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entertained, and scan, with almost sarcastic credulity, the 
almost weekly announcements from all over the world, of 
curative injecting - agents, that are sure to master the insinu¬ 
ating malady. The sound of the mason’s trowel and the 
noise of the carpenter’s hammer still rings in our ears, as the 
buildings, homes and hospitals go on, for the cure and care 
of consumptives. 
The battle of words and the conflict of opinions among 
the learned minds of the scientific world continue, but from 
this new epoch we have much to learn, much to consider. 
While the cure of suffering, the relief of the dying is work of 
a noble character, we should not let it obscure the greater 
and more momentous question, of cause and origin of this 
dreadful curse to humanity. Let us remember with fitting 
importance its existence, perpetuation and increase among the 
animals over which we exercise care and guidance ; not for¬ 
getting that the existence of tuberculosis has followed the 
introduction of milch cows in every nation and land where 
they have entered, refreshing our minds with the unchal¬ 
lenged statistics that the increase of death-rate and number 
of cases have multiplied in direct ratio to the increased num¬ 
ber of cattle. The greater dependence of new countries on 
the food furnished in the shape of meat and milk has also with 
unerring certainty multiplied the number of tubercular cases. 
Milk and meat, forming a greater part of our existence from 
infancy to old age, is in complete accord with the records 
that remind us of its destroying influences at every stage of 
life. Tuberculus meningitis in the new-born babe and ad¬ 
vanced phthisis in those of mature years, with all the other 
different forms it assumes in every grade and condition of 
life, seems fittingly in line with the knowledge that it exists 
in every type and breed of cattle, and oftimes finds its easiest 
prey in those kept specially for the milk supply, because of 
its seemingly greater richness. The well fed as well as the 
forager for its existence offers fallow ground for its develop¬ 
ment, and the palatial walls of the millionaire, as well as the 
lowly cottage, where the family cow is the chief means of 
existence, all add their testimony to the close relations the 
