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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![4H THE FOEklA TIOSS nil, b« infinitoly gn*aU?r than tlu* cascit of glaiidera in man truceublu to the a|M*citic diaeaae of the hor»e. There is a reusotmhlo |in^uni|ition that such eases make uj> a considerahle part of tlio cases of tuWreiilosis ohservod in medical practice, and, on that hypothesis, it is Uilerahly certain that we have already incorporated all or most of the chanicters of the l>ovine dimxise, os it ap|»ears in the human Ixxly, in our current concep- tion of human tuU'rculosis. For example, os ref'anis the conditions in the lung, the treatise hy Kindlleisch on “ Chrunic ami Acute Tuherculosis,” * makes rtj- fcreiice, or imidies nderencc, under one head or another to pro- Iwhly the greater jwrt of llio chanicters of the pulmonary lesion which I shall regard os distinctively Iielongiiig to the oommuni- catitl iKivino disease. Indoial, the definition of tuliercle tliat Kindtieisch adopts, ap)iears to me to have Ikmui mainly deter- mined hy the lai)^ infusion of the distinctive liovine characters into his general conc(«ption of tulicrculosis. Again, as regards the lymphatic glands, the conclusive work of Schtipfad on Lymphatic-tiland Tuln'roulosis* hasdejirivod one of the op|)or- tunity of proving for the first time that many cases of apjarently simpl(! and priinar}' scrofiilosis or caseation of the glands in man are really cases of tulicrculosis within the glands, and of so making out an unpn>judiced ]Miint of identity with the Ijovino disi^ase. In like manner, the question of the intestinal lesion has grown to lie one of great intricacy, and the lesions of the genito-urinar}' oi^ns have liecome jairt of the problem of scrofula. It is perhaps the condition of the serous membrane's that offers the clearest and least prejudiced ground for establishing an identity with the specific liovine distrase, and that is also the lesion that is most distinctive of the bovine disease itself. I shall liegin my general resumf' with the condition of the serous membranes, and follow with some account of the c^mdition of the lungs, of the lymphatic glands, and of the intestine. The formations on the .serous membranes in the ox and cow have been so conspicuous a feature of the di.sease, that they have determined all the various names that the disease has l>ecn called by in different countries. Some have even gone so far as ' Rintlflpiw'h, in Ziemmwn’s ITandbuch, vol. v. Leipzig, 1874. • Schiippel, Untersuckungen aber LymphdrUten-Tuberculom;, Tiibingen, 1871.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2226758x_0062.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
