nostical value of the hypodermic injec- 

 tion was exagerrated to a degree that 

 it was believed to be impossible to 

 discover the existence of the diseasl 

 without that fundamental measure. 



Later on when the weaknes of 

 tuberculine were recognized, professional 

 opinion altered its course. At present 

 investigators are searching for new 

 formulae, with the conviction that the 

 principal part of thriumph in the stru- 

 ggle against tuberculosis will corres- 

 pond to the sistems which have for a 

 basis early and unerring diagnosis. 



In the Argentine, as in other countries, 

 clinical diagnosis has fallen into disuse. 

 In the inspection of milk-cows realised 

 in the Province of Buenos Ay res, and 

 in those the Division of Cattle realises, 

 the veterinary surgeon goes about ar- 

 med with his phial of Tuberculine, 

 his thermometer, and syringe only, ca- 

 ring little for ocular examination, which 

 by itself would have allowed him to 



