People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1894 — TUBERCULIN. [ARTICLE]

TUBERCULIN.

Tuberculin is a substance prepared from the Bacillus, first by Dr. Koch of Germany, who claimed that it would cure consumption, but this proved a failure. It is, however, a true test of the presence of tuberculosis in man or beast. If tuberculine be injected under the akin with a hypodermic syringe it will cause the temperature of the body to rise several degrees, when afflicted with tuberculosis, but if not afflicted no rise of temperature is produced. Now since about one seventh of the human race die of consumption and since it is asserted by experts that this disease is often contracted by eating the flesh and dlinking the milk of cattle thus diseased, therefore it has been resolved by some foreign countries, especially by England, and by onr state of New York to test all cattle for tnberonlosis, kill those infested with it and pay the owners full value for them. This practice will soon be followed by every state of the Union and good rmlw Will follow,