708 
JOHN J. REPP. 
friend of his, which drank the milk of a highly tuberculous cow 
for one week while on a visit to his uncle, and three months 
later this child died of intestinal tuberculosis. Other sources of 
infection could be excluded. A second child brought up on 
sterilized milk is still healthy. 
Hills 51 also reports the death of a boy 4 years old at Yonk¬ 
ers, New York, from tubercular meningitis. The infection was 
traced to the milk of 2 cows of whose milk this boy had drunk 
and which proved on autopsy to be tuberculous. 
Ernst 53 reports the death of 3 children of one family from 
tuberculosis. These children had used the milk of a cow which 
later died of advanced tuberculosis including the udder. 
Eeonhardt 54 reports the death from tuberculosis of the men¬ 
inges, intestines, and mesentery of 2 children fed on milk of a 
tuberculous cow. 
Sontag 5 5 reports the case of a six-months-old child of healthy 
parents which died of tuberculosis and which had been fed on 
the milk of a tuberculous cow. 
1 
Hermsdorf 56 has reported the case of a child dead of intesti¬ 
nal tuberculosis which had been fed on the milk of a tubercu¬ 
lous cow. 
Rich 57 reports that a young man of healthy parents who 
died of tuberculosis had used plentifully of the milk of a herd 
of 74 cattle, 65 of which were tuberculous, some of them mark¬ 
edly so. Also, another young man died of tuberculosis. Two 
months later Rich destroyed 80 cattle out of the herd of the 
family, that is, about 90 per cent, of the entire herd. Also, a 
young woman died of tuberculosis, and a month later the cow 
whose milk she had used died of advanced tuberculosis. 
Thorne 58 reports that 22 physicians out of 339 practising 
in Ohio replied in the affirmative to the question, “ Have you 
been able to trace any cases of tubercular disease to the milk of 
unhealthy cows?” and that 33 replied affirmatively to the ques¬ 
tion, “ Have you had reason to suspect the origin of tubercular 
disease in older children or adults to be in the milk- or meat- 
supply? ” 
