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NEWS AND SUNDRIES. 
Bovine Tuberculosis. —Dr. Brush of Mount Vernon discussed 
at the Albany meeting the subject of bovine tuberculosis. Of all 
domesticated animals, the bo vines are the most subject to tuber¬ 
culosis. Five per cent of the cattle in England are affected with 
tuberculosis, and it is said that twenty per cent of the cattle in 
some of the thoroughbred Jersey herds in the Northern States are 
similarly affected. He believed that more human beings were not 
infected, because the normal temperature of the human race was 
so much lower than that of the bovine,—98.5°F. in the one, and 
101° to 103°F. in the other; this latter temperature being neces- 
aary for the growth of the germ of the disease. The cultivation 
of tuberculosis in animals confirms this view, as resistance to the 
disease decreas' d as the normal temperature of the animal increas¬ 
ed. Thus, in the dog, resistance was good, while in the common 
fowl it was nil. Dr. Brush thought that the Federal Government 
would do better to spend its money in the investigation and sup¬ 
pression of this disease, than to appropriate five hundred thousand 
dollars to stamp out pleuro-pneumonia, which did not affect the 
human race. He believed, that, if bovine tuberculosis were eradi 
cated, it would soon become eliminated from the human race, and 
he thought that physicians should strive to procure laws which 
would accomplish this.— Science. 
