HAROLD E. STEARNS. 
G'SG 
tion of wholesome milk so essential to the public health, is ac¬ 
knowledged to depend more upon cleanly careful methods of 
handling, than upon expensive equipment. The encouragement 
of a higher price is probably necessary to arouse the producer to 
the greater effort necessary, but those who are ignorant of the 
ease with which milk is contaminated in every step from the ud¬ 
der to the sealed bottle, and there are many, need careful and 
authoritative instruction, and I venture to repeat that no one is 
so well qualified to give it as the veterinarian, and I believe it is 
he who will eventually be called upon, almost exclusively, for 
this service. 
An authority on human tuberculosis of national reputation 
recently stated that one of the most important factors in the 
crusade against that disease was the elevation of the index of re¬ 
sistance of the individual. Of probably more importance than 
any other thing in its accomplishment, is an abundance of nour¬ 
ishing food, meat and milk. The efforts, therefore, of the vet¬ 
erinarian, in stimulating the breeding interests, as he is doing in 
the south, in eradicating Texas fever, and all over the United 
States, in laboratory and field, by continually minimizing the 
losses due to the many destructive infectious diseases of flesh¬ 
giving animals, bear a direct influence upon the public health 
through the abundance of the food supply. 
The newer methods of laboratory diagnosis of glanders, the 
reliability of which has been demonstrated beyond question, will, 
if used for legitimate purposes, be of immense value in controll¬ 
ing and eradicating this disease. The number of humans who 
die each year from glanders is relatively small; but as a disease 
infectious to human beings, usually terminating fatally, and most 
often claiming as its victims, veterinarians, it may properly be 
referred to in this paper. The attitude of the practitioner towards 
glanders is a factor of greater importance in its ultimate control 
than in any other infectious animal disease with the possible ex¬ 
ception of tuberculosis. Such diseases as anthrax, hog cholera, 
rabies, black-leg, Texas fever and many others, have a rapid and 
usually fatal termination and produce symptoms and conditions 
