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REPORTS OF CASES. 
TUBERCULOSIS OF A COW AND GOAT ON THE SAME PREMISES— 
WAS IT CONTAGION OR COINCIDENCE ? 
By G. Leo HagenBurger, M.S., D.V.S., Brooklyn, N. Y. 
I was called last November to see a cow in a little place near 
Rockville Centre, U. L On my arrival I was shown a seven- 
year-old cow, which had calved three times with the present 
owner during a period of five years. He stated that she did not 
act as brightly as usual, and that the milk supply was not as 
abundant as before ; otherwise he had noticed nothing, except 
when moved, she would breathe very heavily and become easily 
exhausted when driven a short distance. 
Symptoms .—Temperature, ioi° ; pulse, weak and intermit¬ 
tent, but became accelerated when the animal was moved ; per¬ 
cussion and auscultation of the lungs revealed nothing ; except 
over the cardiac region a large area appeared to be painful on 
percussion and dull on auscultation. I found a peculiar blow¬ 
ing noise, especially on diastole, moaning occasionally, cough¬ 
ing very little and seldom. Urine light colored, and a sample 
of milk taken showed on analysis 92 per cent, water, 8 per cent, 
solids, and very little fat; blueisli in color ; scant in quantity. 
Diagnosis. —Pericarditis, with effusion, and hypertrophy of 
the heart. 
Cause. —Unknown. 
Prognosis. —Unfavorable. 
Treatment. —Mild stimulants and diuretics, and iodide of 
potassium ; hot applications to the cardiac region. I called two 
days later and found the animal not much improved. Advised 
to destroy, but owner refused. Continued same treatment. 
Animal succumbed the following day. 
Post-mortem .—Heart six times the normal size, surrounded 
by a pericardium milk white in color (looked much like a 
bushel-basket), covered with tubercles, the size of a pea, with 
masses as large as a walnut. The mediastinum was also in¬ 
volved, while the endo and pericardium were diseased to such an 
extent that they represented more the skin of a wild porker, 
taken from the scapular region, than a pleural membrane. The 
lungs were clear, with the exception of a few subpleural glands, 
which were tubercular. The liver, spleen, brain, and other or¬ 
gans were normal, except that the latter showed an anaemic 
