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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
On the subject of tuberculosis, he said that from what he 
had read and what little experience he had had on this mat¬ 
ter he had come to the conclusion that tuberculosis was a 
disease peculiar to the bovine, and that the germ of tubercu¬ 
losis had greater difficulty in maintaining itself in the human 
family than in the bovine. In support of his theory he cited 
instances in certain countries where the inhabitants do not 
use the meat and milk of cattle tuberculosis was an unknown 
disease; but after the introduction of cattle into these coun¬ 
tries the disease became common among the natives. He 
believed that civilization was the greatest propagator of 
disease known to him. You often see a healthy man and 
wife with three or four children, one or two of these children 
are puny little beings, while the others are strong and 
healthy ; if you investigate the matter you will find in every 
instance that at the time the mother gave birth to these puny 
children she was so circumstantiated that she was unable to 
nurse these puny children, but brought them up on cow’s 
milk, and it generally happened that she secured the milk 
from a Jersey cow, which breed of cows he believed that 
fifty per cent, were affected with tuberculosis. He also be¬ 
lieved that twenty-five per cent, of the dairy cattle in this 
State were affected with tuberculosis. 
He mentioned a case where there were twenty horses 
affected with glanders dumped into the Sacramento river a 
short time ago, this being the source from which the people 
of Sacramento obtained their drinking water. He mentioned 
a case of anthrax he had seen a short time ago, in which the 
horse had contracted the disease from drinking water from a 
stream which flowed through a slough in which some cattle 
who had died from anthrax had been dumped some time 
before. 
Dr. Fox cited a number of' cases of glanders he had investi¬ 
gated when he was county inspector of Monterey County. 
Dr. Spencer, Jr., mentioned a case of glanders in a man. 
Dr. McCollum mentioned a case where he saw a man suffer¬ 
ing from trichinosis'; he said it was one of the most loathsome 
sights he had ever witnessed. 
