EDITORIAL. 
339 
The subject of tuberculosis, which was reported by M. 
Arloing, was brought to a close by the adoption, in substance, 
of the following resolutions,* 
i. —The laws of every country should fix the status of 
animal tuberculosis by legislative enactment amongst contagi¬ 
ous diseases, and subject it to the control of sanitary law. 
2 —The use, both by mankind and animals, of the flesh of 
tuberculous animals, whether mammalia or birds, as food, 
whatever may be the degree of tuberculosis, and whatever 
may be the apparent qualities of the meat, should be inter¬ 
dicted. 
3. — Owners of animals, whether of the bovine or porcine 
species, which are destroyed on account of their infection by 
tuberculosis, are entitled to indemnity. 
4. —The use of the skins and horny products of tuberculous 
bovines may be allowed, after disinfection. 
5. —The use of the milk should be prohibited. 
6. —Cow dairies should be at all times subject to proper 
legal inspection. 
7. —The precaution of boiling milk obtained from unknown 
sources, when used for food, should be recommended by all 
possible means. 
The consideration of this topic had been made one of the 
principal objects of the meeting, and it was freely discussed.f 
The subject of pleuro-pneumonia occupied the fifth day of 
the Congress, with Professor Degive and M. Butel as 
reporters. The occasion was improved by Professor Arloing, 
by the introduction of an exhibit of the microbe of contagious 
pleuro-pneumonia, the true nature of which he has established 
full translation of this report has been made, a portion of which will be 
found on another page of the present number of the Review. 
tThe minutes of the day occupied by this discussion, and which we only saw 
in print after the adjournment of the Congress, and therefore were unable to alter, 
attributes to us a statement which we hasten to correct. Either we committed 
a great lapsus linguce, or we were misunderstood, or the boy in the type room is 
responsible for the mischief, when the report of a mortality of 500,000 to 600,000 
from tuberculosis in the United States was laid to our charge. The mortality of 
100,000 to 135,000 is amply sufficient, without putting it at the frightful rate 
erroneously given. 
