Bovine tuberculosis : cause, cure, and eradication a summation of material, facts and eminent opinions for the use of farmers, cattle-owners, milk-producers, veterinarians, students, and others with appendices on the diseases which simulate tuberculosis, actinomycosis and Johne's disease also appendices on calf mortality and the destruction of rats, and a glossary of technical words.

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[1912?]
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Credit: Bovine tuberculosis : cause, cure, and eradication a summation of material, facts and eminent opinions for the use of farmers, cattle-owners, milk-producers, veterinarians, students, and others with appendices on the diseases which simulate tuberculosis, actinomycosis and Johne's disease also appendices on calf mortality and the destruction of rats, and a glossary of technical words. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Professor Louis Landouzy,1 of Paris, points out that “ All the labours of this French military doctor are summed up in this one sentence of his : ‘ Tuberculosis is caused by a morbid germ capable of multiplying in the organism. The inoculation of tubercle does not act through any visible or palpable matter that enters with this pathological product, but through a more subtle agent which is contained in it, and which escapes our perception.’ “ These facts and doctrines, showing the parasitic nature of tuberculosis, are just what we accept at the present day. All these have been, for the past forty years, contained in the work of the Val de Grace professor.” Chauveau and Cohnheim and Salamonsen confirmed and expanded Villemin’s position. Cohnheim foretold the early discovery of the para- sitic agent of tuberculosis, while Chauveau proved that tuberculosis could be produced by eating meat, etc., containing tuberculous material, and concluded that human and bovine tuberculosis were identical. Pasteur’s work rendered it likely that tuberculosis was due to bacteria. In 1882 Koch, whose recent death the world deeply deplores, described exactly the characters of the organism which he found in all tuberculous material. The organism has since been known as the Bacillus Tuberculosis and its discovery ascribed to Koch. This microscopic plant contains a poison, which acts in the animal organism in a manner not yet perfectly understood, but which, in great measure, is the cause of the power possessed by the plant in destroying animal life. This disease assumes a number of forms, according to the part infected, and the progress attained. Xewsholme2 tabulates the forms found in man as follows :— General Tuberculosis Acute Miliary Tuberculosis Acute Tuberculosis .. Phthisis Pulmonary Phthisis Pulmonary Tuberculosis Consumption Tabes Mesenterica .. Tuberculous Peritonitis Tuberculous. Meningitis Acute Hydrocephalus Brain Fever (in part) Lupus Caries Scrofula' (5th I. C. on T., Special Vol., p. 191. The Prevention of Tuberculosis, p. 2. “ Scrofula”—one of the forms of the old “ King’s evil.” Names given to tuberculosis where many parts of the body are attacked simultaneously. Tuberculosis of the lungs. Tuberculosis of the peri- toneum and of the ab- dominal lymphatic glands. Tuberculosis of the membranes surrounding the brain. Tuberculosis of the skin. Tuberculosis of the bone. Tuberculosis of the lymphatic glands. Germ theory Koch’s discovery Forms ol tubercu- losis