﻿498 
  Seventh 
  Annual 
  Report 
  of 
  the 
  

  

  case." 
  If 
  it 
  is 
  proved 
  that 
  the 
  milk 
  from 
  reacting 
  cows 
  does 
  con- 
  

   tain 
  the 
  tubercle 
  bacilli, 
  and 
  is 
  infectious, 
  it 
  might 
  1)0 
  well 
  to 
  show 
  

   whether 
  bovine 
  tuberculosis 
  is 
  communicable 
  to 
  man. 
  

  

  " 
  An 
  honored 
  member 
  of 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  Veterinary 
  Medical 
  

   Association 
  was 
  inoculated 
  on 
  the 
  back 
  of 
  the 
  hand 
  in 
  making 
  a 
  

   post-mortem 
  examination 
  of 
  a 
  tuberculous 
  cow, 
  and 
  the 
  sore 
  

   swelled, 
  ulcerated 
  and 
  refused 
  to 
  heal, 
  and 
  when 
  excised 
  was 
  found 
  

   tC' 
  contain 
  tubercle 
  bacilli. 
  He 
  had 
  no 
  ulterior 
  bad 
  consequence." 
  

   (Law.) 
  

  

  " 
  Oliver 
  records 
  the 
  case 
  of 
  a 
  twenty-year-old 
  girl 
  of 
  vigorous 
  

   health, 
  and 
  good 
  antecedents, 
  who 
  contracted 
  a 
  fatal 
  tubercular 
  

   meningitis, 
  ha^njig 
  drank 
  the 
  milk 
  of 
  cows 
  having 
  tubercular 
  ulcers 
  

   on 
  their 
  udders, 
  which 
  were 
  found 
  on 
  slaughter 
  to 
  have 
  generalized 
  

   tuberculosis. 
  (Semaine 
  Medicale, 
  February, 
  1892.) 
  

  

  Ernst 
  records 
  the 
  following: 
  " 
  A 
  family 
  cow 
  died 
  of 
  chronic 
  

   pulmonary 
  tuberculosis, 
  from 
  which 
  she 
  had 
  suffered 
  severely 
  for 
  

   one 
  year. 
  Dr. 
  C. 
  H. 
  Peabody, 
  Providence, 
  found 
  that 
  the 
  tuber- 
  

   culous 
  lungs 
  and 
  heart 
  weighed 
  43.5 
  pounds, 
  and 
  extensive 
  tuber- 
  

   cles 
  in 
  the 
  mediastinal 
  and 
  mesenteric 
  glands, 
  trachea, 
  tongiie, 
  

   spleen, 
  kidneys, 
  intestinea 
  and 
  udder. 
  Three 
  months 
  later 
  the 
  

   baby 
  sickened, 
  and 
  in 
  seven 
  months 
  died 
  of 
  tubercular 
  meningitis." 
  

  

  " 
  Gordon 
  of 
  Quincy, 
  Mass., 
  records 
  the 
  case 
  of 
  a 
  ten-months 
  

   child 
  of 
  healthy 
  parents 
  and 
  ancestry, 
  which 
  had 
  fed 
  on 
  the 
  milk 
  of 
  

   a 
  cow 
  with 
  advanced 
  tuberculosis, 
  and 
  which 
  died 
  after 
  a 
  few 
  weeks 
  

   of 
  acute 
  tuberculosis." 
  (Ernst.) 
  

  

  " 
  A 
  Scotch 
  family, 
  strong 
  and 
  healthy, 
  had 
  a 
  herd 
  of 
  cows 
  which 
  

   contracted 
  tuberculosis. 
  Two 
  young 
  daughters 
  brought 
  up 
  on 
  

   the 
  milk 
  died 
  of 
  tuberculosis; 
  while 
  the 
  two 
  older 
  brothers, 
  tiding 
  

   little 
  or 
  no 
  milk, 
  remained 
  well 
  and 
  hearty." 
  (Tuberculosis. 
  ,\at. 
  

   Vet. 
  Assn., 
  London, 
  1883.) 
  

  

  " 
  Anderson, 
  Iceland, 
  reports 
  the 
  death 
  from 
  tuberculosis 
  of 
  a 
  

   child 
  of 
  six 
  months, 
  fed 
  on 
  the 
  milk 
  of 
  a 
  oow 
  suffering 
  from 
  tuber- 
  

   culosis 
  of 
  the 
  udder. 
  The 
  mother 
  developed 
  symptoms 
  of 
  con- 
  

   sumption 
  after 
  the 
  death 
  of 
  the 
  child." 
  (Hatch 
  Exp. 
  Sta. 
  of 
  Mass. 
  

   Agr. 
  College.) 
  

  

  