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In nearly all such cases the infection comes from drinking milk 

 from tuberculous cows." Bulletin 118, New Jersey Experiment 

 Station, on the suppression and prevention of tuberculosis of 

 cattle and its relation to human consumption, by Julius Nelson, 

 biologist, contains these words: "But it is principally for man's 

 sake that the lower animals should be included in the general 

 scheme for freeing the country from this evil." In the Journal 

 of Comparative Veterinary Medicine, December, 1897, C. C. McLean, 

 veterinary surgeon, and a milk inspector in Pennsylvania, con- 

 tributes an article w'hich w^as read before the State Veterinary 

 Medical Society. The following is a part: "The houses of the 

 wealthiest in the w'orld and the homes of the poorest testify that 

 our meat and milk supply cause thousands of deaths from this 

 disease every day. Tuberculosis is therefore the most important 

 disease for the veterinary profession to deal with," The report 

 of the New York State Board of Health to the Legislature of 

 1895 contains the following: "There is a complete unanimity of 

 opinion now in the scientific world as to the communicability 

 from man to man, and from animal to man, and man to animals. 

 That milk and its products will convey it has been proved re- 

 peatedly. This has now past beyond the experimental stage, and 

 is no longer open to doubt. It has also been proved that lower 

 animals fed with tuberculous meat become tuberculous as a re- 

 sult of such feeding." Such, then, is the common opinion to-day. 

 Many of the statements are couched in language calculated to 

 defy further investigation and to discourage even a doubt as to 

 their correctness; however, we shall endeavor to show by the 

 conditions as they exist between man and animals, and animals 

 and man, that no stress of words, no amount of bigotry, no arbi- 

 trary proclamation unsupported, can hold the truth in bondage. 

 If the State Board of Health believed its own teachings and was 

 sincere, why did it inspect, tuberculin test, condemn, quarantine, 

 and tag for slaughter various lots of cattle which, according to 

 the board's reports, were inimical to the public health and were 

 prone to spread disease among other cattle, and after holding 

 them in quarantine a considerable time to pass a resolution and 



