Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1907 — Consumption by Infection. [ARTICLE]

Consumption by Infection.

Dr. E. G. Schroeder and W. E. Cotton of the bureau of animal industry have reported on their extensive experiments, which tend to show that tuberculous may develop in the lungs, no matter through what channels the bacilli gain entrance to the body, and that the location of lesions in the lungs can no longer be considered as evidence that infection entered by means of respiration. They say that too much importance has been attached to the agency of dried sputum and too little to the danger from fresh or moist tuberculous material, which enters human food in many ways, one of which is in the milk of tuberculous cows. Cattle and hogs were inoculated with tubercle bacilli near the end of the tail, and died from lung tuberculous in twenty-three days. These experts believe that ingestion is a greater danger than respiration.