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Re: Consumption??? + other illnesses

sandra__ty  (View posts) Posted: 20 Jun 2009 3:01AM GMT
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Apparently consumption (bovine tuberculosis)was contracted from raw milk of infected cows (before pasteurization). Bovine tuberculosis affected the lymph nodes (frequently in the neck), or the intestines, bones or other organs.

My paternal Ggrandmother died of consumption in Iowa in 1922.

Sandra

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