Bovine tuberculosis in man : an account of the pathology of suspected cases / by Charles Creighton.

  • Creighton, Charles, 1847-1927.
Date:
1881
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Credit: Bovine tuberculosis in man : an account of the pathology of suspected cases / by Charles Creighton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    F11E F A C E. The title of this book has been chosen for its brevity, and with no intention of being dogmatic. If the desig- nation had not been too cumbrous for a modern title- page, I should have preferred to describe the work as relatinir to a form of tuberculosis in man, which had the characters of an infection, and at the same time a suggestive likeness, in the morbid products, to the bovine form of tuberculosis [Perlsucht). I preserved the atrected parts from the earlier cases without any anticipation of the views that I now express, and merely because they seemed likely to repay study. The examination of them pointed to the pearl-disease of the bovine species as the source of the infection, and each succeeding case confirmed me in that opinion. It was from the tenth case, in order of time, that I took the distinctive apjAcarances shown in the first plate ; and it was from a case that occurred after the work had all • been sent to the press, that I obtained the sjiccimens of pearl-nodules which are represented in the woodcut in Appendix B. I am thus encouraged to believe that the attention of the profession requires only to be directed