HUMAN ANI) BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS. 
331 
THE RELATIONSHIP EXISTING BETWEEN HUMAN AND 
BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS. 
By Prof. E. F. Brush, M.D., Mt. Vernon, N. Y. 
(Continued from Vol. XIV, page G9fi). 
We have well-authenticated statements respecting - another 
semi-civilized race, the natives of Great Kabylia, who. accord¬ 
ing to Hirsch and Evans and other authorities* enjoy an al¬ 
most absolute immunity from phthisis. According to the best 
authorities I could consult as to the history of the people, 
there is no evidence of the presence of the bovine tribe among 
them, but they possess large flocks of sheep and goats, and 
each family has usually one buffalo ox to do the plowing.J 
As these area peculiar people, with peculiar ideas and pecidiar 
habits, not calculated to encourage visits from European in¬ 
valids, they retain their immunity from phthisis to the present 
day. But not so with their neighbors, the Algerians. This 
country, having been occupied for over half a century by the 
French, has been therefore rendered sufficiently civilized to 
offer an asylum for European invalids. When first occupied 
by the French, the country was exempt from phthisis, and, of 
course, the publication of this fact drew to it many consump¬ 
tive invalids. The dairy cow was unknown in Algiers before 
the French conquest. There were innumerable herds of buf¬ 
falo, indeed ; but the French in vain offered a premium of fifty 
francs a head lor the importation of dairy stock.J Up to 1854 
they were unsuccessful, all these attempts proving futile. In 
the latest statistics from that country we find the largest pro¬ 
portion of deaths from phthisis among the European civilized 
residents.§ 
Dr. Scoresby Jackson makes the following remark about 
Algiers : “ It is not necessary to prove the absence of pulmon- 
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* Armand, “M£d. et Hygiene des Pays Chauds,” Paris, 1853, p. 375. Bor- 
theraud, “M€d. et Hyg. des Arabes,” Paris, 1855. 
t Daumas. “ La Grande Kabylie.” Morell, “Algeria,” 1854. 
+ Morell, “Algeria,” p. 477. 
§ Jackson, “Medical Climatology,” p. 138. 
