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Congress. We stated then that it was not an uncommon 
thing to find herds in which tuberculosis was present to the 
extent of fifty per cent. Dr. Bailey states that in Massachu¬ 
setts, “ The cattle are filled with tuberculosis,” and he be¬ 
lieves “ that from thirty-five to fifty per cent, of the cattle in 
that State are infected.” 
Koch’s “ Cure ” for Consumption. —The articles upon 
the latest discovery of Prof. Koch which are published from 
day to day in the German papers, and transmitted to America 
by telegraphic despatches, are giving rise to a great deal of 
admiration and enthusiasm, as well as anxiety, among scien¬ 
tific and medical men ; and while nothing very positive is as 
yet known concerning the new discovery of the learned 
German, every one is anxiously and attentively watching for 
the description of the details of the method which is an¬ 
nounced, and for the results which may follow the treatment 
to which many sufferers from tuberculosis are now being sub¬ 
jected. From every part of the world patients are pour¬ 
ing into the German laboratory, ready to receive the treat¬ 
ment which has, it is reported, already given satisfaction and 
appears to have received the full sanction and approbation of 
the many scientific and medical men who apply it. 
Many of the medical journals and physicians are, however, 
careful in expressing their opinion on the great promises that 
the new treatment seems to make, and if it were not for the 
high esteem in which Prof. Koch has always been held, be¬ 
cause of the integrity of his purposes, the honesty of his 
labors, and the care which he has always exercised in all his 
investigations—in other words, if it was not the great Ger¬ 
man physician who presented the new treatment, it is very 
probable that the announcement would not have had the re¬ 
ception which it is now receiving. To the public at large, 
for the physician, for all, in fact, the new treatment as now in¬ 
dicated will be welcome, and the name of its discoverer will 
deservingly pass to posterity as having made one of the 
greatest, if not the greatest discovery of this century. And 
yet there is one point which we think, as veterinarians, 
deserves careful consideration, viz., the application of Koch’s 
