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ment and loss upon trade by proceeding with such absolute 
severity against the meat of tuberculous animals. 
A. To the first objection we answer that Mr. Chauveau 
has tuberculized steers by causing them to exhibit all the 
lesions of human pulmonary phthisis under all its forms, from 
the granules to the caseous pneumonia, and that it has been 
impossible for him to distinguish the results from those which 
he had obtained by the ingestion of bovine tuberculosis. 
The reciprocal experiment has also been clearly demon¬ 
strated by repeated observations, and amongst the most re¬ 
cent I may recall that of E. M. Tscherning, of Copenhagen, 
published in 1888, and that of Mr. Nocard in 1889, reported 
to the Academy of Medicine after Pfeiffer. 
Mr. Tscherning reports having treated a young veterina¬ 
rian who received a wound on one of his fingers from a scal¬ 
pel used in making the post-mortem of a tuberculous cow. 
Three weeks later, though the wound was healed, the sur¬ 
rounding parts became swollen, and the tumefaction after¬ 
wards ulcerated and suppurated. Notwithstanding proper 
treatment, the local condition became aggravated, surgical 
interference was required, and a subcutaneous tuberculous 
mass was removed in which the microscope revealed well- 
formed tubercles and the characteristic bacilli. The inocula¬ 
tion had no further bad results, and we congratulated 
ourselves and our colleague on the good result, as well 
as for the scientihc bearing of the fact, the local tuberculiza¬ 
tion following an accidental inoculation, and thus leaving no 
doubt as to the origin of the infection. It was evidently a 
successful implantation of bovine tuberculosis upon man. 
Mr. Nocard has reported the case of a veterinarian of 
Weimar, named Moses, of good health and without heredi¬ 
tary predisposition, who wounded himself in 1887 while mak¬ 
ing a post-mortem examination of a tuberculous cow. 1 he 
wound ulcerated and then healed, but an internal tuberculo¬ 
sis was soon manifested and resulted fatally to the patient in 
1888. And again, Mr. Ollivierand Mr. Boutet have reported 
the striking fact of the appearance of six cases of tuberculosis 
in a school where a tuberculous milch cow was kept. 
