TUBERCULOSIS OF ANIMALS. 193 
UBERCULOSIS OF ANIMALS IN ITS RELATION TO HUMAN 
ALIMENTARY HYGIENE. 
By Prof. S. Arloing. 
0 Continued from page 138). 
II. 
We believe we have answered all the principal objections 
vfiich have been urged against the conclusions adopted by 
he various congresses in which the question of tuberculosis 
tas been discussed. A few words more, however, may be 
>f use. 
It would have been surprising if from one congress to an¬ 
ther there had been no progress accomplished in the ideas 
licited and illustrated by means of these discussions. In 
888 it had been decided “ that it was necessary to enforce by 
\U means possible, including the indemnification of interested par¬ 
ies, the general application of the seizure, and total destruction of 
ill the meats of tuberculous animals, whatever might be the seven¬ 
ty of the lesions found in those animals .” 
The ministerial decree issued during the time when your 
liscussion was in progress did not include features of total 
.eizure, or of indemnification. It remained satisfied with the 
exclusion of the meat from tuberculous animals. First, if the 
esions were generalized, viz., not exclusively confined to visceral 
organs and their lymphatic glands ; and secondly, if the lesions, 
hough localized, had involved the greater part of a viscera, or 
vere manifested by an eruption upon the walls of the thoracic or 
he abdominal cavity. 
These restrictions had afforded evidence of important 
irogress in the service of meat inspection, the superior au- 
fiority having thus indicated to the municipal magistrates 
fie duty they had to fulfil, and to the veterinary inspectors 
fie limits within which they might interfere. Some of our 
:olleagues consider that these restrictions are sufficient to 
imply satisfy all needed requirements, and remove all the 
dangers against which they are directed. But we respectfully 
oeg leave to dissent from the optimistic views of our friends. 
