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Dept.) they had a tubercular cow in the hospital under obser¬ 
vation, and for experimentation. Dr. Huidekoper asked him to 
procure a young calf free from any tubercular taint, which he 
did from a Mr. Potts. The herd had never had a case of the 
disease nor has it had since up to this time. The calf was three 
days old when given to this cow to nurse. When six months 
old it was killed and every lesion of tuberculosis was present. 
Milk from the tubercular cow was fed to pigs which were 
known to be free from the disease, and they proved on au¬ 
topsy to have contracted the disease. 
There was a family living in West Philadelphia consisting 
of fathei, mother and eight children—the father an excep¬ 
tionally strong, healthy man, from a family of long livers and 
fi ee from any tubercular taint; the mother had no knowledge 
of any of her family that had ever died from any tubercular 
trouble all very healthy people. Six of her children were 
raised by the breast and all are the very types of physical 
strength. The other two (boys) were raised by the bottle, 
owing to the mother having gathered breasts. These two 
boys died of consumption. The inference to be drawn in 
these cases is that the germs were taken into the system by 
the milk from tubercular cows. 
Dr. Webster stated that there is a great amount of tuber¬ 
culosis in his practice. In one dairy some of the milk was 
fed to a pen of pigs, which produced the disease in them. 
One of the pigs was killed and the lungs were sent to his place 
for examination, and a part of them were eaten bv a pet cat 
of his weighing not less than twenty pounds. The cat is now 
in the last stages of consumption. 
Dr. Eves stated that about Wilmington there is a great 
amount of the disease among the cattle, the milk of which is 
consumed by the citizens of Wilmington. He is not conver¬ 
sant with its effect upon the Wilmingtonians. 
Drs. McDowell and Cullen were both of the opinion that 
the disease is transmissible, but had not the opportunity to 
follow up any particular events to prove their theories. 
Dr. Benjamin Lee, Secretary of the Board of Health of 
Philadelphia, was glad to be present and see the interest 
