The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1913-02-13
TREATMENT OF TUBERCULOSIS
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your am1aOl6 secretary, Dut SuhlO0 ~
to say that he introduced under the
skin of cows a small sack containing
baccilli that could not penetrate the
walls of the sack, but could, by reason
of chemical conditions incident to the
environments, send out anti-tubercu-
losis toxines destined to render that
animal proof against the disease, and
the success of that method has been
recognized the world over.
The immunity obtained lasts at least
one year, and probably for life in
considerable percentage of the cases.
At all events in those herds where the
plan has been put into systematic
operation the percentage of reactors
is, in successive tests, becoming rapid
ly smaller, and in very few large
herds the percentage has become nil.
The tissues around the sack of bac-
ciili within eight days after the vac
cination, begin to form a f1brous wall
through which tubercle baccilla can
not penetrate, but which readily trans
mits the natural anti-toxines which
nature develops against the disease
germs, and within year the region is
wholly shut off from the balance of the
body by calcarious deposits that pre-
clude any possibility of the actual
germs getting into the general system.
In view of all these facts, why is it
not rational to conclude that many
thousands of animals that react today,
will not react next year, and that ami
mails diseased in local parts are immu
nizing themselves by this wonderful
natural processP
1t is most common to find little
points OF glandular structure, in per-
fectly healthy animals, that have be
come isolated from the balance Of the
body by the interposition Of tibrous
and calcarious deposits around that
particular spot.
No doubt such animals had been in
fected but had been cured by mystic
rious processes not yet fully understood
and predict that there will yet be
found evidence sufficient to show that
most cattle are at some time in their
lives, the subjects of infection, but not
to a degree that would endanger any
animal or human life, but all such
animals would readily respond to the
tuberculin test and be destroyed under
the method here proposed.
One more thing. Suppose case of
far advanced disease in an animal in
which nature, in an attempt to throw
off the disease, has itself manufactured
a large amount of tuberculin and dis
tributed it through the economy. That
animal may not at all react under the
test, because it is already full Of nat
ural tuberculin and has acquired ler-
ance to it, and is no longer sensitive.
Under the proposed legislation such
an animal would be tin the herd as
sound, when, In fact, it may be the
most dangerous source OF Infection
possible.
should like to discuss this subject
in full detail, but my time is fast eX-
piring, as l judge by the restlessness
of the Chairman.
would not obstruct proper legal
devices that give promise of good,
though would counsel conservatism
in this matter until something can be
known of value to guide us In obtain
ing relief in rational way
would most energetically oppose
any ruinous and destructive measure
that shows, upon the face of it, that
1t has no merit, but, as in this propo
sal, carries the provisions that will
paralyze the cattle industry and gut
the treasury to no purpose whatever.
Ever since Charles Klein achieved
success with "TheLion and the Mouse
every announcement concerning new
play by this author is read with inter.
est. 1t will no doubt afford great
pleasure to local play goers to know
that the United Play Company viii
present at Bells Opera House on Mon
day, Feb. IT, Mr.. Klein's latest play,
"The Third Degree" Like "The Lior
and the Mouse" an attempt has beer
made to disclose certain conditions
that exist, but in this instance, insteat
of taking up the realms OF finance
civic institutions are the subject 0
debate. adv