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Effect of Food derived from Tuberculous Animals 

 upon Human Health," consisting of the most eminent 

 physicians and physiologists in England, together 

 with one of the foremost veterinarians, after careful 

 examination of many famous experts, and some of 

 the most extensive and thorough experiments ever 

 attempted, unanimously reported, in 1895^ that they 

 believed "that an appreciable part of the tubercu- 

 losis that affects man is obtained through his food," 

 and that " No doubt the largest part of the tuberculosis 

 which man obtains through his food is by means of milk 

 containing tuberculous matter." ' 



Another British Royal Commission, appointed to 

 inquire! into the subject of "Controlling the Danger to 

 Man through the Use as Food of the Meat and Drink 

 of Tuberculous Animals," reported, in 1898, its unan- 

 imous agreement with the fibadings of the former 

 commission, quoted above.* And the Royal Com- 

 mission of 1901, appointed to inquire into the "Re- 

 lations of Human and Animal Tuberculosis," dem- 

 onstrated conclusively that bovine tuberculosis can 

 be transmitted to human beings, that there is no 

 essential difference in the tuberculosis which afHicts 

 human beings and that which afflicts bovine and other 

 animals.' 



Dr. Jacobi, discussing the dangers of infection from 

 milk drawn from' tuberculous animals," quotes the 

 case recorded by Dr. Olivier, of Paris, in which thir- 



