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send out the followiiig notice to the owners of said diseased 

 cattle? 



" You are herewith notified that the quarantine imposed upon 

 your cattle by the inspectors of this Board, in pursuance of orders 

 from this Board, and in conformity with the power granted by 

 article 4 of chapter 661, Laws of 1893, is relieved and raised, and 

 the tags and other devices used to mark said animals may be 

 removed by you." 



As well might our penitentiaries be thrown open and the 

 murderers and convicts be told to go free, and that any 

 striped clothing or other devices used to mark said criminals 

 might be removed by them. The Syracuse (N. Y.) Board of 

 Health has determined that hereafter all the herds whence the 

 milk supply of the city is derived shall be kept under muni- 

 cipal supervision, and that all dairy animals shall be examined 

 by a physician at least twice a year. A round aluminum tag 

 is fastened to the ears of the healthy animals, and an oblong tag 

 to those of the diseased ones. If physicians in State boards of 

 health and in other positions are competent to handle animal 

 diseases, then, to be consistent, we should have a corps of veter- 

 inary surgeons to guard the public health. Both are doctors. 

 Could Miles do what Dew^ey did? Could Dewey win where Miles 

 has won? Both are fighters. While I have the utmost respect 

 for and confidence in the ability of the medical profession, I can 

 but regret that its code of ethics allows its members to imperil 

 its dignity by seeking positions and assuming roles in which they 

 are manifestly out of their proper sphere. To the honor of the 

 profession be it said that its ablest members are not dissemblers, 

 and that only its pygmies pose as veterinarians. But we have 

 digressed from the subject of transmission. We have been told 

 over and over again that " the slight difference between the bacil- 

 lus of man and that of cattle is a temporary peculiarity, and is 

 overcome when the conditions are favorable. . . . That all 

 over the world tuberculosis in man and cattle coexists in the 

 same locality; that among fish eaters and in countries having 

 no cattle tuberculosis is practically unknown. That it prevails 

 largely among beef eaters and cow-milk drinkers; that among 



