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Dr. Anderson of Seeland reported a case of a calf which received 

 tuberculosis from the milk of a cow witli the disease in the udder. 

 The wife of the owner, who had previously beeu considered healthy, 

 soon developed a cough, with the other symptoms of the disease. 

 Her child, born before the appearance of the disease, was fed with 

 milk from a tuberculous cow, and died with tiie disease within six 

 mouths. Dr. Anderson believed that both the mother and child con- 

 tracted the disease from the cow's milk. 



Dr. Bang, in a paper before the Medical Congress at Copenhagen, 

 in 1S84, said tnat the danger of transmission of tuberculosis from the 

 lower animals to man lies chiefly in the use of milk from diseased 

 cows, because it is largely used in an uncooked condition. lu one 

 case which he examined, he estimated that the bacilli of tuberculosis 

 were so abundant, that in drinking a glass of such milk, a person 

 would introduce into his system millions of these disease-producing 

 germs. 



Dr. Nocard read a paper on the " Danger of Tuberculous Meat 

 and Milk" before the Medical Congress held in Paris in July, 1888, 

 in which he said that " so far as milk is concerned, everybody agrees. 

 The milk is not virulent except when the mammary gland is tubercu- 

 lous, but the diagnosis of this localization is difficult, and often impos- 

 sible, and one must treat all tuberculous cows as if the gland was 

 always invaded." 



Prof. Walley stated, at a recent meeting of the British Medical 

 Association, that if there was no direct evidence of the transmission 

 of tuberculosis from animals to man, there was a vast amount of 

 indirect evidence. He said he had not the slightest hesitation in say- 

 ing that it was communicable from animals to man, and back again 

 from man to animals, in every possible shape and form. He also 

 expressed the opinion that it might be transmitted from tuberculous 

 hens through their eggs. 



ARE HUMAN AND BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS IDENTICAL? 



The numerous experiments which have been performed thus far 

 prove that when lower animals are inoculated with the tuberculous 

 products of man, the results are precisely the same as when the prod- 

 ucts of other animals are used, and stained sections of the diseased 

 parts exhibit the same bacilli in each case. 



Dr. Bizzozzera read a paper before the International Congress held 



