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tempts to treatment, the following lesions were found at the post 
mortem. All the gastric cavities are distended with a soft and 
even liquid mass ; the mucous membrane is slightly injected ; the 
intestine is empty and contains a glairey yellowish fluid. On 
closer examination the pylorus is found so contracted that a small 
pencil can scarcely pass through it. The contraction extends 
about five centimeters in length. This part is hard, difficult to di¬ 
vide with the knife, and has the aspect of a cartilaginous mass. 
The intestinal wall at that part measures seven millimeters in 
thickness ; the mucous membrane is normal. 
2 d Case. —Another cow presented analogous symptoms and 
though condemned from the first visit of the attendant, received 
some treatment and died the 12th day. The post mortem re¬ 
vealed similar lesions to the first case. 
The author Klopferstein concludes that these conditions are 
more common than they have been reported, but escaped the 
post mortem examination .—Archives far Thierheilkunde. 
TUBERCULOSIS FROM THE USE OF MILK OF TUBERCULOUS COWS. 
By Prof. Bollingf.k. 
The transmission of tuburculosis by inoculation has been ob¬ 
served by Villimire, Ohauveau, Bollinger. &c., and denied by 
Ruklinghausen. The question of transmission by the U3e of raw 
milk is yet more doubted. 
If bovine and human tuberculosis are not identical, they how¬ 
ever have many points of resemblance. 
In 1878, Bollinger gave to three pigs during five weeks, raw 
milk taken from a cow suffering with chronic pulmonary phthisis ; 
all three remained healthy. In 1879, Bollinger continued his ex¬ 
periments with the milk of a cow which did not seem to be in ad¬ 
vanced tuberculous condition. Four young pigs, two and a half 
months old, were fed with it. After two and a half months they 
were killed and showed miliary tuberculosis of the liver and 
kidneys, with pulmonary tubercular lesions—lymphatic glands 
were in caseous condition. The mother of the pigs was killed 
