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sickened with diphtheria in Clifton and died three days later. 
A cat that had been received into the house on Jan. 4th and 
had remained in the lady’s room all this time was thereupon ob¬ 
served from Jan. 23 on. On Jan. 29th the cat sickened ; she 
vomited, had diarrhoea, swelling of the throat, and yellowish 
spots upon the mucous membrane of the posterior portion of the 
buccal cavity. The yellowish areas enlarged until the whole 
throat was, on Jan. 31st, covered with a yellowish false mem¬ 
brane. The cat died from excessive dyspnoea. Unfortunately, 
no autopsy or bacterial examination was made; so that it is im¬ 
possible to state positively whether the cat’s sickness was identi¬ 
cal with that of its mistress, or whether the cat was the original 
source of the deceased lady’s illness, suppositions which the 
author considered very plausible, inasmuch as the cat was not 
observed until after the woman’s death, which fact first drew 
attention to the cat’s condition.—( Berl . Thierarzt. IVoch.) 
Congenital Tuberculosis in Calves. —K. of Kiel found 
very frequently besides tubercular peritonitis tuberculosis of 
the uterus and genital tract in cows. But frequent as was the 
genital tuberculosis, all the more infrequent was the discovery 
of tuberculosis in the calves begotten by these mothers, which 
calves by reason of the mothers being tubercular were slaugh¬ 
tered on the first day before they could partake of the mother’s 
milk. Upon investigation, however, he found congenital tu¬ 
berculosis to be more frequent than was supposed. While be¬ 
tween the years 1887 an d 1 ^ > 95 only nine such calves slaugh¬ 
tered in the way aforesaid proved to be tubercular at the 
autopsy, he found 26 cases of congenital tuberculosis from Jan¬ 
uary to May in the year 1896. Kleven of these showed evi¬ 
dences of tuberculosis in the portal lymphatics and liver, nine 
besides these evidences, evidences of tuberculosis in other 
organs ; in ten instances various other lymphatics were affected. 
In the calf most affected, the peritoneum and pleura showed 
many sharply localized highly reddened nodules, and several 
diffuse flat granulations (tubercular) ; one lung showed a cal¬ 
careous nodule with translucent periphery ; tubercular deposits 
in the portal, bronchial and mediastinal lymphatics as well as 
in all the peripheral lymphatics, all having calcareous centres 
with cheesy peripheries; the liver showed many tubercular 
nodules; the kidney one of small size calcareous, with con¬ 
gested periphery. As regards the infection, the transmission of 
the materies morbi to the growing ovum is undoubtedly due to 
the diseased uterus infecting the placenta of the ovum. Hence 
