Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1907 — Two Kinds of Tuberculosis. [ARTICLE]

Two Kinds of Tuberculosis.

Reports from London state that the results of the careful investigations and experiments of the Royal Commission on Tuberculosis indicate that there are two kinds of consumption. When the bacilli of these diseases were administered to animals those from oner group caused rapidly fatal general tuberculosis, while the germs of the other group, though given in far larger doses, had only a slight local effect, and the disease tended to undergo a spontaneous cure, but the investigations have not yet reached a point where it is practicable to determine with certainty from which type of disease the patient is sufferingr—One of the results of the experimenter made seems to be to discredit Koch’s view that bovine and human tuberculosis are different diseases.