The suppression of tuberculosis : together with Observations concerning phthisiogenesis in man and animals and Suggestions concerning the hygiene of cow stables and the production of milk for infant feeding, with special reference to tuberculosis / by Professor E. von Behring ... authorized translation by Charles Bolduan, M.D.

Emil von Behring

Date:: 1904

Credit: The suppression of tuberculosis : together with Observations concerning phthisiogenesis in man and animals and Suggestions concerning the hygiene of cow stables and the production of milk for infant feeding, with special reference to tuberculosis / by Professor E. von Behring ... authorized translation by Charles Bolduan, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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9. The primary development of localized foci in the lesser omentum after infection through the stomach in early nursing period. 10. Peculiarities of the infection of nurslings through the alimentary tract, experimentally and statistically determined. (a) Feeding experiments with anthrax bacilli and other bacteria. (6) Feeding of spores. (c) Tubercular virus behaves in many ways more like the resistant form [spore form] of anthrax virus, especially when the Tb. virus is present in cheesy pus. {d) The observations of Adalbert Czerny and Paul Moser on the occurrence of bacteria in the blood of living human nurslings (1894). {e) Carl Weigert's statements concerning the penetrability, for Tb. virus, of the intestinal apparatus of very young children. (From 1883, cited in Deutsche medizin. Wochenschr., 1903, No. 41.) (/) Raw's commimication (British Med. Journ., 1903) concerning 300 cases of tabes mesenterica, not one of which was found to have developed in a child nursed exclusively at the breast, but rather in those who had been nourished for a considerable time on cow's milk. 11. It is probable that in thickly populated coimtries practically every person is at some time or other infected with tuberculosis. Aside from

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