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tuberculosis. I also have in mind the case of two young men 
whose history was free from phthisis, raised upon a farm in 
Maine, where a herd of cows proved tuberculous ; the younger 
remaining upon the farm and living largely upon milk ; the 
older coming to Portland and drinking the more popular bever¬ 
age of this seaport town. The younger man long since died of 
phthisis, while the older brother is still with us, although just 
at present in the “ Keeley.” 
A child four years old, great grandson of Henry Ward 
Beecher, recently died in New York of tubercular meningitis.. 
There were no hereditary tendencies to the disease known. 
The certainty that he had the disease, and the inability to ac- 
count for it from human agencies, led the physicians to suspect 
the milk of two Alderney cows on which the child had been 
mainly fed. The tuberculin tests and the post-mortems showed 
that both animals were tuberculous. 
Dr. Stalker, of the Iowa Board of Health, writes, “ A few 
days since, I made a post-mortem of a cow, the milk of which 
had been used to nourish an infant. The child died, and the 
autopsy revealed in the clearest possible manner extensive tuber¬ 
culosis. I know of a large herd of cows in Maine, several of 
which proved tuberculous, where the owner kept a large watch 
dog constantly in the barn and* fed him with all the milk he 
wanted. That dog developed a case of mesenteric tuberculosis^ 
and the post-mortem showed almost every abdominal organ af¬ 
fected. Swine are also very freely infected by the ingestion of 
milk, and our State Commission have several times discovered 
hogs that had been fed the skim milk of tuberculous cattle, 
badly diseased. A Vermont herd revealed seventy-eight out of 
ninety-one animals diseased by tuberculin tests and many of the 
swine fed on the skim milk from the dairy were found as tuber¬ 
culous as the cows. On another Vermont farm where the dis¬ 
ease was located, over sixty of the cows, over one hundred hogs, 
all the chickens, the dogs and the family cat were exterminated 
and all proved to be diseased on autopsy.” 
That the blood can and does infect, as well as the milk, is 
