Tuberculosis. 477 



Dr. Stang, of Amorbach, had a five-year-old, finely developed 

 boy patient, of healthy parents, destitute of hereditary taint. He 

 died after a few weeks' illness with miliary tuberculosis of the 

 lungs and enormously enlarged tubercular mesenteric glands. The 

 cow which supplied his milk had been killed a short time before 

 with pulmonary tuberculosis. 1 



Dr. Demme, of the Children's Hospital, Berne, had four in- 

 fants, the offspring of sound parents, with no hereditary taint of 

 tubercle, die of intestinal and mesenteric tuberculosis, having been 

 fed on the milk of tuberculous cows. Among 2,000 tubercu- 

 lous infants treated in twenty years these were the only ones in 

 which he could exclude the probability of hereditary and other 

 causes. 2 



Mr. Howe, of North Hadley, Mass., lost a son, aged twenty 

 months, from abdominal tuberculosis, three months after he had 

 paid a week's visit to his uncle and had been fed the milk of the 

 uncle's tuberculous cow. The cow showed at death generalized 

 tuberculosis. The child had been strong and well, as were his 

 parents. 



The four-year-old son of Colonel Beecher, of Yonkers, died 

 March, 1894, of tubercular meningitis, and the two Alderney 

 cows which had supplied him with milk were then proved con- 

 sumptive by the tuberculin test and post-mortem examination. 3 



The child of Dr. Brown, U.S.A., and now of Cornell Uni- 

 versity Medical School, was similarly cut off by tuberculosis, 

 having been fed on the milk of a tuberculous cow. 



Dr. C. H. Peabody had a child patient die of tubercular men- 

 ingitis three months after the family cow had been killed for 

 generalized tuberculosis. There had been previously no tuber- 

 culosis in the family (Ernst, Infectiousness of Milk). 



A. H. Rose, of Littleton, Mass., gives the case of a child which 

 was fed for three years on the milk of a tuberculous cow and 

 died with abdominal tuberculosis (Ernst). 



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

 child of healthy parents and ancestry which had been fed on the 

 milk of a cow with advanced tuberculosis, and which died after 

 a few weeks with acute tuberculosis (Ernst). 



1 Lydtin. Veterinary Congress, Brussels, 1883. 



2 Nocard. Dictionnaire de Med. Veterinaire. Article, Tuberculosis. 



3 New York Sun, March 29, 1894. 



