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JOHN SCOTT. 
had the same opportunities for investigation as the veterinarian 
they would soon be convinced. 
After investigating the subject of bovine tuberculosis and 
referring to the proofs of the small part played by heredity, 
and the great part played by contagion, Dr. H. Scurfield, in 
a preface to Nocard’s work on “Animal Tuberculosis,” says: 
“ It seems not unreasonable to suppose that the same is the 
cause for human tuberculosis, and that, if the children of 
tuberculous parents were protected from infection by cohabita¬ 
tion or ingestion, the importance of heredity as a cause of the 
disease, or even of the predisposition to it, would dwindle away 
into insignificance.” 
A vigorous and unrelenting war should be made against 
animal tuberculosis as one of the great causes of human tuber¬ 
culosis, and this war should be a campaign of extermination 
as well as of education. 
DISEASES AND INJURIES OF THE FOOT. * 
By John Scott, V.S., Peoria, III. 
A Paper read before the Illinois Veterinary Medical Association. 
The horse being an animal whose usefulness and value 
depend almost entirely upon his locomotive powers, and the 
foot being one of the principal organs of locomotion, demands 
of us, as veterinarians and humanitarians, that we pay particular 
attention to the care of it in health in order to preserve it in a 
natural and healthy condition, as well as to the cure and treat¬ 
ment of it when suffering from disease or injury. 
I shall not, however, attempt to enter into a discussion of all 
the diseases and injuries the foot is subject to (for they are 
legion), but will only speak of a few of the more common that 
are encountered in every day practice. 
It is not necessary for me to enter into a description of the 
foot as a whole, nor of its component parts, for these you are all 
as familiar with as I am. Suffice it to say that there is as much 
