Bovine tuberculosis in man : an account of the pathology of suspected cases / by Charles Creighton.
- Charles Creighton
- Date:
- 1881
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Bovine tuberculosis in man : an account of the pathology of suspected cases / by Charles Creighton. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![G «yHtemutic imtuniliMl, and which art*,jw far ox they j^o, sulliclently Hxe«l and deterininute for an art'iiimMit of inor]»holo;^ical idenlilv in the human auhjwrt to 1m? IniihhI uj»on th(?m. If the Ixivine diiM'aiu* had Immui liiniUui in ita inanifestationato the aertma out^iwilia fniin wliich it« niinieK are taken, no ono would ever have aaid that it wa» the aiiineaa human tulH^rculoKia. It alwaya airerta the luii)^ ns well, and an almost e<jually constant chanu;tcr is the iiu|dication of the lyin|diutic f»lan<ls. I hope to show in the next chapt4fr that the aMections of the lun^s ami lymphatic {{lands an? themmdves K|MH*ial and distinctive of tlu? (liNease in bovine animals, cM|unlly with the senius'inembnine out{{n)Wtlui. If the naked*«*ye chanu’ters alone are n*lied on, then? m*e<l Im? no <|ui‘stion of tin* distinctiveneKs of the morbid condition, whether in the luit{{s and lymphatic {{lands, or on the H4?nms niembranes. It is only when the inicmsco|>e is applie<l, that the dis4*as(* is n*s<jlved into the wime fundamental textural pnx:e^es ns wo sup|K>se to la? characU-rixtic of tularrculosis in man. That is the contention of Schup]H‘l ’; 1 shall have to ex- amine the ar{;utuent of that author at some leii{{th in sul>se(pient chapmrs, and more particularly in ('hapter VII. In the meantime, an obvious objection may Imj taken to the histoIo{{icAl aixument of SchtipjM*!, that l>ovinc tuberculosis and human tuU*rculosis are two aincurrent and identiail forms of one disease, and to the corresponding ai^nmients from ex- jK?riment8 put forward by Chauveau, Villemin, ami Kleljs. The two terms of the compari.son, or the two sides of the identity, ilo not stand on the same footing. The disease in the cow and ox is a specific dis<*ase, alx)ut the distinctive characters of which there is no difrert?nce of opinion. Tn?atises on veterinary pathology enumerate certain morbid conditions in the lungs from which it is to be distinguished; but the diseases most likely to lie mistaken for it are hydatids in the cow, lymphoma (chiefly of the horse and dog),and strongylus in sheep. It does not appear thst it can be readily confused with jdeuro-jmeumonia, and, within the bovine s]>ecie.s itself, its jwxt-mortcm dia{niosis may lx? said to Ihj singularly free fnun difficulty. Hut can the same lx? said of “tuberculosis” in man? What are called tubercular diseases > Schuppcl, “Uober «lie IdontiUit dor Tiilwrculone niit der rirl.««ucht,”— Virchow'* j4rchiv, Ivi. (1872), p. 88.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2226758x_0020.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
