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teen schoolgirls, belonging to a Paris boarding school, 

 were infected. Six of the girls died. It was found 

 that in several cases the bowels were first attacked, 

 and the outbreak was traced to the milk supply, 

 which came from a cow with a badly affected udder. 

 He quotes also a case recorded by Johne, a great veter- 

 inary anatomist, of the death from tuberculosis of a 

 little girl two and a half years old. She had been fed 

 upon the milk of a cow which her father, a farmer, had 

 specially selected on account of the animal's splendid 

 appearance. Later, it was found that the cow was 

 tubercular, but not until it was too late, the child 

 having died." 



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Notwithstanding the mass of such testimony as the 

 foregoing, which might be almost indefinitely extended 

 were it necessary, there are still many persons whose 

 opinions command respectful attention who do not 

 believe that there is any danger of tubercular infection 

 through meat or milk which comes from tuberculous 

 animals. Their theory is that the disease a^ it is 

 found in cattle is very different from the disease as it 

 occurs in human beings, and that it is impossible for 

 the tubercle bacilli which infects a cow to likewise 

 infect a human being, and vice versa. This view has 

 been strenuously championed by no less an authority 

 than the great Koch himself, to whom the world is 



