Show KATE FIELDS LETTER death in milk and meat now how to detect tuberculosis A compulsory so ry test law needed hy hr kate field W washington city I 1 it Is gradually darling upon intelligent people that good bood or bad health do upon upun n what hill goes into the stomach it hai haa even been that so ao biec necessary is an article of food as milk can generate more disease and biang greater misery than ill the worst whisky ever sold in prohibition states slates no less a too foe than consumption can bo be ini im in seemingly innocuous milk be but thanks to science a way out of 0 the misery ties lias been found through the investigations of professor koch the a sanitary condition of dairy herds call be readily known henceforth if 1 people drink milk anti and eat cat beet beef and mutton it will bo be no fault ot of proper warning re 11 liz inist the importance of this subject and ilia little known about it hy by the public about it I 1 have interviewed dr D E buckingham a 0 graduate of 0 the university of pennsylvania is and nil a IlU selent pr ile buckingham has practically y tested tile the value of nf sot kochs I 1 troph mph in discovering the plesence cc of tu tuberculosis bercu a tn III my isly first clu question estion was ives what lp Is tub tuberculosis ercul of 1 lt it la 14 a dicharo chara characterized ot erizea by tho the fo r nia atlon ion within the body or of small round collections of new culled called tubercle tubercles tub ercles varying tit in alyc front from microscopic ocl foot to apples these tubercles tub ercles play may bo be found in various organs and tissues tl but fig as a lulo lule affect tile lungs lunes of man and lower animals I 1 how flow old a disease la is it tuberculosis was uns el dently an ancient chent disease as the iho use of 0 culous meat was proscribed by I 1 lie hie davs ft more both the ilic talmud tin and 1 I the sam sain ills oia ivear A li cannain picot that the iho raso existed fit at that period did it affect man or the brute creation first this is an all open fill question os tion cis as the study of disease in p past nt centuries but bul little light upon thy the subject holever it his has affected beffa cattle as aa long lone as and possibly before man aman became a victim how pie prevalent neval valent dit Is it among cattle ra F from obtained by the united faff ft ff states alta of 11 I 1 la known renown that 2 per cent of the animals ki killed I 1 led tor for beef in the oct ciniman man abatt abAllo airs lra have been in fit france about 01 per cent ale effected affected in belgium 4 por per cent li holland olland about 2 per cent in england Enc lanil it varies from I 1 to ag 6 per cent copenhagen rives gives a go general R cral tage of 6 per cent NA while hile for cows alone it rises to 16 per cent in the united states slater it a few records show that the disease appeared in fit 3 to 10 0 slaughtered animals in 1000 these seemingly low figures as compared with ill later reports are due to the tact fact thai the statistics are gathered Ka from public abattoirs abatto irs wile theio a a government inspectors fire are menacing factors against the slaughter of diseased IlBe ased animals hence they aro are not offered at mow places but art are kill killed ad elsewhere what other animals arc a v 0 susceptible dairy bairy cattle seem 10 ue im susceptible while it Is ii quito quite common in the hog due principally I 1 to 0 the use ie of dairy products or of refuse as teed feed it is rare in the sheep shears dog OK or cats cat but blit earnman common tit in fowls fois domesticated the guinea gulneck pig pie anil and rabbit are arc very susceptible hence they are much used by experimenters wild animals in captivity especially mori monkeys keys bears and show enow a marked predisposition what are the symptoms of 0 bovine tuberculosis the first symptoms are often so vague and obscure as to defy diagne sis if the disease takes the usual course it may be deteL detected ted after four or live months or it may not be noticeable for a your year or more this Is Is aspeci especially pec ally lally the case where tile animals are well led fed and cared lof for the skin becomes try dry anil the coit coat bar harsh is h and staring starl ni appetite tails falls and there Is an enlargement of the glands hurried flurried or labored with boug coush if and gradual emaciation follow how can it be detected tile the vagueness of the earlier s symptoms empt im 3 a and nil the d difficulty tile ulav or of phyll cut cul examination in the cow are great obstacles tit in locati lir the disease on ehlt 4 account any attempt at eradication has hag tailed failed as inel pent cases casca which cannot ile be detected are always allowed to remain tit in a teed lierd as new centers of 0 infection kochs tuberculin has been used by as a diagnostic agent excellent results what has been done by the aid ol of kochs tuberculin I 1 A float advance has bus been made and in many all y hundreds of cattle have been detected which otherwise otherl ge would not have been until they became markedly affected and dangel ous factors 1 in spreading the disease whole herds have linen been cleaned ot of this disease and not a single affected animal allowed to remain heretofore tills this would have been impossible with only physical axen c what Is tuberculin kochs tuberculin flym lymph Is 1 a brown eiseld fluid obtained from cultures or growths of tubercle bacilli on gel aLlne or other sub stances these cultures are mixed with glycerine anil ill nii ered hence tuberculin ber culin may be said lt to 0 o be a fluid extract of tile the cause of the ilia disease I 1 1 L e bacilli tuberculosis containing the active ain pi without the live get germ ilow how Is it applied A space just back of the right or left q shoulder boulder blade is i disinfected dis infected all and d be this area Is injected flora one cullo halt half to three cubic centimeters ot of a 10 per cent solution of tuberculin accald ins ing to tile the ape age find and size ot of the animal what Is its effect in III about twelve hours owing to some pecullar peculiar action which tub tuberculin ercul I 1 it exerts upon a tubercular animal it a rise tit in bodily temperature occurs which Is absent in a healthy animal treated tho the same way front from degrees F r the average normal temperature the reaction may rise to degrees or degrees and continue at this height tor for several gours hours when it recedes how lias has it affected the human system T thero there Is but little difference in the result of a tuberculin injection between man and animal it does not exert oxcart so balked a coriden tendency thayel tu u animals to cause an all increase Inc reaKe in the severity belity of the symptoms many tit in man lt it has hastened tile end and on tills this account it lias has been abandoned as a a cule cuie low how much Is it used by veterinarians its application Is becoming more vacant dally daily state beardi of health agil asi cultural experiment Ista tiong the united states bureau of animal in dutlay luid and many M ale using I 1 jt t to assist in fit locating and stamping out like ilia dit disease teane where and when mas it 11 first used for pull ru i pul pose professor gutmann of the veterinary instill institute a or of D dorpat apa ural ex experimented id with till 0 on cattle tile in january ISM igil shortly after 7 the olt tu bes a carol of the university of pennsylvania introduced the same use lose tor for it in the united states the taft great oat good it hay has done and ami holdi hold for or I 1 the future cannot be overestimated ex vice alt e bretton a amundred to stamp out tu bercu losis loah in hla his fine dairy cattle what other private individuals have been equally enlightened mr joseph joaeph E of 0 philadelphia find and mr christian helfrich of washington city should Shou lil not the hie examination ot of herds herda be bc compu compulsory ls orl yes tc tit and d until such a law be passed as aa in germony germany the of infection front this fertile source lill riot not be removed move d thre there good people what are you koin co ini to lit d shout about it run till ehlt awful I 1 lisle isic or |