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distributed wherever man lives upon this earth. I be- 

 lieve that practically we come in contact with them 

 daily." 



Experiments with the consumptive germs are usually 

 made with guinea pigs, yet guinea pigs can be rendered 

 tubercular as well without the consumptive germ as 

 with it. They can be rendered tubercular by inoculat- 

 ing them with vaccine lymph, putrid muscles, or by in- 

 troducing a clean seaton of unbleached cotton, or even 

 by giving them a brisk pinch in the flank. These state- 

 ments are supported by many leading authorities. 

 Green's Pathology, page 364, states: "That tuber- 

 culosis may be produced in animals by the irritation 

 of vaccine, bits of cork or paper. Doctor Evans states 

 that by making incisions in pigs, they afterwards per- 

 ished of abscess at the seat of injury, and miliary tuber- 

 culosis in their various organs." 



Now apply the teaching of health boards and other 

 bacteriologists. 



The Philadelphia Board of Health states that "all 

 cases of tuberculosis of the lungs take origin directly 

 or indirectly from other cases. This is now an estab- 

 lished fact." 



The New York Board of Health states that "con- 

 sumption is a disease of the lungs which is taken from 

 others; and is caused by germs." 



The Michigan Board of Health states that "con- 

 sumption is a dangerous communicable disease, and is 

 caused by germs." 



In the Physician and Surgeon for November, 1899. 

 is an article stating: "There is no longer any dispute 



