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ducted by him during the past few months and his report, which 
is of great interest, is here given in full : 
REPORT OF DR. WERNER RUNGE’S EXPERIMENTS IN INOCULAT¬ 
ING CATTLE WITH THE BACILLI OF HUMAN TUBERCULOSIS. 
To the President and Members of the Veterinary Medical Association of 
New Jersey , 
Gentlemen: —The statement made by Prof. Koch, M. D., at the 
British Congress on Tuberculosis, held in London, Eng., June 23d, 1901, 
that human tuberculosis cannot be transmitted to the bovine race 
is an error and without any practical foundation. It has not only 
aroused the profession in general, but medical and laymen have become 
more or less interested in the matter. In view of these facts the mem¬ 
bers of our profession should use their utmost efforts in investigating 
the above statement. 
Through the kindness of Mr. Stephen Francisco, of the Fairfield 
Dairy, Caldwell, N. J., cattle have been placed at my disposal, as well as 
the use of the Isolation Hospital at said dairy, for experimental pur¬ 
poses. Also through the valuable aid of Dr. R. N. Connolly, Bacteriol¬ 
ogist for the Newark Board of Health, I was assisted in selecting a speci¬ 
men of virulent sputum of a young person affected with acute tuberculosis. 
On August 14th last, I selected a yellow cow that gave no reaction 
to retest nor had it done so to a previous tuberculin test made Nov. 12, 
1900, and injected the same hypodermically on August 29, 1901, with 
the above-mentioned sputum. At both shoulders and both flanks I made 
also four injections into a five weeks’ old calf, born in the pasture lot 
and kept in said lot until the day of injection, whose mother previous to 
the birth of said calf gave no reaction to the tuberculin test. As all 
cattle of this dairy, about 600 in number, are tested previous to their 
coming into the herd, and are rejected if they give any reaction at all, it 
is reasonable to believe that this calf was free from tuberculosis, as it 
had never been exposed to the same. The temperature of both animals 
taken twice daily after the injection of the sputum did not show any¬ 
thing abnormal, and no symptoms of any disease were revealed except 
some enlargement of the retro-pharyngeal glands . 
1 he calf was killed Nov. 14, 1901, 11 weeks after injection. 
The cow was killed Nov. 20, 1901, about twelve weeks after injection. 
The post-mortem showed the following lesions : 
The calf killed Nov. 14 did not show any marks at the place of in¬ 
jection, but enlarged tubercular bronchial glands, several of which were 
broken down and calcareous. A large number of gray nodules were 
visible in the lung tissue, also one cyst about the size of a small hen-egg 
and full of pus. 
The microscopical examination of the scraping of the walls of the 
cyst as well as the scraping of the interior wall of the broken-down gland 
showed the bacilli of tuberculosis in large numbers. 
The cow killed Nov. 20 had a large cyst full of pus at the right 
shoulder and^ an induration of the tissue on the left side at the places of 
injection. I he bronchial glands were enlarged and partly broken down 
and full of calcareous substance. 
The microscopical examination of the scraping of the interior of the 
wall of said broken-down glands also showed tubercle bacilli. 
Respectfully submitted, (Signed) Werner Runge. 
