Ireland's crusade against tuberculosis; being a series of lectures delivered at the Tuberculosis Exhibition, 1907 . en-heat cannot be relied on to kill all germs inthe interior. But it is so rare that tubercle bacilli occurin the centre of the meat that we ordinarily ignore thisas a possible source of infection. It is exceedinglydoubtful if tuberculosis is ever contracted from eatingbutter or cheese. The last mode of infection by tuberculosis I shallallude to is direct infection through a cut, as occasionallyoccurs to those working with tubercle bacilli in bacterio-logical laboratories. Before
Ireland's crusade against tuberculosis; being a series of lectures delivered at the Tuberculosis Exhibition, 1907 . en-heat cannot be relied on to kill all germs inthe interior. But it is so rare that tubercle bacilli occurin the centre of the meat that we ordinarily ignore thisas a possible source of infection. It is exceedinglydoubtful if tuberculosis is ever contracted from eatingbutter or cheese. The last mode of infection by tuberculosis I shallallude to is direct infection through a cut, as occasionallyoccurs to those working with tubercle bacilli in bacterio-logical laboratories. Before proceeding to deal with disinfection I proposeto tell you of an interesting instance of almost directinfection which I met with in my own practice. On thelast day of 1903 I was called on to attend a countrywoman at the birth of her twin children. They weretwo very large and finely-developed boys. A remark-able circumstance about them was that each of them hadodd eyes—that is, each had one eye brown and one eyeblue. Further, one of them was born with two these matters are outside my story. When the. a tu aX H a 7. 0 > ou H o a,wQ JS au idH •sa, a H S o H 01(J AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS 47 children were three months old I vaccinated them. Bothwere then thriving. I did not see them again for anotheryear or so, until I was summoned to attend one of them,John by name. On examining John, who was the firsthorn, and the stronger child at birth, I found him suffer-ing from extreme tubercular disease affecting his fingers,wrists, knees, ankles, and toes. The other twin(Thomas) was in excellent health. My first inquiry wasas to the feeding of the children. To my joy the mothertold me she had suckled one of them and fed the other oncows milk. I had almost jumped to the conclusion thatJohn had contracted his tuberculosis by drinking themilk of a tubercular cow, when I thought it wise to askwhich of the twins had the cows milk. To my amaze-ment I learned it was Thomas, the health
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