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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![Ixxliefi of bovine aitiinulii. To eAUiliIish the proof of a communica- tion of the bovine tliaeaae to man, I rely u|Mm identities of atructure, and u{M>n theee alone. TbeexperiineiitalUtatUobNiouiily outof the c{u«wtion, and the micro-organ Urn Uat ia not yet ripe for general UNO. The only alternativea are, either to make conjecturea and work out hyjHJtheaea in the prevailing manner of Prtdeaaor Cohn- heiin's suggtMtive caaay, and ao to fail in making any heml- way with one's ideas in the oatimation of practical men, or to put together os candully and exhauativcly as |>OH8ibIe, all the evidence of identity in structure between the disease in the bovine species and the susptrcted coses in man. Wiioever believes in the mar- vellous mimicry of infection will not be afraid to look for, and w'ill not loj astonished to find in the inf(K;ted human laxly a wide-spread and varieil condition, which repnxlucea,in the reajxK;- tivu localities and as a whole, the condition in the Ixivine animal out of which tile infection has prtx:ee<led. It is chiefly in the serr>us membranes, in the lungs, and in the lym]ihatic glands that the typical lesions are found both in the infecting and in the in- focUnl oi^nism. I have thus sought to define the scope of my imjuir}’. It pur- ports to trace the tulxjrculosisof twelve coses in man to infection or ptiisoning fn>m the cow or ox, and the evidence relied on is the identity of the diseased product Professor Virchow, who lays much stress on the specific and distinctive characters of l)Ovine tuberculosis {PerUiicJU), said, in an aildress U) the Ilerlin Medical Society on 10th March 1880, “We must in any case Ixjar in mind that no man has ever yet acK^uired jx?arl nodules through partaking of tulxjrculous {pirlgilchtig) flesh,”* 1 main- tain that the twelve cases recorded in the sequel show precisely those specific characters of which the “ pearl nodules ” are the most familiar example. These cases are, so far as I know, the only cases hitherto published which formally claim to be cases of the specific Iwvine tuberculosis communicated to man. ‘ Virchow, “ Ueber die Tcrlencht dor Hauiithicre, und deron Ucl*crtragung durch die Nahrong.’*—Ar/iacr Klin, WothenKh. No. 14 (5th April) 1880.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2226758x_0024.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
