Danish works on tuberculosis since the days of Villemin / [Sophus Bang].

  • Bang, Sophus.
Date:
1908
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    B. Bang maintains weakening of virulence, because milk heated to 70 degr. proved effective by inoculation, but not by feeding. C. Lange doubts the frequency of tuberculosis engendered by fee- ding, except perhaps in infancy. Even though the inhalation of dry sputum is comparatively without danger, this cannot disprove the occurrence of tuberculosis by inhalation, „as daily intimate intercourse with tuberculous individuals offers ample opportunity for inhaling fresh moist particles of sputum, as for instance, when a mother coughs into the face of her child11 (comp. Fli'igges theory several years later!). B. Bang: Even though T. B. are transmitted by coughing or spit- ting, a case of tuberculosis through the digestive apparatus may be the result; the scrofulous cervical glands testify in favour of this opinion. S. T. Sorensen: In children who have died from acute infectious diseases the bronchial glands are found more frequently and strongly affected than the tonsils, which renders an upward course of the infection probable. B. Bang: Such a conclusion can not be drawn from the fact stated. C. Lange: These glands may afterwards become the starting point for miliary tuberculosis, but scarcely for consumption. BANG, Bernhard: Fortsatte Undersogelser over tuberkulas Mselk. 16’ Beretn. fra kgl. Vete- rinser- og Landbohojskolens Laboratorium 1889. [Further Besearches wic.h Tuberculous Milk.] — By intraperitoneal inoculation of rabbits the milk of altogether 28 highly tuberculous cows proved virulent in only two cases. The milk of 8 highly tuberculous women in no case produced tuberculosis in rabbits. — Continued ex- periments with heating of tuberculous milk showed that, whereas 80 degr. in five minutes had no reliable effect, a quick heating to 85 degr. was sufficient (intraperitoneal inoculation of rabbits). Feeding experiments on rabbits showed that 70 degrees sufficed to weaken the virulence so much that the rabbits were not in- fected in this way. Similar experiments on pigs did not result in quite neutralising the virulence. BANG, Bernhard : Er Mselken af tuberkulnse Kner virulent, naar Yveret er sundt? 10. intern, medic. Congress, Berlin, 1890. Miinchener med. Wochenschr. 1890 & Tidsskr. f. Vetr. 1890. N. m. A. Bd. 22. m/ism. [Is the Milk of Tuberculous Cows Virulent when the Udder is Sound?] — Guinea pigs were