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
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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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    APPENDIX. NOTE TO PAGE 28. . . . Nowadays, however, there are few authori- ties who do not admit that tubercle bacilli which have gained lodgment in the nasopharynx or in the oral cavity may cause primary lesions in the lung in an entirely different way [different from direct infection by inhalation], namely, through lymphogenous or hcEmatogenous channels after an intestinal infection (the intestine reckoned from the pharynx down through the stomach to the rectum). Whether this inhalation of tubercle bacilli from the air into the nasopharynx is followed by a pul- monary tuberculosis, and whether, if it be demon- strated that this actually occurs, the disease is to be ascribed to intestinal or pulmonary infection, is the thema probandum. . . . How little I deny the possibility of an inhalation of tubercle bacilli and the consequent danger of infection to many persons can be seen from two quotations, one from my Vienna lecture, March 12, 1903, and the other from the lecture held at Cassel, Sept. 27, 1903. **In my plans for the suppression of tuberculosis
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