| Show i JW n t ON OS H The reported statements of or Prof Mr r rl r KOch l ch the oil on I tuberculosis to tit the erect effect that the tue hu U man bovine lung lune are arc I ti different has lins caused cau ed much ills tB cUl It is III i ver very largely larS that the great groat German U is tl or when ho IB III o re reported report I ii ported port d to have said that ho he had been boen unable to Induce In IR mala by Inoculation With human tuber tiber tibert t qi tie cle bacilli for Cor or It Is Jo claimed that the Iha theirL irL possibility p of or transmission h has 8 J r been been proved by experiments experiment On the tho theother Ii other thUr hand It Is I admitted that the theory that bovine bolno tuberculosis onn be conveyed to man has hn never been bean es established esI I k I by reliable data l The nl believes that peat great harm may 1 tome como through the tho re reports reports reports ports thAt have havo been beell published If It tho tilO public should Inter Infer that tho the ump Ion ot of milk and a 1111 meat from diseased I animals Is ie perfectly harmless anti and It 9 TI hastens to say sa tint that Professor Prot allor Koch I och IB Ta Tal l not the authority he gave gao promise of ot g being b earlier In Ills his career The Tho keen Ileen I striving otter that Journal nays Kays of ot the scientist has hoa been beon dulled i In him mon mor more or loss los lie no has hos hoslo EI lost lo t the tho caution at of the real scientist I and nn has hns put in nil tho the assumption the red ness 8 we vo are aro tempted to say iy 1 ot the thO po ur Ho lie asserts with po I if what hat men like Adam and Theobold Smith suggest with lIh t To a n layman this censure appears un uncalled Uncalled called tot for As near na can eon bo be Judged i train from tho the reports of ot his address tho the professor merely gave It as 1111 his hili opinion that human beings cannot catch con consumption conti ti 1 from diseased animals while ji ho he distinctly di admitted that he lie was not M In a n position to tn furnish rum Ish positive proofs ti I What he ho thought he had demonstrated I us lat human consumption could not Ii be transmitted to animals anti and ho hi de do detailed doI I k tailed the experiments on which he lie heu u based this proposition It seems to toA UP 11 that ho lie made his hili statements with A the th caution exactitude of ot nn exper experienced ox per 1 lel ced scientist The Tho Inference to be drawn from froni the tho fl f statements st t credited to the Berlin pro professor prot I fessor t f lor Is not l t that milk and diseased dl ased animals can oan be he tt without danger but that tho the danger j l from that source Is slight ns M corn com compared j pared to the tho peril Peru of Inhaling disease Ill oo h germs from human beings with 7 consumption c Hs lie emphasized that nine ii tenths of all oh now new ne casts C I of or human tu hi tuberculosis were wore found to arise arl from con contaut conIE IE taut with consumptives When yen this fact Is more mor generally recognized the campaign against one of or the most moat ter terrible 9 diseases that 1 be more effective since to 10 know the tho theS S t chief source of or danger Is II In such uch n a contest content essential to ip On cn this point there thore was practical un unanimity unc c on the th part of or the delegates to th congress Tho The habit of at spitting In public was W strongly condemned The I Importance of or ventilation anti t ness In dwelling houses was wa em emphasized g r and the construction con of at satin winn 1 i toila toia for tor the proper treatment trl of ot jw pa pati tle ti nis tl especially of ot the Hie poorer ehu ses f I was recommended One Ont of ot the tho speak I ak i Irs re drew attention to alcoholism as a R Ri ar i r predisposing cause suse and the most mOlt pot potent wt 1 ent factor In the propagation of or tuber tuberculosis n j 1 culOs There Thero was W B no difference of ot J j l f opinion as to the chief contention of ot the bacteriologist that the great J L 1 source of or danger daner Is Intimate contact I with Ith consumptives and a disposition to toI 1 Infection Int caused by b some violation ot of ii I 1 rules |
