138 BuivLETIN 65. 



man has been successfully inoculated on the lower animals- As 

 evidence of direct transference of the disease from cattle to man 

 by inoculation the following two cases are quoted : 



Tscherming, of Copenhagen, attended a veterinarian who had 

 cut his finger in making a post mortem examination on a tuber- 

 culosis cow ; the wound healed, but there remained a swelling 

 which soon ulcerated and refused to heal, so that the whole tumer- 

 fied mass had to be cut out. The microscope revealed the dis- 

 tinct tubercular process and the presence of the characteristically 

 staining bacilli. 



Pfeiffer attended a Weimar, veterinarian of the name of Moses, 

 34 years old, of a good constitution, and without hereditary pre- 

 disposition, who, in 1885, cut his right thumb deeply in making 

 a post mortem examination of a tuberculous cow. The wound 

 healed but six months later the cicatrix still remained swollen, 

 and in the autumn of 1886 the man had pulmonary tuberculosis 

 with bacilli in his sputa and death occurred in two and a half 

 years after the wound. Post mortem examination revealed tuber- 

 culosis of the joint of the wounded thumb, and in the lungs 

 extensive tubercles and vomicae. 



To Tscherming 's may be added the case of a young veterinary 

 friend of the writer, who was inoculated in the hand in opening 

 a tuberculous cow, and suffered from a tumefaction of the result- 

 ing cicatrix, with distinct tubercle bacilli. The surgical removal 

 of the tumefaction manifestly saved the subject from a general- 

 ized tuberculosis. 



II. Poisoning by Ptomaines and Toxins, in Meat and 

 Milk of Tuberculous Animals. 



By an unaccountable oversight medical and veterinary Sani- 

 tarians alike have never, up to the present hour, looked bej'ond 

 infection by the tubercle bacillus in estimating the dangers to 

 man of tuberculosis in our flocks and herds. We find accordingly 

 that the question kept continually before the public is that of the 

 presence or absence of the tubercle bacillus in any food product, 

 — meat, milk, butter or cheese — furnished by the diseased or sus- 

 pected animal. The question of the presence or absence of 

 ptomaines or other toxic elements which are calculated to prove 



