Author: Bath and West and Southern Coun Society

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-12

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 9781528000154

Excerpt from Journal of the Bath and West and Southern Counties Society, 1897-98, Vol. 8 The fact that tuberculosis is an infectious disease due to a specific cause is the real starting point for its suppression; for, if it were not an infectious but a hereditary disease, then our hopes of ultimate victory, considering how many of our cattle are affected, would be but small indeed, and the revelations of tuberculin, by far the most powerful diagnostic yet discovered, would only help to make the end seem farther off than ever. The old belief that tuberculosis is hereditary - in the sense of being handed on from sire or dam to progeny - is still held by some veterinarians and by a large proportion of our stock breeders and stock owners, but this belief has declined among medical men, and it will also undoubtedly decline among veterinarians and stock-owners. This old belief in heredity, modified to the extent that tubercular ancestors hand on to their descen dants a hereditary tendency to acquire the disease, is now more widely supported, and, later on in this article, it will be somewhat closely examined. 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.