title: [Tuberculosis and milk: elements of a polemic].
abstract: Can human beings get tuberculosis from the milk taken from cows infected with tuberculosis? Are the diagnosis and control of cattle tuberculosis effective for the protection of human populations? Questions such as these were the main concern of doctors from São Paulo at the beginning of the twentieth century. The present study tried to recover elements from the polemic that took place in São Paulo, in order to encourage the coming up of complementary facts about such matter. The article presents some indicators of confronting positions: on one hand, the goal of intensying the control of tuberculosis among the cattle; on the other hand, the attempt not to bring up any loss to national cattle raisers through the demand of additional precaution measures, which would affect the production and distribution of their products. Medical publications kept records of the interventions, which have allowed the author to identify the first position as the stronger one, which has brought up relevant consequences for the sanitary food control.
authors.affiliation: Faculdade de Odontologia da, Universidade de São Paulo (FOUSP), SP Brasil. leopoldo@usp.br
authors.forename: José Leopoldo Ferreira
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Antunes
authors.forename: Mirtes
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: de Moraes
authors.forename: Maria Gabriela Haye
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Biazevic
authors.forename: Eliseu Alves
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Waldman
authors.forename: Marcelo Oswaldo Alvares
authors.initials: MO
authors.lastname: Corrêa
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001938:Brazil; D002417:Cattle; D005506:Food Contamination; D049673:History, 20th Century; D008892:Milk / Q000266:history*; D011634:Public Health / Q000266:history*; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000266:history*