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body consists of three parts, the hed, the chist and the 

 stummick. The hed contains the eyes and brains when 

 there is any. 



Green's Pathology, page 363, states that "Tappeiner 

 caused dogs to inhale daily for fourteen days six grams 

 (about twenty-one teaspoonfuls) of tubercular sputa, 

 delivered during six hours from a spray into a narrow 

 box containing the animals." The dogs "became tuber- 

 culous and thus tuberculosis came to be regarded as a 

 specific infectious disease" The remarkable feature in 

 this transaction was that the dogs lived long enough to- 

 carry out the experiment. Here were a number of dogs 

 shut in "narrow boxes" and literally fed on sputum 

 from tubercular patients, and because the dogs died, 

 tuberculosis was declared a "specific infectious disease." 

 What foolishness. 



That eminent authority, Doctor Thomas J. Mays, 

 says in his treatise on consumption, page 195 : "Schot- 

 telius repeated Tappeiner's work, with some variations. 

 Instead of causing his dogs to inhale the sputum from 

 tuberculous persons only, some were made to respire 

 the sputum of bronchitic, but non-tuberculous persons ; 

 others, paticles of limberger cheese suspended in air, 

 and still others were made to breathe finely powdered 

 brain substance. In all these cases nodules, analogous 

 to miliary tubercle, were developed." Doctor Mays 

 also gives much other evidence of a like nature. 



The bacteriologists also tell us, on page 369, Green's 

 Pathology: "Having no power of motion, the white 

 blood-cells must carry the tubercle bacilli through the 

 mucous membrane lining the air-cells and tubes of the 



