1893 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
167 
Farmers’ Club Discussion. 
( Continued .) 
How Consumption Is Spread. 
W. O. Eastwood, M. D., Canada.— It 
would afford me great pleasure to assist 
in shedding light upon the source of con¬ 
sumption. Perhaps I can best do so by 
presenting to your readers some extracts 
from an article in the last Medical An¬ 
nual, by R. Shingleton Smith, a London 
physician of high standing. 
In speaking of the disinfection of tuber¬ 
culous sputum, he says : “ Dr. Martin 
Kirchner points out that the general con¬ 
sensus of opinion has come to regard the 
sputum of tuberculous patients as the 
ordinary means by which tuberculous 
disease spreads from one individual to an¬ 
other. In many of the large military es¬ 
tablishments in Germany it has been 
shown that tuberculous disease has been 
very widespread among the nurses and 
attendants upon the sick, and stringent 
rules are already in force in many such 
places to prevent the indiscriminate dis¬ 
posal of sputum.” He adds : “It has now 
been proved that tuberculous sputum 
may retain its infective properties for 10 
months even after decomposition or dry¬ 
ing up.” Then again: “Now that we 
are beginning to believe in the specific 
nature of phthisis, we find that the evi¬ 
dence of contagion rapidly accumulates, 
and the necessity for disinfecting agen¬ 
cies of a thorough and penetrating kind 
as applied to houses is becoming daily 
more apparent, inasmuch as a house in 
which the disease has existed remains a 
center of infection for an indefinite time.” 
It has been shown that the bacillus, 
which is the specific cause of the disease, 
exists in great numbers in the sputum, 
or expectoration, of consumptive pa¬ 
tients. If these expectorated matters 
may be dried up, as has just been stated, 
without the bacilli in them losing their 
activity, what is more likely than that the 
dried bacilli floating about in the atmos¬ 
phere should be inhaled and the disease 
be thus communicated to those who are 
susceptible to be attacked by it? It would 
seem more reasonable to suppose that 
infected matters carried directly into the 
lungs would be more likely to bring about 
an attack of pulmonary consumption 
than when taken into the stomach. It 
should also be taken into account that 
the sputum of consumptive patients con¬ 
tains the bacilli in very great numbers, 
whereas the meat or the milk of di &7 
eased cows, if they contain the bacilli at 
all, must do so, in the very nature of the 
case, in a much less degree ; except in 
the rare event of the udder being at¬ 
tacked by the disease, and in that case 
it is not likely that milk would continue 
to be secreted, or, if it did, that it would 
be used as human food. 
That there is a difference in individuals 
in regard to the susceptibility to be at¬ 
tacked by the disease is an admitted fact. 
It seems, moreover, that various circum¬ 
stances may occur to modify this sus¬ 
ceptibility either increasing or decreas¬ 
ing it as the case may be. Dryness, 
clearness and attenuation of the atmos¬ 
phere, sunlight, exercise in the open air, 
good ventilation, and a dry, porous soil 
diminish the susceptibility, while the 
opposite conditions and heredity increase 
it. A curious and at the same time in¬ 
structive fact brought out by some of the 
specialists who have devoted much time 
and labor to the investigation of micro¬ 
bial diseases, is that white rats which in 
their normal condition are proof against 
the infection of anthrax succumb to it 
quite readily if inoculated with the virus 
of the disease immediately after having 
been made to exercise themselves 
violently. Cold, hunger and exhaustion 
also seem to increase the susceptibility. 
When we take into consideration the 
intractable and fatal character of the 
disease, its great prevalence, and the 
danger, which our lately acquired knowl¬ 
edge has shown us, attaches to the spu¬ 
tum of those who are suffering from it, 
many of whom continue to be able to 
mingle in society for a long time after 
they are attacked, it is indeed surprising 
that there has been so very little done by 
those who are chiefly responsible for the 
care of the public health to save those 
who are well from the risk to which 
they are exposed through the bacilli- 
charged sputum of consumptive patients 
being ejected on the streets and upon the 
floors of schools, churches, theaters and 
other public buildings. 
Mrs. White’s Household Duties. 
The Mapes Manures. 
Correspondence especially solicited from practical growers of 
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THE MAPES POTATO MANURE. 
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Mrs. E. E. White, Kansas. —A. W. S., 
Americus, Ga , page 6 (January 7), thinks 
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We are about as far from it as Mr. 
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days (horse power); 14 men each day ; 
two extra hands three weeks ; one 
boarder 30 days in June (strawberry 
season) ; boarded one man two days 
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Huxley tells us it requires nearly three 
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laboring person. By referring to the 
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Our sugar cost us 9.9 cents a day; coffee, 
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