MILK FROM TUBERCULOUS COWS. 
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“ Dec. 12. Cow in a cold rain a few days ago for about 
two hours. Milk still more diminished than at a visit made 
on September 25. Again advised the destruction of the cow. 
Family still using the milk. Respiration 20; pulse 85; tem¬ 
perature 104.6°. 
“February 22, 1879. Temperature 104.8°; respiration 26; 
pulse 68. Losing flesh fast. Milk still in small quantities. 
Advised, as before, to destroy the animal and not to use 
milk. 
“ May 30. Called in a hurry to see cow. Is now as poor 
as could be. No milk for a week. Pulse 80; respiration 40; 
temperature 106°. The cow died in about three hours. Au¬ 
topsy made fourteen hours after death: Lungs infiltrated with 
tuberculous deposit. Weight of thoracic viscera 43.5 pounds. 
Tuberculous deposits found in the mediastinum, in the muscu¬ 
lar tissues, and in the mesentery, spleen, kidneys, udder, in¬ 
testines, pleura, and one deposit on the tongue. The inside 
of the trachea was covered with small tubercles. 
“In August, 1879, the baby was taken sick, and died in about 
seven weeks. On post-mortem of the child there was found 
meningeal tuberculosis—deposits all over the coverings of the 
brain and some in the lung. 
“ In 1881 a child, about three years old, died with, as it was 
called, tuberculous bronchitis. And in 1886, a boy, nine years 
old, who for three or four years had been delicate, died with 
consumption—‘quick,’ as it was called. 
“ So far as known, the family on both sides have never be¬ 
fore had any trouble of the kind, and the parents were both 
rugged and healthy people, and so were the grandparents— 
one now being alive and sixty-eight years old, and the other 
died at seventy-eight.” 
Of course there is much room for criticism, if these cases 
be quoted as carrying out an exact clinical experiment, and 
no one can say that the occurrence of the three deaths in the 
same family was anything more than a coincidence. At the 
same time it must be acknowledged that they offer very solid 
suggestions for consideration, and that the light thrown upon 
the disease by the investigations of recent years makes the ad- 
