The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-03-31

The possibility Of present and re-
mote constitutional ana hereditary
diseases and nervous degeneracy en-
tailed upon our people arising from
the promiscus, indiscriminate and In
judicious incubation o. our nilch
COWS with the ptomains q virulsntly
poisonous microbes. automatically
called. tho tubercuIine test" could be
entirely avoided and . much better. .
more excellent way" Of dairy and
city sanitation installed BY the munic-
ipal expenditure Of tithe Of the
money spent in various charities. re-
Numbering that charity begins 1t
home. and that spent for street Inn
provements and general graft b our
present contention: this would be q
municipal laboratory equipped for
meteorological. chemical and other
analysis Of foods and all supplies Of
general public consumption . well -
thorough sanitation.
human and ooSIae Tubercuiosis.
When We remember that there Is IN
important difference in tuberculosis
In the, COW. and In the human. the
great Importance rs well rs the great
er effectiveness Of . bacterial and
pathological examination Of our mich
COWS becomes at once very apparent.
The favorfte seat OF tuberculosis in
the human is the lungs. not SO in the
cow; in the human the most promin-
emit and early symptoms are persis-
tent cough. daily afternoon rise In the
temperature, loss OF flesh, impoverish-
ment Of the blood. loss of strength.
sleeplessness, and general listless-
ness: not SO in the cow. she has no
cough. looks well and as = rule eats
well, In fact there are no very prom
inent symptoms; hence, the advocates
of tuberculin inoculation urge that
the bacterial poison Is the only relf-
able test: yet these same advocates.
II they have been trained In bacter-
ial examinations and microscopic
pathology, are loud in the praise Of
such means In medical diagnosis. In
the human the bacillus or microbe of
the sputum from the lungs, not In
the excretions until the disease is fair
ly advanced: whereas in the animal.
especially the COW, the germ is very
early to be found In all her excre-
tons, the milk. urine, In fact In all
the eliminations of her system; hence
a microscopic and bacteriologic exam
ination will readily detect unmistak-
able evidence of the disease. while IN
10 tn thA
very early onset of the disease. Almost
every physician of considerable ex-
perience with tuberculosis knows Of
cases which q microscopic and bacter-
iologic examination of q patient re-
vealed no evidence of tuberculosis,
and later on perhaps six months or a
year the same patient developed an
unmistakable case Of consumption.
With the COW 1t is quite different, the
fact Is that there has been cases In
which the tuberculin test showed no
resistive reaction, and q microscopic
and bacteriologic examination of the
cows excretions showed unmistak-
ably the bacillus of tuberculosis.
Richmond's Great Advantages.
AHc City COuiu cVuip AdUOE dtOIy
amply sufficient for bacterial. for
chemical, and for other analysis.
foods. water, ETC., and for expert an
alysis in cases of suspected poisoning,
at total expense of about $825, at
the most liberal estimate. The most
expensive items would run about as
follows:
A Bausch & Lomb or q Spenser
microscope and accessories
complete .................. $3.50
Sterilizer, incubator. autoclave,
refrigerator, airbath, etc. $780,. 30
Still. scales. sacchriometer, milk
analysis. etc. ......,...... 175
Stains, reagents. mounting mater
ials for microscope. slides, ETC.. IT'S