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positive cases on record. But here, again, the posi- 

 tive evidence is not lacking. The case of Gosse, 

 the famous physician of Geneva, is well known. 

 His little daughter was infected by drinking the 

 milk of a cow upon his own farm and died. With 

 rare courage, the physician himself conducted a 

 post-mortem examination and conclusively demon- 

 strated that the cause of infection was the milk upon 

 which she had been fed, and which proved to have 

 come from a cow with tuberculosis of the udder.^' 

 Dr. George M. Kober tabulates 86 cases of tubercu- 

 losis, showing the transmission of bovine tubercu- 

 losis to human beings through milk.^' Added to 

 these specific cases and those cited elsewhere in the 

 present chapter, is the fact that the bovine tubercle 

 bacillus has been fotmd in an active state in the 

 intestines of young infants, so that the chain of 

 evidence may be regarded as complete in every 

 particular. 



These facts, and others of a like nature, are well 

 known to physicians. But to laymen they are, 

 naturally, not so well known; and since I am ap- 

 pealing to the lay, rather than the medical, public, 

 I could not avoid this long and, I fear, somewhat 

 tedious discussion. It remains only to be added, 

 by way of emphasis upon the important inference 

 these facts inevitably suggest, that the conclusive 

 evidence of the frequent presence of tubercle bacilli 



