478 Veterinary Medicine. 



Gage, of Lowell, Mass., had an infant patient of healthy 

 parents and surroundings, but which subsisted exclusively on a 

 cow's milk that contained bacilli and infected Guinea pigs. The 

 child died of tubercular meningitis. A second child fed the same 

 milk suffered in a similar way (Ernst). 



Andersen, of Seeland, reports the death from tuberculosis of a 

 six-months-old child which had fed on the milk of a cow having 

 tuberculosis of the udder. The mother developed symptoms of 

 tuberculosis after the death of the child. 1 



Dr. Gosse, of Geneva, Switzerland, spent his Sundays with his 

 family on an estate in the hills, and his daughter, aged seventeen 

 years, took great pleasure in drinking milk warm from the cows. 

 Early in 1893 she sickened with an obscure illness, and after ten 

 months died, revealing at the necropsy intestinal and mesenteric 

 tuberculosis. The five cows on the estate were tested with tuber- 

 culin ; four reacted and were killed ; two showed tuberculous 

 udders (Nocard). 



Dr. H. M. Pond reports four cases of tuberculosis in one fam- 

 ily, three of them fatal. The cows supplying the family with 

 milk were tuberculous. 2 



Dr. Faust, veterinarian, of Poughkeepsie, records the case of a 

 family on Long Island that lost from tuberculosis 139 cows. A 

 three-year-old child and two grown sons died of tuberculosis. 

 Tuberculosis was unknown in the parents' families. 3 



Dr. Kelly, veterinarian, Albany, gives the following : In a 

 family of five a son, aged nineteen years, was very fond of milk 

 and drank it fresh from the cow, and contracted tuberculosis. 

 Some months later the farm herd of seventeen registered Jerseys 

 were tested with tuberculin, and thirteen reacted and showed ex- 

 tensive tuberculosis when killed. 



Dr. Cooper, veterinarian, Paterson, N. J., furnishes this : A 

 child, fed on the milk of a cow, contracted tabes mesenterica. 

 Examination revealed the presence of tubercle bacilli in the milk. 

 The milk was then fed to ten kittens, all of which became ill and 

 emaciated, and when killed showed tuberculosis. 



Such cases, in connection with the experimental inoculations, 



1 Hatch Experiment Station, Massachusetts Agricultural College, Bulletin 

 No. 3. 



-'Pacific Medical and Surgical Journal, 1888. 

 3 Reyort to the Board of Health. 



