BAKER ON MILK OF TUBERCULOUS COWS. 75 



"A s<'C()n(l child hrou^lit uj) on* stiM-ilizcd milk is in lolinst licaltli. 

 Both i»iu-('nts ari' in cxci'llcnl health. 



"A child four years old, {^rcat <;randson of Henry Ward lieecher, died 

 hist Maicli I 1S!>;!] ;it \'onUei's, X. V., of tnhercular Tneninj;itis. The 

 dia.iiuosis was conlirnied by specialists. There were no hereditary 

 tendencies to the disease known. The certainly that he liad the disease, 

 and the inability (o acconnt for it from hnnian aj^cncies led the i)hysi- 

 cians to snsi)ect the milk of two Alderney cows, on which the child liad 

 been mainly fed. P>oth the tubei-culin test and the post-mortems showed 

 tliat both animals were tnbercnlons.f * * * 



"May ;}(), 1S7!>, a cow died of generalized tnberculosis in Providence, 

 R. I., the lunj>s, most of the abdominal viscera, muscnlar tissue, and 

 udder being- tuberculous. The milk had been used in the family. In 

 August the baby was taken sick and died in seven weeks of tubercular 

 meningilis. rost-mortem showed tubercular deposits in tlie membranes 

 covering the brain, and some in the lungs. Two years later a two- 

 year-old cluld in the same family died of tubercular bi-onchitis and 

 sev«i years later a nine-year-old boy, 'delicate' for years, died of 'quick' 

 consunij>tion. So far as known tlie famih' on botli sides were rugged 

 and healthy.J 



"J)r. H. M. Pond 15 reports four cases of tuberculosis in one family, of 

 which three were fatal. He considered the milk of their cows to be the 

 source of the disease, since those animals were apparently tuberculous. 



"In the spring of 1890 Dr. Gage, city physician of Low^ell, Mass., had- 

 as a patient an infant which died of tubercular meningitis. Its parents 

 were healthy, and surroundings good. It had never been fed anything 

 but the milk of a single cow. The cow's milk was microscopicallj' 

 examined and found to contain the bacilli of tuberculosis. Guinea pigs 

 inoculated with her milk developed the disease. A second child fed upon 

 the same milk was developing similar symptoms to those discovered in 

 the child that died.'' 



Deaths from tubercular disease of boioels, and general tuberctdosis, includ- 

 ing meningitis, occur at milk -drinking ages. 



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Dr. (f. Sims Woodhead says: 



"For example, tubercular meningitis occurs much more frequently 

 between the third and eighth years than it does at any other period of 

 life. Rilliet and Barthez, giving the results of the examination of 08 

 cases of this condition, state that during the first year there were only 

 2 cases; between one and two years and a half, 17; from three to five 

 years and a half, 34; from six to seven years and a half, 23; from eight 

 to ten years, 15; and from eleven to fifteen years, 7 cases, 



"Of 54 cases of tubercular meningitis I have examined, not one was 

 under one year (adopting the same classification); between one and two 

 years and a half there were 15; from three to five years and a half, 21; 

 from six to seven years and a half, 8; from eight to ten years, 8; and 



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