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cavities in the same, and she raised purulent ichorous sputa. She 

 died from the disease July 23, 1876. 



" 6. Xurse Sanger had the habit of removing the mucus from 

 the babes' mouths by means of suction with her own ; and of blow- 

 ing her own breath into the mouths of asphyctic children ; and, in 

 general, treated children in a manner which rendered it possible 

 for the expired air from her own lungs to get into theirs, kissing 

 them much, etc. 



" 7. In three of the cases of tubercular meningitis which came 

 to my personal observation, the sickness began with bronchitis. 



" 8. Meningitis tuberculosa is not an endemic disease among 

 children at Neuenburg. In the nine years, from 1866-'74, only 

 two deaths are reported from this disease among children under 

 one year old. Of twelve children, under one year old, that died in 

 1877, only one died from this disease; the parents of this child 

 were both subjects of tubercular consumption." 



These cases, and those which follow, that were made by an ac- 

 complished veterinarian, in connection with the experimental testi- 

 mony which we have brought together in a simply suggestive but 

 by no means exhaustive form, should be more than sufficient to 

 call the attention of every reflecting man and woman to the fact 

 that tuberculosis is not only a disease, the disposition to which is 

 transmissible from parent to offspring, both human and animal, but 

 that it is, under certain circumstances, a highly contagious and in- 

 fectious disease. They tell us in warning words that we must not 

 only be most careful in selecting our partner for life, but in the 

 selection of the nurse, or maid, for children, and, when necessary, 

 the cow from which we are to give them milk. 



The influence of the expired air from the lungs of cattle afflicted 

 with the disease called tuberculosis upon other animals of the same 

 species confined in the same stable with them. 



This question is one of vast practical and economical impor- 

 tance to the farmer and dairyman. I much regret that I am so 

 entirely limited to the observations of foreigners upon cattle in 

 their own countries rather than to observations gathered in our 

 own country ; but this fact should stimulate us to more careful 

 consideration of these questions, even though it be late in the clay 

 that we begin. 



A German veterinarian, Albert, contributes a very thoughtful 

 and interesting paper, detailing personal observations bearing upon 

 this very point, in the " Wochenschrift fur Thierheilkunde," ISTos. 

 30 and 31, 1880, under the title " The Tuberculosis of Cattle as an 



