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this wholesale destruction has been carried on is merely 

 a supposition, like other germ theories. 



Page 157 of the Medical Visitor for March, 1900, 

 contains the following article taken from the Medical 

 Standard: "An Article on the Subject of Bovine 

 Tuberculosis (consumption in cattle), written by Dr. 

 Edward Moore, the well known veterinarian of Albany, 

 N". Y., has appeared in the New York Medical Journal. 

 An experience with thousands of cases of bovine tuber- 

 culosis has qualified him to speak with a certain degree 

 of authority. Dr. Moore quotes the bacteriological evi- 

 dence of Dr. Theobald Smith, of the United States 

 Agricultural Department, Washington, D. C., showing 

 that the so called consumptive germ found in man and 

 that found in cattle are entirely different. As a fur- 

 ther proof of his position Dr. Moore finds an abundance 

 of clinical evidence in the every-day lives of people who 

 are constantly exposed to the infection from bovine 

 tuberculosis. It is self-evident that if transmission is 

 possible, the farms where large numbers of infected 

 cattle are kept are places where the fact can be best 

 observed, because nowhere else in the world is there so 

 much infected material; nowhere else are the bacilli 

 so potent; nowhere else are people so exposed to the 

 danger, if any exists, and at these places, feeding and 

 inhalation experiments, so to speak, are constantly going 

 on, and yet personal acquaintance with the lives of 

 hundreds of people exposed to every-day infection with 

 these germs, and extensive inquiry, have failed to reveal 

 a single case of tuberculosis contracted in this manner." 



