TUBERCULOSIS. 
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ing as tuberculosis ; for that also test inoculations have been 
proposed to remove the doubts of the practitioner. Does any 
one dream, actually, of striking out glanders from the list of 
diseases falling under the action of sanitary police ? 
It is necessary, as M. Lydtin has said, to view the question 
of tuberculosis with as much sang froid as that of glanders, 
and in a few years the mind of everybody will be accustomed 
to measures which to day frighten some. 
Moreover, it is not a case of pursuing tuberculosis with a 
fury that nothing can repel. The veterinary surgeon ought 
to act with prudence, with a wise discretion. When the case 
appears to him beyond the present resources of our art, he 
will abstain, and not lightly compromise his reputation and 
the authority of the law. 
Consequently, we propose to the International Congress 
to emit the following views:— 
(1) Bovine tuberculosis ought everywhere to be classed 
among the contagious maladies falling under the operation of 
sanitary police. 
(2) Animals recognised tuberculous ought to be slaugh¬ 
tered, and their flesh ought to be excluded from consump¬ 
tion. 
(3) A pecuniary indemnity ought to be accorded to owners, 
provided that the animals slaughtered have not been the 
object of commercial negotiations for one year previously.* 
*It was proposed alternatively, if the Congress should consider it impossible 
to grant an indemnity, to substitute for the second proposal the decree of the 28th 
July, 1888, by the Minister of Agriculture, regarding tuberculosis discovered in 
French territory, viz. :— 
‘‘Every animal recognised tuberculous shall be isolated and sequestrated. 
The animal must not be removed save to be slaughtered. The slaughter shall take 
place under the surveillance of a veterinary inspector, who shall make the autopsy 
of the animal, and send to the Prefect the minute of this operation within four 
days after the slaughter.” 
(To be continued .) 
