STATE SUPPRESSION OF TUBERCULOSIS UNWARRANTABLE IF NOT THOROUGH. 813 
JOHN Gamgee. —It is a sad duty for us to re¬ 
cord the death of this great veterinarian. We knew 
him when we were a student, we renewed friend¬ 
ship in this country when he came to America 
some years ago. His work in behalf of veterinary 
medicine is known to many of us, the books which 
he has written, his journal, the Edinburgh Veter¬ 
inary Review , his connection with veterinary edu¬ 
cation, all have made for him in the veterinary 
world, a place which he filled well. John Gamgee 
was born in 1831, so that he was in his 64th year 
at the time of his death. In the last years of his 
life he had given up veterinary science and had 
turned his attention to engineering. 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
STATE SUPPRESSION OF TUBERCULOSIS UNWARRANTABLE if 
NOT THOROUGH. 
By James Law, F.R.C.V.S., Ithaca, N. Y. 
TUBERCULOSIS AND STATE MEDICINE. 
In undertaking any systematic State sanitary work against 
tuberculosis the prime consideration must be that such work 
shall have a permanent value. Many stock owners have no 
conception of this and look upon State measures as a sort of 
special Providence, to relieve them from an immediate and 
inevitable loss. The man who has a dying tuberculous cow 
wants the State to anticipate its death by a few days, or weeks, 
