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J. FAUST. 
that the visible lesions are local is no indication that the flesh 
and milk of such animals are free from the germ. That the 
milk of tuberculous animals is exceedingly dangerous is demon¬ 
strated by the fact that a large majority of all the deaths of bot¬ 
tle-fed infants in the large cities are due to some form of tuber¬ 
culosis. 
(To be continued.) 
TUBERCULOSIS. 
By J. Faust, V.S., Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 
A paper read before the U. S. V. M. Association. 
Mr. President and Gentlemen: —To me has been as¬ 
signed the practical part of tuberculosis. When I think of writ¬ 
ing something of value to the profession on this subject, I pause. 
From 1784 to 1886 no less than two hundred and fifty Euro¬ 
peans and a great many American veterinarians have furnished 
us literature on tuberculosis. 
My great fear,' gentlemen, will be that you will not find any¬ 
thing new in the following remarks, but my effort is to furnish 
my mite to the profession I so dearly love. 
My first effort will be in the direction of the history of a few 
herd of my own knowledge. 
Mr. A. Rogers, of Hyde Park, Dutchess County, had one of 
the finest selected herds of Jerseys, which to my knowledge had 
been healthy for years. Then Mr. Rogers bought at auction, in 
the city of New York, a lot of heifers which were bred and raised 
by Mr. P. Scobel, of Dutchess County; said heifers were tuber¬ 
culous to my knowledge. One year after the purchase, I killed 
at different times twelve cows which proved to be tuberculous. 
One of the post-mortems was witnessed by Prof. Liautard, and 
the specimens examined microscopically and the bacilli tuber¬ 
culosis found. 
I made a series of experiments, first by inoculating a calf 
with the serum pressed out of a tuberculous lung. In sixty- 
eight days this calf was slaughtered at my hospital, and was 
