River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-01-22

rot intended to confer any inl-
munity, but the reason that they
react is due to the fact that
they have contracted tuberculosis
subsequent to their former test. An
animal may have a case of generaliz-
ed tuberculosis and not react TO the
test, but these cases are rare, as evil
| denced by herds in which all but one
or two animals have reacted, and it
was thought to be better policy to
slaughter the remaining animals than
to maintain them in new herd; such
animals having been autopiscd, have
failed in most cases to show tuber-
culosis. In an occasional instance we
have found generalized eases, and in
others very slight LESSONS. Tubercu-
lin injected into a tuberculous ami
NAL may break down the tuberculous
LESSONS or light up" the old lesion
and renew its activities, still it does
no particular harm in this case, as
tuberculin is merely a diagnostic
agent, as stated before, and the ami
NAL giving reaction to it, is slaught-
cred within very few days.
"22. 1t has never been proved that
tuberculosis is transmissable from
humans to animals or from animals
to humans. Personally / think it is
not intercommunicable.
"23. tuberculosis has never been
proved to be contagious or infectious.
Ii it were, all life would have been
extinct ages ago.
''24. Many tests have been made
by having healthy persons eat food
loaded with live tubercle bacilli, but
there has never been an automatically
recorded instance of such persons
having contracted tuberculosis from
so doing. F.
"25. Nature protects her creatures
from taking disease through eating
germ-laden food, but if the resistance
of the animal is lowered and an open
ing Gas by needle) is made for in
fectious material to enter the blood
stream, then any disease is liable to
follow"
No health officers, physicians or
sanitarians of any standing in the
present day, deny the transmissibility
of bovine tuberculosis to the human.
These reports arc common, substan-
tiating this claim. The British Royal
Commission on tuberculosis found
that $3.50 of the children dying of
tuberculosis under five years of age
are infected with the type of bovine
bacilli of tuberculosis. This is the re-
suit of one of the earliest investiga-
tions of authentic origin but later on
was substantiated by the findings of
Fank & Krumweide of Philadelphia,
Investigators of authentic standing
which found those figures to be cor
rect, whose findings were practically
the same as those of the British
Royal Commission on tuberculosis.
Quoting from Parks practical
Hygiene 1879: In $3.50 of all human
tuberculosis in children under FIVE
years Of age and in over 400 of alb
dominal and joint tuberculosis dur
ing TINS age period, the bovine species
of germ is present.
DR.. f. C. SHREDDER of the Govern
ment Experiment Station, Washing
ton, D. c., in a paper delivered be-
fore the American Veterinary Medi-
cal association in July, 1921, states:
"The bovine bacillus is responsible
for tuberculosis in chill iren. Ever!
case of tuberculosis in the human
subject due to bovine baeiil;, must be
charged to intimate contact in most
cases through the ingestior of con-
taminated dairy products between
persons and tuberculous cattle. DR..
E. c. SHREDDER is again quoted (Jour
nal American Veterinary Association.
July 1921: "The bovine form of the
tubercle bacillus is the Supremacy
pathogenic type. 1t is responsible for
tuberculosis in cows, in hogs and III
children"
"26. Rudolph Virchow, the German
scientist, one of the first to proclaim
the germ theory" told one of his
pupils, and that pupil told me, that II
he could live his life over again, he
would devote it to proving that the
germ theory" was wrong and that
the germ sought it's natural habitat
diseased tissue-rather than causing
the tissue to become diseased. He
likened this to the mosquitoes seek
ing the stagnant water, rather than
causing the water to become stag
nant."
This statement attributed to the
scientist Virchow, where he is sup
posed to "have told one of his pupils
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