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shown by a recent Massachusetts experiment, where a litter of 
pigs (whose mother was proved to be free from the disease) 
were kept under a slaughter house where they had no food but 
corn-meal and the blood drippings from slaughtered tuberculous 
cattle ; and were all found badly diseased in a few weeks. 
Dr. Dewerve (M. D.), of Paris, had among his patients three 
brothers who successively sickened and died of tuberculosis. 
They had shared the same bed, and were all bed-bug bitten. 
Thirty bugs were caught, and put upon three healthy guinea 
pigs, all of which soon died, and post-mortems showed well- 
marked tuberculosis. From the diluted and filtered pulp of fifty 
crushed bed-bugs, bacterial cultures were obtained which caused 
typical tuberculosis when inoculated. 
Dr. B. O. Shakespeare, U. S. Cholera Commissioner, says, 
“ With all its terrors, cholera is not nearly as deadly as tubercu¬ 
losis, and it has been found that in infants and young children 
in some large cities the mortality from some form of tuberculo¬ 
sis is far greater than is generally believed, amounting in some 
localities to one-fifth of the deaths in the young, of which the 
Archives de Medicine says that ‘ of the population of the globe, 
three millions die annually of consumption.’ ” The fact that 
milk is consumed largely by infants and invalids for many of 
whom it is the exclusive article of diet, accounts largely for the 
intestinal troubles of children, whose powers of absorption are 
much more active than adults. 
Dr. B. F. Brush (M. D.), of New York, calls the cow, “ the 
wet nurse of consumption,” and explains the connection between 
animals and man. “ Scrofulous females in the human race usu¬ 
ally secrete an abundance of milk, because there is an unusual 
tendency to glandular enlargement and activity. As the mam¬ 
mary is the perfect type of a glandular structure, it is stimulated 
to increased action. A scrofulous cow is usually the largest 
milker ; and the closest kind of consanguinity has been practiced 
by breeders, with the object of producing a scrofulous animal, 
not because she is scrofulous, but because the particular form she 
represents are the largest yielders of milk.” As Dr. Brush is a 
