TRANSMISSION OF TUBERCULOSIS THROUGH MEAT AND MILK. ?07 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
TRANSMISSION OF TUBERCULOSIS THROUGH MEAT 
AND MILK. 
By John J. Repp, V.M.D., Ames, Iowa. 
Professor of Pathology and Therapeutics , and Veterinarian to the Experiment 
Station , Iowa State College . 
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(Concluded from page 6j4.) 
• B. By Milk . 
1. By Artificial Methods. 
No evidence. 
2. By Natural Methods .. 
The evidence of transmission in this manner consists of re¬ 
corded observations which have been made in cases of human 
beings who have used the milk of tuberculous cows. 
Olivier 46 reports that in a young ladies’ boarding school 5 
girls, the children of healthy parents, died of tuberculosis of the 
intestines. The cow which had for years supplied the school 
with milk was found to have generalized tuberculosis including 
the udder. 
Two daughters of a Scotch family of good health who were 
brought up on milk of tuberculous cows died of tuberculosis. 
Two sons in the same family who did not use the milk remained 
healthy. 4 7 
Stang 48 reports the case of a five-year-old boy of sound pa¬ 
rentage and ancestry who died of tuberculosis. The cow whose 
milk this boy used was found badly tuberculous. 
Demme 49 reports the cases of four infants in the Children’s 
Hospital at Berne, the offspring of sound parents, that died of 
intestinal and mesenteric tuberculosis. He was able to exclude 
all other sources of infection and to decide that they had been 
infected by the ingestion of the milk of tuberculous cows. 
Hills 50 mentions the case of a child 21 months old, of a 
