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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    Fortify the body Immunity of civilised races domestic, industrial, and social life, which so readily induce the bacillary insemination of that soil ? 1“ The mastery over tuberculosis is not to be gained so much by the, at present, obviously fruitless and almost impossible attempt to eradicate the bacilli by sanitary laws, rules, and regulations, but by fortifying, to the point of impregnability and invulnerability, the tissue cells and chemico-physiological forces of the body by carrying out daily the simple practices of an invigorating hygiene.... 1 2rather than along those of bacterial communicability... .my vote is for the body.” Newsholme3 quotes the following words of J. Kingston Fowler,4 “ Although infection must be regarded as the causa sine qua non, it is not necessarily of most importance from a practical point of view. If of a large number of persons exposed to infection onty a few acquire a disease, the susceptibility of the individual becomes a factor in causation of greater moment than exposure to infection.” “ Breed health, seek health, keep health,” says Dr. William Watson,5 “ and there is no danger from the tubercle bacillus.” Unterberger6 concludes that “ We must, of course, seek to destroj' the tubercle bacillus as far as possible, but it is Utopian to imagine that all the tubercle bacilli in the world can be annihilated. Our chief endeavours must, therefore, be directed toward strengthening the body.” Dr. Pickett Turner,7 however, thinks that If man cannot vanquish a microbe, there must be something wrong in his methods.” Increased Immunity of Civilised Races.—Dr. Herbert Decarle Woodcock8 (Leeds, England) points out that “....natural immunity is obtained only by contact with disease, not by isolation from disease. “ The Anti-tuberculous Society of Trinidad,” he continues, “ has recognised this in a brightly written report in which it is stated that the ‘ African fresh from his forest bed of leaves dies if brought into close contact with the disease,’ when the white man of old civilisation does not succumb. The Irishman, living away from cities dies when introduced to city life. The Jew, the ancient race which has been forced by tyranny to live in slums for more than one thousand years, is now much more immune to the disease than is the case with other races ; yet if the Jew is introduced to conditions worse than he has been accustomed to, he succumbs. “In Leeds, England, there are thirty thousand Jews; they have the worst dwellings in the city—the parts of the city refused 1. 6th I. C. on T., Vol. 3, p. 616. 2. 6th I. C. on T., Vol. 3, p. 618. 3. The Prevention of Tuberculosis, p. 162. 4. Diseases of the Lungs, p. 306. 6. Lecture before the Glasgow and West of Scotland Agricultural Discussion Society. See The Scottish Farmer, Nov. 19th, 1910, p. 1034. 6. 6tli 1. C. on T., Vol. 1, pt. 1, p. 141. 7. Tuberculosis: Its origin and extinction, p. 3.