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Cattle Tuberculosis and Tuberculous Meat

Cattle Tuberculosis and Tuberculous Meat

Behrend, Henry

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General World History

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ISBN10: 1235679551
ISBN13: 9781235679551
Publisher: General Books
Weight: 0.15
Height: 0.06 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893. Excerpt: ... In a paper which appeared in this Review in September 1889, I drew the attention of its readers to the subject of the communicability to man of the diseases of animals consumed as food, and I gave a resume of the evidence which had accumulated in proof of the position maintained by the leading scientific authorities in every country, as to the risk of the virus of specific maladies being conveyed by the ingestion of affected meat. The importance of the inquiry centres in the question of the transmissibility of Tuberculosis, because not only is this the most frequent morbific condition in cattle, and the most destructive to human life--being accountable for nearly half the deaths between the marriageable ages of fifteen to thirty-five years in Great Britain, and for one-fifth of the entire mortality--but also because Koch's brilliant discovery of the bacillus has set at rest all doubt as to the cause of the malady, and as to the question of its identity in man and the lower animals. No subject has more uninterrupted!y engaged the attention of pathologists during the past twelve months, or is more likely to lead to results of the greatest practical importance: it has been discussed in the legislative assemblies of Europe and America, with a view to the settlement of the manifold difficulties, legal and scientific, C2 by which it is surrounded; and public attention having been thoroughly roused to the gravity of the issues at stake, their solution is imperatively demanded in the interests alike of the large and important classes engaged in the supply of food to our markets, and the immeasurably larger and more important classes engaged in its consumption. The links in the chain of scientific evidence, based upon experiments conducted through a series of year...

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