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cattle are few, tuberculosis is less prevalent in man. In Algiers 
(a resort for consumptives) the cattle are few and live apart from 
the cities, and tuberculosis does not increase among the natives. 
In Italy, where the cattle are housed, tuberculosis has become 
the scourge of man and beast. In Australia (the great lesort for 
Knglish consumptives) the disease, formerly unknown among 
cattle, has become exceedingly prevalent, and the same is be¬ 
coming alarmingly true of our own Minnesota, formerly so 
lauded as a favorable resort for consumptives.” These are ex¬ 
treme examples, it is true, in which the transmission and foster¬ 
ing of the disease by cattle are extended and aggravated by ox er¬ 
crowding and every imaginable unhygienic condition among the 
human consumers. 
The rare cases of foetal organic tuberculosis are explained by 
direct infection which is of internal origin (the bacilli may tra¬ 
verse the foetal envelopes *, a demonstration of this fact has been 
given by experiments on guinea-pigs and rabbits), or by the 
presence of bacilli in the sperm or ovum at the time of fecund- , 
ation. 
A careful study of the subject of tuberculosis brings us to a 
realization of the work before us and the benefit to be reaped by 
the public, providing the disease among the dairy herds of the ; 
country were brought under control. Stamping out pleuro¬ 
pneumonia contagiosa and contagious aphtha has cost thousands ; 
of dollars, but no human lives. Tuberculosis has cost many 
thousand lives, and, comparatively speaking, but little money. 
The subject of eradication is a most serious one, presenting 
many points for consideration. We must consider the rights of 
the property owner, the rights of the people, the prejudice to 
overcome, the many uninformed who must be educated to. a 
realization of the danger, and the best possible means of avoid¬ 
ing it. The interest of the stock-owner must be most seriously 
considered. No dairyman of ordinary intelligence will object 
to a thoroughly intelligent examination of his herd. Massa¬ 
chusetts was one of the first states to have a regular corps of in 
spectors, and a glance at the caste will convince one that there 
