Etiology of tubercle, with comments on Doctor Robert Kochs bacilli / by Henry Mac Cormac.

  • M'Cormac, Henry, 1800-1886.
Date:
1882
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Credit: Etiology of tubercle, with comments on Doctor Robert Kochs bacilli / by Henry Mac Cormac. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    I did to the two sisters, and a finer example of flourishing early womanhood than she was, when I saw her afterwards, as she stood one summer eve, with bared head and scarlet cloak at a concert-room door, it would be difficult to meet. In a few years she mar- ried, but such were the prepossessions of her new rela- tives, who took no counsel from me, that neither she nor her baby was suffered to venture out of doors. To be brief, she contracted phthisis and perished. One day two young people, husband and wife, both far gone in consumption, called on me for advice. Soon after, the young man came alone. Doctor, he said, when I awoke this morn, my wife lay dead be- side me. I sent him to Natal, where a kind and generous man, besides other attentions, gave him a horse to ride, but it was too late, he returned no more. In this country, cows are kept in houses one side, or rather end, of which is quite open. Such cows, unlike those in London and especially Paris, never become tuberculous. One day, in the course of con- versation, a farmer in the country told me he had lost a cow. Such a one, he said, he had never had, never saw. And I cannot think why, he continued, I was so good to her. Show me, I said, where you put the animal. He led me to a chamber, boarded on every side. The ceiling one could place ones hand upon. In short, when the door was closed, the place was a shut sac. It was easy to perceive why the poor cow perished, and why the farmers other cows, housed in the usual fashion, maintained good health. I have no wish or desire except the furtherance of