THE USE OF THE FLESH OF TUBERCULOSIS CATTLE. 
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The meat was procured from the official slaughter-houses 
n Turin, from cattle affected in various degrees, the meat of 
vhich was seized fearing the transmission of the disease by 
ts use to man. 
Three series of experiments were conducted by allowing 
he animals to devour the affected meat. With rabbits, 
guinea-pigs and cattle inoculations were made with tissue- 
luids; the latter was expressed from comminuted or commi- 
uited and watered flesh. More than 200 rabbits and full as 
nany guinea-pigs were inoculated with this muscle-juice, either 
subcutaneously or injected into the peritoneal cavity. After 
1 duration of one and a half, two, three or more months, au- 
opsy revealed no trace of the malady. 
Two cattle were inoculated subcutaneously with the same 
naterial, without developing any evidence of tuberculosis, 
ind when destroyed six months latter no trace of the disease 
could be found. 
Four pigs of one breed (Italian), aged six months, were fed 
during a period of four months on the flesh of tuberculous 
Deeves and cows, without producing evidence of tuberculosis 
.ipon post-mortem examination. 
A litter of twelve pigs, aged two months, were fed on the 
lesh of tuberculous animals for five months. Some of them 
cerished from other maladies, the remainder were destroyed 
if ter various durations of time without presenting evidence 
31 disease. 
Two small pigs, of the Yorkshire breed, were abundantly 
:ed with tuberculous meat for three months without showing 
any evidence of infection. They were later ted on intestines 
bearing tubercular nodules, and flesh from cattle in various 
degrees of tuberculosis—during the initial stage (gray flesh 
tubercles), the fluid stage, the caseous stage and after calcifi¬ 
cation. The two pigs were kept in an ordinary stall under rea¬ 
sonable hvgienic conditions. Destroyed to-day both were 
found perfectly sound; in all their viscera there was not dis¬ 
covered even an intimation of the beginning of tuberculosis. 
A question of highest import is presented; evidently it is 
difficult to transmit tuberculosis to our breed of swine and 
those imported from England. 
