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secure any information as to how this work was handled in 

 Wisconsin. 



Member: Salvation comes to the man who helps himself 

 sometimes. 



Prof. Russell : My experience is that there is only one 

 answer. I have not seen a bunch of men, no matter how much 

 they were opposed to this, where they have camly set and 

 thought this out and seen these animals before and after injec- 

 tion, but what they have not become convinced there was some- 

 thing in it. This method is so far superior to any other method 

 that, personally, I am willing to trust to this method in prefer- 

 ence to anything else. The Milwaukee Ordinance, which has 

 been confirmed in every case all over the United States, the 

 universal testimony in every court is that the tuberculin test was 

 the most reasonable and sensible way that was ever devised. 

 The Supreme Court of Wisconsin confirmed that decision last 

 week. 



Member : Our committee has reported the state of Illinois 

 prohibit making such laws. 



Prof. Russell : I do not see on what basis such a report 

 was made. 



Member: At what stage of the disease does the cow in- 

 fect the milk? 



Prof. Russell: Whenever there is visible tuberculosis of 

 the udder, the milk under such stages contains tubercular or- 

 ganisms. I have a case where one teaspoon ful injected in the 

 guinea pigs killed those animals in four weeks. Don't misun- 

 derstand, all animals that react actually deliver tuberculosis 

 germs ; they do not. Only five per cent have tubercular affected 

 udders. There are a small amount of animals that deliver it 

 through the milk; the manure is often the cause of affecting 

 the milk supply. Any open case of tuberculosis might affect 



