Prevalence of tuberculosis in the domesticated animals : abstract of an address delivered before the Lancashire Veterinary Association / by Sheridan Delépine.

  • Delépine, Sheridan, 1855-1921.
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[1895]
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    [Reprinted from the Medical Chronicle, September, 1895.] PREVALENCE OF TUBERCULOSIS IN THE DOMESTICATED ANIMALS. Abstract of an Address delivered before the Lancashire Veterinary Association, by Sheridan Del^pine, Professor of Pathology, The Owens College. The more do we learn about tuberculosis the more are we bound to con- sider it as, perhaps, the most universal disease, both with regard to its pandemic and its panzootic character. Not only does it affect man and a very large number of other mam- mals, but numerous observations and experiments have proved that, when external conditions are favourable, the lower vertebrata may also become infected. From a public health point of view, the prevalence of tuberculosis among the animals which man has associated by domes- tication with his every-day life, has the greatest possible interest. The flesh and milk of several of them constitute the most important elements of the food of a large proportion of mankind. Their hides, bones, blood, excrements, are used for various purposes, and must come in contact with a number of people. We mix with these beings in our thoroughfares, and even in our houses ; and in certain parts it might almost be said that they are the bedfellows of men, women, and children. If it be remembered that tuberculosis has abundantly been proved to be transmissible from the lower animals to man, and from man to the lower animals, either through the air or food passages and also, but more rarely, through the abraded skin, or the genito-urinary passages, this promiscuity cannot fail to convey an impression of msecurity. It is not ray object here to speak of tuberculosis in such animals as monkeys, camels, giraffes, antelopes, llamas, lions, tigers, foxes, tapirs zebras etc., all of which have, when kept in menageries, been found to be liable to tuberculosis. My remarks will be limited to those domesti cated animals that are most constantly associated with man in this country. Several of them have, for a long time, been supposed to be immune against tuberculosis, and many are still believed, not only by medical men but also by veterinary surgeons, to be refractory. I neeTonl. mention the horse, the goat, and the dog, in support of my contenttn Many attempts of serum treatment of tuberculous have been a d still based on such belief, so that nobody can denv +11 f ' which the notion has been retained ^ ' '''^'^