INCIPIENT BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS. 
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e. Fortunately for the races of man and the lower animals, 
tcriology has proven the origin of the infectious diseases 
result from pathogenic organisms. And, although the 
imortal Koch failed to cure human consumption by means 
tuberculin, yet he furnished to the veterinary profession 
iagnostic agent in the tuberculosis of domestic animals of 
nscendent value. While in the healthy and tuberculous 
man subject the hypodermic injection of tuberculin causes 
nudden rise of temperature, too often injurious, in the 
yine race it indicates the most incipient attack of tubercu- 
is without in the least disturbing the health. 
Human physicians have long prescribed for tuberculous 
dents, out-door life, high altitudes, equitable temperatures, 
eral dietary, etc., of more or less benefit to the invalids, 
ese conditions are also beneficial to the animal patients of 
5 veterinarian, but as the small value of animals will not 
rmit a similar procedure from lack of economy, the veteri- 
rian must fall back upon the science of sanitary breeding 
a preventive, of incalculable value to the general public. 
Human tuberculous mothers endanger the lives of their 
ants by suckling them, and this holds equally with tuber- 
lous animals; yet, the milk of tuberculous cows is per- 
tted for human food. This should not be tolerated by the 
ards of health, as we have a positive diagnostic agent to 
tect the slightest attacks of bovine tuberculosis, and as we 
ssess no positive data at what the milk of tuberculous cows 
monies infectious to the human subject, it would be safer 
i better economy to feed the thoroughly boiled milk of 
ghtiy tuberculous cows to pigs ; and during the brief time, 
subject the cow, if worth the expense, to the treatment 
uch Dr. Cyrus Edson has apparently proven so serviceable 
human patients in the more severe stages of advanced tu- 
rculosis. 
As 1 am about to test the “ aseptolir?' treatment in bovine 
lerculosis, I shall report the result. 
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