Evidences of the communicability of consumption.

  • Heron, G. A. (George Allan), 1845-1915.
Date:
1890
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    Case LXXII.*—The Hygienic Significance of Tubercle in Cattle. Relates an observation of Bulil concerning a boy, five years old, who died of tubercle of the abdomen. It was clearly shown that for two generations there had been no case of tubercular disease upon either side of this boy's family. Por two or three years he had drunk milk, warm, but uncooked, from a cow, which was proved, post-mortem, to be tuberculous. Case LXXIII.—Baas.]'—Remarks on the Contagiousness of Conswmption, and the Treatment of the latter. Relates two cases of infection in married couples, where all question of hereditary taint was piactically exckided. Case LXXIV.—Eastaw.X—Concerning the Contagiousness of Pulmonary Consumption. A history of the question of the contagiousness of consumption in recent times, with the addition of three examples. (i) A consumptive man was much in the company of his mother-in-law, a healthy, strong woman of sixty. After his death she became phthisical while the wife remained healthy. (2 and 3) Refer to men who became consumptive while nursing their consumptive wives. Case LXXY.— Villemin.§—The Prevention of Pulmonary Consumjytion. Relates cases of infection. (i) Three sisters without hereditary taint. One of them returned to her home, from school, a consumptive. She is regarded as having infected her next sister, and she, in her turn, infected the youngest. They fell ill in such order, that one of them occupied the bed, bedroom, and bedclothes of her who had just died. (2) A healthy servant-girl, without hereditary taint, fell ill of consumption after nursing a phthisical person. (3) Three observations by Leger concerning transmission of consumption in the cases of married couples. One of these cases is that of the infection of several women by one man. * Deutsch. lied. Wochenschrift, 1876, p. 83. t Deutsch. Klin., Nos. 20 and 21, 1874. J Mont. Med., Feb. 1869. § Union Mtd., 1868, No. 12.