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Excerpt from The Extermination of Tuberculosis: Preservation of Milk and Raising of Calves; Lecture Delivered March 16, 1904, at the Agricultural Exhibition, at Bonn
Gentlemen - In my former lectures I have often emphasized. In accordance with Koch - although for different reasons - that I do not consider meat which has passed the control of the health department, butter and cheese, dangerous to man, even 1f a few tubercle 'bacilli should be contained in this food, because meat, butter and cheese are food for adults. The healthy adult possesses in the mucous membrane of the intestines a protective contrivance which suffices to destroy such small doses of tubercular virus. As far as healthy grown people are concerned, I am therefore of the opinion, that Ostertag's hygienic demands for the prevention of infection threatening from tuberculous cattle are perfectly satisfactory. However, if grown people prefer drinking boiled milk to raw milk, this is perfectly rational, since cooking prepares the milk for digestion. I am even inclined to believe that boiled milk is more easily digested by grown people, than raw milk. But this is not the case with newborn infants because of the absence of the gastric juice in stomach and intestines. In mother's milk we find small corpuscles consisting of genuine and unchanged albumin. These corpuscles enter the blood circulation as unchanged albumin. The organ to utilize the boiled and peptonized albumin for the formation of blood is not quite developed in the newborn. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
