Milford chronicle., 1927-09-16
TUBERCULOSIS TEST
FIRST FINDINGS
(By Ransome Suttonl

Wy ANphoOl4S OublOllJ
In order to find out whether or
not a bodybuilding Fluid" dis
covered by DR.. George Kirkpatrick,
veterinary, of Portland, Oregon,
actually cures tuberlocsis, as has
long been claimd, Mayor Baker in
structed Doctor Mack, Chase and
Miller, inspectors of meat, milk and
tuberlocsis, to take charge of a
small herd of cattle, which had
been condemned by the state and
Federal officials, and DR.. Kirk
patrick was told to go ahead and
cure them.
There is no question about these
cattle having tuberculosis. AS DR..
"A. M. Blackwell, U. S. Inspector at
the Swift & Company has declared,
you could hang your hat on their
bones" Ten of the worst afflicted
COWS in two herds were selected
for the test. So sick were they
that before the treatment started,
two died, leaving eight.
To these the first treatment was
given March 25, 1927. On five of
the cows, treatment was continued
for 13O days, without interruption.
These five were killed on the 7th,
and Sth, of August, 1927, in the
presence of some sixty scientists
from different parts of the country,
the post mOrtem being conducted
by DR.. Jacob Traum, of the veterin-
airy Science Department, University
of California. He was assisted of
ficially by Professor T. D. Beck
with, Bacteriologist, of the same
University. Perhaps it should be
said that these men were present in
their individual capacities, not as
representatives of the University.
Their report cannot be rendered un-
I'll guinea pigs have had time to
react to inOcculatiOn, and all that
can now be definitely stated is that
these five COWS, which had taken
the full course of treatment, were
passed by United States Inspectors
as first class meat, fit for humans
to eat.
Two of the eight COWS, which had
not for some reason had the full
course of treatment, were not in
cluded in the official test.
The eighth COW, due to calf-birth
troubles, died about the first of MAY
She had been under treatment for
only five weeks. With that COW
alone, this article eals. 1t was not
supposed possible that she could
have been cured of tuberculosis in
so short time. But, in order to
ascertain her condition, the city
health authorities sent suspicious
looking parts of certain of her
glands to the University of Califor-
MIA for examination.
On the 9th, of May, 1927, Profess
sor T. D. Beckwith reported to DR..
ID. M. Mack, of the Portland City |
Milk Inspection Service, as follows: |
1 received the material together
with reports submitted to me by Mr.. !
Ransome Sutton of Pasadena. Dis |
section of the material was made
with Doctor J. Traum of our De-
partment of Veterinary Science. In
One OF the mesenteric glands we
found what appears to be a small
Lubercle. In the two regions which
we deemed to be submaxilIary. we
found suspicious area in one. 1
while In the second was an area of Il
-lbrosls. The material showed a
slight amount of gas; therefore, I
1ld not dare to inject it directly in
o guinea pigs. Thus, after macer-
ltlon 1t was treated with four per
cent sodium hydroxide, washed in
sterile saline, resuspended and used
or injection purposes after this
reatment. To date the pigs are
lealthy. Thus, I hardly expect
.fter this time that septicemia will
leVelop. Microscopic examination
i the various suspensions prepared
I'D not show acid-fast rods. Furth-
r than this I cannot report at the
resent moment"
Professor Beckwith's final renort
cling what happened to the guinea
lgs was rendered under date of
.ugust p, 1927. He first describes
ne conditions of the glandular ma
erlaI when received by him, the
lethods used in the microscopic
Examination, and the technic fol-
owed in the preparation of slides.
hen, under the heading "Micros-
oplc Examination of Direct
mears," it is stated: mo acid
asst organisms could be determined
llcroscopically on any one of the
cries Of fifteen slides thus prepar-
Thereafter "a historical examin-
ton OF approximately sixty pre-
from various portions of
he specimens revealed no acid
list organisms. "No acid fast or
antsms were found in any of these
ldes," says the report "In no
lde moreover were any giant cells
But the guinea pigs had not vet
eported. On the fifth of MAY.
lree were inocculated, numbered
and 8. At that time. No.
eighed 400 grams. On June 18th.
weighe 500 grams. 1t kept gain