CHAPTER I 



Generalities concerning Tuberculosis. — 

 Plan of the present work. — Ob- 

 ject and character of same. — 

 Methods [and sources of investi- 

 gation. 



Bovine Tuberculosis' in the present 

 state of scientific knowledge constitutes 

 an inevasible tribute which, once the 

 disease has entered the system, life pays 

 to death. 



This death-tribute imposed by an ine- 

 xorable law upon all the people of the 

 earth, moves the goodwill of eminent 

 men devoted to the study of the most 

 abstruse biological phenomena, cons- 

 trains the intellectual activity of all the 

 Scientific Corporations and Institutes of 

 the globe, and universally agitates So- 



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