The animal tuberculoses : and their relation to human tuberculosis / by Ed. Nocard ; translated by H. Scurfield.

  • Edmond Nocard
Date:
1895
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Credit: The animal tuberculoses : and their relation to human tuberculosis / by Ed. Nocard ; translated by H. Scurfield. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PKEFACE. Peehaps the chief interest to doctors of human medicine in Professor Nocard's book lies in the demonstration of the small part played by heredity, and the great part played by contagion, in the propagation of bovine tuber- culosis. It seems not unreasonable to suppose that the same is the case for human tuberculosis, and that, if the children of tuberculous parents were protected from infection by cohabitation or ingestion, the importance of heredity as a cause of the disease, or even of the predisposition to it, would dwindle away into insignificance. In Denmark, Professor Bang has shown how compara- tively easy it is to protect cattle from infection, and how a healthy herd may be bred from a severely infected one. A short description of his scheme is given in the Appendix. Such a scheme universally applied would in a few years go far towards eradicating bovine tuber- culosis and removing one source of danger to man. H. SCURFIELD. SUNDEKLAND, July, 1895.