The association of human and bovine tuberculosis / by E. F. Brush.

  • Edward Fletcher Brush
Date:
1898
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Credit: The association of human and bovine tuberculosis / by E. F. Brush. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    be Saved from Tuberculosis? as a title of a pamphlet, and as I am a dairyman, I would like very much to read the little book. Inclosed please find stamp for reply. Yours truly, A. E. FRAZEE. [From the Albany, N. Y., Express, Dec. 28, 1897.] THE TUBERCULOSIS QUESTION. What Must We Do to be Saved From Tuberculosis? is the title of a paper read by Dr. E. F. Brush, of Mount Vernon, before the Medi- cal society of the county of Westchester, which was published in the New York Medical Jour- nal and has now been issued in pamphlet form lor general distribution. Dr. Brush agrees with the State Board of Health in its belief that the prevalence of tuber- culosis in human beings in due largely to infec- tion from milk and the meat of cows; but he as- serts that the Board is not proceeding in the right manner to eradicate tuberculosis among cattle. He reasons justly that the killing of cat- tle that are found to be infected can do compara- tively little toward the accomplishment of the main purpose while the conditions that breed tuberculosis are allowed to remain. In short, he points out that the State Board of Health does not strike at the root of the evil because it does not adopt measures to prevent the develop- ment of the disease.