Is Consumption Contagious?: And Can it be Transmitted by Means of Food?O. Clapp, 1881 - 178 páginas |
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Página 30 - Is phthisis contagious? No, I verily believe it is not. A diathesis is not communicable from person to person. Neither can the disease be easily (if at all) generated in a sound constitution. Nor is it ever imparted, in my opinion, even by one scrofulous individual to another.
Página 31 - Nevertheless, if consulted on the subject, I should, for obvious reasons, dissuade the occupation of the same bed, or even of the same sleeping apartment, by two persons, one of whom was known to labour under pulmonary consumption.
Página 134 - Even if this milk did not possess such dangerous infective properties, its deficiency in nitrogenous matters and in fat and sugar, and the increased proportion of earthy salts, would alone render it objectionable as an article of diet. It has long been known that it was liable to produce diarrhoea and debility in infants ; but, though many children fed on such milk may have died from general or localized tuberculosis, the part probably played by this fluid in its production has not been suspected.
Página 17 - It is usual now to speak of contagium as a specific excitant of disease, which originates in the organism suffering from the specific disease; while miasm, on the other hand, is used of a specific excitant of disease, which propagates itself outside of, and disconnected from, a previously diseased organism. Contagion can be conveyed by contact, from a diseased person to a sound one, produce the disease in him, and then again reproduce itself. .Miasm originates from without ; taken up into the body...
Página 150 - It is notable, in this respect, that in the marked progress of practical sanitation in recent years veterinarians are in the vanguard, and chiefly because people are wont to respond with more alacrity and with greater liberality for the suppression of an epizootic among their horses or a pleuro-pneumonia among the horned cattle than for the arrest of small-pox or the prevention of consumption. Individuals, communities and States will make liberal appropriations to improve the breed of stock or contribute...
Página 15 - Some authorities have employed the term infection (qv) to designate this latter method of communication, and have correspondingly limited the meaning of the word C. ; but no practical end is served by this refinement, and it has indeed led to great confusion by obscuring the fact of the communication, which is, when clearly proved by instances, the most important element in the inquiry.
Página 134 - Even if such milk did not possess such dangerous infective properties, its deficiency in nitrogenous elements, fat, and sugar, and the increased proportion of earthy salts, would alone render it objectionable as an article of diet. It has long been known that it was liable to produce diarrhoea and debility in infants ; but though many children fed on such milk have died from general or localized tuberculosis, the part probably played by this fluid in its production has not been suspected.
Página 73 - A phthisical man married a woman of healthy family; the man died, the woman became phthisical, as did also her sister who resided in the house during the man's illness. The latter married a man of great strength and of sound family; he, too, was attacked, and also his sister's daughter who resided some time in the house. One of their children died of tubercular meningitis, two h:id signs of pulmonary tubercle, one was free.
Página 149 - Such, indeed, is the main foundation of the so-called "hereditary'' diseases, for it is well known that the offspring of progenitors with well-marked constitutional tendencies may often have their hereditary tendencies wholly overcome, and a radical change effected, by a change in the quality of the nutriment and the physical surroundings ; and, on the contrary, the offspring of those possessed of the highest degree of physical organization may be dwarfed to the lowest degree of degeneracy by...
Página 42 - We have lost, daring this period, only one nnrse from, phthisis; and this was a poor creature whose husband had deserted her, and who had long endured, from other causes also, considerable mental anxiety and physical exhaustion. On the other hand, the services of the nurses generally have been unusually prolonged; and I can myself testify to their general health being, as a rule, remarkably good. Of those now resident, two have been on duty in the hospital seventeen years; one has resided thirteen...