TUBERCULOSIS IN BAVARIA IN 1877 . 
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The grade of the flesh of the slaughtered animals by which 
tuberculosis was found, was as follows: 
First quality. 455 times, = 10 per cent. 
Second quality.1,921 “ = 45 “ 
Third quality.1,902 “ = 45 “ 
One thousand two hundred and four cases of intra-vital diag¬ 
nosis are reported. From the nature of the early stages of the dis¬ 
eases it is evident many cases must have escaped observation; also 
that with the perfection of the methodic investigation the next 
year’s statistics will be much more complete. 
ETIOLOGICAL CONDITIONS. 
The hereditariness of the disease is most emphatically demon¬ 
strated. In 123 cases the disease was attributed to the mother, 
and in 43 to the father. Three cases are given of infection by 
means of the coition. Ten reporters look upon a very profuse 
milk secretion as the aetiological incentive. In four cases, more 
or less extensive pus-centres were looked upon as the point from 
which infection proceeded. Two reporters consider that the race 
exerts a depressing influence, and five are thoroughly confirmed in 
the idea. 
“This, the first regiort of the Bavarian veterinarians upon this 
most serious subject , has not brought to view the slightest proof of 
the genetic connection of this disease with the tuberculosis of man. 
Nearly all the veterinarians declare that any disadvantageous in¬ 
fluence from the consumption of the milk or flesh of tuberculotic 
diseased cattle is as yet unknown to them.” (The above passage 
is nearly a literal translation See page 299, of original.) 
Under the title, “ Die Tuberculose eine Infectious-Kraukheit,” 
i. e., the tuberculosis an infectious disease, Dr. Hubert Reich, of 
Mullheim, Germany, gives a most interesting paper in the “ Ber¬ 
liner Klinischer Wochenschrift,” Ho. 37, September 16, 1878. 
Dr. Reich begins his paper with the remark that the idea that 
tuberculosis is an infectious disease is becoming more and more 
accepted, and the following remarks are given as evidence of the 
same. They have reference to the “ transmission of tuberculosis 
to a number of children by a phthisical midwife , and, indeed, by 
