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the ingestion of the milk of tuberculous cows.” “ Hills 
mentions the case of a child twenty-one months old of a 
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 
also reports the death of a boy four years old, at Yonkers, 
New York, from tuberculor meningitis. The infection was 
traced to the milk of two cows of whose milk the boy' had 
drank and which proved on autopsy to be tuberculous.” 
“ Ernest reports the death of three children of one family, 
from tuberculosis. These children had used the milk of a 
cow which later died of advanced tuberculosis including the 
udder. 
‘‘Stalker and Niles report that five persons, between 
twenty and thirty years of age of healthy ancestry, died of 
tuberculosis within a period of two years. On the farm 
where these deaths occured they found seventeen cattle 
suffering from tuberculosis, and other cattle had previously 
died of this disease. 
“ Leonhardt reports the death from tuberculosis of the 
meninges, intestines and mesentary, of two children fed on 
the milk of a tuberculous cow. Sontag 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 tuber¬ 
culous cow. Hermsdorf has reported the case of a child, 
dead of intestinal tuberculosis, which had been fed on the 
milk of a tuberculous cow. Rich reports that a young man 
of healthy parents, who died of tuberculosis, had used 
plentifully of the milk of a herd of seventy-four cattle, 
sixty-five of which were tuberculous, some of them markedly 
so. Also another young man of the same family died of 
tuberculosis two months later. Rich destroyed eighty 
cattle out of the herd, that is about go per cent, of the entire 
herd. Also a young woman died of tuberculosis, and a 
month later the cows, whose milk she had used, died of 
advanced tuberculosis.” 
“ Thorn reports that twenty-two physicians out of 339 
practicing in Ohio, replied in the affirmative to the question, 
‘ have you been able to trace any cases of tuberculous 
disease to the milk of unhealthy cows?’ and that thirty- 
three replied in the affirmative to the question, ‘Have you 
had reason to suspect the origin of tubercular disease in 
older children or adults to be in the meat or milk supply?’ 
