2. The owner of a thoroughbred herd of sixty head had suffered for years from consumption, and attributed the poor condition of the animals to lack of care since he had been laid aside. Without the tuberculin test, I diagnosed tuberculosis in fifty-nine of the animals.
3. In a second thoroughbred herd there never lacked one or two cases of advanced tuberculosis, two of the family suffered, and the eldest son, who was fond of milk and vegetable food, died of pulmonary tuberculosis.
4. A dairy of common cows had seventeen out of twenty-six destroyed for tuberculosis, and the farmer’s wife, father-in-law, and two brothers-in-law had shortly before died of consumption. The wife felt ill in the close house air, and with her father occupied herself much about the cattle.
5. A veterinary professor, who was meat inspector of the city abattoir, died a few years ago of tuberculosis, which he handled so constantly in his daily duties.
Stalker and Niles report that 5 persons, 20 to 30 years of age, of healthy ancestry, died of tuberculosis within two years, on a farm where 17 tuberculous cattle were found, and others had died in previous years, (Bull. Ia. Agr. Exp. Stat., 29).
Leonhardt reports the death from tuberculosis, abdominal and meningeal, of two children, fed on the milk of a tuberculous cow, (Rep. N. H. Bd. of Health, 1892).
Sontag reports the death by tuberculosis of a six months old child of healthy parents, that had been fed the milk of a tuberculous cow, (Rep. N. H. Board of Health, 1892).
Dr. E. Pearson quotes the following:
“A well known veterinarian wounded in the hand in opening a tuberculous cow, had a tumid, intractable sore, the tissues of which when excised showed tubercle bacilli.
A veterinarian, of Chester Co., Pa., in opening a tuberculous cow, cut his knuckle, which healed tardily, remained swollen and when excised, showed typical tubercular lesions including giant cells.”