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FIRST INTERNATIOOAL CONGRESS 
FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON TUBERCULOSIS. 
SYNOPSIS OF THE QUESTIONS TREATED. 
First.— Of the dangers resulting from the use of meat and 
milk of tuberculous animals and means to prevent them. 
Mr. Arloing proposed a vote on the following conclusions: 
1. Immediate insertion of tuberculosis amongst the list of 
contagious diseases. 
2. Entire prohibition of the use of the meat of tuberculous 
animals, until means of rendering it harmless are discovered. 
Mr. Nocard said the meat of tuberculous animals may, in 
some cases, contain elements of danger, but this is the case in but 
few instances, and even when its use is dangerous it is only in a 
very limited degree. 
Mr. Baillet thought that, First—It is necessary to avoid the 
consumption of the meat of all subjects in which tuberculosis is 
generalized and is accompanied with absolute or relative emacia¬ 
tion of the animal. Second—That the entire seizure of the meat 
is not justifiable in fat animals, or in those in good condition, 
whose diseased state was not detected during life, except in the 
cases where the lungs, pleura, glands and all parenchymatous 
organs show internal tubercular lesions. Third-—That in all 
other cases it is only necessary to abstain from the consumption 
of such organs as are more or less diseased, with the different 
glands of these organs and the surrounding muscular structures. 
Fourth—That any other measures varying from the preceding 
would have a detrimental effect upon the breeding of animals, the 
supply of markets and the institution of the services of meat, and 
such interdiction would be without advantage to public health. 
Mr. Butel considered that the meat of tuberculous animals 
having been experimentally proved to be virulent, and human 
phthisis not unusually finding its origin in butcher shops, the use of 
all meat of tuberculous animals ought to be suppressed, this being 
the only efficacious means, and very different from a mere partial 
seizure. As for the milk, he believes that dairies ought to be 
submitted to periodic veterinary inspection, as is done in Holland 
and Denmark. 
