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ject, tells of a charitable institution for consump- 

 tives where the rules as to expectoration were not 

 strict, except as applied to the house itself. When 

 the patients went across the meadows for their daily 

 walks they were at liberty to expectorate anywhere 

 they chose. Now the farmer to whom the meadows 

 belonged had bought five healthy cows which had 

 been tested with tuberculin. After a little while 

 it occurred to him to have them retested, when, 

 to his loss, he found that all five were infected. He 

 had the animals slaughtered, the stable cleaned and 

 disinfected, and forbade the patients of the sana- 

 torium to walk upon his property, with the result 

 that the disease did not reappear.'* A very similar 

 experience is related by Dr. Thomas Darlington, 

 Health Commissioner of New York City, who was 

 connected, as visiting physician, with a hospital 

 where the consumptive patients were permitted to 

 play quoits in a pasture near the hospital. They 

 did not use sputum cups at the time, and the result 

 was the infection of nine out of a herd of ten cows.'' 

 In the same way, fowls have been infected through 

 eating food offals from consumptive patients, and 

 their flesh has, in turn, infected healthy persons 

 with the disease.'* 



According to all known laws, if it is possible for 

 cattle and other animals to acquire the disease from 

 man, it must be possible for man to acquire the 



