(c) That the introduction of Tb. into the lymph-channels is accomplished primarily by the leucocytic wandering cell, which takes up the tubercle bacillus.
7. In the herbivora the Tb. are most commonly carried from the cæcum to the mesenteric lymph-glands. In man, the agminated lymph-follicles of the small, and the solitary lymph-follicles of the large intestine also serve as points of entry (cf. Carl Hof, “Ueber primäre Darmtuberculose,” Kieler Dissert., 1903. Compare also v. Hansemann, “Ueber Fütterungs Tuberculose,” Berl. klin. Wochenschr., 1903, No. 7).
8. Reference to the peculiar features of the stomach of ruminants and remarks on primary tuberculosis of the stomach (Schottelius).
9. The primary development of localized foci in the lesser omentum after infection through the stomach in early nursing period.
10. Peculiarities of the infection of nurslings through the alimentary tract, experimentally and statistically determined.
(a) Feeding experiments with anthrax bacilli and other bacteria.
(b) Feeding of spores.
(c) Tubercular virus behaves in many ways more like the resistant form [spore form] of anthrax virus, especially when the Tb. virus is present in cheesy pus.
(d) The observations of Adalbert Czerny and Paul Moser on the occurrence of bacteria in the blood of living human nurslings (1894).
(e) Carl Weigert’s statements concerning the penetrability, for Tb. virus, of the intestinal apparatus of very young children. (From 1883, cited in Deutsche medizin. Wochenschr., 1903, No. 41.)