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pigs, while that from the juice of a tuberculous cow, gave 
them, under similar circumstances, a negative result. 
“The experiments of MM. Lienaux and Gratia have been 
neither numerous enough nor varied enough to permit these 
authors to draw conclusions, and they themselves propose to 
extend them. 
“ In the present stage of the question, it is demonstrated 
that the juice of tuberculous meat may be sometimes virulent, 
if it is not always so. Now, from a hygienic point of view, 
there is danger in allowing the consumption of this meat, 
whether it has been proven to be virulent or not. Inasmuch 
as it is not possible to separate definitely those which are from 
those which are not virulent, one will do well to consider all 
as dangerous, and for this reason to reject them for human 
consumption. The public will not be compromised for that, 
and there will be fewer cases of tuberculosis. In our opinion, 
the tuberculosis Congress has deliberated wisely in express¬ 
ing the opinion that the meat of tuberculous animals should 
be rejected for human food*.” 
Since this publication it has been proven under Bolinger’s 
direction that the muscular tissue from human beings affected 
with pulmonary tuberculosis, may convey tuberculous infec¬ 
tion to inoculated animals. 
We might go on citing experiments, but I think that 
enough has been presented to show that there is danger from 
the consumption of meat, and that there is more danger, es¬ 
pecially to the young, from the consumption of milk from tu¬ 
berculous animals. I wish now to call your attention to some 
conclusions which have been reached by the International 
Veterinary Congress and the United States Veterinary Med¬ 
ical Association, also to offer a few suggestions of my own 
with regard to the better control of the milk supply, and per¬ 
haps the meat supply, of Baltimore, and to put in a claim on 
the part of the veterinary profession for representation at no 
distant time on the City and State Boards of Health. 
*Annales de Belgique, Decembre, 1888. 
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To be continued. 
