TUBERCULOSIS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20127, 21 April 1928, Page 22 (Supplement)

TUBERCULOSIS

DB. KIRKPATRICK'S CLAIM Considerable publicity is being given to the cows recently treated with Dr. Kirkpatrick’s so-called cure for bovine tuberculosis, says Hoard’s Dairyman. An experiment was conducted in Oregon to determine whether or not this particular so-called cure for tuberculosis discovered by Dr. Kirkpatrick possessed any merit. The cows used in the experiment had responded to the tuberculin test and were, considered tubercular. Several months after they were given the treatment they were slaughtered und-er federal supervision. Dr. J. R. Mohler, Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry, states that wellpronounced lesions of tuberculosis were found in five out of the seven animals slaughtered. The Williamettc Valley Medical Association has also, in substance, stated: “Many of our members witnessed tthe autopsies of these animals in Portland, August 6-10, 1927, and discovered no visible evidence indicating that the Kirkpatrick treatment actually effected a cure of ahy of these cattle under experiment.’’ It is hoped, of course, that some effective cure can be discovered for tuberculosis, but until some treatment has been thoroughly demonstrated to be a cure, laymen and live stock owners should place no confidence in it. Tuberculosis is too insidious and serious a disease to warrant anyone to use a so-

called cure unless it has been positively demonstrated to be a cure..