Ireland's crusade against tuberculosis; being a series of lectures delivered at the Tuberculosis Exhibition, 1907 . AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS 25 which the medical faculty could not understand. Upto the time she was taken ill—she was then seventeenyears of age—she had been a healthy girl. There wasno history of consumption in the family for two or threegenerations. The girl died, and the father made a post-mortem, and he found that his daughter had died fromtuberculosis of the abdominal cavity. He next con-sidered the question of how she had become turned out that every week-end they wen
Ireland's crusade against tuberculosis; being a series of lectures delivered at the Tuberculosis Exhibition, 1907 . AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS 25 which the medical faculty could not understand. Upto the time she was taken ill—she was then seventeenyears of age—she had been a healthy girl. There wasno history of consumption in the family for two or threegenerations. The girl died, and the father made a post-mortem, and he found that his daughter had died fromtuberculosis of the abdominal cavity. He next con-sidered the question of how she had become turned out that every week-end they went to thecountry to spend the Sunday on a small estate which thefather had outside Geneva. A few cows were kept were six in all, and an examination of theseanimals showed that four of them—an unusuallylarge percentage—had tuberculosis. She was fond ofdrinking the milk fresh from the cows, she liked itwarm—in fact, it was one of the greatest treats she hadwhen she went to the country. The father saw at oncehow the infection had occurred from drinking the tuber-culous milk of these cows, and
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