often curved
and beaded; while the bovine are
short, straight, plump, and without
beading. And the human bacilli and
tubercle have acquired individual
characteristics that unfit them fol
more than temporary fOothold, much
less existence, in the cow.
again, the races and their habits
are so different. One develops in
three or four years, the other requir
ing six or seven times as long. The
human is omniverous, the bovine
herbivorous and Eliminating; the hu.
man pulse is ~, the bovine 40; the
human temperature Is 981a degrees
the bovine 1902 degrees. All these
and other race peculiarities that could
be mentioned make up a condition
protecting each race from the other
in the matter of tuberculosis, just as
we know that the tapeworms affecting
fowls and certain animals are harm
less to man.
Gwen granting, for the purpose OF
argument, that the bovine tuberculosis
bacilli could be capable of causing
tuberculosis in human beings, 1T would
vet be impossible to so transmit the
disease by the way of the ordinary
use of meat or milk. For no fact In
sanitary science is better known or
established than that heat for short
time will destroy the life of the bacil
lus tuberculosis. And not a high de
gree of heat is needed, 165 degrees
being enough. Meat usually gets two
or three times that much heat, and
for long period, and milk gets thai
much heat in pasteurization.
"But pasteurization for milk is OBJ
iectionable in many ways, as it in