[17]. Nocard. Dictionnaire de Med. Veterinaire. Article, Tuberculosis.
Mr. Howe, of North Hadley, Mass., lost a son, aged twenty months, from abdominal tuberculosis, three months after he had paid a week’s visit to his uncle and had been fed the milk of the uncle’s tuberculous cow. The cow showed at death generalized tuberculosis. The child had been strong and well, as were his parents.
The four-year-old son of Colonel Beecher, of Yonkers, died March, 1894, of tubercular meningitis, and the two Alderney cows which had supplied him with milk were then proved consumptive by the tuberculin test and post-mortem examination.[[18]]
[18]. New York Sun, March 29, 1894.
The child of Dr. Brown, U. S. A., and now of Cornell University Medical School, was similarly cut off by tuberculosis, having been fed on the milk of a tuberculous cow.
Dr. C. H. Peabody had a child patient die of tubercular meningitis three months after the family cow had been killed for generalized tuberculosis. There had been previously no tuberculosis in the family (Ernst, Infectiousness of Milk).
A. H. Rose, of Littleton, Mass., gives the case of a child which was fed for three years on the milk of a tuberculous cow and died with abdominal tuberculosis (Ernst).
Gordon, of Quincy, Mass., records the case of a ten months old child of healthy parents and ancestry which had been fed on the milk of a cow with advanced tuberculosis, and which died after a few weeks with acute tuberculosis (Ernst).
Gage, of Lowell, Mass., had an infant patient of healthy parents and surroundings, but which subsisted exclusively on a cow’s milk that contained bacilli and infected Guinea pigs. The child died of tubercular meningitis. A second child fed the same milk suffered in a similar way (Ernst).
Andersen, of Seeland, reports the death from tuberculosis of a six months old child which had fed on the milk of a cow having tuberculosis of the udder. The mother developed symptoms of tuberculosis after the death of the child.[[19]]