Some of the ways in which milk becomes pathogenic / by Sheridan Delépine.

  • Delépine, Sheridan, 1855-1921.
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[1898]
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Credit: Some of the ways in which milk becomes pathogenic / by Sheridan Delépine. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Bepriuted for the Author from the British Medical Journal, January 22ad, 1898. SOME OF THE WAYS IN WHICH MILK BECOMES PATHOGENIC* By SHERIDAN DELEPINE, M.B., O.M.Edin., Professor of Pathology in Owens College, Victoria University Manchester. > This communication contains the results of an examination of over iio samples of milk sent to me by Professor Hope, of Liverpool, and Dr. Niven, of Manchester, for the purpose of determining the prevalence of tuberculous infection. While doing this work I was able to find evidence of the existence of contaminations which I considered went far towards ex- plaining the occurrence of summer diarrhcea in artificially- fed infants and to a lesser extent in adults. That diarrhcea is frequently caused by the consumption of milk is a view accepted by many authorities. What I have found is that milk very often becomes capable of producing con- siderable irritation through changes which take place after it has left the udder and has been under certain conditions. Part of the samples examined were obtained from diseased cows, the milk being carefully drawn into sterilised vessels and sent immediately to the laboratory. These I will call unmixed milks. The other samples were collected at rail- way stations in sterilised bottles from milk cans just arriving from the farm. These I will call mixed milks. These specimens were collected in summer and in winter. Some were necessarily kept longer than others. » For a full account of this subject see Journal of Comparative Pci M'Fadyean, vol. x 1897, pp. 150 to iiig.