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ish Congress before many American bacteriologists 

 claimed they never said there was danger in dairy 

 products; that is, not so awful much danger, and that 

 it would only be kind o' dangerous like if you took to 

 much. 



That reminds us of another class of people who, 

 after spending a lifetime in trying to prove the earth 

 flat, said, after denial was useless, that they never 

 claimed the earth was flat; that is, not so awful flat; 

 that they always knew it was kind o' rounding like. 



In the foregoing there is nothing original with Dr. 

 Koch. Prof. Moore of Albany, K Y., and Prof. Theo- 

 bold Smith of the United States Agricultural Depart- 

 ment, Washington, D. C., proved some time ago all that 

 Dr. Koch claims at the present time. Prof. Adams 

 also gave similar evidence some time ago before the 

 Canadian Medical Association. Doctor Thomas J. 

 Mays, professor of diseases of the chest in the Phila- 

 delphia, Pa., Polyclinic, etc., etc., and a well known 

 authority, in his new book, Consumption, Pneumonia, 

 and their Allies, page 191-4, presents indisputable evi- 

 dence that man is not susceptible to bovine tuberculosis, 

 and this information dates back nearly one hundred 

 and fifty years. 



But then, it is much easier for Dr. Koch to discover 

 something that has been discovered before. This gives 

 him the same opportunity to advertise himself; to talk 

 learnedly and extravagantly about wonderful discover- 

 ies; about the progress of medical science, stamping 

 out disease; prophylaxis, etc. Yet such shallow pre- 

 tenses lack the penetration of thought, the practical 



