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Uise, and wbicli he bad set forth in a papev laureated by the Veterinary 

 Society of Eure and Seine in 1809. He seizes all lean tnberculoiis ani- 

 mals, all having nnmerons and generalized tubercles, or with tubercles 

 softened, caseous or purulent, lesions which create the suspicion of gen- 

 eral infection of the system. When their lesions are gra\ e ai:d nndtiple, 

 Avliatever may be the (juality of the meat, seizure is always ordered ; 

 when the tubercles are localized and recent, and pio\ided the carcass 

 is sufficiently fat to guarantee good meat, it is allowed to be used. As 

 to the danger from unboiled milk he had with Degive, in 1S6S, ]iresented 

 a paper to the IJelgian Acadeujy of Medicine on the frecpuMicy of tubercle 

 ill tlie mamime of cows, but the academy discarded the subject without 

 discussing the iinportant question of hygiene therein presented to tliem. 



Wirz i)roposed an amendment of^in Lydtin's report, that in jtlace of 

 " to a very small part of the body, when the lymphatic glands are still 

 iice,'\K:c.,rcad "to but a small part of the thoracic or abdominal viscera, 

 win n the lymphatic glands which do not beh)ng to these are free," &c. 



Van Hertsen believes that tuberculosis can invade the lymphatic sys- 

 tem when the disease is yet in its earliest stage. He has observed that 

 i he gland situated between the first and second rib is tuberculous eight 

 times out often. Tliis gland is of the greatest importance in determin- 

 ing the quality of the meat, as it establishes the fact of tuberculosis 

 without the necessity of examining the viscera. It serves to distinguish 

 tuberculosis from bing ])lague in carcasses frotn whicli the pleura- has 

 l)een removed, flic chest skinned, as the butchers say. (This gland has 

 I'cen called the motive (motif) gland of the inspector.) 



Lydtin advocated his proposition as more practicable under i)resent 

 circumstances than Bouley's; while Bouley called for the ad voctuy of 

 thorough measures, their administration was the concern of the au- 

 tliorities. 



After furtheianiendiiKMits of llossignol and Van Hertsen, paragraph 

 /' of Lydtin was adopted, several members declining to vote. 



Kossignol proposed to amend paragraph // by omitting the last sen- 

 tcnce, permitting the use of the milk after boiling, and as thus amended 

 it was adopted. 



Bonlcy reffuested a vote on paragraph A, ofl'ering the following modi- 

 lii-ation : 



It is j)r()[>('r to f'luiiisli ;iii iiKlciiinity (or cattle in ^ood coiiditioii foiiml to l)n ttilicr- 

 I iilons after .slauglitei-. 



Bossignol supported an indemnity for animals in good condition, but 

 niily when kilh'd for human food. 



.'Erts, Wehtnkd, and Lydtin opposed on tlie ground that this was 

 only a question of goods of bad ([uality, the use of which for a pur[)ose 

 I <) which it is untitted is forbidden. An indemnity should only be given 

 wlien an owner must give up his chance of the recovery of a sick animal 

 ill the interest of the public good. 



As a ])rolonged discussion was threatened and time, pressed, Miilh'r 



