29G Seventeenth Annual Repoijt of the 



unless it has been well salted and long preserved it may possibly 

 convey infection. Fresh butter and unripened cheese thai arc 

 open to reasonable suspicion will lie much safer it" raised to the 

 boiling point or roasted before being used tor food. Cream cheese 

 and its congeners are objectionable. 



4. 'idie question of consumption of the meat id' animals affected 

 with foot and month disease is a subject of dispute. In most 

 European countries it is permitted to put the flesh upon the 

 market, the feet and skin having been removed. The tongue, as 

 the part most likely to show lesions, is to be subjected to scalding 

 before it can be disposed of. Such a slipshod practice betrays the 

 looseness of the methods which have made the sanitary police of 

 the continent helpless in the presence of this disease. The butcher 

 who dresses the carcass must handle the tongue, and the other 

 infected portions and with the same hands and implements he 

 manipulates the remainder of the carcass as well. It is an impos- 

 sibility for the carcass to escape contamination with the infecting 

 products. And yet our learned friends abroad wail over the impos- 

 sibility of checking aphthous fever by quarantine measures! They 

 find all sorts of scape-goats in accessory factors, in birds, rats, mice, 

 flies, etc., to explain their discomfiture, while they are themselves 

 deliberately scattering infected carcasses over the country. And 

 they deal in this way not with suspected animals only, but also 

 with those known to be diseased! One would think their first 

 move would be to forbid, the shipment and marketing of that 

 corpus delicti which has just been the prolific factory and storage 

 warehouse of the infection. Those who handle this raw meat in 

 butcher shops and kitchens can easily with their lingers in fed 

 eyes, nose or mouth, the virus may get on handkerchiefs, towels, 

 knives and forks, which in. turn may come in contact with other 

 food. Raw scraps may go to the dogs, pigs and chickens, the 

 water used to wash it may get into pools and slow running streams, 

 pieces may lie carried off by buzzards, owls and carrion crows, by 

 foxes and other wild animals, the flies carry the infection on their 

 feet and palpi, and people puzzle themselves over the reason o| 

 their failure to circumscribe and extirpate the malady and its 

 virus! If the meat must be eaten (and apart from the sentiment 

 of disgust in Americans, it can be made perfectly innocuous), the 



