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JOHN M. PARKER. 
one to manage the nozzle of the fountain syringe, one to hand 
sponges and instruments, one to sterilize instruments that have 
been used and are dirty, and one to see that the sterilized 
towels completely surround the field of operation that the oper¬ 
ator’s hands and instruments may not come in contact with non- 
sterilized objects. The instruments, sponges, dressings, basin 
for rinsing hands, fountain syringe, etc., being now placed in 
convenient situations by some of the assistants, the surgeon and 
his assistants should be helped into their smocks and the oper¬ 
ation may be proceeded with. And, gentlemen, if you will 
follow these details and finally cleanse your wound of all clots 
and debris, and then make your wound impervious to the air 
with a thoroughly antiseptic dressing you will have an antiseptic 
wound and it will never require but the one dressing, for it will 
heal without stench, swelling or suppuration, and there will 
never be an appreciable elevation of temperature. 
BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS. 
TREATING ON THE DANGER FROM COW’S MILK, AND THE 
LEGISLATIVE CONTROL OF BOVINE 
TUBERCULOSIS. 
By John M. Parker, D.V.S., Haverhill, Mass. 
In considering this question, it is well to consider whether 
the danger from milk, as we ordinarily use it, is as great a danger 
as has been represented, and further, we should consider care¬ 
fully whether the methods recommended by the State Board of 
Cattle Commissioners will result in the complete eradication of 
this disease from among dairy cattle. If the milk is not so dan¬ 
gerous, and there is not a reasonable certainty of the success of 
these methods, then the State is not justified in crippling an im¬ 
portant industry, and in squandering hundreds of thousands of 
dollars in work that is not called for, and that will not result in 
permanent good. 
