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represent it. Our inspection of meat may not yet be equally 
perfect with that of old Europe, yet still, imperfect as it may 
be, it will not allow meat infected and infested with actinomy¬ 
cosis, or cattle showing- sign of the disease, either to be sent 
abroad or eaten at home. The work of the Bureau of Animal 
Industry in stamping out pleuro-pnuemonia from the United 
States demonstrates clearly enough that the important Amer¬ 
ican trade in food animals is not to be jeopardized, and that 
they certainly would not expose it to the application of new 
restrictions by allowing the exportation of the diseased ani¬ 
mals, as referred to by the learned French cattle inspector. 
It is quite probable that in his anxiety to fulfil his official 
duties, his patriotic zeal has upset his judgment and he has 
allowed himself to be carried beyond the limits of strict verity 
in his statements. Perhaps a quiet reconsideration of the case 
may cause him to amend his opinion ; but yet, again, might it 
not be a proper thing for our worthy Chief of the Bureau of 
Animal Industry to do, to endeavor to neutralize any prob¬ 
able evil influence which may follow Professor Grandeau’s 
remarks, by correcting their “ inaccuracv,” by calling -the 
attention of the various European governments to the new 
regulations of the Department of Agriculture ; to the estab¬ 
lishment of our sanitary works, and to the recent creation of 
official veterinary inspectors for the determination of the 
condition in respect to health, of exported as well as imported 
cattle, and of their products ? 
Koch’s Cure for Tuberculous Diseases. —Only a few 
weeks have elapsed since the announcement of the discovery 
of the great German doctor. Since then the daily press and 
the scientific journals, principally the medical, have been full 
of the subject; patients almost without number have already 
submitted themselves to treatment; the lymph has been dis¬ 
tributed, received and tried throughout almost the entire 
world, and still the results which have been obtained con¬ 
tinue to be of the most indefinite character. To-day, as almost 
on that of the first great announcement, the medical profession 
seems to be doubtful, or at least divided as to the definite and 
real value of the “ discovery.” 
