=Miscellaneous diseases.= There are a number of diseases that affect both human beings and cattle, the causal organisms of which may be transmitted through the milk. Foot and mouth disease is one wide spread in European countries but which has not yet gained a permanent foothold in this country. The ingestion of the milk, which always contains the causal organism, produces the disease in both humans and cattle. In the human the disease is very similar to that in cattle; it may end in death. Vesicles are produced in the mouth, on the lips, nose and fingers. The causal organism, which has not yet been demonstrated, may occur in butter or cheese. It is easily destroyed by pasteurizing the milk. [Illustration: Fig. 19.--Temperature Curves. 1, the temperature curve of a healthy animal after injection with tuberculin; 2 and 3, the temperature curves of tuberculous animals after injection with tuberculin. (After Moore.)] Anthrax, actinomycosis (lumpy jaw), rabies, and malta fever are diseases the organisms of which have been found in the milk of affected animals. In case of the first three, while the possibility exists of the infection of human beings by milk, it is improbable that such infection does normally occur. Malta fever is becoming an important disease in portions of southern Europe. It is produced in man by the use of milk of goats suffering from the disease. The organism causing contagious abortion in cattle is known to be present in the milk of the infected animal at the time of its withdrawal from the udder. It is not probable that the organism is of any sanitary significance as far as man is concerned. It has been shown that the organism is able to produce a disease in guinea pigs on artificial inoculation that is very similar, so far as the lesions are concerned, to tuberculosis. It is also probable that the by-products of creameries and cheese factories may serve to spread the disease from one herd to another. Inflammation of the udder (garget) is a frequent trouble in every herd. It is marked by the swelling of one or more quarters, by the appearance of fever and changes in the appearance and composition of the milk. The inflammation may be caused by cold or injury, or by the invasion of the udder with pus-forming bacteria. In the first case the trouble is not likely to persist for any length of time, and does not spread to other members of the herd. The milk may be more or less stringy, and may show a slimy flocculent sediment. It cannot be asserted that such milk is harmful to man but it should be rejected on general sanitary grounds, and because it cannot always be differentiated from that coming from an udder in which the inflammation is produced by bacteria.